Early winter has been particularly harsh in my tropical style garden this year, with temperatures as low as -5°C/-23°F for up to 10 days in a row. This is the coldest conditions my tropical style garden has ever experienced and it will be a real test for some of the tropical plants that I grow. In this video I give an honest look around my garden and share which tropical style plants have proven hardy enough to survive this severe cold weather which have succumbed to the cold. As I walk around my frozen tropical style garden I also share lessons that I have learnt from these hard frosts it will help me plant more successfully next year.
Tropical style gardens can be grown anywhere in the world, you just have to find the right plants for the right place. The challenge in this unpredictable climate is defined which plants are best for your garden to give you a tropical style all year round. I watching this video I hope that you’ll find which plants might be hardy enough to provide lush green foliage all year round structure in your tropical garden.
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22 Comments
Nice one Craig. Weve gone down to -6.6 so far. Experiments here too as i got suprised a little: i left my 2 massive 4m tall Washingtonia out against the southfacing wall.. it will get 6 nights of -3 to -6….we'll see.
Fascinating video. Thank you, good luck, and looking forward to seeing your garden in the spring!
Great video, it’s helped me to think to be a bit more positive about my garden
Real Frozen damage will be visible with the first nice weather. Now you can’t detect who deep
has penetrated
Do you have a log fern and if so has it survived the cold?
Great video and interesting info
R les
Aeonium spathulatum survived -7 for me, all rosettes survived, Aeonium simsii survived too with half of rosettes burned off. I think those two species are good choices for UK cultivation year-round.
Very timely video. You mentioned schefflera taiwaniana. Yes, if the crown of the plant gets frosted and it dies, it will regrow from lower down the stem. It happened to mine in 2010, another very cold winter. I have to say that the plant benefitted from it. Instead of one stem, it now has 3. Much bushier and more substantial plant.
Thanks for the intetesting update. The billbergia will probably be fine. Mine has survived five usda 8b pacific notthwest winters in a container.
I’ve recently got hold of a Tetrapanex and wow what a plant it is when it grows massive leaves. At the minute it’s in my insulated shed by the window and the leaves have dropped because it still can get to -1,2 in the shed. I thought you had one in your Garden and I would have loved to see how that gets on outside in the winter.
-18 here today. wish i could grow these things
If you had -5°C , here btxw -8-9. then your basjo will soon fall over. It always looks like nothing is going on in the stem but it is frozen and done. If i am wrong, it would be a miracle as mine froze previous season, with a little protection at minus 4 . Tropical and other plants show you the damage after the winter not during sadly enough.
Hi Craig what's the plant at the beginning with the purple cones?
Really interesting, thanks Craig. Hopefully you can do a direct follow up featuring all the same plants in spring to see how’s things fared.
Thanks for this video, it’s just what I needed, a tropical style garden newby I’m feeling a little bit more positive and will have to wait and see the consequences of -8c
I have both Billbergia nutans and Nidularium billbergioides bromeliads planted outside in half round hanging baskets, screwed to a shed wall. Both seem to be coping ok so far, and we have been down to -9C this week. Will be interesting to see if they make it through to spring.
Since we use the Imperial. Measurements in the US, I will note that -5C is not -23F. It is 23F. – God Save The King. (My tropical gardens are on the one Beach peninsulain Washington State, and a desert tropical garden in southern Arizona).
We will have to start a "bud watch" to check on what's survived 👍🏽 and what's succumbed, wrapped or left unprotected.
The majority of my plants are deciduous, I do have some Evergreen / Hardy plants for winter interest. I have a great western Redwood looming over my garden so I have a lot of Fronds to rake up in the spring. but I do it, then put down some compost, and wait for the explosion of life! 🌱🌿🌻
Interesting video! That Musa basjoo will be perfectly fine, they are super common plants here in Virginia, USA and every winter they freeze down and come right back in the spring.
Yeah mate, we got a -7 in Basingstoke! Damn 🥶 Lets see how the palms go 🤞🏼
Thanks Craig enjoyed that
Totally agree about finding out where the warmer areas are
I’m in Salford it’s been -8 but most things got through – except my echiums
Not really an issue 👍🏼
Here, south of Atlanta, will get almost minus 10 Celsius on Friday. I will cover my plants with old bed sheets. A Sago is in a Little greenhouse , I will be putting incandescent lights around it . And then the „wait and See game“ start. 😅