Today’s video continues my series following a UK tropical style garden full of exotic plants through the seasons with a late July summer tour of The Secret Garden of Louth, a stunning private garden created by Jennifer & Rodger Grasham from a blank canvas over 30 years with stunning plant combinations, garden design ideas and summer display inspiration. Jenny and Rodger are making their final preparations to open to the public throughout August, raising money for the Salvation Army through the NGS and I think you’ll be equally amazed when you see the effort, dedication and sheer beauty of their garden this summer! With dazzling container plants including a vivid new Bromeliad display, rare exotic Aralias from around the world including breathtaking Brassaiopsis, many fast growing big-leaved tropical style plants such as a GIANT Tetrapanax papyrifer ‘Rex’, a flowering Musa basjoo with bananas growing outdoors amongst a forest of Cannas, Brugmansias, Dahlias and a sea of beautiful summer flowers – all I can say is WOW! Look no further for your dose of summer UK tropical and jungle style garden inspiration and if you live even roughly close to Lincolnshire I would absolutely recommend booking a visit to this garden as soon as you can! Truly one of the most stunning private gardens you’ll ever see with a myriad of beautiful planting, lovely seating areas, gorgeous borders, incredible displays and I can’t wait to go back in a couple of months to film the finale of the series when the exotic plants are at their biggest and best!
Jenny and Rodger open their garden through the NGS with exotic plant sales and refreshments every Thursday and Sunday in August 2024 (by appointment), for more details follow The Secret Garden of Louth on Facebook below:
The Secret Garden of Louth – NGS Summer Open Garden Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/thesecretgardenoflouth
The Secret Garden of Louth – NGS Details: https://findagarden.ngs.org.uk/garden/17020/the-secret-garden-of-louth
Spring Garden Tour Video: https://youtu.be/0_cOa-MWayQ
Sunk Island Garden Centre Tour: https://youtu.be/5e4a5XG2bhM
Shane’s Staffordshire Jungle Garden Transformation: https://youtu.be/yrO1xeTbxWE
Pan Global Plants – Rare Exotic Plant Supplier UK: https://youtu.be/NrPo6Cdedqg
Tiny Leeds Urban Jungle Garden: https://youtu.be/iBzIIaebwM0
Fifty Shades of Green Forest Garden Tour: https://youtu.be/WctsQMlYQR4
The Secret Garden of Louth address & postcode:
The Secret Garden of Louth
68 Watts Lane
Louth,
Lincolnshire
LN11 9DG
(½ mile South of Louth town centre, for SatNav & to avoid gate on Watts Ln, use postcode LN119DJ – Mount Pleasant Ave, leads straight to their house)
0:00 Intro
1:20 A Tropical Style Summer Container Display, Growing Exotic Plants in Pots
6:40 Cosy Corner – Beautiful Shaded Small Garden Planting & Decor Ideas
8:04 Jungle Garden Area with Koi Pond, Hardy Palms & Summer Flowers
12:33 Arid & Succulent Plant Pot Collection
15:26 Flowering Musa Basjoo Banana Plant, Hedychium Gingers & Cannas in UK Garden
18:41 Bromeliad Outdoor Display & Rare Brassaiopsis Dumicola Aralia in UK Garden
21:18 Easy, Cheap & Beautiful Tropical Style Container Plant Display Idea
23:36 AMAZING Tropical Style Plant Raised Bed Display – Bananas, Ridings, Colocasia & Summer Flowers!
29:28 Schefflera Delavayi, Tree Ferns & Bill the DIY Tiki Head Sculpture
32:03 Paulownia tomentosa HUGE & Fast Tropical Style Leaves & Exotic Tigridia Hardy Flowers
35:02 Jungle Hut Garden Building & Sunken Seating Area Exotic Planting
41:39 Lush & Leafy Green Garden with Tree Fern, Hedychium Gingers, Ferns & HUGE Petasites Leaves
49:27 GIANT Tetrapanax Papyrifer ‘Rex’ Tree, Brassaiopsis Mitis & Exotic Summer Flowers
52:23 Exotic / Tropical Herbaceous Garden Border with Grasses, Dahlias, Cannas & Summer Colour Ideas
56:06 Exotic Plants for sale in Lincolnshire UK
59:36 New Cottage / Exotic / Flower Metal Border Area
64:48 Conclusion – Rare Plants Inside & a Beautiful Private UK Tropical Garden YOU can visit!
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Thanks,
George
25 Comments
Brilliant vid mate , i love jennys phrase "head like a shed ,everythings in there but no idea where "😂😂😂 first class garden,i wish i hadnt watched it .iv 4 more plants to find now,that i cant live without 😂😂😂
Wow ,that is a lovely tropical garden. Really beautiful foliage. Love that koi pond .
Can already tell it'll be impossible NOT to enjoy this one 😆Perfect to post it on a rainy day, when the colours outside are less pronounced in my own garden
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Absolutely inspirational this George. Great work 👍🏻👍🏻
45:17 Damn that is a nice Thaumatophyllum Bipinnatifidum, one of my favourites. Just got a modest sized "Little Hope" for indoors, no room for the botanical species currently. That is a big plant to store in winter. They changed genus btw 😇 EDIT: For anyone who'd want one and can't find it, it used to be called Philodendron Selloum. Plenty of shops do not keep up with genus and name changes. Some Calathea changed to Goeppertia and I've not seen anyone use that name in The Netherlands yet for example
Gorgeous! This Louth Garden is very similar to many of the gardens that are depicted by Irene Chen in South East Asia, especially with respect to Malaysia in her YouTube Channel Leafing Around. The way many of the delicate plants in the foreground are potted, but the pots are hidden by the foliage. It’s remarkable that these gardeners can mimic what’s done in Malaysia, Thailand, and Indonesia in such a temperate environment. Their hard work deserves a round of applause.
Awesome garden and you captured it well. I think the Rodgersia is Herkules
Or George maybe Persicaria virginiana var. filiformis
This place is absolutely stunning, so much depth in planting .i love not being able to see soil im going to try and squeeze some more into my garden this weekend after watching this. 😊
Wow what a fab garden thanks for sharing
Congratulations Jenny and Rodger and George for the production. Great film. Wonderful inspiring garden.
I absolutely love this garden, so much work and dedication in making it spectacular . Thanks for sharing
Persicaria virginiana 'Brushstrokes'
Excellent video as always George. You have however caused an issues for Jenny and Roger who will need to rename the garden , "the World Famous Garden of Louth" given the number of peopel who have now seen it
Beautiful! ❤🎉
57:58 what are these yellow plants please?
I'm usually fairly good at picking out and naming plants on these garden tours. But l found myself saying "what's that" a lot of time. I'm going to have to watch this several times and take note of everything as much as possible. Absolutely outstanding! Thanks you so much Jennifer, Rodger and George. A private garden that's on top of my list to visit.
Thanks George for another great tour. Was great to see Rodger and Jenny's garden in full summer flow! As much as I loved the last couple of tours, this one resonates with me because I have a postage stamp sized garden and Jenny's 'cosy corner' is similar to what I have space wise and very similar to what I have tried to create theatre wise in pots on a smaller scale. I have a Paulownia in a pot and even pollarded every year, it's still a good 7 or 8 feet tall. I also have an amazing solanum quitnoense in a pot doing amazingly well, in fact flowering, plus The big nettle family plant with the big round leaves, all in pots, And a massive ensette maurelli. All in pots and all come in in winter. They just need that bit extra care with water and feed. 🙂like you said, my few chosen specimens have really tied the garden together alongside the backdrop of Fatsia, Bamboo, Phormium etc.
Love it. And loving the garden tour videos.
Just watched the video. Absolutely amazing, I love, love, love this garden! It really magically whisks you away to far off places.
I’m Lucky enough to live in Louth and follow them on insta and face book, so when they are in growing season and they have too many of certain plants and Jenny post them for sale I’m straight round, not just to buy Uk the plants but to see their development. True plant lovers and the dedication and hard work they have put in is truly amazing and inspiring. Nice video.
I just love this garden. Looking forward to coming in a couple of weeks. I visit every year
Amazing garden, so much so that I've booked to go this week! Cheers George
Another great video, George! Watched it in a few segments. Jennifer seems so lovely!