We’re going back to Mark Goodlad’s amazing topical style Tiki garden in North Lincolnshire, England for today’s summer tour video and it’s looking better than ever! From practical garden design tips, tropical plant ideas and Tiki / Bali decor inspiration through to colour combinations and tender plant winter protection; there’s lots of practical, helpful advice we COULD have discussed in this video. Instead, you’re getting a tour of Mark’s magnificent (some would say CRAZY) Tiki garden, heated tropical greenhouse and amazing new plants combined with a scattering of mediocre banter and gardening chat. We also discuss entirely relevant issues such as spending a grand on a specimen palm and Mark’s little secret to getting mossy monkeys. I hope you enjoy it!
Shane Bilson’s Jungle Stream Garden Transformation: https://youtu.be/yrO1xeTbxWE
The Secret Garden of Louth Amazing Summer Tour: https://youtu.be/wg6kKW6fasc
Jane & Allan Scorer’s Incredible Winterton Garden: https://youtu.be/hyucKK52fAg
0:00 Intro
0:40 Mark’s Crazy Tiki Garden 2024 Summer Tour Progress Update
1:38 Colourful Tropical / Exotic Container Plant Display, Ensete ‘Montbeliardii’ & Colourful Tiki Hut Borders
7:33 Colourful Tropical Style Perennial Border, Butyagrus eriospatha Hardy Mule Palm & Aqua Globe
11:58 Colocasia ‘Mammoth’ Theatre – Huge Tropical Leaves & Musa basjoo Banana Plants
15:34 Ensete ventricosum ‘Hiniba’ Giant Tropical Banana Plant & Loquat Evergreen Tree with Spanish Moss
17:53 Miscanthus lutarioriparius – tall, fast-growing & running bamboo-like exotic grass
20:56 Persicaria / Musa basjoo Banana Border Evolution – Easy Filler Plants to a Tropical Effect
23:38 Tetrapanax papyrifer, Magnolia macrophylla subsp. Ashei & Paulownia & Exotic Filler Plants
28:01 Brahea armata in Raised Steel Bed & Small Lawn Borders
29:56 Balinese Tropical Walkway with Loquat Trees, Bamboo Canes, Banana Plants & Decking
33:41 Dicksonia antartica tree fern group planting & tricky dry shade border problem
38:05 Metapanax delavayi, Schefflera shweliensis, macrophylla – rare exotic aralias I’ve mostly killed
39:46 Beautiful small Dicksonia antartica tree fern IN THE RIGHT PLACE!
40:56 Tropical style hanging baskets – Mark’s secret recipe for a colourful exotic display!
45:20 Japanese border with water feature, gravel, stones, red Acers & Aralia elata ‘Variegata’
47:21 Mark’s Private Heated Tropical Greenhouse with Rare Houseplants, Bromeliads & Monstera delicosa ‘Thai Constellation’
52:05 Arid Container Plant Summer Display – Bromeliad Trees, Succulents, Aeoniums & Cacti in Pots
55:47 Sago bed – Cycas revoluta Cycads growing outdoors in UK garden
57:58 Yucca & UK Hardy Agave Arid / Desert Plant Border – ovatifolia, parryi & montana
61:11 Huge Fatsia japonica / polycarpa ‘Green Fingers’ & Tetrapanax papyrifer specimens
63:33 Conclusion – Mark Goodlad’s Amazing Tropical Style UK Garden Transformation – Design, Planting, Maintenance & Future Plans
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Thanks,
George
49 Comments
How’s the large project you previewed either earlier this year or late last year on the wastelands you own Mark ? An awesome garden btw.🫡👌👌👌👌
Dry shade. Magellanic fuschia from here Chile.
Fantastic garden. You can clearly see it was architected by someone who knows his stuff and is passionate about gardening and of course year on year it never disappoints. Mark has made a brilliant body transformation compared to previous videos. Good on him! And as apart of the few who stuck until the very end, and definitely apart of the few that were waiting for this video, I can say I thoroughly enjoyed this years garden tour and of course the banter.
Fantastic! 🌴🌺🌸😍
Stunning. Cheers lads.
Stunning and as you say, the waiting…oh but the rewards…I really have to get my game going on the Spanish moss, I'm in Florida for Pete's sake and my gardens have a few strands that I've picked up here n there…geez…always so fun to tour with you two yahoos, it makes the extreme heat and hurricanes bearable when a garden gives so much pleasure…thanks guys for the tour…!
Always love these videos with you guys chemistry plus seeing what a great gardener this dude is. I’ll probably watch it a couple more times just to soak it all in. Thanks again for presenting this lablr of love
So beautiful, I really enjoyed this video. I’ve dug most of my garden up over the last few weeks and when you think you’ve bought enough to fill it you realise you haven’t and it looks like barren wasteland 🤦♀️ Anyhoo lots of ideas here to fill it just hope I can source things before it’s too late for this year 🙂
The video we’ve all been waiting for (all 3 of us… minus 1?) 😅🙌 what a change in both: the man and his garden.
Living in New Zealand and having spent time in Bali and Fiji that garden is absolutely stunning….I’m so jealous…you two should be Netflix aswell…..brilliant!
Wow, I'm blown away by marks garden! It's stunning! Quite honestly, one of the best I've seen so far! Have to say mark is looking pretty fit since his weight loss and change of image. Please keep them coming george, look forward to seeing more of yours too!
Excellent as always. Thanks guys.
great garden, lots of creative ideas , only the camera work makes you dizzy at most of the time
Mix of Saxifraga stolonifera, hellebores, Lamium galeobdolon 'Hermann's Pride', cyclamen hederifolium, Convallaria 'striata', variegated epimediums, maybe a Mahonia japonica would be my pick for dry shade.
Stunning garden, huge amount of work to get it looking so good. Keep up the carry on .😁👍🌴
Well done Mark on your amazing fitness transformation as well as a stunning garden display. But you two boys are probably heading for time out in the naughty corner when the wives get wind of the risky doubleintendos haha 🤣
Amazing garden. I love the garden tours of this garden 😀
Brilliant as always
Is there any update on that big area Mark bought behind his house? or have I just missed that part of the video completely 😂
I am inspired by what you guys have done with your gardens
The best video from the two of you so far, I had a good laugh, made my day. Even better than the shopping video.
All out, balls and everything 😂 this is going to be good
Another great video and beautiful garden 👌
Been waiting to see marks garden again. What’s happening with the extra land he had to develop?? Love you guys together jollied my day along. Loved the garden as always 🐌🐌 I used cat litter the nasty cheep but sharp stuff on my cannas to get them out the ground 😉
Brilliant video George! You have captured Mark’s Garden beautifully. I am in awe of Mark’s garden, he truly has taken it to the next level this year. You are both very talented gardeners and extremely funny together. Thank you for lifting my spirits and inspiring me. Xxx
Wow 🤩 absolutely stunning and great to see the progress Mark ⚗️🌴
Fantastic as always George 💚
#dawns_garden_life xx
Stunning garden. I swear, you guys + Kris would be my best friends if I lived in your neck of Bali.
Really enjoyed another look around Marks garden. It really is stunning. Plenty of inspiration. Cheers George 👍🏻
Loved the tour guys. I was very intimated by the deeply intense " Right plant, right place".
Reminded me of Jack Nicholson's character in A Few good men, Colonol Nathan R Jessep. You wouldn't argue with either of them 😁. Great work from Mark. Moved up to the Champions League with the additions👏👏👍
Thanks for the video guys. Mark your garden always looks great, and all the changes have been really adding up. Good luck with the Mule.
Another fantastic video George. I love the way you two bounce off each other, I've smiled all though this video. Mark the garden is looking amazing, you can really see how much hard work you've put in. The colocasia patch looks great. I got a colocasia mammoth through the winter with a minimal covering of woodchip, at -5. Like you my garden is only a few years old and I've used pericaria as fillers, but I am planning to take a lot out next year a d add some more interesting plants. Looking forward to seeing how it all develops. Thanks for sharing
Well Captain, I've got to admire your balls! And not a bad gorgeous garden as well! 🙂
Ref that dry shade area, personally I'd be inclined to not fight it and try something different there. With the seat and covered area in front of it, I think an ornamental raised pond / water feature could work well there with the water raised up just above seat height. You could put a high back on it which'll help to hide the fence and have some sort of water cascade/fall coming out of it.
Great vid as always..re dry shade I'd say the most underrated of fern..the Harts Tounge/Asplenium Scolopendriums will do well there once established.
I think a Dr's visit is in order if your yoghurt is going that green
I have a very dry and shady area in my garden. After several experiments I now have a group of large leaved Mahonias, M.acanthifolia, M. oiwakensis and M. lomariifolia underplanted with the variegated form of Aspidistra. They look very exotic . You should water regularly in the first year.
Please do another walk through as you discussed in fall to see what it looks like then. Simply cool garden beyond words
The part of garden at36-37 min mark needs cast iron plants
I live in Sydney, Australia and I have never seen a Wollemi (pronounced my) that good! The green is so lush!
Absolutely beautiful, as usual. For dry shade (with which I deal a lot in my own garden) : mahonias, liriopes (variegated one for example) and ophiopogons (different varieties as well), aspidistras, as you mentionned it (look for aspidistra eliator "okame" and "asahi"), epimediums (some are evergreen), distylium (must be watered a little the first summer). I have found that dryopteris can tolerate very dry shade after a few years of struggle (and thus some help). Nandina are ok if it's not too shady. And variegated pittosporum tobira nana can tolerate some shade and love dry soils like others pitto. As for the colocasia part of the garden, I have not only pink china but also black ripple and gigantea : they stay in the ground and are doing well (Centre France, zone 8, minus 7-8 every year at night many times). Here, even ensete montbeliardii wouldn't survive in winter. Same with dicksonia antartica, would be far too risky. So with a good mulch, Mark's colocasias will be fine.
I’m especially inspired by that greenhouse!
Hi George I’ve just bought a 3ft Trachycarpus fortunei do you think it will survive the winter
what is the size of the garden
Hi George, great videos!
Where do you recommend storing overwintering ensete’s? I’ve watched your video on this and want to know would a garage be good enough? Many thanks.
Where is Mark located, must be very mild! What were the coldest temps last winter?
Hi I would like some advice for anyone please ,I’ve just dug out a part of my garden for tropical/jungle type garden ,I’ve got a few young palms planted and ferns but I also want to add a DA ,do you think it will look ok thanks in advance
amicia for me here in Holland is hardier than phormium
Hi George.
Just a quick one on improving clay soil ready for planting (Palms) the following Spring. I'm on clay so I think a raised bed is the way. Would you just build it, fill with decent draining soil and leave the worms to assist improve the clay below or would you turnover the ground below , build the bed then fill with soil?
Thanks
Thanks guys, great video. I particularly like the hanging baskets, where can i get something similar with the climbing frame on the basket?
Fantastic tour, some delightful plants and bants.
Thank you for this amazing Video ❤