How to Build a Tropical Garden for £100!

Today I look at my ideas on how I'd plant a tropical jungle garden packed with colourful exotic plants like palm trees, bamboos and bananas with a £100 budget. It's definitely possible to create your own leafy paradise without spending a huge amount and if you're a beginner to tropical gardening, hopefully you'll find some helpful plant ideas and design suggestions that you can use this spring.

Obviously there is no strict formula or plant list, creating a lush tropical look can be achieved with lots of kinds of plants. Feel free to swap plants you like the look of into this list, maybe ferns, Miscanthus grasses, lots of annuals like sunflowers, dahlias, nasturtiums or even some of the more exotic looking vegetables, they can all create a tropical garden with impact around a few key structural exotic plants.

Thanks,

George

[spikedcolor]

Tropical garden, Jurassic Park shirt, AND a dog?! The algorithms are really getting too specific now (thanks for the great info!)

[nicholasweeney]

Sassa! Sits for 5 yrs then goes mental. Brilliant jungle effect, as long as you can control it's spread.

[estherterrier]

Great advice George, I buy lots of my plants in reduced section, b & q are a good one, last year got a 5ft nigra bamboo for £5 😀

[MrMoneyMan-zvuk]

Thanks George I love Tropical gardens And especially for $100, Thanks A lot for the information!😀

[SteveHigginsUK]

Thanks for this. I've just moved into a house with a garden after years in a flat. For £114 I managed to get a good selection of plants based on your advice.

[vincenzecalzone]

Great video George. You're doing some great work there. Super video. Cheers 👍

[TonyField]

Something I've added is himalayan Honeysuckle, they're absolutely fantastic and exotic flowers, the stems are amazing and nice fruits the birds love

[sueliperian]

I've just found your videos and I am loving them. Thank you so much for the great advice on this one.

[emmagunston]

Brilliant video as ever George, thank you. I completely agree about repeat planting, it just looks fab I think.

[juliematt]

Thanks for your ideas. I am trying to find the video you were talking about "garden on a budget " I think.

[colinbutler]

This is excellent George! I only stumbled across your channel today and i love your passion! That and the fact that you're in the not far from me so the climate shouldn't be that different. I have recently acquired a bit of pasture land with some woodland. Its basically a field for now but I plan to create a woodland/food forrest, plus just generally just play around with it!
One thing I'm thinking of doing is creating a few mini gardens, so one of em may as well be a tropical one! Maybe I'll start with the plants you've listed in this vid. Keep up the good work.😃

[george]

Need to see more of Max. Can he not have his own wee garden. Macs corner.

[paigeturner]

Which bamboo won’t spread too much in the ground George?

[tedscott]

Great video again and a plant I didn't know, the borinda blue bamboo. It's definitely on my shopping list.
Keep on with the vids through the summer to keep us updated.👍

[Arturo_G]

Finally the detailed and precise explanations I was looking for to create a garden!!!! Absolutely love the chanel!!! Thanks a lot man. Greetings from Spain

[TropicalGardening]

Great video for the beginning tropical gardener!

[nazminnarine]

I love your dog. Nice tail.Your palms look well as if rthey growing in my garden in Trinidad. . Try bamboo trees from the Caribbean. They do not die easily. Nice tee shirt.

[kazpaul]

I find that Fatsia cuttings root really easily too if you want to increase your plants even more. Gunnera manicata grows very rapidly and is good for propagating by division. I also bought a little tetrapanax about 3years ago at a very reasonable price which has grown quickly and sent out runners (easily detached and not invasive) which has given me 3 more plants.

[rehomedwithlove]

Thanks, Started my tropical garden in Lincoln last summer and looking to expand this summer, so finding your videos really helpful, especially as we are in the same area, so conditions are about the same. I have a large borders to fill so last year it was about the cordylines and palms, though lost half the small palms over winter and the bigger one that survived looks like it got wind burnt a couple of weeks ago that I am upset about, but there is still green on the stems so hoping I can save that one somehow. Anyway keep up the good work.

[bobcharlie]

I bought a little fatsia begining of last year. For £7 it was pretty small. Potted it up into a bigger pot and now its Atleast trippled in size in the shade