5 Years, 5 Hard-Earned Lessons: My Jungle Garden Journey

After creating and growing our 'new' UK tropical style style jungle and exotic garden for 5 years (yes, really!) today's video is a longer chat loosely structured around the 5 main planting and gardening lessons the journey has taught me or reinforced so far. From plant hardiness and 'sensible' exotic specimen plant selection (which would have saved me some money!) through to some garden design tips and ideas which I wish I'd implemented when I started, I hope there's some thoughts and rare common sense in this video which helps you out with your garden whatever the style or size! A year of UK exotic gardening tours at The Secret Garden of Louth: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkhAyisNnkdUKXwCr22X01N0e2tyaV0Q4&si=7KXNZDX0jq2yjfs- A summer tour of the amazing walled garden at Pan Global Plants with Nick Macer: https://youtu.be/NrPo6Cdedqg 0:00 Intro 2:20 Planting diversity - an unexpected way I've got so much more out of my garden - however the weather pans out 6:24 Tropical gardening in colder climates - the realities of minimum temperatures, microclimates & plant selection 14:08 Less is more... ?! Really?! Garden design tips from my mistakes... 22:04 The most important garden rule of all! 27:13 Patience - yep, I still struggle with this! If you've enjoyed my videos and would like to say thanks for the price of a coffee then please head over to my Ko-fi, any kind donations would be appreciated and put towards creating more exciting content: https://ko-fi.com/georgesjunglegarden​​ Thanks, George