Improve Sheffield Thank you so much for your comments, they are really appreciated! This video was taken after my open day that year so had been primped and pruned thoroughly. Plants never grow how you expect them to. Each year the Dahlias can grow to a different height even though they are left in the ground over winter so it makes planning for planting schemes difficult. Dahlia ‘David Howard’ says that it will grow to about a metre tall but here it can grow to two metres!👍 Before the open day each plant will fight for its space and then I just prune it to fit in around the plants that surround it.

Agreed, and enjoyed the peaceful tour, thank you for not adding corny techno rave music over video!!

Esse jardim é um sonho de qualquer pessoa que gosta de plantas , parabéns pelo vídeo bgd por compartilhar conosco ?

@@Springyfeller I'm a professional landscape designer and horticulturist for 40 years !! Your garden is gorgeous!!!! Wonderful selection of plants...lovely !!!

@@NanNanNABooBoo I also appreciate the sound of the garden without load music. Thanks

What are you talking...?? I appreciate you..

Eu não te conheço mais amo você

squange20 Thank you! Me neither!! It’s amazing just how many plants you can grow here in the UK if you do a bit of research. There are still more fantastic plants being discovered that I’m sure will end up being planted here in the future!

I live on the West Coast of Ireland and would like to know is it possible to grow a tropical garden here.

@@jcjc4158 is is at least as mild as the UK so something like this garden yes.

@@Springyfeller don’t you have hard winter here? Amazing place!

Thank you so much Christine. It doesn’t look so pristine all of the time but I do try and make it look at its best when I do a video.😎

Thank you for your kind words Y Liberal. The garden is constantly evolving. I’m happy with how it looks at the moment but who knows what ideas I may come up with in the future. That’s the enjoyable thing about gardening! Your backyard could look the same but it can take time. Have fun!

Beautiful and stanning.

Thank you Bacila for you lovely comments! I’m so happy that my garden has inspired you with creating your own tropical garden. I have no major projects going on in the garden this year so I hope to get more time to concentrate on the planting schemes again. It’s always exciting to see just what plants have survived each winter outside. The more that survive the less of a job it is to fill the gaps!

Do you have Instagram profile, Steve? I could watch your pictures all day :)

Thank you. No Bacila I don’t have an instagram account. I do have a Twitter account though @springy_steve but I have only just started out on it. I don’t think I’d have enough time to do too many things. I hope to add pictures to Twitter more regularly as the year progresses.

I don't have a Twitter account, but I think I will make it one just for your photos! I wanna see every plant in your lovely garden!! 🙂

Thanks Bacila. I hope to add a few more unusual plants this year. Some of the hardier herbaceous plants are already starting to break through the soil so the garden is slowly waking up now!🌱

Sarah Dickens Thank you Sarah. The garden was started from scratch in October 2009. See here:www.hardytropicals.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=135&t=15027

@@Springyfeller WOW thank you for sharing the before and "during" photo's. What a truly gorgeous garden you've created

The garden is gorgeous..the plants are gorgeous...have no clue why anyone would give this thumbs down.. !!

On the bright side, youtube counts dislikes as a positive thing: the more clicks the better. The thumbs up or down is just for the people to have an option to express themselves but youtube doesnt really care about that. At least thats what all my IT specialists say.. With regards to the video, my favourite garden video so far..and i watch quite a few of them each morning. Fantastic garden!

Mefas R I too, watch a lot. This one is absolutely beautiful!

Caroline Middleditch Thank you so much Caroline. What part of Scotland and what is your soil like? Clay? Sandy? Etc. If you are prepared to do a little bit of work protecting things it will go a long way to what you can grow.

Springyfeller hello! I’m south West Scotland. I’m on the coast but up high. I think our soil is pretty neutral but it’s quite compacted. Sorry I missed your message earlier. 😎

No problem eddy. I always try to reply when I can. I could chat about my garden for hours. I normally only get to do that on my open day once a year! The plant that I think you mean is Schefflera delavayi. Those leaves are more like 6-8 inches or more in length. It’s one of my favourite plants in the garden. It also shouted ‘buy me” when I saw it........ three times in fact!!😁

Thank you Carole for your kind comments! Lots of different things going on in the garden that when put all together, make the garden what it is. Right plant, right place - layering of plants - lots of things really. Adam Frost did a descriptive walk through of the garden on Gardeners World in September 2017, describing the planting as resembling and English woodland but with tropical style plants.

Hi, yes I first saw your garden on Gardeners World, and was blown away. I couldn't believe that you could make a garden look so big just by the way you arrange the planting beds. It inspires me to attempt to create my own exotic garden since we moved house recently. My collection of hardy exotics are currently waiting patiently in the greenhouse until I decide on the design. I can't wait....@@Springyfeller

@@Springyfeller Do you have a link to the Gardener's World segment? And are you going to post any more videos?

Hi Jennifer, I do now. dai.ly/x73qlom

I just found your channel and your garden is gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous! You should put some short videos on once a week or every couple weeks of what's going on in different corners of your garden or what you're doing. I know it takes time and thought to think about it but it would be nice to hear your voice explain why you did the design you did in specific little places. It would be interesting to hear how you built your little stream there's a lot of knowledge in your head that could be shared with all of us out here in the plant world

Thank you for watching it and taking the time to comment Diana.

Seems pretty small but well filled, 100 perhaps?

Yes, I'd also like to know how you cope with low temperatures!

And I would also like to know how all these tropical plants survive the harsh winters in UK.

Thank you Sarah for taking the time to watch and comment.

Cris Bessette Thanks for your comment Cris, I’ll see what I can do!👍

Cris Bessette me too...it's got to be stunning at night as well!

Jennifer, thank you for your comments! I like to have flowers in the garden as they are very important to bees, butterflies and hover flies etc. I want a garden that encourages all types of wildlife and beneficial insects plus they add their own interest and beauty.

Thank you 🙏

CancunTransfers.com You are very welcome and thank you for your lovely comments! It’s been a very rewarding project to turn the garden into what it is today.

Best tropical garden ive seen

robroy4137 You are very welcome and thank you for your kind words!🙏

Thank you so much for your comment Erin!

PLANT PORN Thank you so much for your kind comments!

Well it’s a start Carole. You’ll be surprised just how quick they grow once they get their roots established. I’m not sure if you have seen this or not but it’s a link to my old blog on a website I used to use a lot when I started out. It shows the garden in its early days. Most of the plants were annuals then until they were replaced with something more permanent. Here is the link👍 www.hardytropicals.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=135&t=15027

Rk Thanks for watching and commenting!

avenging angel Thank you so much! Yes he was the godfather of tropical gardening and he certainly inspired me! I did meet him once but unfortunately I never got to visit his garden!☹️

Thank you! It’s a shame that 4 years of my blog on HTUK has been lost. I will certainly try and do videos each season as a lot of people think that there is no interest in the winter months. Yes there is less foliage but it’s a great time to see the architectural palms!

Thank you Pushpa for your kind words!

Thank you so much! It has been a struggle this year so I’m thankful for your comments!

Alice Ainscough Thank you Alice for your comments. The garden is a lot of hard work but I get so much enjoyment from tending to it each year. I really had fun adding the ‘jungle hut’ area this year and it’s really helped me to take time out to sit and just soak in the garden that I’ve created. I never would have dreamed that it would have looked like this when I first started it in 2009!!

Thank you for your kind words 🙏 Every bit of bare soil is an opportunity to put in a plant! 🤗

Thank you Elena. It has taken time and a lot of work but it’s coming together nicely now. I’m really looking forward to doing this years planting.

So much love and patience is invested in your garden. And Your garden loves you! Last year, the garden went under the snow. How are Your exotic ones?

Thanks Kris. You have seen the garden evolve over the years, from a rubbish filled lawn to a garden filled with tropical/exotic planting and secret paths that invite you to explore the garden more. I always enjoy seeing the way your garden is going through the same transition in your videos.👍

Thank you Susie. I’m a bit of a plantaholic so have many plants in the garden. I do have a back bone of permanent planting and then each year I add the tender plants that are overwintered in the outhouse and also any new acquisitions.

Dil Reyes, thank you for your kind words! I can certainly lose myself for hours in the garden, especially when I’m getting it ready for an open day.

Thank you Steve! Yes a lot of the flowers are various Dahlias. These have been planted in the garden for 10 years as they were used to fill the garden easily and cheaply. Visitors to the garden love them so I keep them in. I love them too of course as they show where the garden originally started.

Springyfeller That’s great, even better when things develop organically like that.

Gracias por sus amables palabras! Digna

Judit Izquierdo You are very kind, Thank you!

Thank you south star. I had a rough drawing of the layout I wanted at the beginning but a lot of my ideas and ‘tweaking’ of the garden have been done over time. Instead of just sitting back and enjoying it I always find myself thinking of ways to change areas that I’m not happy with.

@@Springyfeller You are a true gardener. I am exactly the same, I always have to get my hands dirty, lots of tweaks, bringing in new plants and taking out some older ones which i pass on to neighbours. Its a dream of mine to become a full time landscaper.

south star The thing with my garden is the fact that you can’t just pop to the garden centre or DIY store and buy all the plants that I grow here. It can take years of patience to track these plants down, that’s even if you know that they exist in the first place!😄 That’s why it will always evolve over time. The planting will ‘wax and wane’ with plants being removed and replaced and then maybe returning again in later years. I too have had a longing to go into landscape gardening and I have at last taken the plunge. After 16 years doing Fencing for a living, I will be leaving all that behind and starting with a landscaping company next month!! 😊👍

leigh sutcliffe Thank you Leigh!🙏

Thank you Alesia