Today’s video is a visit to Dirt Cheap Plants near Sheffield, Yorkshire to see an incredible tropical style jungle garden and some amazing U.K. hardy exotic plants for sale. Janet and her husband Graham completely transformed their small U.K. garden into a lush tropical paradise – a real passion for jungle planting, exotic flowers and huge palms led to an amazing outdoor space and large collection of plants for propagation. Following the events of the pandemic, they found themselves at home, struggling to make meet but worked incredibly hard to produce masks to do their bit and help others cope with the tricky times. You can find out more about them on their website in the about us section:
As more and more people came to pick masks up though, one question got asked more and more… do you sell any of these stunning plants? Beauties like Trachycarpus palms, Musa basjoo bananas, Tetrapanax papryrifer ‘Rex’ and Dicksonia antartica tree ferns definitely make an impression along with tropical flowers from Hedychium gingers, Begonia grandis, Agapanthus and more. Fast forward a few years and with a lot of hard work, entrepreneurialism and a real love of exotic plants, Dirt Cheap Plants has become a thriving small business. With more exotic and specimen plants than a lot large garden centres but with the expertise and knowledge to help customers care for them it’s clear to see how their garden and enthusiasm has inspired so many people in Yorkshire and beyond to start their own tropical garden journey!
Find out more about Dirt Cheap Plants and buy tropical style plants for your garden here:
0:00 Intro
0:23 The Dirt Cheap Plants Story
3:06 Yorkshire Small Tropical Garden Tour – Colocasia & Tetrapanax
4:18 U.K. Tropical Style Garden Flowering Plant Ideas
5:48 Gunnera killipiana, Aralia and must-have rare plant lists!
6:48 Musa sikkimensis banana plant growth rate and winter care
7:58 Rheum and plant ideas for a tropical effect border
8:42 Tips for transplanting a large Trachycarpus fortunei windmill palm
10:02 Feeding a tropical style garden with a DIY high nitrogen banana fertiliser mix!
11:10 Exotic effect plants for shady garden borders
11:40 Giant transplanted Trachycarpus fortunei & fast growing Miscanthus giganteus
14:00 Huge Dicksonia antartica tree fern trunk & shady exotic plants
15:50 Tender & rare Queen palm tree in cold climate U.K. garden!
18:03 Begonia grandis – hardy exotic foliage plants for shady borders
18:54 Trachycarpus palms and banana plants for sale & Musa basjoo care tips
20:20 Tropical garden inspiration and the journey to Dirt Cheap Plants
21:53 A forest of banana plants for sale! Musa, Ensete & ‘Thai Black’
22:25 Tropical style plants – Kiwi vines, Fatsia ‘Camouflage’ & Schefflera taiwaniana
24:50 Cannas, banana plants inc. ‘Thai Black’ & exotics for big summer leaves
26:50 Plants for sale including hardy Trachycarpus palms, tree ferns, grasses & ground ferns
29:21 Specimen Chamaerops humilis, Brahea armata, Yucca rostrata and instant impact Trachycarpus
31:50 Fast growing Paulownia tomentosa ‘Foxglove Tree’ with huge leaves for tropical gardens
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FANTASTIC video! Wonderful inspiration for a client's garden. Got a whole page of notes here!
Oh this lady is great, love her! Thank you so much for this report, lots of ideas and scribbling down plant names 🙂 and ideas. I love the Panda 🙂 superb fun! I learnt so much from this and yes super enjoyed this!
Whats the name of the plant at 6:30 ?
Love the videos mate, i wouldnt call their prices dirt cheap either they pretty expensive 😢
Love Love LOVE THIS GARDEN!!!!how do you make the banana fertiliser please!
Love Love LOVE THIS GARDEN!!!!
What is the plant with triangular green leaves and a purple V in the leaf at around 27:09?
That panda bear though! 😂😂😂😂
Had to look again there bottom right 8:06 tropical jungle look 😂 definitely 💯 got it spot on!😂😂 Never spotted silverback 1st time around.😂😂
Stunning
but , in winter?
Great excitement George.
My project for this year is to bring my outside Bonzai trees into a tropical part of my garden, not sure how it will work, but I am going to try.
May I know how to buy some plants from this garden pls , like their plant store online or website.
I’m in shock! Your garden looks amazing! 😳 I had no idea that these plants could survive in 🇬🇧
We have a new build and have slabbed the majority of our garden, so hoped to have tropical plants in pots so having a bit of a think as to what will survive 🙄🫢🤔🤔 need help and advice
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Thanks George, and Janet, we're loving your Tropical Jungle gardens, inspirational
Oh my, what an amazing place! I'm just starting my jungle garden journey, but I took loads of notes from this one place alone! Thank you 😊🤩
What camera do you use for shooting? DSLR?
Gorgeous, thank you for showing,
How can we visit?where is it and how to book an appointment please?
It is a great shame that you do not allow the pawlonia to flower as they smell like parma violets
We grew bananas here..the good one
Visited here twice ,purchased a cycad ,mangave and agave americana. Fantastic garden, well worth a visit.
Oho George my darling, you have done it again. We absolutely love her garden. She is a lovely lady. Does she sell to people in London?
Hi George another fantastic video 🙂 You mentioned that Yucca Rostrata size up quite quickly. I have ones grown from seed, which are about 10 inches and planted in the spring. One that I bought from a garden center with no visible trunk at just over a foot each way. Another that I picked up in an october sale which spans around 2ft, again with no visibile trunk. When I first started growing the seeds I read that it will become full size in 10 years and since doing more research it appears to be around 80 years! will I see my saplings get to full size in my lifetime? What are your thoughts on time from seed to say a 3 foot trunk?
Really enjoyed this episode 👌
Thanks for sharing this place love to see the garden plus the other plants for sale I think you guys have lots of neat places to buy plants more so than my area here in Pensacola Florida think we would be loaded with tropical plant places but we aren’t . Anyway this was lots of fun. I’m adding persacaria to my jingle next spring even if I have to buy it online
I agree George. Great to hear this lady’s enthusiasm
What an inspirational lady with a wonderful show garden and stock. Thank you for making and sharing the video.
George I have a question, – Is it ok to plant a tree fern at angle? I know some tree ferns have a bit of lean, but can this be created by putting them in the ground so they are not straight?
Love where your garden is going…Wish i had the space you do!
Another excellent and interesting video and what an unexpected and beautiful garden. Thoroughly enjoyed watching this! Another place that I will have to visit! Thank you once again for all that you do George. Xxx
Good morning always enjoy your videos. Could you make a video about the less fun things about gardening? the vermin, I now suffer from bamboo mites and that spoils the fun.
Another Fantastic video George!!
Does Janet heat her lean too green house during winter ? with all the bananas inside as she said she had the “Thai Black” variety
Inspirational! Great video.
Called in today, 4th time i've been and bought 2 fatsia camouflage 👍
Hi George, what an amazing place. The garden is incredible. It's such a pity its too far away for me 😢 it's really hard to find tropical plants locally in garden centres. I think if I lived nearby it would be lethal, I would spend all my money lol.
Thanks for sharing!!