Bananas and palms and tree ferns Hosta? Yuk! Outside the tropics that's wrong plant in the wrong place for me but each to their own when it comes to making a little bit of paradise.
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Tetrapanax, Cannas, Dahlias, Ricinus, Colocasia, +++, make for a lovely border IMO. Although hard to dig up and plant, when you are a bit passed it, like me.
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Bananas and palms and tree ferns Hosta? Yuk! Outside the tropics that's wrong plant in the wrong place for me but each to their own when it comes to making a little bit of paradise.
Tetrapanax, Cannas, Dahlias, Ricinus, Colocasia, +++, make for a lovely border IMO. Although hard to dig up and plant, when you are a bit passed it, like me.
No palms or tree ferns but everything on @punkdoc's list is fine. Maybe we shouldn't grow rhododendrons or roses either. "wrong plant , wrong place"? Maybe just stick with "natives" ?
No. It may be capricious of me but I think jungles belong in the tropics along with all that unpleasant humid heat that makes them grow the way they do. I've been to Kew and avoided the palm house and have never been in the greenhouses at Wisley because I just am not interested in those plants.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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Exactly. Bananas and cannas are a feature of municipal beds at a crossroads we pass every week to go dancing. They use bananas and cannas and phormiums in clever ways to contrast both form and colour but I don't want the dreaded bananas in my garden.
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Maybe we shouldn't grow rhododendrons or roses either. "wrong plant , wrong place"?
Maybe just stick with "natives" ?
It'd be a very boring situation of all our gardens contained exactly the same plants.