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Essential Guide to Tropical Gardens

A tropical garden features plants native to warm, humid tropical regions. While tropical conditions are best, tropical gardens can also be created in other climates through artificial heating, humidity, and specialized equipment. Tropical gardens are less common than temperate or Mediterranean gardens due to differing climate suitability worldwide, but can be found in tropical areas or controlled environments like botanical gardens. Tropical garden design emphasizes dense planting of large-leaved plants in a layered structure of canopy, focal, and filler plants. Common tropical plants include palms, frangipani, spider lilies, and foliage plants like arrowroot and bloodleaf.

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Essential Guide to Tropical Gardens

A tropical garden features plants native to warm, humid tropical regions. While tropical conditions are best, tropical gardens can also be created in other climates through artificial heating, humidity, and specialized equipment. Tropical gardens are less common than temperate or Mediterranean gardens due to differing climate suitability worldwide, but can be found in tropical areas or controlled environments like botanical gardens. Tropical garden design emphasizes dense planting of large-leaved plants in a layered structure of canopy, focal, and filler plants. Common tropical plants include palms, frangipani, spider lilies, and foliage plants like arrowroot and bloodleaf.

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  • Introduction to Tropical Gardens: Provides an overview of tropical gardens, their features, and the importance of replicating suitable climates for plant growth.
  • Commonality of Tropical Gardens: Discusses how common tropical gardens are worldwide and their presence in various climates and controlled environments like greenhouses.
  • Tropical Garden Design Style: Explains the design principles of tropical gardens, emphasizing plant density and strategic placement for aesthetic appeal and functionality.
  • Tropical Garden Layout Plan: Presents a schematic layout plan of a tropical garden, detailing plant placements and site allocations.
  • Essential Plants for Tropical Gardens: Lists essential plant species suitable for tropical gardens, including their growth habits and visual characteristics.
  • Conclusion: Concludes the discussion on tropical gardens, offering gratitude and a final note on the topic.

TROPICAL

GARDEN
RAFOLS, IDAOSOS
TROPICAL GARDEN
Refers to a garden that features plants native to tropical
regions, which are characterized by warm temperatures, high
humidity, and heavy rainfalls These conditions are necessary for
many tropical plants to thrive, and a tropical climate is therefore
well-suited for a tropical garden.
However, it is possible to create a tropical garden in a non-
tropical climate, but this would require additional effort in replicating
the proper conditions, such as by using artificial heating, humidifiers,
and other equipment to maintain the environment necessary for
tropical plants to survive or replicating the plants to survive and
adapt to the difficult climates.
Are tropical gardens common?

Tropical gardens are not as common as gardens featuring


plants native to temperate or Mediterranean climates, which are more
well-suited to the conditions found in many parts of the world.
However, tropical gardens can be found in some regions that have
tropical climates, such as in tropical coastal areas, or in regions with a
sub-tropical climate, like certain areas in Florida, Hawaii, and Southern
California, where the conditions are more favorable for tropical plants.

Tropical gardens can also be found in botanical gardens and


zoos, which often have greenhouses or other controlled environments
that allow them to grow tropical plants. Additionally, many tropical
plants can also be grown indoors as houseplants, which allows people
to enjoy them even in non-tropical climates.
A tropical garden design style Is all about the density of planting. Tropical plants are mostly about
the leaves rather than the flowers; many have glossy, and often quite large, leaves with patterns on
them, or foliage that has distinctly different colours on the top and underside.

In a tropical landscape, the aim is to create a closely planted garden where plants appear to jostle for
space. Plants should be chosen based on their height, size, shape and texture of their leaves.

First, tall canopy plants create an upper


canopy, giving shade and shelter to the
lower growing plants beneath.

Next come the focal plants to create


interest at ground level.

These are then surrounded by ‘fillers’ –


which are medium-sized leafy bushes and
shrubs that fill in the remaining spaces,
before the final ground covers.
AR= Ardisia
CORD= Cordyline
CR= Crinum (Spider flower)
CROT= Croton (Joseph’s Coat)
CYC= Cycad
DR= Dracaena
EG= Evergreen Giant
GC= Golden Cane Palm
F= Frangipani
LG= Magnolia Little Gem
IRE= Iresine (Blood Leaf Plant)
KP= Kentia Palm
MP= Majestic Palm
OP= Oyster Plant
RH= Rhoeo (Moses in the Cradle)
RS= Cordyline Red Sensation.
NRL= New Zealand Rock Lily
VG= Variegated Ginger
Xan= Xanadu
YW= Yellow Wave Flax
Essential Plants for Tropical Gardens:

TROPICAL
PALM Frangipanni: Deciduous
FOLIAGE
PLANTS
Crinum: Spider Lily. large shrub to tree.
Evergreen, robust perennial Fragrant flowers in
with bold strappy leaves. Golden Cane Palm: Clump Ardisia: Evergreen small
summer-autumn. Range
Forms a large upright, forming Palm with golden shrub. Glossy foliage.
rosette of foliage. Greenish- of colours available. 3-6m
tinged trunks. 3-6m H X Small white flowers in
white, fragrant star shaped H X 3-5m W
2-3m W. summer followed by red
flowers in summer. 60cm-
1m H X 1m W. ornamental berries. 0.5-
Magnolia Little Gem:
Kentia Palm: Beautiful 1m H X 0.5-1m W.
Evergreen tree with large
single trunked palm with
Cycad: (Cycas revoluta) Slow creamy white, perfumed
growing, palm-like foliage, large feather-like fronds. Oyster Plant: (Acanthus)
flowers in Spring and
with small spine tipped 6-10m H X 3- 4m W. Clump forming perennial
leaflets. Excellent container Summer. 4-5m H X 2-
specimen. 2.5m W. with large deeply cut
Majesty Palm: Large foliage. Tall spikes of
rounded Palm with long mauve and white flowers
fronds of attractive in summer. 0.5-1m H x

PLANTS
foliage. 8-15m H.
TREE 1m W
THANK
YOU

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