Easy & Exciting Exotic Style Plants for a Beautiful Garden - Plant Ideas for Beginners!

Today’s video is all about the easy to grow, beautiful and exciting plant ideas I’d recommend for beginners starting a low maintenance and drought tolerant exotic style display (small gardens, borders and containers included!) and comes from Linden Nurseries near Scunthorpe in North Lincolnshire (Ermine Street, Appleby, Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, DN15 0BZ). These sun-loving plants are ideal for sandy or stony soil and can tolerate conditions most big-leaved plants might struggle in. Mediterranean, desert or arid style plants also have the potential to cope better with our increasingly dry summers (OK, not this one!) and hotter temperatures being very drought tolerant. This means they're great for full sun borders and gardens in dry parts of the country but a lot of these are hardy exotics able to cope with winter wet and cold too when given good drainage. I look at some of my specimen and companion plant ideas for creating a striking display, some hardy exotic plant ideas for pots and containers and plant care tips to keep them looking good through the seasons. A big thanks to my local plant nursery Linden Nurseries for letting me film there (not a sponsored vid even if I sound like I'm on the shopping channel at some points!). If you can show them some love by visiting and maybe leave a review online once you’ve seen their huge range of amazing pots and lovely plants at fair prices I’m sure it will be appreciated! 0:00 Intro 0:26 What is a UK exotic garden? Plant ideas & inspiration 2:51 Exciting & low maintenance exotic plant ideas for sunny UK gardens 3:17 Chamaerops humilis Mediterranean Fan Palms for dry gardens & containers 4:45 Small Chamaerops humilis ‘Compacta’ & ‘Vulcano’ palms for pots & borders 6:00 Cycads - stylish container plants for a sunny patio or conservatory 6:21 Hardy, exotic & evergreen colour with tough Yucca gloriosa ‘Variegata’ plants 8:08 Yucca rostrata ‘Blue Swan’ arid / desert style specimen plants for sunny gardens 10:21 Trachycarpus fortunei palms & cloud pruned olive trees for Mediterranean gardens 13:02 Sempervivums, grasses, hylotelephiums & sedums - low maintenance colourful plants 16:20 Exotic colour with evergreen Euphorbias & Japanese maples for autumn interest 18:28 Chamaerops humilis specimen palms for raised beds, pots & sunny gardens 19:05 Easy, drought tolerant & low maintenance plant ideas for UK exotic style gardens If you enjoy my videos and would like to say thanks for the price of a coffee then please head over to my Ko-fi here, any kind donations would be appreciated and all money is put towards creating more exciting content: https://ko-fi.com/georgesjunglegarden