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Oxmoor House

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Landscaping with Tropical Plants: Design Ideas, Creative Garden Plans, Cold-Climate Solutions

Editors of Sunset Books (Paperback) Oxmoor House 2004-01-01

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What tropical native plants can go into a landscape design with four beds and a large pond?
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All the garden beds have different types of plants which have overgrown and become untidy.
This landscape is in tropical Nth Queensland, Australia


where do you live? here in florida, gingers are very good, as are all the llillies - canna, calla, louisiana & african. although technically not native, they are semi or full tropicals. also, plumeria (frangipangi or hawaiian lei flower) is good.

2006-09-30 04:48:18 by ynot

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Anybody know of some good Tropical or Tropical-like plants that will grow well in California?
Tropical Garden Design, Romblon, Philippines

I am landscaping my Mother-in-laws yard and she wants a tropical design. I am not having much luck finding variations that will stay alive through the winter. She is not interested in pulling them up and bringing them inside for the winter. I am settling for some more marshy and deserty looking plants to help supliment. But it's still not Tropically enought. Can't plant trees either, so don't suggest that. Thanks!
I live in the central valley...Stanislaus County.


Where are you in California? That will help narrow down some ideas/suggestions I have but here are some I can think of off the top of my head:
Canna
Musa and Musella (hardy banana and ornamental banana-loves the leaves)
Hibiscus (many different forms available)
New Guinea Impatiens
Passiflora (passion vine)
Mandevilla laxa
Mandevilla 'Alice du Pont'
Alstroemeria (Peruvian lily)
Ferns
Ipomoea (Sweet potato vine)-many foliage colors available
Coleus - many foliage colors available and now varieties are sun tolerant!
Manettia (Firecracker vine)
Asarina barclaiana (vining snapdragon)
Cobaea scandens (cup and saucer vine)
Snapdragons
Abutilon (Flowering maple)
Tibouchina (Glory bush)
Cestrum - a few species available
Fuchsia
Justicia - many forms available
Iochroma - really cool flowers, kind of hard to find though
Lantana - many forms available
Heliotropium (Heliotrope) - so fragrant!
Phormium (New Zealand Flax) - to add texture
Yucca (Adam's Needle)
Cordyline (Torbay, Cabbage or Cornish Palm)
Brugmansia (Angel's Trumpet)
Datura (Devil's Trumpet)
Buddleia (butterfly bush)
Kalanchoe
Malva (Mallow)
Mirabilis (four o'clocks)

These are just a few I can think of. I'm just north of San Francisco and can grow all of these. There are a few that need frost protection but can go through the winter here.

Best of luck to you!

EDIT: Looks like you are in Zone 8 and I'm in Zone 8 too. I think all of these will do well for you. Your summer may be slightly warmer than mine but these will do okay if you have them in the right spot (sun plants in sun and shade plants in shade, etc). Happy Gardening.

2008-04-18 15:02:25 by Live'n It

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    Elena Elephant Ear is New Addition to Tropical Landscape - eXtension

    Released August 13, 2009

    MISSISSIPPI STATE - We count on tropical plants to be the stalwart landscape performers when August heat rolls in, and one you need to consider is an elephant ear named Elena. In case you haven’t noticed, elephant ears have changed; in addition to their big, coarse or bold-textured foliage, they offer exciting color, too.

    This is where Elena rises to the occasion. “Rise” might be a good descriptor, as it can form big clumps reaching 4 to 6 feet tall and exhibiting a riotous lime green or chartreuse color. Lime green is still at the top of the charts for must-have color in the shade or sun garden.

    Elena is an easy-to-grow selection that tolerates full sun as long as the water supply is there. It spreads in moist sites. Elena is known botanically as colocasia, the genus with which most gardeners are familiar. It has a little purple in the veins near the center of the leaf.

    The other lime green elephant ear that is rising in popularity is Lime Zinger, known botanically as xanthosomas. It can get much taller than Elena with leaves that are a little wider. Both Elena and Lime Zinger are cold hardy to zone 7b and will return as long as they don’t sit in soggy soil in the winter.

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