Starting off with tropicals

If you look back on the last one or two editions (or more) of BBC TV Gardeners World, there have been a couple of gardens featured who used tropical looking plants to effectively create that look.



BBC Two - Gardeners' World, 2019, Episode 25

 

Thank you ricky101
I found the above link very helpful and will check out the follow ons.

 

You may be a bit limited in what you can grow if your garden doesn't have much shelter, wind can cause a lot of damage to many exotic or tropical looking plants so you have to choose carefully.

 

Yes greenhouse planting definitely with warmth and
Lurrv

 

Another link you might find helpful / interesting for carnivorous plants - see 7.0-mins in.
( Beechgrove, another good tv program to watch, Sunday Mornings)
The Beechgrove Garden episode 8 2019 — HDclump

and these links if you have not already seen them -

Carnivorous plant pot display

10 tips for growing carnivorous plants

Caring for carnivorous plants - Golden Rules

 

Canna paniculata is tropical looking, very hardy and easy from seed.............
Canna paniculata by longk48, on Flickr

It is a smallish Canna and so the leaves are not shredded by wind. Blooms in the first year too.

If you can find seed Iris confusa is an exotic looking Iris with the fans on leaves borne 30cm to 40cm above the ground on bamboo like stems. It produces flowers freely in late spring and is fully hardy..............
Iris confusa by longk48, on Flickr

Iris confusa by longk48, on Flickr

Dietes bicolor is a South African member of the Iris family and also hardy. Easy from seed but it does take five, six maybe seven years to bloom...........
Dietes bicolor by longk48, on Flickr

 

Update on tropical seed

Rooting through a forgotten box of seed I have found some p kts of seed from
Chilterns seeds .
I have Protea and Banksia.C

Id thought about soaking them for a few hours in tepid water.or even overnight and planting in a seed tray, maybe using a propagators which goes up to a temp of 20 .