"Farm1" please@askifyouwannaknow wrote in message
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"JennyC" wrote in message
"Farm1" please@askifyouwannaknow wrote in message
"JennyC" wrote in message

I find yellow and orange plants disconcerting, love cottagey
plants but
tropical stuff never appeals.
Janet Tweedy

LOL :~)
I love all colours except pale ones, and tropical really does it
for
me !!
I hate tidy, regimented gardens, topiary, box hedging and lawns!

I hate tidy gardens too but I can't quite see the connection to
tropical plants in not liking tidy gardens.

Tropicaltidy ?

Not sure what the symbols mean but there are some tropical gardens
that are as tidy and as neat as the trimmed box hedges style in
temperate gardening.


I think it boils down to what people mean by tropical gardens. There are
many styles and in general terms folk tend to assume anything from a warmer
climate is a tropical plant. The jungle effect from lush tropicals and the
Mediterranean effect from the arid bunch such as Yuccas are the opposite
ends of the exotic spectrum.It's the arid theme that tends to start to look
tidy with the obligatory gravel and a natural look of no ground cover.
Chances are that Bananas and Tree ferns may be as common as Laurel and
Rhododendron at a future date.