"K" wrote in message
Farm1 writes

It could be a gross generalisation but the problem is that the
architecture needs to match the locale and the plants. A terrace
house with a small narrow alley type back yard and tropical just
doesn't match. Tropical needs decks and wide windows and lots of
air
movement between the house and the outside and then one could do
tropical (or tropical look alike)

I don't know if we have the same picture of tropical, but I reckon
that
if you're going to be penned in by walls, you might as well be
penned in
by plants instead, therefore in that situation I'd go for the lush
overgrown look. Maybe more temperate-overgrown-with-ferns look.

Yes I think I'd do the same. It's just as easy to get the overgrown
look with temperate plants as it is with plants that don't suit the
locale or architecture..