Transforming a Quarry into a Lush Tropical Paradise: Mark's Epic Garden Project!

Today’s video is a return to Mark Goodlad’s amazing topical style Tiki garden in North Lincolnshire, England talking about his exciting and ambitious tropical style, exotic and jungle garden plans! We start off sensibly with building, planning and planting a raised bed with shade tolerant plants next to his garden office - hopefully a practical on series looking at small garden / border design, how to choose the right plants and space them out will be helpful. There might be chance for a tropical style plant shopping video or two too! Being a sheltered shady spot, this triangular steel raised bed will be perfect for tree ferns, palms, Fatsias and all kinds of exciting exotic plants. Following, that though, we move into Mark’s huge garden project and look at his plans for three acres of quarry! With a natural spring being developed into a fish-filled pond, a mixed wooded area calling out for some hardy exotic planting (Schefflera, tough evergreens, ferns, bamboo etc,) an oriental style / Japanese garden, a huge expanse of sunny grassland ready for a vegetable growing polytunnel, classic car garage & workshop, bee hives and all kinds of exciting garden projects - this is a huge undertaking and one I’m excited to see develop! Let us know what you’d do with the space in the comments!

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0:00 Intro
1:04 Planting a new raised exotic shady border next to garden office
5:18 A huge quarry garden project - exotic woodland, pond, Japanese garden etc!

Thanks,

George