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Click on picture to enlarge                                                                                                                                            Landscaping with Tropical Garden Plants

Aquatics

Cacti & Succulents

Climbers

Exotics

Ferns

Flowering Shrubs

Foliage Plants

Ground Covers

Ornamental Trees

Palms

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Aquatics

Water plays a major role in garden landscapes everywhere. This is particularly true in the tropics, where formal pools, natural-looking lakes and ponds, artificial cascades, even large water jars in a courtyard help to lower temperatures as well as providing focal points of interest.

Lotus 

Nelumbo nucifera

Typha angustifolia

Cacti & Succulents

Many families of plants contain succulent (i.e. water storing) species that have adapted to the arid climates of deserts and semi-deserts. Many of these habitats are associated with high day-time temperatures and special mechanisms have evolved to collect and conserve the limited moisture that is available, sometimes only from dews and mists.

Apple cactus

Cereus peruvianus

Climbers

Clambering up a tall forest tree, spilling dramatically down a hillside, growing over a garden trellis, sometimes clipped and trained into formal shapes, vines and creepers include some of the most decorative of tropical plants. 

Morning Glory

Ipomoea

Exotics

Dazzling colour or sometimes bizzarre form, to epitomize the popular view of the tropics as a place of botanical surprise and wonder.

Heliconia

Ferns

Ferns are great plants for indoor and outdoor gardening. There are types that are great for shade gardens, sun gardens, rock gardens, ponds, bog gardens, flower borders, and just about everywhere.

Bird's Nest Fern

Asplenium nidus

Flowering Shrubs

Flowering shrubs are among the most memorable features of any tropical garden. They offer a dazzling range of colour and flower forms.

Hibiscus

Foliage Plants

A brilliant array of foliages hues and unusual leaf forms. They have been equally popular with gardeners seeking to create bright contrasts and variety amid the predominant green, particularly in places where flowering shrubs are difficult because of heavy rains or insufficient light.

Elephant Ear

Alocasia

Ground Covers

Ground covers serve to link and set off the larger landscape elements and to hold the soil during the heavy rains that are characteristic of most tropical regions for long periods. They also bring interesting colours and textures into a garden.

Selaginella

Ornamental Trees

Ornamental trees play such a fundamental role in garden landscapes, bringing beauty in the form of often spectacular flowers and also a wide range of shapes and textures. 

Frangipani

Plumeria

Palms

No other family evokes the tropics more powerfully than the Palmae in one of its many forms. Immensely tall or relatively low, feathery or fanlike, massive or dainty, there is a palm, it would seem, to suit almost any garden.

Lady Palm

Rhapis humilis

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