Tropicals & Tender Perennials: How to make a tropical jungle 101, 1 by bwilliams

bwilliams wrote:
OK It's like many things you learn as you go and each year gets better. First you need some basic things like a area to plant. I have a nice area layed out over the past years adding more each year. I use my displays for show to propagate and to breed with. So it has a multi propose to me. The raised beds get a bit taller and richer each year. I have added manuer rotted mulch and compost to it many times. The better the dirt the faster the plant. Here is a picture of the garden in the middle of winter. Note to the far right is Basjoo bananas protected with mulch old trunks are laying down.