simply wonderful !
Kentucky Jungle Pics
Lovely Brian.. I love the tropical look of the tropicals..there fighting for sun..and being kept in check [ somewhat.].by the one closely next to it..lush .. and surely well cared for...
Lovely
You mean that you dig all of that up for the winter and replant in the spring? That really is alot of work. Your yard is appreciated in my opinon. Keep up the beautiful work.
Each time you update us on your wonderful tropical paradise I am amazed. Of course you know I am trying to reproduce this effect in my own back yard. One of my favorite plants is my canna Mama Wanda I got from you.
Thanks again for the inspiration.
Linda
We were fortunate enough to visit Brian and it is ten times better in person!
I'm really jealous right now!
Yeah, some of Brian's pix were my inspiration, too.
I get to leave all my stuff out through the winter, which is good, cuz I'm lazy. I can't imagine the hard work involved in diggine everything up!?! Wow, and they grow that much in one season?
Beautiful.
Keep 'em coming!
This thread was from a year ago... My daughter and I visited Brian's this spring, it was marvelous then. We were treated to a personal tour! We were in awe! We're going back this fall to see again! Everything I bought and some extras are doing wonderful. My favorite okay, one of my favorites is his Pink China-very big and a fast, if not prolific grower- I'll post a pic or 2 when I have more time. Brian's is #1 on my list. Thanks SO much. See you in a couple months!
It is well worth the trip. The place IS amazing. To be able to wake up everyday there and go out and garden would be a total dream. Keep it up Brian! I really do think you will be world-known one day for all your work. YEAH!!!
Holy Smokes Brian,
Do you ever sleep?
WHAT A SHOW. . .
Thanks for sharing.
Emma
I would love to do something like that on our 5 acres. It's pretty overwhelming with all of this property!
You keep a beautiful garden! Very nice.
~Megin
It gets cold in Kentucky. How do you protect all of these plants?
Now wait a minute--you mean all I have to do is move two hours south, and I'll be in a tropical zone? That looks like Hawaii--I did live there for four years!
move two hours south .... work 12 hours a day ..... 7 days a week.... for 8 or 9 months a year..... and yes you'll be in a Tropical Zone.... LOL!
Ric
LOL, I'm sure you're right, Ric! But wouldn't it be fun?
I do it on a MUCH smaller scale.... but yes it would be fun....
Ric
Well unfortunatly this year it has not been as grand. Not due to me but manly due to the weather. I never noticed all the replys to this post. Some of the plants do stay out side all seasons and many others do not. It is not easy to do what you see in these pics LOL. But fun.
Brian,
Are your Musa lagging behind this year?
Ours are at least 2' smaller than last year..
Ric
My God Brian, that's spectacular! :) I really have to get down there and see it in person. I have seen photos of the tropics that aren't that tropical. That is really extraordinary.
-Joe
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Amazing Brian... Would you mind that I come to check your gardens out when I visit my nephew in Louisville...
Oh one day I hope I get my gardens even close to looking like that.... I fell in love with the tropicals when I went to Hawaii to get married...
Peggy
Brian,
The walkways are excellent. I can't imagine the work that's involved in getting that kind of look, considering where you live. You mus be a very busy person in the fall and spring.
Steve
GreatBrian..
Nodoubtaboutit.. you've got it going... not so easy you say... ha ha ha .. this is a professional.. don't try this at home.. actual milage will varry...
Excelent use of the roadway... you're fortunate some county employee doesn't try to trim it to the close cropped nature of his other areas.. Around here it's refered to as gorilla gardening... like an insurgent that comes in and plants.. in a public space.. then retreats into the bush they have created... many of the citys community gardens have started this way.. like a coup in an unused bit of land... great work there.. Gordon
OH, my gosh, can you imagine if some ignorant city bush-hog crew came through there?! I shudder to think...of what I'd do to them!
This side of the fence is our land though nothing is really suppose to touch the fence as long as we keep it in order they seem to stay off it. I have seen them rip down a lot of signs and banners from the fence usually every spring.
I think the price for cutting down all my hard work would be close to a rath of god. I have been working-out for over 15 years for no real reason I would hate for someone to give me a reason LOL.
On another note I have had people steal plants from my garden and have had the luck of actually catching two of them. I could see possibly getting a small start or runner off of some weedy Colocasia. But digging up a whole plant and having buckets of water to put them in for when they did it was just to far. For some reason its always older women who I catch so I can do no more than yell and call the cops.
Picturing blue-haired seniors in "Mission Impossible" outfits:
"Everyone has studied the photos, right? We're targeting ensete glaucum. Jane, you're on bucket duty. Florence, you and me are doing the digging. Ginny, you're look out, and remember the warning phrase, 'I've fallen and I can't get up!'. The last time when you yelled 'prune juice' it confused Agnes so much she drove away in the getaway truck before we could get in. I'm not going to the slammer again, not for you, not for anyone!" :)
Pummeling old ladies is never the way to stay in the good graces of the local community, even if they are thieving old ladies. :)
-Joe
ROFL, Joe!!!
It's amazing what some people will do. My parents told me about some crooks stealing the landscape from a new bank in my old hometown. Not just the flowering plants but the recently planted trees and shrubs as well. (Maybe the bank didn't pay their landscaping bill).
Gotta watch out for those old ladies.
Great landscape Brian. Hard to believe this is not in FL. Your hard work has paid off nicely.
as always brian thats quite impressive thank for sharing
Just stumbled on this today. OMGosh! This could be what Eden looked like......
Brian, inquiring minds have to know. Is this a hobby or a commercial nursery? Which ever would be the most wonderful thing I have ever seen. Do you have any help or is this a one man job? I am so in awe. I have a couple of bananas, some EE, and two kinds of ginger.
Not even the coleus made it this year. If you sell, ship whatever I'm in.
I'm a little grey-haired lady that wouldn't dream of disturbing one leaf of someone's paradise.
Just the visit through the pictures is inspiring. I seem to running on and on and on and on andonandonandon.........
Beautiful! The Tropic's in Kentucky!
Brian ... what a wonderful job ... I am in awe of your talent! I think I saw a post on here awhile ago ( I'm still pretty much a newbie here on DG) .... where someone had a greenhouse with a rock type wall they were planting .... was that you? I wanted to watch the progress on that but forgot to "watch" the thread! If it was you can you post a link here to that thread for me? I think I remember the name Brian and Kentucky, but hey ... I'm getting old and I'm blonde too .... so forgive me if I have the wrong person! :)
Anyway, hope you post some more pic's of your Beautiful Tropical Gardens! I will remember to "watch" this thread!
Tropic's in Kentucky ... who'da thought? Lovely, Lovely Gardens!
Brian thank you for the wonderful tour...sigh!
:) Donna
Brian,
After all that hard work, I think you need a vacation in Florida. (a working one, of course). LOL
Jan...
Hey Brian .... I live in Florida .....my yard could use some work .... you can bring plants along for the job too if you want! :)
Where did you take those pics? surely not in KY?
Michael
I for one am going to use them as inspiration for my front yard redo. I have all the required plants, just no talent for deciding where to put them. LOL Now I have a guide.