Grant’s Tropical Garden
Episode: # 30 22/12/07
Presenter: Phil Dudman
Phil visits the garden in the Brisbane Suburbs of a young gardener that has built a tropical paradise from the age of 17. Now 31 Grant Larkin has a wealth of knowledge of palms and tropical foliage.
Grant has an amazing collection with well over 100 varieties. Some of his favourites include The Wedding Palm (Lytocayum wedellianum) that is a good understory palm for shady areas as well as being drough hardy. The Curly Kentia Palm (Howea belmoriana) is a good mid-story palm, it doesn’t grow too tall and it can be grown in full sun once trained and also the Fan Palm (Licuala elegans) has beautiful round leaves.
The understory has some amazing performers and in the heavy shade the Aglaonema (Aglaonema commutatum cv.) with it’s leafs shapes and silver toning are really nice. The Dumb Cane (Diffenbachia seguine cv.) get big bold leaves with speckles in them and the Flamingo Flower (Anthurium andraeanum cv.) will give you colour in the shade and there are varieties that will give you really big leaves and they will grow so well where there is root competition.
Where there is more sunlight Grant recommends cordylines, gingers, Dwarf Umbrellas (Scheffera arboricola), False Croton (Pseudoranthemum sp.), Croton (Codiaeum varigatum) and Bangkok Rose (Mussaenda phillipica ‘Queen Sirikit’) that flowers for six months of the year.
If you would like to visit Grant Larkin’s Garden it is open on the 29th and 30th March 2008 at 42 Evergreen Place, Mt Gravatt East.
Presenter: Phil Dudman
Phil visits the garden in the Brisbane Suburbs of a young gardener that has built a tropical paradise from the age of 17. Now 31 Grant Larkin has a wealth of knowledge of palms and tropical foliage.
Grant has an amazing collection with well over 100 varieties. Some of his favourites include The Wedding Palm (Lytocayum wedellianum) that is a good understory palm for shady areas as well as being drough hardy. The Curly Kentia Palm (Howea belmoriana) is a good mid-story palm, it doesn’t grow too tall and it can be grown in full sun once trained and also the Fan Palm (Licuala elegans) has beautiful round leaves.
The understory has some amazing performers and in the heavy shade the Aglaonema (Aglaonema commutatum cv.) with it’s leafs shapes and silver toning are really nice. The Dumb Cane (Diffenbachia seguine cv.) get big bold leaves with speckles in them and the Flamingo Flower (Anthurium andraeanum cv.) will give you colour in the shade and there are varieties that will give you really big leaves and they will grow so well where there is root competition.
Where there is more sunlight Grant recommends cordylines, gingers, Dwarf Umbrellas (Scheffera arboricola), False Croton (Pseudoranthemum sp.), Croton (Codiaeum varigatum) and Bangkok Rose (Mussaenda phillipica ‘Queen Sirikit’) that flowers for six months of the year.
If you would like to visit Grant Larkin’s Garden it is open on the 29th and 30th March 2008 at 42 Evergreen Place, Mt Gravatt East.
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