Growing a REAL Urban Jungle - Dr Simon Olpin’s Sheffield Garden Paradise

An evergreen jungle garden hidden in Sheffield, England - today’s garden tour is a visit to Dr Simon Olpin’s plant paradise filled with giant bamboo, rare exotic Schefflera umbrella plants, huge Trachycarpus windmill palm trees, towering Eucalyptus trees and countless evergreen exotics - a REAL urban jungle garden in a UK city! Walking around the garden, Simon gives a tour of his jungle garden’s journey from 1988 and evolution into an established tropical paradise with plant ideas, care tips, garden regrets and what he’d do and grow if he started it all again... Not shying away from invasive running bamboo with huge canes, the fastest growing Eucalyptus trees and packing in countless Trachycarpus palm trees, the overall effect is stunning and Simon’s enthusiasm for growing the unusual is contagious. He reveals his top tips for mulching to create a rich & healthy forest soil structure, providing food and the perfect growing conditions for his Asian and Himalayan garden plants as wel