The Jungle Garden
Taking the houseplant look outside
PRAISE FOR PHILIP OOSTENBRINK’S
The Jungle Garden
The Jungle Garden is a masterclass in enthusing an audience of all levels of plant knowledge, whatever growing space you are blessed with.
It illustrates that the rules of gardening are there to be broken—whether pushing boundaries of hardiness, aspect, soil or, particularly in this context, plant combinations!
Tom Hart Dyke
About The Jungle Garden
The Jungle Garden is the perfect book for anyone who adores houseplants and wants to grow lush green plants outside in their garden, balcony or patio. It features more than 100 hardy exotics for year round impact—ideal for well-protected urban gardens. No garden is too small to create a jungle hideaway!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Philip Oostenbrink
Philip was born in The Netherlands and began gardening at the age of four in his parents’ allotment and grandmother’s garden. The jungle plant obsession took hold after a trip to Tresco on the Isles of Scilly and a visit to the late Will Giles’s spectacular exotic garden in Norwich.
After teaching horticulture and running a gardening business, Philip moved to Kent first as Deputy Head Gardener at Hadlow College and then as Head Gardener at Canterbury Cathedral. He is now Head Gardener at Walmer Castle where one of his first projects has been to plant a jungle garden in the moat.
Philip gives talks to gardening groups, leads garden tours, writes for gardening magazines and holds four National Plant Collections. At home in Kent he has created an idyllic urban jungle which featured on BBC Gardeners’ World.
Your A to Z of Jungle Plants
From purple-leaved bananas to spiky agaves and smooth-leaved succulents, jungle gardening embraces a wide range of textures, shapes and colours. The Jungle Garden shows you how to combine foliage to maximum effect.
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