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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
James Wong

Superb exotics that don’t grow in the tropics

Love in a cold climate: beautiful, award-winning Beschorneria yuccoides is hardy down to -8C.
Love in a cold climate: beautiful, award-winning Beschorneria yuccoides is hardy down to -8C. Photograph: Holmes Garden Photos/Alamy

In the long cold months of this winter, I have spent ages scrolling longingly through page after page of gloriously glossy images of tropical landscapes on various Instagram feeds.

Whether it’s rope bridges festooned in flowers in the Costa Rican jungle or my own videos of favourite adventures spent wandering through the lush and verdant greenery of Singapore, it’s my horticultural coping mechanism. It’s what I do when I have a desperate urge to see light and life around me.

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