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Bring the lush, exotic look of tropical houseplants into your garden. Plant selection, design ideas and year-round care for a jungle-inspired outdoor space.

Cover of The Jungle Garden — Philip Oostenbrink
Hardback · 224 pages · 334 × 262 × 23 mm
ISBN 9781999734565
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The Jungle Garden

Taking the Houseplant Look Outside
By Philip Oostenbrink

This book takes the houseplant look outside by exploring the wonders of lush, green, foliage plants that are hardy in the garden. Unlike flowers, which fade, these arresting, often big-leaved, plants provide year-round impact and courtyards and small gardens are the perfect home for them. The sumptuously illustrated A-Z recommends over 100 jungle plants hardy to -20 C (-4 F).

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“This book is ideal for gardeners of all skill levels who want to further their knowledge of this style of gardening – the popularity of which is certainly gaining momentum.”

— Colin Ward, RHS The Garden

“Come for the eye-candy, stay for the clever planting tips.”

— Alice Vincent, Gardens Illustrated
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What reviewers said.

  • The Jungle Garden is a masterclass in enthusing an audience of all levels of plant knowledge, whatever growing space you are blessed with and 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 (deliberate or accidental!)

    — Tom Hart Dyke

  • The Jungle Garden is a masterclass in the art of designing a garden that uses hardy foliage plants as its central design feature and Oostenbrink carefully walks the reader through every step necessary to do so.

    — Patrice Todisco, Massachusetts Hort Society

  • The Jungle Garden… shines a light on the exotic beauty of hardy, tropical-style foliage plants and the ways that they can be used to create a garden rich in atmosphere and year-round interest.

    — Fionnuala Fallon, The Irish Times

  • This book is ideal for gardeners of all skill levels who want to further their knowledge of this style of gardening – the popularity of which is certainly gaining momentum.

    — Colin Ward, RHS The Garden

  • I would recommend this book to designers, plant enthusiasts, gardeners, and even as an addition to the coffee table due to its bright colors and beautiful photography.

    — Heather Evans, Pacific Horticulture

  • Oostenbrink demonstrates how jungly foliage can make outdoor space look spectacular all year round. This book could change the way you garden.

    — Daily Mail

  • It might well be considered the most perfect style of gardening for the vast majority of today’s small-space, plant-loving gardeners.

    — Paddy Tobin, Irish Garden Plant Society

  • An inspiring book that can guide us in the art of gardening without thinking exclusively about flowers.

    — The Table Blog

  • Come for the eye-candy, stay for the clever planting tips.

    — Alice Vincent, Gardens Illustrated
About the author

Philip Oostenbrink.

Philip Oostenbrink

Philip Oostenbrink taught horticulture in the Netherlands for eight years before moving to England, and has been Head Gardener at Walmer Castle in East Kent since 2020. His jungle-plant obsession, as he calls it, took hold after a trip to Tresco on the Isles of Scilly — the kind of trip from which a plantsman returns with a long list and an entirely different idea of what counts as hardy.

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