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Tropical Fusion: Working and Designing with Tropical Plants in Temperate Climates

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tropical plants and how to love them

Forget about succulents.

If you’re searching for plants that will add exciting accents to a tired summer garden, last right up through the first hard freeze, and make you look like a horticultural rock star, look no further than tropicals. Using five memorable categories and a host of strategic design tips from her award-winning book Tropical Plants and How to Love Them,  Marianne will focus on some spectacular examples that are easy to grow and much easier than you think to overwinter.

 

Tropical Accents in Temperate Gardens

Marianne Willburn

About Marianne Willburn

Marianne Willburn is a gardening author, international speaker and columnist at The American Gardener, GardenRant and MarianneWillburn.com. She is the author of Tropical Plants and How to Love Them (2021) and Big Dreams, Small Garden (2017), and has spent much of her gardening life in small city and suburban gardens in places as diverse as California, England and the Mid-Atlantic. A regular contributor to Better Homes and Gardens and other digital and print magazines, Marianne has been a newspaper columnist for over a decade and is the recipient of several Gold and Silver Media Awards from Garden Communicators International (formerly GWA). Her most recent book Tropical Plants and How To Love Them was awarded the Gold Media Award for Book Writing by Garden Communicators International in 2022 and shortlisted in 2021 for The Peter Seabrook Practical Book of The Year. She is a graduate of University College London.