Kris Swaine, from West Yorkshire, says his garden means he has no need to jet off to exotic climes.
BBC NewsStemming from a successful attempt at growing a banana plant, the amateur gardener is now the envy of his street.Kris Swaine glances upwards as a plane's vapour trail cuts the clear blue sky over his tropical garden.Mr Swaine has grown his own slice of the West Indies here in West Yorkshire, with the busy M1 motorway just a stone's throw away.He moved into his semi-detached property in 2013, bringing some tropical plants from his previous house.
"We get a few bananas off that in summer," he says, pointing out a tapered-leafed plant as he leads me through jungle-like vegetation.Mr Swaine, who last year featured on the BBC Gardeners' World programme, tells me there is "a lot of trial and error" in growing exotic plants. He's designed the garden in such a way so as to provide protection for the less robust plants, like the yuccas.
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