Tropical garden design in Malaysia has long been recognized as a romantic and exotic concept for its vacation and relaxing looks. Fortunately, Malaysia climate is wet and hot all year, and that makes tropical garden become the most accepted when comes to landscaping. It is also considered as low maintenance and can be very low care if there is a good garden plan in advance.
Tropical garden design is a form of three main rules to create the tropical feels.
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Tropical Climate
Tropical plants only grow well with wet and hot climate. Since Malaysia is already in the tropical region that has a lot of rain and hot sun all year round, local landscaping will have no issue to meet this tropical garden criteria.
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Dense of Tropical Plants
Landscape design has to be open and free form style with high density of plants. Achieve the jungle looks alike by having a lot of tropical garden or landscaping plants at a desired limited space. If possible a wall can be build around the garden and always go layers of plants in vertical.
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Tropical Color and Contrast
Use striking contrast clumps of foliage to create random blocks of color. Some commonly mixed of plants are nephrolepis, elephant ears, Sanseveria, anthurium, hibiscus, gingers, banana, palm, bird of paradise and ferns.
It is also important to put the final touch on a tropical garden with outdoor décor and hardscapes. Features such as koi pond, bamboo edging, hand carved teak woods and rattan patio set will help brightened the tropical theme.
