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The Pride of Barbados – Full Sun – Pride of Barbados is an evergreen shrub or small tree in frost free climates, a deciduous shrub in zone 9, and a returning perennial in zone 8. In the tropics it gets 15-20′ tall and its ungainly, wide spreading branches can cover about the same width. The cultivation of Pride of Barbados in San Antonio is usually a semi-dwarfed hardy perennial shrub to a typical size of 5-8′ tall and growing that large even after freezing to the ground the previous winter.

Nick Wilson, 57, has spent 20 years creating this jungle garden, complete with tropical plants connected by timber walkways and ponds filled with koi carp, at his home in Leeds, Yorkshire.