The view from Tim and Sheila Wilmot’s bedroom window is, frankly, rather astonishing. Palm trees as high as houses sway in the breeze, 15ft banana trees stand firm, Chinese windmill palms droop ...

But gardener Tim Wilmot has spent the past 25 years transforming his home in Bristol's suburbs from an English garden with a lawn, to a tropical paradise full of exotic plants. He showed BBC News ...