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 ...

Dwarfed by towering palm trees, banana plants and bamboo, green-fingered Tim Wilmot shows off the jungle paradise he spent £10,000 and 25 years creating – in his Gloucestershire garden.

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 ...