Unfortunately we can't string you a line about how parky it gets in Barbados from time to time and how a number of Caribbean plants will do just fine in Surrey. It never gets even slightly parky in Barbados and there are absolutely no Caribbean plants that have the remotest chance of lasting more than a summer in Surrey. These only look (or smell) like they come from Barbados.

Recommended Essentials:

Agave americana

Agave americana variegata

Agave salmiana var. ferox

Arundo donax

Arundo donax variegata

Chamaerops humilis

Clematis armandii

Cordyline australis

Cordyline australis 'Albertii'

Cordyline kaspar

Dicksonia antarctica

Echium pininiana

Eriobotrya japonica

Fascicularia bicolor

Fascicularia pitcairniifolia

Fatshedera lizei

Fatsia japonica

Gunnera manicata

Hedera canariensis

Hedychium coccineum 'Tara'

Holboellia latifolia

Magnolia delavayi

Magnolia grandiflora

Magnolia macrophylla

Melianthus major

Muehlenbeckia complexa

Musa basjoo

Musa ensete 'rubra'

Musa ensete or Ensete ventricosum

Paulownia tomentosa

Phormium cookianum

Phormium cookianum tricolor

Phormium tenax

Phormium tenax variegatum

Phyllostachys aurea

Phyllostachys aureosulcata spectabilis

Phyllostachys nigra

Podocarpus macrophyllus

Podocarpus salignus

Prunus laurocerasus

Pseudopanax chathamica

Pseudopanax crassifolius

Pseudopanax laetus

Pseudosasa japonica

Sasa palmata

Semiarundinaria fastuosa

Tetrapanax papyrifera

Trachelospermum asiaticum

Trachelospermum jasminoides

Vitis cognetiae

Woodwardia radicans

Yucca aloifolia

Yucca aloifolia variegata

Yucca gloriosa

Yucca gloriosa variegata

Yucca recurva

Yucca x floribunda

Zantedeschia aethiopica 'Crowborough'