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Cardinals Guard. If your garden needs a pop of color, Cardinals Guard is ready to take the spotlight! With its bold, scarlet-red blooms perched atop green cones, this evergreen perennial looks like it's wearing a crown. Striking Christmas-red flowers emerge from a green cone and bloom most of the year, adding vibrant color and a festive, tropical feel to any space. Its upright, multi-stemmed growth with lush foliage attracts hummingbirds, butterflies, and other pollinators. For best results, give it morning sun and afternoon shade, and trim stems to prevent legginess and encourage fresh growth. Cardinals Guard thrives in Southern gardens and large containers, making it a perfect choice for bringing a festive flair to your outdoor space.

Potato vine. This woody vine has large heads of dark mauve flowers and round yellow fruit. Very ornamental, not invasive, but a fast grower. Thorny.

Rock Fig, Rock Ficus, Texcalamate, Lava Fig. Very showy velvet leaves with purple veins. Forms a caudex, good for bonsai. If planted in ground, grows in a small tree. The more water you give this plant the bigger it will grow and vice versa. This plant has nice caudex. In winter may drop some leaves.

Looking for a cold-hardy tree with stunning flowers and a heavenly scent? The Little Gem Magnolia is a compact variety of the Southern Magnolia that delivers all the beauty without the towering height. Its large white blooms emit a divine fragrance, and its fluffy, teddy bear-like leaves add extra charm. Perfect for small gardens or containers, this slow-growing beauty still reaches up to 8-10 feet wide, offering plenty of blooms even when young. Ideal for those who want elegance, fragrance, and manageable size in one gorgeous package!

Bryophyllum proliferum, Kalanchoe prolifera - Blooming Boxes. A very interesting giant specie, inch thick jointed stems are waxy, as are the opposite pairs of fleshy, succulent leaves. Terminal inflorescence of yellow flowers from dangling four-sided box-like bracts yields a multitude of plantlets.

Coral Hibiscus, Skeleton Hibiscus. A weeping tree hibiscus, rare and hard to find. Grows rapidly and blooms freely. Flowers look like parachutes and can be recognized by the fringed and lacy petals which are bent backward. It has slender and gracefully curved stems. Can be trained into a showy standard.

Spice Ginger, Cooking Ginger - Plant this ginger in the garden to produce your own fresh ginger. This plant is deciduous, leaves die back in winter and grow back in spring.

Pine cone ginger, Shampoo Ginger. All parts of this ginger are spicy fragrant. The cone shaped flowers are long lasting and useful for cut flower arrangements. This plant is most widely known around the world as the Shampoo Ginger for the milky substance in the cones, and it is in fact used as a shampoo in Asia and Hawaii, and as an ingredient in several commercial shampoos.
Pinecone ginger is considered a canoe plant, that is, a plant introduced throughout the Pacific by the ancient Polynesian settlers.

Blood Lily - Quite superb bulbous plant with spectacular, dense, globular shaped heads, 10 ins. across, of scores of starry, scarlet flowers. The blood lily rises from a flattened bulb about the size and shape of a hockey puck.

Lobster Claw, Parrot's beak. One of the most recognized and widely grown species, and one of the most beautiful. The inflorescence it produces is one of the most colorful you will ever encounter. The flowers last a long time and make an excellent cut flower. It is an easy grower in tropical areas but some room is required because the stalks can reach 7 feet in height. It can withstand temperatures in the high 20s. Can be grown in large pots

Beautiful low-growing shrub 2-3 ft tall with golden leaves and lots of tiny flowers that open in the morning and stay open till late afternoon. Very fast growing. What makes this plant special? If you read "Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar" by Edgar Rice Burroughs: "...Tarzan stooped and lifted a leathern pouch from the grisly relics of a man. The hard outlines of the contents brought an exclamation of surprise to his lips. "The jewels of Opar!" he cried, holding the pouch aloft, "and," pointing to the bones at his feet, "all that remains of Werper, the Belgian..."

Bushy variety, more compact than b. americana. Very fragrant at night, profuse bloomer.

Dwarf Sacred Buddhist. This rare variety of famous wrightia is very special because of the growth habit. Even in habitat, it keeps form of a bonsai, a round nice dense shrub with tiny leaves and wonderfully scented flowers. It is perfect for bonsai culture and for everyone who has limited space but wants to enjoy wrightia fragrance. The perfume is sweet and heavy.

Adenium Fancy Multi-Grafted - these stunning hand-crafted specimens plants feature 2-3 different flower colors on the same plant, creating a dazzling display of hues. Some varieties also produce double flowers, adding extra fullness and texture to the blooms. This unique and eye-catching collection brings vibrant color diversity to your garden, making each plant a true work of art.

Colvilles glory. Specimen tree with very conspicuous cylindrical or cone shaped clusters of bright orange flowers that are bright red in bud.
This tree loses leaves in winter.

Michelia Figo, Banana Magnolia. Spring-blooming, heavily scented, cream flowers streaked with purple. The banana shrub is so called because of the distinctive, sweet banana scent of its flowers. The plant is cold hardy, prefers filtered light, also a good choice for container culture. See picture of the plant.

Sad tree, Night Jasmine, Parijat. This exotic small tree or shrub from India has highly perfumed flowers and is one of the most desired fragrant plants. Mythology says the plant came to earth with God Krishna, leading to a quarrel between his wives, or that it grew from a heartbroken princess's ashes, shedding flowers like tears before dawn.
The tree grows 5-10 feet tall, and prefers full sun or partial shade with moderate water.
Plant it in well-drained soil and fertilize monthly.
It has medicinal uses: stems for headaches, leaves for gallbladder issues, and flowers for fevers and faintness. It's also used in Buddhist temples.

Golden shower tree, Indian Laburnum - To many tropical gardeners, the most beautiful of cassias is Cassia fistula. This is a medium to large tree with ovate, pointed leaflets; when these drop, usually in the dry season, masses of bright gold flower clusters appear on almost every branch. This tree drops leaves in fall/winter.

Pagoda Flower, Orange Tower Flower. The flowers within the pyramid shaped cluster are tiered, like a Japanese pagoda. Very showy landscape shrub.

Variegated Sacred Buddhist - veriegated semi-dwarf variety of wrightia, it is one of the most beautiful, exciting and useful plants among fragrant tropicals. A very fragrant, enchanting shrub, flowers are fruity scented, pendant, are born along its twiggy branches. See picture of bonsai.May drop leaves in winter.

Melodorum siamensis, Rauwenhoffia. A small tree closely related to Ylang Ylang, with smaller flowers, greenish in color and highly scented. A single flower fills the air around (feet away) with pleasant perfume, thus the plant has a high value and is often used in Asian gardens.

Climbing Ylang-Ylang, Manorangini, Hara-champa, Kantali champa. A brother of a famous Artabotrys hexapetalus, this plant can grow as a large woody vine or trimmed as a shrub. Flowers are very fragrant, with lemon-like scent.

A fast-growing woody climber with clusters of pink, white, and yellow blooms that carry a strong, fruity fragrance. The petals are frilly and eye-catching, followed by quirky three-winged seed pods that spin like tiny helicopters. Blooming heavily in winter and early spring, it perfumes the garden when most plants are resting.
Easy to grow and versatile - it can be trimmed into a shrub, shaped into a small tree, or trained as a vigorous vine with strong support. It also grows well in containers with regular pruning. In India it is called Madhavi, the Spring Herald, often paired with mango trees in gardens and legends.
A tropical beauty that brings fragrance, charm, and a touch of story to your garden. It's pretty cold hardy too - can take some light frost.

Variegated tabernaemontana Golden Rain. Small compact bushy shrub, looks similar to tabernaemontana divaricata Flore Pleno (same growth habit), but foliage is variegated. Flowers are fragrant. Nice specimen plant, very hard to find.

Vietnamese Mickey Mouse plant, Hoa Mai, Mai Vang. Traditional Vietnamese New Year plant. The spectacular yellow flowers of this plant make it very popular in southern Vietnam, where the plant is purchased during Lunar New Year.
In Vietnamese, the variety of O. integerrima whose flowers have five petals is called Mai Vang (yellow mai), whereas Mai Nui (mountain mai) flowers have between five and nine petals.
A must for exotic plant collection, this is a rather slow growing, medium size shrub that can be trained into miniature tree. In winter the plant is covered with pretty bright yellow flowers, believed to bring good luck and prosperity. They are followed by cute shiny black berries on bright red sepals that resemble the face of Mickey Mouse. The plant is easy to grow and relatively cold hardy (to light freeze).
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