Garden Blog - Top Tropicals

Date: 14 Jun 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

This is not a Photoshop! It is a true color of Plumeria

Rainbow Plumeria

🌈 This is not a Photoshop! It is a true color of Plumeria. Such multi-color varieties are called Rainbow Plumeria.

The season started and we have lots of fragrant and colorful blooms on our Plumerias that we introduced earlier.

Some of the colors are just beyond description!

Plumeria, or Frangipani - is a symbol of Hawaiian Tropics and the most favorite perfume flower.

🛒 Choose from fantastic colors of Plumeria

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Date: 11 Jun 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Flamingo pink with a fruity fragrance, yet another variety

Quisqualis Indica - Rangoon Creeper

Flamingo pink with a fruity fragrance, yet another variety...

💕 This is a single-flower variety of Quisqualis we mentioned earlier.
💕 Quisqualis Indica - Rangoon Creeper - is an extremely beautiful plant.
💕 Shrubby vine with pale-pink to deep crimson star shaped flowers, covering the entire plant when in full bloom.
💕 It's scent is unforgettable, fruity and intoxicating...
💕 The flowers are born in clusters and each flower has many variations of color, depending on how old the flower is.
💕 The flower starts out white and or pink striped and turn solid pink and finally dark pink on maturity.
💕 Can grow into large woody vine covering a fence or big trellis.

🛒 Get your own Quisqualis vine

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Date: 7 Jun 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Flower of Angels that every gardener wants: Angels Trumpet

Angel's Trumpet (Brugmansia) pink

Angel's Trumpet (Brugmansia) white

Angel's Trumpet (Brugmansia) peach

Angel's Trumpet (Brugmansia) yellow

Angel's Trumpet (Brugmansia) pink

Angel's Trumpet (Brugmansia) white

👼 Flower of Angels that every gardener wants: Angel's Trumpet.

🎺 Angel's Trumpet (Brugmansia) is one of the most wanted flowering shrubs in Southern landscapes.
🎺 It is known for its large, trumpet-shaped flowers that hang downward from the branches.
🎺 The flowers come in a range of colors🌈 including white, yellow, pink, orange, and emit a sweet, intoxicating fragrance, especially in the evening.
🎺 Very easy to grow and undemanding, this fast growing shrub or a small tree will fill your garden with happiness, blooms and fragrance just within one season.
🎺 Heavy feeder! Apply fertilizer on a monthly basis for rapid growth and free flowering.

🛒 Shop Angel's Trumpets

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Date: 5 Jun 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

The Number One King of Perfume -

Jasmine Sambac Belle of India

🌸✨ The Number One King of Perfume - Jasmine Sambac in bloom! Can you smell it from here? 😉

🔘 In full bloom today - Jasmine Sambac Belle of India. Everyone wants this variety, with long elegant petals and a fine structure.
🔘 Jasmine Sambac is number one source of essential oils in perfumery.
🔘 In India, this variety also goes under names Mangalore Malli, Uduppii Malli, or Shankarapuram Malli.
🔘 Belle of India can be grown as a small bush specimen, or a fragrant low hedge.
🔘 Perfect for containers, too. Takes both sun and shade. The more sun - the more flowers.

🛒 Get your own Perfume Factory for your garden

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Date: 3 Jun 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

The truth about Seaside Clerodendrum: it can cover the whole beach!

Clerodendrum inerme - Sorcerer's Bush, Seaside Clerodendrum

🌊 The truth about Seaside Clerodendrum: it can cover the whole beach! 😎

✅ Need to cover a large area, slope, or a fence with a pretty, fragrant dense shrub just in one season? This is your plant!

🏖 Clerodendrum inerme, also known as Wild Jasmine, Sorcerer's Bush, or Seaside Clerodendrum, is perfect for covering large areas or fences quickly in just one season. This is perfect privacy plant!
🏖 It is called Seaside Clerodendrum for a reason! It grows anywhere, including sand and, as we discovered, even over hot black plastic ground cover 😎
🏖 Fast growing vining shrub with round, shiny, deep green leaves. Always in flower with white, fragrant blooms.
🏖 Extremely hardy: withstands cold, heat, salt, and drought. Not picky about soil (can grow on sand! it's seaside!) and tolerates drought well.
🏖 Ideal for coastal areas, tolerates salt spray and harsh sun, as well as shaded areas.
🏖 Versatile: suitable for topiary or bonsai.
🏖 Wind-tolerant and robust, making it a reliable choice for various settings.

🛒 Get your indestructible, fast growing Seaside Clerodendrum and have fun! 🏖

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Date: 2 Jun 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Why everybody wants this plant? Intoxicating sweet fragrance is the answer!

Cestrum nocturnum - Night blooming jasmine

🍬 Why everybody wants this plant? Intoxicating sweet fragrance is the answer! Do you have one?

Cestrum nocturnum - Night blooming jasmine.

⭐️ This fast growing, dense shrub is a garden favorite, one of the most famous and desirable fragrant plants.

🌃 The sweetest fragrance at night is intoxicating.

🌄 Flowers are pale yellow to white, open at night and stay extremely fragrant until sunrise.

🙏 These flowers are widely used in India and other countries of South Asia for perfumery, medicinal applications and in religious ceremonies.

🏡 Best location will be near driveway, window or entrance, where the magic fragrance can be appreciated.

🛒 Order online

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Date: 31 May 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

What is this shocking pink gardenia? Does it exist?

Kopsia fruticosa - Pink Gardenia

👁 What is this shocking pink gardenia? Does it exist?

🌸 Kopsia fruticosa: fondly known as the "Pink Gardenia", this gem is one of nature's most exquisite and elusive treasures.
🌸 Its flowers are a marvel, transitioning from delicate light pink to deep hues with crimson centers, emitting a subtle fragrance.
🌸 Imagine our surprise when we stumbled upon this enchanting plant labeled as a Pink Gardenia during our expedition in Thailand!
🌸 Intrigued, we delved deeper into its botanical identity. While technically not a Gardenia, this beauty is a close relative of Plumeria and Adenium we mentioned earlier, as well as Tabernaemontana (also often confused with Gardenia). All these beauties belong to the esteemed plant family Apocynaceae.
🌸 It's no wonder this plant has captured our hearts; its beauty is simply irresistible, leaving us wanting more.
🌸 With its compact growth habit, it's perfect for containers or in-ground planting, adding a touch of elegance to any garden space.

🛒 Treat yourself with a Pink Gardenia!

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Date: 30 May 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Tired of an ugly hedge? Replace it with Aglaia - Chinese Rice Flower, and enjoy Lemony Fragrance year around!

Aglaia odorata - Chinese Perfume Plant flowers

Aglaia odorata - Chinese Perfume Plant

Aglaia odorata - Chinese Perfume Plant hedge

🍋 Tired of an ugly hedge? Replace it with Aglaia - Chinese Rice Flower, and enjoy Lemony Fragrance year around!

🟡 Aglaia odorata is also known as Chinese Perfume Plant, Chinese Rice Flower, or Mock Lemon.
🟡 The plant has an outstanding fragrance from tiny, rice-sized yellow flowers.
🟡 Aglaia grows into a dense bush without pruning. It is relatively slow-growing; so large plants are rare and hard to find.
🟡 Easy to grow bush, it is perfect for a cold tolerant tropical hedge.
🟡 Aglaia has many medicinal uses; contains odorine and odorinol, which have cancer chemopreventive activity.

🛒 Get a few bushes of Aglaia for lemony-fragrant hedge

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Date: 25 May 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

How to cover a fence quickly with a large impressive vine? Try Fragrant Butter Cup of Gold with Coconut fragrance!

Solandra maxima variegata

🌼 How to cover a fence quickly with a large impressive vine? Try Fragrant Butter Cup of Gold with Coconut fragrance!

🏆 Variegated Butter Cup, Cup-of-Gold or Chalice Vine - Solandra maxima variegata - is a stunning Vine with large fragrant flowers shaped like chalices.

☀️ Very fast growing and large plant, needing a strong support or a fence.
☀️ Boasts glossy variegated leaves with bright purple flush on new growth.
☀️ Large, showy off-white flowers shaped like chalices, up to 7" across, are truly spectacular with reflexed lobes marked with a purplish brown ridge.
☀️ Fragrant, especially at night, the flowers emit a coconut-like scent
☀️ Blooming intermittently, mainly in the winter dry season, this vine adds charm to any garden with its striking beauty.