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Name: How to add color to your yard.
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Date: 17 Jul 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

How to add color to your yard

🌈 How to add color to your yard.

🔜 Lovely Cassias we mentioned in earlier post are in full bloom today - they love the Summer Heat! They are our favorite Summer flowers.
🔜 Cassia (Senna) trees are compact, fast growing, tolerant to drought and poor soils, free-flowering and relatively cold hardy. Always a great choice!
🔜 Cassias come in several colors: yellow, orange, pink, red and rainbow.
🔜 Yellow-flowering cassias:

Senna surattensis (Cassia glauca)

🔜 Pink/red and multi-color Rainbow cassias (which are hybrids between yellow and pink cassias):

Cassia grandis - Red Cassia
Cassia javanica - Apple Blossom Tree
Cassia marginata - Rainbow Shower Tree
Cassia roxburghii - Ceylon Senna
Cassia x nodosa - Pink Shower, Appleblossom.

❔ What cassias do you have in your garden?
Share photos in comments👇

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Date: 19 Jul 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

What is the best flowering shrub for a shady spot?

Aphelandra hartwegiana - Yellow Aphelandra

Aphelandra squarrosa - White Zebra Plant

Aphelandra sinclairiana - Panama Queen

Aphelandra x panamensis - Scarlet Candle

💐 What is the best flowering shrub for a shady spot?

🚩 Aphelandra is hands down one of the best solutions for a shade garden where you want to see more colors. It is a great addition to a collectible tropical butterfly garden, can grow into 4-5" tall bushy specimen. Tolerates both sun and shade.
🚩Aphelandras have beautiful lush foliage and showy, long terminal inflorescences throughout the warm season.
🚩These flowers are loved by hummingbirds.
🚩Aphelandra hartwegiana - Yellow Aphelandra. Yellow flowers emerge out of long orange stalks in the fall time. Pretty and unusual!
🚩Aphelandra squarrosa Dania (Snow White) - White Zebra Plant. It is also one of the best house plants, not only pretty because of its white-veined "Zebra" foliage, but also for the apical inflorescence with its beautiful yellow bracts.
🚩Aphelandra sinclairiana - Panama Queen, has extremely tropical look and fragrant flowers of unusual color combination: orange and pink.
🚩Aphelandra x panamensis - Scarlet Candle - a rare hybrid with bright red flowers

📚 Learn more from previous posts:
Panama Queen
How to grow Zebra in container?

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Date: 18 Jul 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Why is it called Blue Butterfly?

Clerodendrum ugandense - Blue Butterfly

⚡️ #Fun_Facts: Why is it called Blue Butterfly?

Clerodendrum ugandense (Blue Butterfly): This plant's blue flowers and butterfly-like shape attract butterflies and other pollinators to the garden. So this plant is all about butterflies!

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Date: 11 Jul 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

What Tree Calliandra brings into your garden?

Calliandra houstoniana - Tree Calliandra

Calliandra houstoniana - Tree Calliandra, flower

⚡️ #Fun_Facts: Tree Calliandra

🎉 Calliandra houstoniana - Tree Calliandra - is the only tree form of Powderpuff. It quickly grows into a bushy beautiful tree in just one season, and fluffy pink flowers attract hummingbirds and butterflies year around

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Date: 7 Jul 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

How to grow Popcorn with pretty flowers

Cassia didymobotrya (Popcorn Cassia)

🍿 How to grow Popcorn with pretty flowers

🌽 Cassia didymobotrya (Popcorn Cassia) is a fun plant! When rubbed, its leaves emit a scent similar to buttered popcorn, hence its name.
🌽 It blooms with beautiful large clusters of sunny yellow flowers.
🌽 Perfect fast growing flowering shrub - ideal for places where you want to see a showy, pretty plant quickly
🌽 Butterfly magnet - one of the favorite flowers for all kinds of butterflies! Everyone who is working on a butterfly garden, plants Popcorn Cassia

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Date: 22 Jul 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

What are the best butterfly attracting plants for a Southern garden?

Asclepias - Milkweed, butterfly attractor

What are the best butterfly attracting plants for a Southern garden? 5 best butterfly attractors.

If you love butterflies and if you enjoy having nature around your home, then plant a butterfly garden. Caterpillars, which transform into butterflies, require special kinds of plants to feed upon. Below are the top five winners that butterflies appreciate the most. Besides, remember That all yellow flowers are attractive to butterflies, for example Cassias. Butterflies like the Sun and everything that looks like the Sun! 🌞

🏆 5 best butterfly attractors:

1. Calotropis gigantea - Giant milkweed, Arka
2. Odontonema cuspidatum - Firespike
3. Plumbago - blue, white and red
4. Rondeletia leucophylla - Panama Rose
5. Asclepias - Milkweed

💻 Learn more:

🎥 ABC-7: Butterfly plants at Top Tropicals
The Milkweed and the Monarch, how to raise your own
Musings of a butterfly gardener about the milkweed bug
Plants that attract butterflies and hummingbirds

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Date: 22 Jun 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Need more ideas for compact and showy flowering trees? Try Rainbow Cassias

Rainbow cassia - Cassia Marginata.

🌈 Need more ideas for compact and showy flowering trees? Try Rainbow Cassias.

♦️ Some hybrid cassias have spectacular color combinations and are called Rainbow Cassias.
♦️ We mentioned earlier some sunny, yellow-flowering cassias: Senna surattensis (Cassia glauca) - Scrambled Egg Bush, and Cassia siamea - Kassod Tree.
♦️ Other cassias can be pink or with multi-color flower combination, so-called Rainbow cassias (which are hybrids between yellow and pink cassias):

♦️ Cassia trees are compact, fast growing, tolerant to drought and poor soils, free-flowering and relatively cold hardy. Always a great choice!

❓ What cassias do you have in your garden? Share photos in comments👇

🎥 Rainbow cassia - Cassia Marginata.

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Date: 21 Jun 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Why is it called Clock Vine?

Thunbergia mysorensis - Clock Vine

👁 Why is it called Clock Vine? It will cover a Pagoda in NO TIME!

🕰 Thunbergia mysorensis - Clock Vine - is a stunning vine originating from India.
🕰 Vibrant yellow flowers with a dark mauve border, of a unique, eye-catching shape.
🕰 Supposedly, it is called the Clock Vine because the flowers hang down in a regular, clock-like pattern around the vine. This consistent and orderly arrangement of the blooms resembles the numbers on a clock face, giving the plant its charming and unique name. Do you see it in the flower?
🕰 The blooms hang in cascading clusters, creating a spectacular display that can beautifully drape over a trellis or pagoda.
🕰 Attaracts butterflies and hummingbirds.
🕰 Though it's one of the most popular species among garden enthusiasts, its rarity adds an element of exclusivity to any garden lucky enough to host it.

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Date: 19 Jun 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Breaking news: flower smells of freshly baked bread! It smells so good, you want to eat it!

Vallaris glabra - Bread Flower

🍞 Breaking news: flower smells of freshly baked bread! It smells so good, you want to eat it!

🍔 Vallaris glabra - Bread Flower - is one of the most impressive tropical vines that is very popular in Thailand and other South-East Asia countries.
🍔 Moderate growth woody climber with clusters of freshly-baked-bread fragrant white flowers.
🍔 Easy to care and tolerates wide range of conditions. It can be trained as a compact bush and is good for container culture.
🍔 Attracts butterflies and hummingbirds.
🍔 Relatively cold hardy, mild frost doesn't do any damage to it, even large tropical leaves stay glossy, green and healthy.
🍔 It is very vigorous grower that can create nice privacy hedge or cover a large fence.

❓ Have you smelled the Bread Flower? Did you like the fragrance? Share in comments👇

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Date: 18 Jun 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Everyone wants this showy Butterfly Attractor! Dwarf

Caesalpinia pulcherrima - Dwarf Poinciana, with Monarch Butterfly

Caesalpinia pulcherrima - Dwarf Poinciana, Red

Caesalpinia pulcherrima - Dwarf Poinciana, Yello

🔥 Everyone wants this showy Butterfly Attractor! Dwarf Poinciana.

🟥 Caesalpinia pulcherrima - Dwarf Poinciana, that we mentioned earlier, is probably number 1 flowering plant that everybody wants in their garden.
🟥 Pride of Barbados, Dwarf Poinciana, Peacock flower, Flower Fence - common names speak for themselves.
🟥 National flower of Barbados.
🟥 Comes in different colors - red, yellow, pink, orange...
🟥 Eye-stopper! Showy flowers almost year round.
🟥 Butterfly magnet

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