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Pau DArco blooming in small size
Tabebuia impetiginosa - Dwarf Pink Tabebuia, Pau DArco - flowering in 1 gal pot
🌸 Tabebuia impetiginosa - Dwarf Pink Tabebuia, Pau DArco - flowering in 1 gal pot.
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What is the most beautiful winter flowering tree for Florida snowbirds?
Tabebuia impetiginosa - Dwarf Pink Tabebuia, Pau DArco, Taheebo
- 🌸 It's not a cherry blossom! It's one of the most beautiful Florida trees - Tabebuia impetiginosa - Dwarf Pink Tabebuia, Pau DArco, Taheebo. It is in full bloom now, and it's a spectacular view!
- 🌸 This tree is a Florida favorite that's sure to make your garden stand out. This beauty is a winter-spring bloomer that'll have your landscape looking fabulous with bright pink flowers and a splash of yellow in the throats.
- 🌸 These gorgeous blooms pop up before the tree even puts out new leaves.
- 🌸 Perfect for smaller yards, this compact tree brings a burst of color without taking up too much space. Plus, it's the ideal choice for snowbirds visiting Florida in winter - when you're craving some color!
- 🌸 But this Tabebuia isn't just pretty - it's also practical! This tropical beauty is cold-hardy down to the upper 20’s, making it a great fit for Central Florida.
- 🌸 It's been a prized medicinal tree for centuries! Pau DArco (Taheebo) bark is brewed to make a smooth, earthy, and subtly sweet tea that contains compounds like lapachol and quercetin, used for centuries by indigenous South American tribes. A tree that's not only lovely to look at but also useful? That’s a win-win!
- 🌸 Starts flowering in very small size - see next post ⬇️
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Grumpy Beloved Matilda
"Behind every great man, there is a woman rolling her eyes." – Jim Carrey
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When you need a Bottlebrush right now
Bottlebrush Tree (Callistemon spp.)
- 💖 Bottlebrush Tree (Callistemon spp.) is in full bloom right now!
- 💖 It is a striking, low-maintenance tree with fiery red, brush-like blooms that attract bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds.
- 💖 Bottlebrush is a carefree dream tree: tolerates both heat and cold (hardy to zone 8), and is drought-resistant once established.
- 💖 Its vibrant flowers and unique texture make it perfect as a focal point, hedge, or standalone specimen.
- 💖 With varieties like the compact Little John, ideal for containers at just 4 feet tall, this tree brings year-round beauty and pollinator activity to any landscape.
📚 Learn more: Cleaning bottles with bottlebrush
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What is the most fragrant Brunfelsia?
*️⃣The most fragrant Brunfelsias, often referred to as Lady of the Night, are the creamy-white varieties. These flowers begin to release their sweet, captivating aroma at sunset and continue to fill the air with fragrance throughout the night.
*️⃣Brunfelsias are wonderful shade-loving, compact flowering shrubs, making them perfect for adding beauty to shaded areas or for growing in containers.
*️⃣The most popular white Brunfelsias are: B, americana, B. nitida, B. lactea, B. manaca, B. densifolia, B. gigantea.
📚 Learn more about Brunfelsias:
Brunfelsia americana - Lady of the night
Brunfelsia isola
Lavender Marble Perfume
Brunfelsias
Yesterday-Today-Tomorrow, Brunfelsia from Brazil
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What is the most fragrant Brunfelsia?
Brunfelsias, often referred to as Lady of the Night
*The most fragrant Brunfelsias, often referred to as Lady of the Night, are the creamy-white varieties. These flowers begin to release their sweet, captivating aroma at sunset and continue to fill the air with fragrance throughout the night.
*Brunfelsias are wonderful shade-loving, compact flowering shrubs, making them perfect for adding beauty to shaded areas or for growing in containers.
*The most popular white Brunfelsias are: B, americana, B. nitida, B. lactea, B. manaca, B. densifolia, B. gigantea.
📚 Learn more about Brunfelsias:
Brunfelsia americana - Lady of the night
Brunfelsia isola
Lavender Marble Perfume
Brunfelsias
Yesterday-Today-Tomorrow, Brunfelsia from Brazil
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Black or White?
"The difference between black and white is not just about color. It’s about perception."
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How easy to grow is Pigeon Pea
Cajanus cajan - Pigeon Pea
- 🍿 Cajanus cajan - Pigeon Pea - is a bushy perennial shrub with pretty yellow flowers and abundant production of beans!
- 🍿 It is very fast growing, free branching, easy to grow and very low maintenance plant. Cold hardy to light frost. The plant tolerates poor soils, drought tolerant, improves soil quality like many other beans. Can be grown in container
- 🍿 Provides flavorful, nutritious, and healthy super-food. The beans used in rice dishes, soups, stews, tempeh, tofu. Unripe pods eaten in curries, leaves and young shoots cooked as a vegetable. Rich source of fiber, protein, vitamins (B, C, E, K), and minerals (calcium, iron, magnesium, manganese, phosphorus, potassium, zinc). It has many medicinal uses.
📚 Learn more from previous posts:
What was discovered in the Pyramids
Pigeon Pea - an Ancient Superfood
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Why Azaleas are so popular
Azalea flowering
- 🔠 Everyone loves Azalea flowers. What is so special about them? Azalea flowers are cherished for their breathtaking clusters of vibrant blooms, their ability to transform landscapes with a burst of color, and their adaptability to gardens, hedges, and containers.
- 🔠 The Vivid Red Cherry Miniature Azalea is a stunning, cold-hardy evergreen that blooms with vibrant cherry-red flowers in spring and fall. Very compact and easy to care for, it thrives in shady spots and offers year-round beauty with its glossy, dark green leaves. Whether used as a hedge, accent, or screen, this semi-dwarf variety adds a pop of color to any garden or home.
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Why Adeniums are the most popular container plants
What is the easiest and most showy plant for your patio or poolside?
Q: Can you recommend a compact, showy plant for a container by the pool that will bloom with minimal care and survive if I forget to water it? I need 4-5 of them... Does such a plant even exist, or is that too much to ask?
A: Surprisingly, such a plant does exist! Meet the Desert Rose - Adenium - the perfect flowering plant for low-maintenance beauty. Just look at those colors!
Why choose Adenium for your container garden?
Desert roses - Adeniums - are among the most popular container plants for both indoor
and outdoor settings. Here's why:
- Easy to grow - Thrives in sun or shade, indoors, and in low
humidity.
- Drought-tolerant - Requires minimal water and can go long periods
without it.
- Not picky about soil and pH.
- Spectacular blooms - Produces vibrant, showy flowers.
- Unique and eye-catching - Forms a curious, swollen caudex with
unusual shapes.
How many varieties and colors are out there?
- At Top Tropicals, we offer over 200 varieties of Adeniums, with more
than 100 in stock at any time.
- With so many stunning hybrid colors, you'll want to collect them all!
- Enjoy double flowers, red, purple, yellow, striped, dotted, rainbow, and
even black flowers!
The secret to a large, swollen caudex:
- Raise the plant slightly each time you repot it, exposing the upper
part of the roots - this encourages the plant to form more roots that grow
downward.
- Unlike most tropical and houseplants, Adeniums prefer neutral to hard
water, have very low water needs, and can thrive in full sun or shade.
Adeniums truly check all the boxes for a carefree, long-blooming, and striking poolside or patio plant!
