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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.

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Date: 1 Jun 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Try cleaning bottles with this brush!

Bottlebrush Tree (Callistemon spp.)

Bottlebrush Tree (Callistemon spp.) Little John

Bottlebrush Tree (Callistemon spp.)

♨️ Try cleaning bottles with this brush!

🍾 Bottlebrush Tree (Callistemon spp.) is renowned for its spectacular, fire-red brush-like flowers and landscape appeal.
🍾 Originated from Australia, this exotic tree can add a touch of exotic charm to any landscape.
🍾 Cold hardy to zone 8, tolerates both cold and heat.
🍾 Its striking, vibrant flowers resemble bottle brushes.
🍾 Attracts pollinators such as bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds with its nectar-rich blooms.
🍾 Adds a burst of color and texture to gardens and landscapes.
🍾 Ideal for creating focal points, hedges, or as standalone specimens.
🍾 Thrives in warm climates and is drought-tolerant once established, making it a low-maintenance choice for Southern landscapes.
🍾 Offers many varieties, including the dwarf 'Little John,' perfect for containers, reaching only 4ft tall.

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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: 28 May 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Would you like some Scrambled Eggs? Scrambled Egg Bush is a burst of sunshine, this splash of gold blooms on and on

Senna surattensis (Cassia glauca) - Scrambled Egg Bush

🍳 Would you like some Scrambled Eggs? Scrambled Egg Bush is a burst of sunshine, this splash of gold blooms on and on...

🌞 Senna surattensis (Cassia glauca) - Scrambled Egg Bush - produces vibrant, sunny yellow flowers that resemble scrambled eggs, adding a cheerful touch to your garden.
🌞 Long blooming season: flowers profusely throughout much of the year.
🌞 Compact: grows into a manageable, medium-sized shrub, perfect for smaller gardens or as a stunning focal point.
🌞 Low maintenance: easy to care for and requires minimal attention, making it ideal for busy gardeners.
🌞 Drought tolerant: thrives in dry conditions once established, reducing the need for frequent watering.
🌞 Attracts Pollinators: draws bees, butterflies, and other beneficial insects, enhancing garden biodiversity.
🌞 Versatile: can be used as a standalone specimen, hedge, or in mixed borders for added interest.
🌞 Soil Improvement: enhances soil quality through nitrogen fixation, benefiting nearby plants.
🌞 Hardy and resilient: adapts well to cool winter, heat and poor soil.
🌞 Evergreen: retains its green leaves all year round, providing constant coverage and aesthetic appeal.

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Date: 28 May 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Dwarf Poinciana we have now in our Nursery - beautiful bushes in 3-15 gal pots, in full bloom

Dwarf Poinciana - Caesalpinia pulcherrima, Red

🔥 Dwarf Poinciana we have now in our Nursery - beautiful bushes in 3-15 gal pots, in full bloom. Spectacular show! ❤️

📚 See our previous post about Dwarf Poinciana.

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Date: 27 May 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

What do you think about this Giant? This is the coolest looking flower!

Aristolochia gigantea var. Brasiliensis - Giant Pelican Flower

🐙 What do you think about this Giant? This is the coolest looking flower!

Aristolochia gigantea var. Brasiliensis - Giant Pelican Flower - is one of the most outrageous flowers in the world.
This striking plant from Brazil is known for its outrageous, huge - over ten-inch-long - lemon-scented flowers 🍋
Flowers have an elaborate pattern of white and mottled reddish brown.
Not a vigorous vine, making it easy to train on a stake, trellis, or in a hanging basket.
Rare and highly collectible variety.
Like all Dunchman's Pipes we mentioned earlier, this plant is a great butterfly attractor.

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Date: 27 May 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Why sunflowers are growing on a tree?

Tree Marigold (Tithonia diversifolia)

🌼 Why sunflowers are growing on a tree?

🌻 Sunflower tree or Tree Marigold (Tithonia diversifolia) that we mentioned earlier, is a perfect choice when you need a fast-growing shrub to hide unwanted view in just a few months.
🌻 Beautiful sunflowers look really happy! The flowers that are about 3 inches wide.
🌻 When it's fully grown, Sunflower Tree is about 10 feet tall and 10 feet wide, like a big, cozy blanket.
🌻 Tolerates both cold and heat.
🌻 Attracts lots of butterflies and bees 🐝
🌻 If the winter was too cold, it still bounces back every spring, even stronger than before, like a champion.
🌻 Sunflower Tree is a tough, colorful dense plant that grows fast and makes your yard look awesome.

🛒 Get Sunflower Tree for your Happy Garden

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Date: 26 May 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Why this Bleeding Heart is bleeding pink?

Clerodendrum speciosum - Red Bleeding Heart

❤️ Why this Bleeding Heart is bleeding pink?

Clerodendrum speciosum, also known as the Red Bleeding Heart, is a captivating twist on the classic Bleeding Heart, C. thomsoniae that we mentioned earlier.

❣️ Features stunning pink bracts and vibrant red heart-shaped flowers, enhancing the charm of the original variety.
❣️ Vigorous and fast-growing vine, perfect for creating a privacy hedge (as on the video) or a cascading floral display over a fence.
❣️ Butterflies and bees adore its bright pink-and-red flowers, making it a pollinator-friendly choice 🐝
❣️ Ideal for quickly covering fences or structures with its lush, showy blooms in just one season.

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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.

🛒 Get your own Cup-of-Gold 🏆

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