Garden Blog - Top Tropicals

Fragrant Fried Eggs for bees and butterflies

Oncoba spinosa - Fried egg tree

🌼 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.

Rainbow Plumeria

Quisqualis Indica - Rangoon Creeper

🌸✨ 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.

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

🌸✨ 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.

Jasmine Sambac Belle of India

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Clerodendrum inerme - Sorcerer's Bush, Seaside Clerodendrum

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Cestrum nocturnum - Night blooming jasmine

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Kopsia fruticosa - Pink Gardenia

🍋 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.