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If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly our whole life would change
Cananga fruticosa - Dwarf Ylang-Ylang, Chanel No 5 Tree, flower
💻 "If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly our whole life would change." - Buddha
📸 Cananga fruticosa - Dwarf Ylang-Ylang, Chanel No 5 Tree
📚 Learn more: The Ylang-Ylang, Queen of the Perfume World, the Bearer of an Ideal Fragrance.
🛒Grow your own Ylang Ylang Tree
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📸 Cananga fruticosa - Dwarf Ylang-Ylang, Chanel No 5 Tree
📚 Learn more: The Ylang-Ylang, Queen of the Perfume World, the Bearer of an Ideal Fragrance.
🛒Grow your own Ylang Ylang Tree
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Researchers discover what a perfume from Ancient Rome was made of: Patchouli!
Pogostemon cablin - Patchouli
Pogostemon cablin - Patchouli
Researchers discover what a perfume from Ancient Rome was made of: Patchouli!
⚡️ A research team at the University of Cordoba has identified the composition of a Roman perfume more than 2,000 years old thanks to the discovery of a small vessel of ointment in Carmona, Spain.
⚡️ The mausoleum held the remains of six individuals in six urns, one of which was made of glass and contained the remains of a woman who died between 30 and 40 years of age. Her cloth bag held a rock crystal flask sealed with a stone and bitumen and three amber beads...
⚡️The well-preserved material inside the flask was examined with X-ray diffraction, gas chromatography, and mass spectrometry. The study determined that the scent was derived from Pogostemon cablin, a plant from India used to produce the scent Patchouli.
⚡️Patchouli only grows in the tropical climates of southern and southeastern Asia. This means it would have been imported into Roman territory and sold in products crafted for wealthy patrons who craved access to exotic ingredients.
⚡️ The high quality of the flask holding the scent suggests that it was a valuable product.
⚠️ Get your own valuable Patchouli Plant and always have the heavenly smell with you!
🛒 Plant your own Patchouli
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⚠️ Get your own valuable Patchouli Plant and always have the heavenly smell with you!
🛒 Plant your own Patchouli
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Is Magnolia edible? Vanilla Magnolia: its for cooking!
Florida Sweet Bay - Vanilla Magnolia (Magnolia virginiana)
Florida Sweet Bay - Vanilla Magnolia (Magnolia virginiana)
Florida Sweet Bay - Vanilla Magnolia (Magnolia virginiana)
❔ Is Magnolia edible? Vanilla Magnolia: it's for cooking!
💮 Florida Sweet Bay, or Vanilla Magnolia (Magnolia virginiana) has beautiful flowers with strong vanilla fragrance, while the leaves offer unique culinary uses.
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💮 Florida Sweet Bay, or Vanilla Magnolia (Magnolia virginiana) has beautiful flowers with strong vanilla fragrance, while the leaves offer unique culinary uses.
- 🔹 Strong vanilla scent: fragrance can be noticed hundreds of yards away.
- 🔹 White, delicate blooms.
- 🔹 Unique leaf flavor: fresh leaves have a distinct taste, fun for cooking. Sweet Bay offers unique cooking flavors.
- 🔹 Prefers moist, acidic soil conditions, tolerates flooding, ideal for wet spots in your yard.
- 🔹 Pest-free: no bugs or other pests.
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Gardeners finally found a perfect everblooming hedge for shade!
Kings Mantle - Thunbergia erecta
Kings Mantle - Thunbergia erecta purple
Kings Mantle - Thunbergia erecta Lavender Lace Variegated
Kings Mantle - Thunbergia erecta White
⚡️ Gardeners finally found a perfect everblooming hedge for shade!
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- 💜 Kings Mantle - Thunbergia erecta - is a perfect flowering bush or hedge for the shady garden.
- 💜 Ever-blooming: Perfect for a continuously blooming hedge.
- 💜 Dense shrub: Bushy, fast-growing, and ideal for mixed beds or medium-to-low hedges.
- 💜 Beautiful flowers: flowers resemble morning glories, with common varieties having rich purple petals and yellow throats.
- 💜 Attractive foliage: Small, dark green leaves.
- 💜 Climber relatives: Unlike many Thunbergia species, this one is a sprawling shrub.
- 💜 Pruning responsive: Can be shaped into a dense hedge, pruning promotes flowering.
- 💜 Sun or shade: Prefers bright light and well-drained soil, but will also bloom in partial shade.
- 💜 Colors: comes in dark blue, white, and the unique, vigorous variegated variety - 'Lavender Ice'.
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Thumbs up the most fragrant ginger ever!
White Butterfly Ginger (Hedychium coronarium)
White Butterfly Ginger (Hedychium coronarium)
White Butterfly Ginger (Hedychium coronarium)
👍 Thumbs up the most fragrant ginger ever!
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- White Butterfly Ginger (Hedychium coronarium) is a must for every Southern garden.
- Famous for its intense, sweet scent.
- Symbol of Hawaiian Paradise along with Plumeria and Jasmine we mentioned earlier.
- Lei and hair decoration: popular in Hawaii and the Pacific Islands for leis and hair adornments.
- Butterfly-like flowers: bears fragrant, butterfly-resembling flowers in summer.
- Great cut flower: long lasting cut flowers, ideal for scenting the home.
- Can survive light freezes, with tops regrowing in the spring. Takes sun or shade.
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Fragrant Fried Eggs for bees and butterflies
Oncoba spinosa - Fried egg tree
🍳 Fragrant Fried Eggs for bees and butterflies 🐝
🛒 Get a Fried egg tree
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- 🟡 Oncoba spinosa - Fried egg tree - is a conversation piece in your garden.
- 🟡 A medium shrub or small tree.
- 🟡 Beautiful white and yellow camellia-like flowers look like 'fried eggs' when they drop off and fall on the ground with their yellow stamens facing upwards.
- 🟡 Flowers are honey-sweet fragrant and attract butterflies and bees.
- 🟡 The fruits have a sour, edible pulp.
🛒 Get a Fried egg tree
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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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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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Flamingo pink with a fruity fragrance, yet another variety
Quisqualis Indica - Rangoon Creeper
Flamingo pink with a fruity fragrance, yet another variety...
🛒 Get your own Quisqualis vine
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- 💕 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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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.
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- 🎺 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.
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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? 😉
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- 🔘 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.
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