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Hibiscus schizopetalus - Coral Hibiscus

Hibiscus schizopetalus - Coral Hibiscus. Spectacular weeping tree hibiscus, rare and hard to find. Grows rapidly and blooms freely. Flowers look like parachutes and can be recognized by the fringed and lacy petals which are bent backward. It has slender and gracefully curved stems. Can be trained into a showy standard.


Cestrum nocturnum - Night blooming jasmine

Cestrum nocturnum - Night blooming jasmine. Garden favorite - the sweetest fragrance at night is intoxicating. One of the most famous and desirable fragrant plants. 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.


Juanulloa aurantiaca - Gold Finger plant, Mexican Spoon Flower

Juanulloa aurantiaca - Gold Finger plant, Mexican Spoon Flower - this one is soooo pretty! Unusual looking vine or shrub with yellow-orange fleshy flowers, everblooming and a VERY fast growing. Rare, collectible plant.


Tabernaemontana Flore Pleno, Crape Jasmine

Tabernaemontana Flore Pleno - Crape Jasmine, Carnation of India, Florida Gardenia - this fast growing bush with waxy leaves and beautiful fragrant flowers is a must in tropical garden. Easy to grow and free flowering, dense bush.


Microsorum musifolium - Alligator (Crocodile) Fern

Microsorum musifolium - Alligator Fern, Crocodile Fern from Australasia. Perfect for shade! An epiphytic fern with cool alligator-skin looking leaves. The strikingly shaped, light green fronds of the fern form a lovely backdrop to its stunning stiff, leathery, dark green alligator-skin foliage. Perfect as a houseplant, or planted under a tree. Grows to 2-3 ft in height and likes a sheltered, semi-shaded location, no direct sunlight.

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Sunflower Tree for a Happy Garden

Sunflower Tree, or Tree Marigold, is a fast-growing shrub, an ideal option for quickly concealing unsightly areas with its rapid growth. Not only does it provide effective coverage, but it also boasts cheerful, sunflower-like blooms. Reaching heights and widths of approximately 10 feet, this resilient plant withstands light freezes and rejuvenates vigorously each spring. Sunflower - is for Happy Garden!

Tithonia diversifolia - Sunflower tree

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Top Tropicals is now in Telegram!

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How to grow the biggest fruit on Earth. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

How to grow the biggest fruit on Earth

Jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus)

Jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus)

Jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus)

Jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus)

Jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus)

Jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus)

🍐 How to grow the biggest fruit on Earth.

Jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus) is one of the most fascinating tropical fruit, as we showed earlier.
  • 👉 In spite of reputation being ultra tropical, the tree is not as cold sensitive as everyone believes. Mature trees can withstand light frost for a few hours without significant damage. Keeping Jackfruit in a pot is also an option in colder areas.
  • 👉 The fruit is so large and heavy that the tree has a smart feature to produce only at the base of the trunk. This makes it possible to keep Jackfruit tree at very short height - 6-7 ft tall. It can be grown in containers considering regular topping/pruning.


🔻 Secrets of Jackfruit successful production:
  • 📍 Frost free temperatures
  • 📍 Soil rich of organic matter (compost, manure, peat moss)
  • 📍 Moist soil and regular watering
  • 📍 Constant pruning and keeping under 7-10 ft
  • 📍Regular application of fertilizer, microelements and SUNSHINE-Honey supplement for better quality fruit.


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Do you know why this plant is caged? A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Do you know why this plant is caged?

Yuca Root, Cassava, Tapioca - Manihot esculenta cv. Variegata

Yuca Root, Cassava, Tapioca - Manihot esculenta

Yuca Root, Cassava, Tapioca - Manihot esculenta

Yuca Root, Cassava, Tapioca - Manihot esculenta cv. Variegata

Yuca Root, Cassava, Tapioca - Manihot esculenta cv. Variegata

Yuca Root, Cassava, Tapioca - Manihot esculenta cv. Variegata

Yuca Root, Cassava, Tapioca - Manihot esculenta cv. Variegata

🌐 Do you know why this plant is caged? Because it's so tasty!

🐇🐿 Yes indeed, we protect it from all kinds of visitors: deer, bunnies, squirrels, raccoons...

Because it's our favorite food and don't want to share! 🙄

Yuca Root, Cassava, Tapioca - variegated form Manihot esculenta cv. Variegata makes not only a great meal but a beautiful ornamental, as we mentioned earlier. Besides culinary value, it is simply a stunning little tree!

Plant several plants in your garden and you will never run out of healthy food. Try this vegetable and you will never want French fries!🍟

‼️ Don't be shy to harvest the roots - this plant is easy to regrow from cuttings, so you can have your crops year round.

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🍲 Cassava Fries Recipe

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Cat of the Day - Philemon. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Cat of the Day - Philemon

🐈 Cat of the Day - Philemon.

As we already know, Philemon loves Avocado. He also thinks that all veggies and fruit are good for you. Eat healthy and stay young! Good night. 🌜

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Top Tropicals is now in Telegram!

Top Tropicals is now in Telegram!

Top Tropicals is now in Telegram!
🌴 Top Tropicals is now in Telegram!

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What is the flower of the most expensive perfume? A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

What is the flower of the most expensive perfume?

Champaka, Joy Perfume Tree - Magnolia (Michelia) champaca

Champaka, Joy Perfume Tree - Magnolia (Michelia) champaca - white flower Alba

Champaka, Joy Perfume Tree - Magnolia (Michelia) champaca - white flower Alba

Champaka, Joy Perfume Tree - Magnolia (Michelia) champaca

Champaka, Joy Perfume Tree - Magnolia (Michelia) champaca

Champaka, Joy Perfume Tree - Magnolia (Michelia) champaca

Champaka, Joy Perfume Tree - Magnolia (Michelia) champaca

🏵 What is the flower of the most expensive perfume? Champaka - Joy Perfume Tree. It is the fragrance the most expensive perfume Joy is made of, and our signature flower!

The flowers from this tree - Magnolia (Michelia) champaca - are used to make the world's most expensive perfume 'Joy' and smell like fruity bubble gum 🎀... you can't stop sticking your nose in this flower!

👼 Sacred tree of India and SE Asia
flowers exude a divine fragrance that is exceedingly pleasing to the Gods... and women

🌳 Perfect small landscape tree of a columnar shape. Ideal for containers.

🌡 Relatively cold hardy

💎 Rare collectible, a gem of any plant collection!

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Why this blue tropical flower has a violet fragrance? A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Why this blue tropical flower has a violet fragrance?

Mazabuka, Blue Lips (Sclerochiton harveyanus)

Mazabuka, Blue Lips (Sclerochiton harveyanus)

Mazabuka, Blue Lips (Sclerochiton harveyanus)

Mazabuka, Blue Lips (Sclerochiton harveyanus)

Mazabuka, Blue Lips (Sclerochiton harveyanus)

Mazabuka, Blue Lips (Sclerochiton harveyanus)

Mazabuka, Blue Lips (Sclerochiton harveyanus)

Mazabuka, Blue Lips (Sclerochiton harveyanus)

Why this blue tropical flower has a violet fragrance?

You already saw one unusual blue flower of Tropics - Lead Flower. This one is even more interesting!

👄 Mazabuka, or Blue Lips (Sclerochiton harveyanus) has mauve-blue, unusually lipped flowers that are lightly violet-lavender-fragrant!
  • 💙 Blue Lips create a pretty floral display on this shade-loving shrub with its attractive glossy green foliage.
  • 💙 Flowers are mauve-blue to purple and the lower petals are ribbed, giving the impression of lips, hence the common name.
  • 💙 Five fringed lobes, equal in size, short and rounded, are the flowers distinguishing feature.
  • 💙 Shade lover. Will happily bloom in the shade!


🐝🐦 The numerous flowers produced in summer are attractive to pollinating insects which encourage insect-feeding birds into the garden.

📚 Learn more: Surprising Violet fragrance of the Blue Lips

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Cat of the Day - Mr B. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Cat of the Day - Mr B

🐈 Cat of the Day - Mr B.

Did you know that Lemon Grass freshens your pet's breath? Mr B knows. He is the fan. He doesn't brush his teeth before going to bed, but claims he has a lemon-fresh breath. Good night!🌜

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