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What vine to plant over a big fence. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

What vine to plant over a big fence

Chonemorpha fragrans - Frangipani vine

❗️ What vine to plant over a big fence.
  • 🔹 Chonemorpha fragrans, or Frangipani vine, that we mentioned before, is a large woody tropical liana with clusters of large, perfume-fragrant flowers and lush green foliage. It is close related to perfumed Plumeria - Frangipani.
  • 🔹 The fragrance is very fresh and pleasant, similar to Plumeria, fills the air around.
  • 🔹 Leaves reaching up to 12 (!) inches - very tropical, majestic look!
  • 🔹 Requires sturdy support - it can grow pretty big and heavy!
  • 🔹 Takes both sun or shade. Full sun and regular fertilizer is essential for profuse blooming.


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Discover the magic of tropical plants for your home and garden: A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Discover the magic of tropical plants for your home and garden:

Tropical flowers

🌺 Discover the magic of tropical plants for your home and garden:

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"If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly our whole life would change. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

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

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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Plumerias are in full bloom. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Plumerias are in full bloom

Plumerias in bloom

🌸 "Perfumes are the feelings of flowers." - Heinrich Heine

Plumerias are in full bloom in our garden today. Their fragrance is a heavenly delight!

📚 5 simple rules how to grow a fragrant Plumeria tree and make it bloom for you

🛒 Shop fragrant Plumerias

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Researchers discover what a perfume from Ancient Rome was made of: Patchouli! A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Researchers discover what a perfume from Ancient Rome was made of: Patchouli!

Pogostemon cablin - Patchouli

Pogostemon cablin - 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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Is Magnolia edible? Vanilla Magnolia: it's for cooking! A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

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)

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.
  • 🔹 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! A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Gardeners finally found a perfect everblooming hedge for shade!

Kings Mantle - Thunbergia erecta

Kings Mantle - Thunbergia erecta purple

Kings Mantle - Thunbergia erecta purple

Kings Mantle - Thunbergia erecta Lavender Lace Variegated

Kings Mantle - Thunbergia erecta Lavender Lace Variegated

Kings Mantle - Thunbergia erecta White

Kings Mantle - Thunbergia erecta White

⚡️ Gardeners finally found a perfect everblooming hedge for shade!
  • 💜 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! A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Thumbs up the most fragrant ginger ever!

White Butterfly Ginger (Hedychium coronarium)

White Butterfly Ginger (Hedychium coronarium)

White Butterfly Ginger (Hedychium coronarium)

White Butterfly Ginger (Hedychium coronarium)

White Butterfly Ginger (Hedychium coronarium)

White Butterfly Ginger (Hedychium coronarium)

👍 Thumbs up the most fragrant ginger ever!
  • 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. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Fragrant Fried Eggs for bees and butterflies

Oncoba spinosa - Fried egg tree

🍳 Fragrant Fried Eggs for bees and butterflies 🐝
  • 🟡 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. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

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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