💕 Four popular plants of friendship, appreciation, and shared connection

Not all love is romantic. Many tropical plants symbolize warmth, friendship, hospitality, and human connection.

• 
  ❣️ 1. Gardenia

Gardenia symbolizes quiet devotion, gratitude, and unspoken affection. It is often given to express deep appreciation rather than dramatic romance.

👉 Gardenia gift

• 
  ❣️ 2. Heliconia

With its interlocking bracts, heliconia represents unity, partnership, and celebration. It is often linked to joyful relationships and togetherness and is widely used as a long-lasting cut flower in tropical arrangements.

👉 Heliconia gift

• 
  ❣️ 3. Bougainvillea

Bougainvillea symbolizes enduring love and protection - beauty supported by strength. It is often associated with commitment and resilience in relationships.

👉 Bougainvillea gift

❣️ 4. Ixora
Known in parts of Asia as the "flower of love", Ixora represents friendship, emotional closeness, and community bonds.

• 👉 Ixora gift

🛒 Explore gift plants
🎁 Get a Gift Card

📚 Learn more:

• ✦ Valentines day Best Gift Plant Ideas
• ✦ Valentine’s plants from around the world that symbolize love, connection, and appreciation
• ✦ Eight favorite plants of romance, affection, and emotional connection

#Shade_Garden #Container_Garden

🟢 Join 👉 TopTropicals

🎁 What is the best Valentine’s Day gift that actually lasts?

• 
  💕 Sweetheart Hoya is a living heart, with perfectly heart-shaped leaves that feel like they were made for love.
• 
  💕 It comes in several beautiful forms - soft variegated Moonlight, bright variegated Sunshine, and classic Jade Green. Each one is special on its own, but together they feel like a little love story you can grow.
• 
  💕 A live plant gift does not fade or disappear. It stays, it grows, and it quietly reminds someone every day that they are loved.
• 
  💕 Sweetheart Hoya is also very easy to care for - low light, low water, happy at home or at the office. A sweet, lasting reminder of love.

🛒 Collect Sweetheart Hoyas

📚 Learn more:

• ✦ Hoya kerrii, Sweetheart Valentine in Plant Encyclopedia
• ✦ What is the best gift plant for Valentines Day
• ✦ Valentines day Best Gift Plant Ideas
• ✦ Valentine’s plants from around the world that symbolize love, connection, and appreciation
• ✦ Eight favorite plants of romance, affection, and emotional connection

#Shade_Garden #Container_Garden

🟢 Join 👉 TopTropicals

💕 Eight favorite plants of romance, affection, and emotional connection

These plants communicate love visually and emotionally. They are associated with beauty, admiration, devotion, and long-lasting relationships.

• 
  💖 1. Anthurium

With its unmistakable heart-shaped spathes, anthurium is one of the strongest visual symbols of love. In Latin America, it represents hospitality, passion, and enduring affection, making it a natural Valentine plant.

👉 Anthurium gift

• 
  💖 2. Orchids

In many Asian cultures, orchids symbolize refined love, fertility, and deep emotional connection. They are associated with elegance, respect, and long-term devotion rather than fleeting romance or infatuation.

👉 Orchid gift

• 
  💖 3. Valentine’s Sweetheart Hoya (Hoya kerrii)

Hoya kerrii is known for its thick, heart-shaped leaves, making it one of the clearest visual symbols of love. This long-lived vine represents loyalty and lasting commitment, and is found in several varieties with different leaf variegation patterns: regular green leaf, variegated Moonlight (gold on green) and Sunshine (white-and green).

👉 Sweetheart Hoya gift

• 
  💖 4. Plumeria (Frangipani)

In Polynesia and Southeast Asia, plumeria represents love, beauty, and new beginnings. In Hawaii, its flowers are a classic part of leis and have become an enduring symbol of romance, affection, and island love.

👉 Plumeria gift

• 
  💖 5. Jasminum sambac

Jasmine Sambac is strongly associated with romance, devotion, and spiritual love. In Hawaii it is used in leis, while in the Philippines, this so-called Sampaguita jasmine symbolizes purity, fidelity, and deep affection and is woven into garlands for lovers, weddings, and sacred ceremonies.

👉 Jasmine Sambac gifts

• 
  💖 6. Hibiscus

Hibiscus symbolizes delicate beauty, attraction, and the fleeting intensity of passion. In many tropical cultures, it is associated with feminine energy and romantic expression.

👉 Hibiscus gift

• 
  💖 7. Clerodendrum Bleeding Heart

Clerodendrum thomsoniae, called the Bleeding Heart Vine, is known for its red, heart-like flowers held inside white lantern-shaped bracts. It has long been associated with love, emotional vulnerability, and deep personal bonds, making it a natural fit for Valentine symbolism.

👉 Bleeding Heart gift

💖 8. Stephanotis (Madagascar jasmine)
Traditionally associated with marital happiness and fidelity, Stephanotis has long been used in wedding garlands and bouquets in tropical regions.

• 👉 Stephanotis gift

🛒 Explore gift plants
🎁 Get a Gift Card

📚 Learn more:

• ✦ What is the best gift plant for Valentines Day
• ✦ Valentines day Best Gift Plant Ideas
• ✦ Valentine’s plants from around the world that symbolize love, connection, and appreciation

#Shade_Garden #Container_Garden

🟢 Join 👉 TopTropicals

💕 Valentine’s plants from around the world that symbolize love, connection, and appreciation

• 
  💘 When we think of Valentine’s plants, roses usually steal the spotlight. But in many parts of the world, love has long been expressed through tropical plants - not only through flowers, but also through scent, ritual, shared food, and sensory experience.
• 
  💘 Across cultures, tropical plants have symbolized romance, friendship, devotion, fertility, desire, and emotional connection. Some speak through heart-shaped leaves and fragrant blooms. Others through taste, warmth, and the way they bring people together.
• 
  💘 Love beyond flowers? Together, these tropical plants show that love is expressed in many ways - through beauty, scent, taste, ritual, warmth, and shared moments. Valentine’s traditions around the world remind us that love is not only something we see, but something we experience with all our senses.
• 
  💘 In our upcoming collection we will explore Valentine’s plants from the tropics, grouped by how they express love:

• 💖 1. Plants of romance, affection, and emotional connection
• 💖 2. Plants of friendship, appreciation, and shared connection
• 💖 3. Plants of love, desire, and the senses

• 👉 Stay tuned, coming up next:

Plants of romance, affection, and emotional connection

🛒 Explore gift plants
🎁 Get a Gift Card

📚 Learn more:
✦ Valentines day Best Gift Plant Ideas

#Shade_Garden #Container_Garden

🟢 Join 👉 TopTropicals

🍴 Pitomba pop cups: quick-n-fun exotic recipes

• 
  🟡Scoop pitomba pulp into a bowl and mix with a drop of honey.
• 🟡Freeze until icy-soft for a tart tropical snack.

🌿 About the plant:
Pitomba (Eugenia luschnathiana) is a tropical fruit native to Brazil, prized for its bright, citrusy pulp with a sweet-sour kick. The flavor is often compared to a mix of apricot, citrus, and mild resin, making it refreshing and snack-worthy straight from the fruit.

🌱 In the garden:
Pitomba grows as a small to medium-sized slow growing tree with glossy evergreen leaves. It thrives in warm climates, prefers full sun to light shade, suitable for USDA zones 10-11, it can also be grown in large containers and responds well to pruning, making it manageable for home gardens.

🛒 Plant exotic Pitomba cherry in your garden

📚 Learn more:
▫️ Eugenia luschnathiana - Pitomba - in Plant Encyclopedia

#Food_Forest #Recipes

🟢 Join 👉 TopTropicals