🌱 Three tropical plants that help you to stay young.

1. Longevity Spinach - as the name suggests, this is one of the superfoods, and it lowers cholesterol. The leaves and young shoot tips can be used fresh in salads, steamed, used in stir fry, stews, and soups. Just add them at the very end. Recipes here 🥣
2. Amlak, or Otaheite Gooseberry - fruit is a major ingredient of Chavyanprash, a popular Ayurvedic tonic. It is the richest source of vitamin C. Makes a perfect lemonade.
3. Noni - a world-famous medicinal fruit. The noni juice works on a cellular level and rejuvenates nearly every system in the body. Large leaves, very tropical look, quick to fruit... This is a perfect tree for container and indoors. PDF: Noni's health benefits (Tropical Treasures Magazine).

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💮 What size can be a flower of Gardenia? Look at the crazy size of this Tahitian Gardenia flower! As big as my hand! ✋ 😳

Gardenia taitensis "Heaven Scent" with a double flower, up to 6" in diameter!

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  💠 This hybrid is very rare and hard to find.
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  💠 The intoxicating sweet fragrant blossoms are creamy white works of art.
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  💠 Huge double flowers up to 5-6" in diameter and large glossy oval leaves.
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  💠 Perfect container plant 🪴.

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☘️ How to keep weeds away?

"Give a weed an inch and it’ll take a yard...."

Hot season started, and so did the weed season!

💚 Ways to keep your yard weed-free without use of herbicide:

1. Mulch, mulch, mulch
2. Cover the area with cardboard (still getting those Amazon boxes?) and put mulch, mulch, mulch on top.
3. Plant dense ground cover plants! Weeds will lose competition for food and light.


🎥 Did you know that Confederate Jasmine (Trachelospermum jasminoides) makes not only a trellis/fence solution, but also a dense fragrant ground cover? It's not demanding, fast growing, drought tolerant plant, takes full sun or shade. Sweet, deliciously fragrant flowers is a pleasant bonus!

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🐈 Cat of the Day - George.

George is a completely black cat - this kind brings good luck. He is wishing you a lucky day tomorrow and a good rest tonight. 🌜

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🍈 How June plum can "fruit itself to death": look at this heavy load!

This exciting fruit tree will amaze you with its ability to fruit abundantly at a young age and small size. This is a DWARF variety of June plum, or Ambarella (Spondias cytherea).

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  ✳️ Grows as a compact 6-7 ft tree.
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  ✳️ Very aromatic fruit, Its feel and juiciness resembles that of a mango (it's Mango's close relative) but with completely different, delicious flavor.
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  ✳️ Expect heavy fruit production within a year. Starts fruiting in winter and holds the fruit up to 6-8 months and more.
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  ✳️ Perfect container fruit tree.

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💐 What plant is fragrant, easy and fast growing? Cashmere Bouquet!

Clerodendrum bungei - Glory Bower, Cashmere bouquet.

🌸 Need a fast growing, spreading shrub for privacy? Cashmere bouquet is a shrub with benefits - the flowers are beautiful and sweetly fragrant.

🪴 Also ideal for the container grown patio plant.

🦋 Attracts butterflies to the large flower trusses.

🌡 Hardy to zone 8.

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🏆 Enter to Win Dwarf Ylang Ylang, Chanel No5 Tree!

Cananga fruticosa - Dwarf Ylang-Ylang, or Chanel No5 Tree - is the most desired and sought after perfume plants. See our previous post about this plant.
This is your chance to win a rare, expensive plant that everyone wants!

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How to become a winner? It's very simple. Enter a number in comments to this post. The winner will be selected by automatic Randomizer Wheel and the process of "spin and pick" will be broadcasted in this Channel.

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🐈 Cat of the Day - Bob.

Bob will watch the refrigerator tonight so we can watch out diet. Have a good night! 🌜

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⚜️ What is the best perfume tree for container culture? Dwarf Chanel No 5 Tree!

Cananga fruticosa - Dwarf Ylang-Ylang, or Chanel No5 Tree - is the most desired and sought after perfume plants.

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  🔅 Elegant pendant flowers are a piece of art.
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  🔅 Easy to grow, stays compact and in nice tree-like shape. Flowers smell as great as full size Ylang Ylang tree.
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  🔅 Needs warm and humid conditions for a full aroma.
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  🔅 Perfect container plant🪴and a house plant, but keep in mind it requires bright light for profuse flowering.

📚 Learn more about Chanel No5 Ylang Ylang Tree

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🍦 Did you know that ice cream actually grows on a tree?

🫛 Ice Cream Bean Tree (Inga edulis) - fast growing shade tree with wonderful fruit that kids love! 👯‍♀️

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  ✳️ Bean pods up to 3 ft long contain sweet, juicy, white pulp that has a soft cotton wool texture and tastes of vanilla ice-cream.
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  ✳️ The fruit has fantastic health benefits. It contains up to 25% sugar, 10% protein, 5% fiber, vitamins C, A and E, and minerals such as phosphorus, calcium, magnesium and zinc. The protein content is two times higher than that of a banana!
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  ✳️ A mature tree will produce around 100 fruits in a season. Seedlings start fruiting within 3-4 years.
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  ✳️ Fast growing, umbrella-shaped tree, 20 ft tall and almost as wide, provides plenty of shade. This is our favorite tree when we need to create shade quickly.

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