🤷 What is it, Jasmine, Carnation, or Gardenia?

💮 Tabernaemontana Flore Pleno is also called Crape Jasmine, Carnation of India, or Florida Gardenia. Although it is not related to Jasmine, Carnation, or Gardenia! It is in fact in the same family with Plumeria and Desert Roses!

This lovely bush or small tree with waxy leaves and beautiful fragrant flowers is a must in every tropical garden. Because:

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  💠 it is easy to grow and undemanding
• 💠 it is very fast growing and bushy
• 💠 it is free flowering throughout the year

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🍬 Why everybody wants this plant? Intoxicating sweet fragrance is the answer! Do you have one?

Cestrum nocturnum - Night blooming jasmine.

⭐️ This fast growing, dense shrub is a garden favorite, one of the most famous and desirable fragrant plants.

🌃 The sweetest fragrance at night is intoxicating.

🌄 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.

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📖 Fun Fact: Bleeding Heart Vine (Clerodendrum thomsoniae) is named for its unique red and white flowers that resemble... bleeding hearts! 😍

• ❣️Native to tropical West Africa
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  ❣️ Spectacular, dramatic flowers look like a line of dangling hearts, each emerging from the other.
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  ❣️ It's a climbing vine often grown as a houseplant or in gardens with a trellis for support.
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  ❣️Winder heavy bloomer, but as long as you provide lots of light to it, it'll bloom most of the time.

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📖 Fun Fact: Bleeding Heart Vine (Clerodendrum thomsoniae) is named for its unique red and white flowers that resemble... bleeding hearts! 😍

• ❣️Native to tropical West Africa
• 
  ❣️ Spectacular, dramatic flowers look like a line of dangling hearts, each emerging from the other.
• 
  ❣️ It's a climbing vine often grown as a houseplant or in gardens with a trellis for support.
• 
  ❣️Winder heavy bloomer, but as long as you provide lots of light to it, it'll bloom most of the time.

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🏡 How to get a big flowering bush quickly? Calliandra - Powderpuff - is your answer for blocking the unwanted view!

💗 With so many varieties to choose from, Calliandras are the winners when you need to create a screen quickly. Just in one season you can have a nice dense shrub with benefits - the Powderpuff flowers are so pretty! Everbloomer.

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What is the bluest flower of the Tropics?

Eranthemum pulchellum - Blue Sage, or Lead Flower is brightest gentian blue - very unusual color in the tropics!

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  💙 Winter heavy bloomer
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  💙 Attracts butterflies and bees 🐝
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  💙 Compact shrub, responds well to pruning.
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  💙 Shade lover. Will happily bloom in the shade!

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What is the bluest flower of the Tropics?

Eranthemum pulchellum - Blue Sage, or Lead Flower is brightest gentian blue - very unusual color in the tropics!

• 
  💙 Winter heavy bloomer
• 
  💙 Attracts butterflies and bees 🐝
• 
  💙 Compact shrub, responds well to pruning.
• 
  💙 Shade lover. Will happily bloom in the shade!

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🦁 What is Lion's Ears: the plant that keeps growing "through the flower"!

Leonotis leonurus is another Nature's Wonder. Flower petals purportedly resemble Lion's ears, and bunch of upper leaves from a distance resemble Lions tails. A curious thing, the plant continues growing through the flower! This creates a multi-level appearance.

🦋 Attracts butterflies and hummingbirds. Everblooming.

⚕️ Used in Eastern medicine

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🎨 "Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint, and the soil and sky as canvas." - Elizabeth Murray

❓ Why is it called a Peacock Flower? See yourself...

📷 Caesalpinia pulcherrima - Red Dwarf Poinciana, Bird of Paradise, Pride of Barbados, Peacock flower...

One of the most spectacular tropical bloomers. An eye-stopper!

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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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