🔥 Watch out - Ball of Fire!

Combretum constrictum - Ball of Fire - is very showy beautiful vining shrub with powderpuff red flowers.

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  🔴 Easy to grow and undemanding, it only requires regular water to establish, then can be drought tolerant.
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  🔴 Blooms almost year round in warm climates.
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  🔴 Responds well to pruning.
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  🔴 Attracts butterflies and hummingbirds

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♥️ What is the most spectacular flowering shrub?

🔥 Caesalpinia pulcherrima - Dwarf Poinciana, or Bird of Paradise - is one of the most beautiful flowering shrubs. It is a low-maintenance yet visually striking plant to enhance outdoor spaces.

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  ♦️ Prized for its stunning, vibrant flowers that resemble miniature versions of tropical flamboyant blooms.
• ♦️ Compact size
• ♦️ Easy to care of
• ♦️ Prolific blooming period
• ♦️ Resilience to heat and drought
• ♦️ Red, Yellow, and Pink flowering varieties available.

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🎶 Why they call this Clerodendrum Musical Notes?

Clerodendrum incisum - Musical Note, Morning Kiss - has very unusual and showy flowers.

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  ♪ The unopened flowers resemble musical notes, giving the plant its name.
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  ♪ A compact grower and low-maintenance plant, perfect for gardens as it blooms well in both full sun and shade, and tolerates some drought ☀️☁️ .
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  ♪ It attracts butterflies and hummingbirds, making it a great choice for people who want to encourage wildlife in their gardens

🦋🦜🐞🐝.

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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!

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  💙 Blue Lips create a pretty floral display on this shade-loving shrub with its attractive glossy green foliage.
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  💙 Flowers are mauve-blue to purple and the lower petals are ribbed, giving the impression of lips, hence the common name.
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  💙 Five fringed lobes, equal in size, short and rounded, are the flowers distinguishing feature.
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  💙 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.

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🪻 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!

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  💙 Blue Lips create a pretty floral display on this shade-loving shrub with its attractive glossy green foliage.
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  💙 Flowers are mauve-blue to purple and the lower petals are ribbed, giving the impression of lips, hence the common name.
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  💙 Five fringed lobes, equal in size, short and rounded, are the flowers distinguishing feature.
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  💙 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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🏡 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!

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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 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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