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What plant has fragrant leaves and flowers? Soft and fuzzy Tropical Lilac!

Cornutia grandifolia, African lilac, Jamaican lilac, Tropical Lilac

Cornutia grandifolia, African lilac, Jamaican lilac, Tropical Lilac

Cornutia grandifolia, African lilac, Jamaican lilac, Tropical Lilac

Cornutia grandifolia, African lilac, Jamaican lilac, Tropical Lilac

Cornutia grandifolia, African lilac, Jamaican lilac, Tropical Lilac

What plant has fragrant leaves and flowers? Soft and fuzzy Tropical Lilac!
  • 🟣 Cornutia grandifolia, also known as African lilac, Jamaican lilac, or Tropical Lilac, is a fast-growing, large shrub with astonishing fragrant velvet leaves.
  • 🟣 Tall stalks shoot out multiple lavender blue flowers, creating an outstanding display.
  • 🟣 Attracting butterflies and hummingbirds, it adds life to any garden with its lively inflorescence 🦋
  • 🟣 Leaves can grow very large, up to 10" wide. They are fuzzy, very soft to touch, and aromatic, emitting pleasant tobacco-like scent when rubbed.
  • 🟣 Relatively cold hardy, Tropical Lilac thrives in full sun or semi-shade positions, bringing joy with its pleasant aroma and beautiful blooms.


🛒 Get aromatic Tropical Lilac

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Why Bob got his nickname Hamas

🐈 Why Bob got his nickname "Hamas"

It's for his urge to dig tunnels everywhere - from laundry to pillows. This terrorist secures his position and starts looking for his next target. Then he attacks other #PeopleCats from his tunnel... without declaring a war!..

Be safe and have a peaceful sleep. Good night.🌜

📸 😺 👇 Share your cats in comments!

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How to always have lots of Guava Juice

Psidium littorale, Cattley Guava

Psidium littorale, Cattley Guava

Psidium littorale, Cattley Guava

Psidium littorale, Cattley Guava

Psidium littorale, Cattley Guava

Psidium littorale, Cattley Guava

Psidium littorale, Cattley Guava

Psidium littorale, Cattley Guava

Psidium littorale, Cattley Guava

Psidium littorale, Cattley Guava

🍈 How to always have lots of Guava Juice.
  • 🧡 Psidium littorale, also known as Cattley Guava, is a charming small tropical fruit tree.
  • 🧡 Round fruits offer a unique culinary experience with a sweet and tangy flavor, perfect for various dishes and drinks.
  • 🧡 Surprisingly cold-hardy, it adds both beauty and flavor to any landscape.
  • 🧡 Ideal for containers
  • 🧡 A must-have for fruit lovers seeking a tropical treat.
  • 🧡 One tree can bring enough fruit for making a delicious, aromatic, refreshing Guava juice for the whole family during Summer months. Just put the fruit in a blender, add some water, ice and sugar and enjoy!🥤


🛒Order Cattley Guava and never run out of juice

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Flamingo pink with fruity fragrance!

Quisqualis Indica - Rangoon Creeper

🦩 Flamingo pink with fruity fragrance!
  • 💕 Quisqualis Indica - Rangoon Creeper - is an extremely beautiful plant.
  • 💕 Shrubby vine with pale-pink to deep crimson star shaped flowers, covering the entire plant when in full bloom.
  • 💕 It's scent is unforgettable, fruity and intoxicating...
  • 💕 The flowers are born in clusters and each flower has many variations of color, depending on how old the flower is.
  • 💕 The flower starts out white and or pink striped and turn solid pink and finally dark pink on maturity.
  • 💕 Can grow into large woody vine covering a fence or big trellis.


🛒 Get your own Quisqualis vine

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What was discovered in the Pyramids: Pigeon Pea - an Ancient Superfood

Cajanus cajan - Pigeon Pea and Egyptian pyramids

Cajanus cajan - Pigeon Pea and Egyptian pyramids

Cajanus cajan - Pigeon Pea

Cajanus cajan - Pigeon Pea

Cajanus cajan - Pigeon Pea

Cajanus cajan - Pigeon Pea

Cajanus cajan - Pigeon Pea

Cajanus cajan - Pigeon Pea

🤴 What was discovered in the Pyramids: Pigeon Pea - an Ancient Superfood...
  • 🫘 Cajanus cajan - Pigeon Pea - existed for more than 4800 year! It's been widely consumed in South Asia, South East Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Documented in India since 2,800 BC; reached Ancient Egypt around 2,200 BC.
  • 🫘 Provides flavorful, nutritious, and healthy food, with potential to become widely popular like Japanese sushi 🍱
  • 🫘 It is a showy perennial woody shrub or small tree, 4-8 ft tall, with soft leaves. Can be grown in container
  • 🫘Pretty flowers are yellow, with purple or red streaks, pods containing oval to round seeds.
  • 🫘 Many culinary uses: the tasty and healthy beans used in rice dishes, soups, stews, tempeh, tofu. Unripe pods eaten in curries, leaves and young shoots cooked as a vegetable.
  • 🫘 Rich source of fiber, protein, vitamins (B, C, E, K), and minerals (calcium, iron, magnesium, manganese, phosphorus, potassium, zinc).
  • 🫘 Medicinal value: various folk medicinal uses for sores, bladderstones, jaundice, skin irritations, bronchitis, coughs, pneumonia, toothache, dysentery, and more.
  • 🫘 Everyone can grow it! The plant is super easy, tolerates poor soils, drought tolerant, improves soil quality like many other beans.


📚 Learn more about Pigeon Pea

🛒Grow your own Pigeon Pea Superfood

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What flower smells like warm chocolate?

Portlandia grandiflora - Glorious Flower of Cuba

☕️ What flower smells like warm chocolate?
  • 💙 Portlandia grandiflora - Glorious Flower of Cuba is an extremely rare plant.
  • 💙 Luscious perfume of bell-like flowers reminiscent of warm, creamy chocolate.
  • 💙 Small compact tree, perfect for containers or small gardens.
  • 💙 One of very few tropical plants that tolerate alkaline soils❗️


🛒 Get Warm Chocolate Plant

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How to get rid of a bad luck with the Garlic Vine?

Garlic vine (Mansoa alliacea)

Garlic vine (Mansoa alliacea)

👾 How to get rid of a bad luck with the Garlic Vine?
  • 🟣 Garlic vine (Mansoa alliacea) is one of the most wanted flowering tropical vines.
  • 🟣 When in full bloom, it looks like a cascade of blue-purple over a fence or trellis.
  • 🟣 The fun part is, crushed leaves smell like garlic, which will keep away the vampires and bad luck! 🧛
  • 🟣 Deep lavender flowers with white throat fading to a paler lavender within a few days, and you can see all three colors on the plant at the same time.
  • 🟣 Garlic vine has moderate growth rate and can stay compact in a pot as a specimen, and even can be grown as a house plant.


📚 Garlic vine: how to get rid of bad luck

🎥 Video: Garlic vine keeps away the vampires.

🛒 Get rid of bad luck by getting the Garlic Vine

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Are these kittens or puppies?

🐱🐶 Are these kittens or puppies?

Mango - the dog we rescued - happened to be a few weeks away from... bringing into the world these 8 cute pups!

Good night and sweet dreams about cute kittens and puppies🌜

📸 😺 👇 Share your cats and pups in comments!

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What is the most celebreated fragrant flower?

Plumeria, Frangipani

🥂 What is the most celebreated fragrant flower?
  • 🌸 Plumeria, or Frangipani, is the symbol flower of Hawaii that radiates beauty and grace in many amazing colors.
  • 🌸 Plumeria sweet and fruity fragrance is enchanting and soothing, captivating the senses... It is one of the most favorite essences in perfumery.
  • 🌸 Often woven into Hawaiian leis, plumeria blossoms embody the spirit of Aloha as a warm welcome and heartfelt hospitality.
  • 🌸 Plumeria tree is very easy to grow and can happily flower in container. See important growing tips in our next post 👇


🛒 Choose from fantastic colors of Plumeria

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5 simple rules how to grow a fragrant Plumeria tree and make it bloom for you, just like on the pictures

Plumeria, Frangipani red rainbow

Plumeria, Frangipani red rainbow

Plumeria, Frangipani pink rainbow

Plumeria, Frangipani pink rainbow

Plumeria, Frangipani rainbow

Plumeria, Frangipani rainbow

Plumeria, Frangipani dark pink

Plumeria, Frangipani dark pink

Plumeria, Frangipani yellow

Plumeria, Frangipani yellow

Plumeria, Frangipani red rainbow

Plumeria, Frangipani red rainbow

Plumeria, Frangipani rainbow

Plumeria, Frangipani rainbow

Plumeria, Frangipani white

Plumeria, Frangipani white

🌸 5 simple rules how to grow a fragrant Plumeria tree and make it bloom for you, just like on the pictures.
  1. Soil must be well-drained: use potting mix with good amount of perlite, bark, and coconut fiber. We recommend Sunshine Abundance professional soil mix for best results.
  2. Container must be the size of the root ball and not much bigger, to avoid water-logging. Plumeria likes dry conditions. Water only when the soil gets slightly dry.
  3. Full sun is a must. If grown indoors, keep the plant in the brightest spot and take it outside for the sun bathing when possible.
  4. Dormancy in winter: this little tree drops leaves during winter. When it happens, reduce water to the minimum and let your Plumeria rest until it starts sprouting new leaves.
  5. Fertilize for the most profuse flowering with a plant food that is high in Phosphorus. Plumeria is a heavy feeder. We recommend Sunsine Megaflor Bloom Booster liquid fertilizer - it can be used with every watering and year around.


Enjoy the fragrant blooms!

🛒 Choose from fantastic colors of Plumeria

#Perfume_Plants #Container_Garden

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