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Craving a Mojito? Beat the Summer heat with Mojito Elephant Ears!

 Craving a Mojito? Beat the Summer heat with Mojito Elephant Ears!  Craving a Mojito? Beat the Summer heat with Mojito Elephant Ears!  Craving a Mojito? Beat the Summer heat with Mojito Elephant Ears!  Craving a Mojito? Beat the Summer heat with Mojito Elephant Ears!
🍹 Craving a Mojito? Beat the Summer heat with Mojito Elephant Ears!

Colocasia sculenta Mojito, a spectacular variety of Elephant Ears, is a must for a rare plant collection:

  • 🐘 Striking variegation: bold, mottled leaves in shades of green and dark purple, reminiscent of a refreshing mojito!

  • 🐘 Large, impressive leaves: massive, heart-shaped leaves that create a dramatic and tropical look.

  • 🐘Versatile: thrives in both sun and partial shade, making it adaptable to various garden locations.

  • 🐘 Water-loving: ideal for bog gardens, ponds, or as a stunning addition to water features.

  • 🐘 Container friendly: perfect for pots and containers, allowing you to bring its tropical charm to patios and balconies.

  • 🐘 Fast growing: quickly establishes, providing lush foliage and rapid visual impact.

  • 🐘 Low maintenance: minimal care once planted, making it a great choice for both beginner and experienced gardeners.

  • 🐘 Heat and cold tolerant: performs well in warm climates. During cool winters, leaves may die back and regrow in Spring.

  • 🐘 Edible tubers: produces edible corms (roots) that are a staple in many cuisines, adding a functional aspect to its beauty.

  • 🐘 Unique garden accent: an eye-catching focal point or accent plant.


🛒 Get some Mojito for your garden

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Black-black-black plant! Its totally black, thats right

Black-black-black plant! Its totally black, thats right Black-black-black plant! Its totally black, thats right Black-black-black plant! Its totally black, thats right Black-black-black plant! Its totally black, thats right
♣️ Black-black-black plant! It's totally black, that's right.

  • ▪️ Meet the elusive Black ZZ Plant, where the leaves of this dragon truly live up to its name with their mesmerizing black hue.

  • Zamioculcas x Black Dragon - yes, the leaves of this Dragon are absolutely black!

  • ▪️Indoor plant enthusiasts may be familiar with its green counterpart, but this rare black variety is a collector's dream come true! You can see both green and black varieties on one of the photos.

  • ▪️The Black ZZ Plant is a succulent marvel, boasting dark glossy foliage thanks to its high chlorophyll concentration - a rarity in the plant kingdom.

  • ▪️With its exceptional ability to store water, the ZZ Plant can endure long periods without watering, earning its title as one of the most drought-tolerant plants on the planet.

  • ▪️Sometimes referred to as the Aroid Palm, this ancient relic shares a unique characteristic with Gonatopus: its leaflets can detach, root, and form bulblets, a trait unseen in other aroids outside the Zamioculcadeae family.

  • ▪️Witness the magic as juvenile leaves emerge green and transform into striking black as they mature, adding a touch of mystery and elegance to any indoor oasis.


🛒 Get the Black ZZ and surprise your friends

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What is this shocking pink gardenia? Does it exist?

What is this shocking pink gardenia? Does it exist? What is this shocking pink gardenia? Does it exist? What is this shocking pink gardenia? Does it exist? What is this shocking pink gardenia? Does it exist?
👁 What is this shocking pink gardenia? Does it exist?

  • 🌸 Kopsia fruticosa: fondly known as the "Pink Gardenia", this gem is one of nature's most exquisite and elusive treasures.

  • 🌸 Its flowers are a marvel, transitioning from delicate light pink to deep hues with crimson centers, emitting a subtle fragrance.

  • 🌸 Imagine our surprise when we stumbled upon this enchanting plant labeled as a Pink Gardenia during our expedition in Thailand!

  • 🌸 Intrigued, we delved deeper into its botanical identity. While technically not a Gardenia, this beauty is a close relative of Plumeria and Adenium we mentioned earlier, as well as Tabernaemontana (also often confused with Gardenia). All these beauties belong to the esteemed plant family Apocynaceae.

  • 🌸 It's no wonder this plant has captured our hearts; its beauty is simply irresistible, leaving us wanting more.

  • 🌸 With its compact growth habit, it's perfect for containers or in-ground planting, adding a touch of elegance to any garden space.


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Treat yourself with a Pink Gardenia!

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Attention grabber: swollen trunk, giant leaves, and flowers just like corals! A must for bonsai collection

Attention grabber: swollen trunk, giant leaves, and flowers just like corals! A must for bonsai collection Attention grabber: swollen trunk, giant leaves, and flowers just like corals! A must for bonsai collection Attention grabber: swollen trunk, giant leaves, and flowers just like corals! A must for bonsai collection Attention grabber: swollen trunk, giant leaves, and flowers just like corals! A must for bonsai collection Attention grabber: swollen trunk, giant leaves, and flowers just like corals! A must for bonsai collection
🪸 Attention grabber: swollen trunk, giant leaves, and flowers just like corals! A must for bonsai collection.

  • ♥️ Jatropha podagrica: commonly known as the Gout Plant, this plant is a true attention grabber and a must-have in any container garden, as well as in succulent or bonsai plant collection.

  • ♥️ Features a distinctive bottle-like caudex and surprisingly large tropical leaves up to 10-12 inches in diameter. Just like you saw in Adeniums.

  • ♥️ Thrives in the shade, where its leaves grow even larger.

  • ♥️ Perfect for natural bonsai and makes an excellent potted plant or conversation piece in a small garden.

  • ♥️ Grows only 2-3 feet high, with a knobby, swollen stem and eye-catching, coral-like red flowers in large terminal clusters.

  • ♥️ Prefers partial sun and well-drained soil, and is very drought-tolerant.

  • ♥️ Easy to care for, adding exotic flair and intrigue to any plant collection.


🛒 Shop Gout plant

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Three top tropical trees - from the legends of Caribbean

Three top tropical trees - from the legends of Caribbean Three top tropical trees - from the legends of Caribbean Three top tropical trees - from the legends of Caribbean Three top tropical trees - from the legends of Caribbean
💛💜♥️ Three top tropical trees - from the legends of Caribbean. Yellow Poinciana, Jacaranda, and Royal Poinciana: three happy colors of the Tropics.

While traveling through the vibrant and diverse Caribbean, we acquired three exquisite local paintings rendered on jacaranda wood plates and a calabash. These pieces of art celebrate the three most spectacular and revered flowering trees of the Tropics:
  1. Yellow Poinciana, with its bright golden blossoms, associated with joy and sunlight, symbolizing the warmth of the Caribbean spirit💛
  2. Jacaranda, known for its striking lavender-blue flowers, is a symbol of wisdom and rebirth, blooming in a breathtaking display that signals the change of seasons 💜
  3. Royal Poinciana, that we mentioned earlier, with its fiery red and orange flowers, is a symbol of passion and energy, referred to as the "Flamboyant" tree due to its bold and dramatic appearance ♥️


  4. Get them now while we have them. No need to go too far into Caribbean!

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Index of TopTropicals Telegram Channel

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Follow these tags to find your interests:

🦋 #Butterfly_Plants - Butterfly attracting plants.

#Container_Garden - Plants suitable for container garden and indoor culture.

🧯 #Fertilizers - All the truth about fertilizers, plant food supplements, and our recommendations for different types of plants.

🥭 #Food_Forest - Fruit trees, Spice plants, and Edibles.

📖 #Fun_Facts - interesting plant facts and legends.

🌳 #Hedges_with_benefits - Practical approach to your landscape and how to properly select showy and useful plants for your yard.

♍️ #Horoscope - Plant Horoscopes and Cat Horoscopes. Did you know that cats also have their Zodiac signs?

🛠 #How_to - Q&A about growing plants, tropical garden lifehacks.

👀 #Nature_Wonders - Unusual, amusing, outrageous, bizarre plants...

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#PeopleCats - our Favorite PeopleCats (and some PeopleDogs, too).

🌸 #Perfume_Plants - Fragrant plants and perfume trees.

✍️ #Quotes - Interesting quotes.

🥗 #Recipes - Exotic recipes for tropical fruit and edibles.

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#Remedies - Medicinal plants.

☁️ #Shade_Garden - Plants suitable for low light conditions.

🌼 #Tree
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Index of TopTropicals Telegram Channel

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🔴 🗂 Index of TopTropicals Telegram Channel

Follow these tags to find your interests:

🦋 #Butterfly_Plants - Butterfly attracting plants.

#Container_Garden - Plants suitable for container garden and indoor culture.

🧯 #Fertilizers - All the truth about fertilizers, plant food supplements, and our recommendations for different types of plants.

🥭 #Food_Forest - Fruit trees, Spice plants, and Edibles.

📖 #Fun_Facts - interesting plant facts and legends.

🌳 #Hedges_with_benefits - Practical approach to your landscape and how to properly select showy and useful plants for your yard.

♍️ #Horoscope - Plant Horoscopes and Cat Horoscopes. Did you know that cats also have their Zodiac signs?

🛠 #How_to - Q&A about growing plants, tropical garden lifehacks.

👀 #Nature_Wonders - Unusual, amusing, outrageous, bizarre plants...

🐈
#PeopleCats - our Favorite PeopleCats (and some PeopleDogs, too).

🌸 #Perfume_Plants - Fragrant plants and perfume trees.

✍️ #Quotes - Interesting quotes.

🥗 #Recipes - Exotic recipes for tropical fruit and edibles.

💊
#Remedies - Medicinal plants.

☁️ #Shade_Garden - Plants suitable for low light conditions.

🌼 #Tree
s - Spectacular flowering tropical trees.

🏆 #Win - Contests, Sweepstakes, and other specials.

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ow you have seen everything: multi-grafted Adenium with different colors of flowers on the same plant!

🌸 Now you have seen everything: multi-grafted Adenium with different colors of flowers on the same plant!

🛒 Shop Adenium colors and hybrids


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Why did she say its a dog poo? Its a beauty from Argentina!

Why did she say its a dog poo? Its a beauty from Argentina! Why did she say its a dog poo? Its a beauty from Argentina! Why did she say its a dog poo? Its a beauty from Argentina! Why did she say its a dog poo? Its a beauty from Argentina! Why did she say its a dog poo? Its a beauty from Argentina! Why did she say its a dog poo? Its a beauty from Argentina! Why did she say its a dog poo? Its a beauty from Argentina! Why did she say its a dog poo? Its a beauty from Argentina!
💩 💃 Why did she say it's a dog poo? It's a beauty from Argentina!

  • 🌸 This remarkable caudiciform Morning Glory - Ipomoea platensis - is native to arid regions of Argentina.

  • 🌸 This is a showy flowering vine growing from a large caudex! The caudex can be of some weird shapes and forms. Some old lady once said "it's a dog poo plant!"

  • 🌸 Similar to Desert roses (Adeniums), it grows caudex for water storage to survive extended drought periods.

  • 🌸 Caudex grows over 2 ft! Vines reach over 12 ft, covered with beautiful bell-shaped pink flowers.

  • 🌸 Can be kept as a bonsai in a pot, easy to control as a container specimen with trellis or pruning.

  • 🌸 Although it doesn't mind dry conditions, the plant benefits from regular watering and good drainage, then it grows fast.

  • 🌸 This is one of our favorite plants, easy to grow, makes a great conversation piece. It is a perfect for bonsai


🛒 Order Caudiciform Morning Glory

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

👾 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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