Why everybody wants this plant? Intoxicating sweet fragrance is the answer! Top Tropicals Blog

Date: 2 Jun 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Why everybody wants this plant? Intoxicating sweet fragrance is the answer!

Cestrum nocturnum - Night blooming jasmine

🍬 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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Date: 2 Jun 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

How to attract more butterflies to your garden?

Monarch Butterfly

Milkweed

Odontonema

Giant Milkweed

🦋 How to attract more butterflies to your garden?

Attracting butterflies to your garden can be a fun and rewarding experience. Here are some tips to help you create a butterfly-friendly environment.

💐 Choose the right plants: butterflies are attracted to nectar-producing flowers such as odontonemas.
💐 Plant lots of bright flowers, especially of yellow and pink colors like some cassias which seem to be the pleasant to butterfly's eye.
💐 Use a variety of flowers to attract different species of butterflies. Check the list of butterfly-attracting tropical plants.
💐 Provide food for caterpillars: butterflies lay their eggs on specific host plants that caterpillars will eat. For example, monarch butterflies lay their eggs on milkweed. Passion flower (Passiflora) and Aristolochia that we introduced earlier, are also great butterfly hosts, but be prepared to sacrifice some leaves!
💐 Provide a water source: butterflies need a source of water to drink from. A shallow dish or birdbath with rocks in it will provide a place for butterflies to rest and drink.
💐 Avoid using pesticides: they can harm butterflies and other beneficial insects. Try using natural methods to control pests in your garden.
💐 Create a sunny spot: butterflies love warm, sunny spots. Plant your butterfly garden in an area that receives at least six hours of direct sunlight each day.
💐 Add a butterfly house to provide shelter for butterflies during bad weather and at night.

📸 Milkweed, Odontonema, Giant Milkweed

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Date: 2 Jun 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

What is a perfect shade tree with flower benefits? Discover the sunny Kassod Tree

Cassia siamea - Kassod Tree (Siamese Senna)

🌻 What is a perfect shade tree with flower benefits? Discover the sunny Kassod Tree...

🟡 Cassia siamea - Kassod Tree (Siamese Senna) is a remarkable subtropical tree known for several special features:
🟡 Fast Growing, making it an excellent choice for quick shade and ornamental use.
🟡 Bright yellow flowers that bloom in clusters, adding a vibrant splash of color.
🟡 Evergreen foliage: lush green leaves year-round, providing continuous beauty and shade.
🟡 Hardy: highly resilient and can thrive in a variety of soil types and conditions, including poor soils and dry climates. Tolerates both light frost and summer heat.
🟡 Low maintenance, easy care, not messy, making it an ideal choice for both novice and experienced gardeners.
🟡 Nitrogen fixation: Improves soil fertility by fixing nitrogen, benefiting surrounding plants and enhancing garden productivity.
🟡 Medicinal use: herbal medicine (laxative properties and to treat various ailments).
🟡 Attracts bees, butterflies, and other pollinators, supporting local biodiversity and ecosystem health 🐞🦋🐝
🟡 Shade provider: Ideal for creating shaded areas in gardens and landscapes, contributing to a cooler environment during hot weather.

🛒 Add shade and color to your garden with Kassod Tree

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Date: 31 May 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

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

Black ZZ Plant, Zamioculcas x Black Dragon

♣️ 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

▪️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

#Nature_Wonders #Container_Garden #Shade_Garden

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Date: 30 May 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

The last day of Tropical Flowering Plant Contest

🏆 The last day of Tropical Flowering Plant Contest! Hurry up to enter your pictures of favorite plants for a chance to win the Joy Perfume Tree!

⏰ Deadline is approaching - June 1.

🐾 We need your votes! We already have many beautiful contest entries 👉check them out👈
Please leave your likes/hearts ♥️ 👍 for the pictures you like the most. The winner will be the picture with the biggest number of likes.

👨�‍👧 Invite your friends for voting!

Good luck and thank you for joining us!

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Date: 30 May 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Tired of an ugly hedge? Replace it with Aglaia - Chinese Rice Flower, and enjoy Lemony Fragrance year around!

Aglaia odorata - Chinese Perfume Plant flowers

Aglaia odorata - Chinese Perfume Plant

Aglaia odorata - Chinese Perfume Plant hedge

🍋 Tired of an ugly hedge? Replace it with Aglaia - Chinese Rice Flower, and enjoy Lemony Fragrance year around!

🟡 Aglaia odorata is also known as Chinese Perfume Plant, Chinese Rice Flower, or Mock Lemon.
🟡 The plant has an outstanding fragrance from tiny, rice-sized yellow flowers.
🟡 Aglaia grows into a dense bush without pruning. It is relatively slow-growing; so large plants are rare and hard to find.
🟡 Easy to grow bush, it is perfect for a cold tolerant tropical hedge.
🟡 Aglaia has many medicinal uses; contains odorine and odorinol, which have cancer chemopreventive activity.

🛒 Get a few bushes of Aglaia for lemony-fragrant hedge

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Date: 29 May 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

How to grow a happy Adenium

Adenium

Adeniums

❓How to grow a happy Adenium.

What you need for successful growing Adeniums:

A small pot with excellent drainage, size of root system.
Adenium soil mix. Use only well-drained soil. We suggest this Adenium mix.
Lots of light for heavy flowering. However, in super hot climates, they look healthier in filtered bright light.
Little water. Adeniums like a neutral to hard water. Acidic water tends to sour the soil too fast and may cause root rot.

plants

Fertilizer

Sunshine Megaflor

🛒 Shop Adenium colors and hybrids

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Date: 28 May 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Would you like some Scrambled Eggs? Scrambled Egg Bush is a burst of sunshine, this splash of gold blooms on and on

Senna surattensis (Cassia glauca) - Scrambled Egg Bush

🍳 Would you like some Scrambled Eggs? Scrambled Egg Bush is a burst of sunshine, this splash of gold blooms on and on...

🌞 Senna surattensis (Cassia glauca) - Scrambled Egg Bush - produces vibrant, sunny yellow flowers that resemble scrambled eggs, adding a cheerful touch to your garden.
🌞 Long blooming season: flowers profusely throughout much of the year.
🌞 Compact: grows into a manageable, medium-sized shrub, perfect for smaller gardens or as a stunning focal point.
🌞 Low maintenance: easy to care for and requires minimal attention, making it ideal for busy gardeners.
🌞 Drought tolerant: thrives in dry conditions once established, reducing the need for frequent watering.
🌞 Attracts Pollinators: draws bees, butterflies, and other beneficial insects, enhancing garden biodiversity.
🌞 Versatile: can be used as a standalone specimen, hedge, or in mixed borders for added interest.
🌞 Soil Improvement: enhances soil quality through nitrogen fixation, benefiting nearby plants.
🌞 Hardy and resilient: adapts well to cool winter, heat and poor soil.
🌞 Evergreen: retains its green leaves all year round, providing constant coverage and aesthetic appeal.

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Date: 27 May 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

What is your cats Zodiac sign?

♊️ 😸 What is your cat's Zodiac sign?
Cat Horoscope: Gemini Cats 5/21-6/20

❓ How to know the astrological sign of your cat? It can be determined by either their date of birth or adoption, as adoption is often considered a second birth for cats.

✨ You can discover the astrological traits that describe the cat, such as their independence, diva-like tendencies, sense of humor, intelligence, and more.
✨ It's also important to consider the astrological relationship between cats and plants...

♊️ Gemini Cats are:

▪️social
▪️chatty
▪️intelligent
▪️enthusiastic
▪️"computer cats". One of their favorite pastimes is watching other cats on the internet and attempting to engage with them. They are natural communicators, friendly companions, and technologically savvy.

🌟 Learn more about Gemini Cats and their lucky plants

#PeopleCats #Horoscope

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Date: 26 May 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

How to grow Zebra in container?

Aphelandra squarrosa Dania (Snow White)

🦓 How to grow Zebra in container? 👀

Aphelandra squarrosa Dania (or Snow White) - White Zebra Plant is a showy small perennial with unusual leaves and pretty flowers.

White Zebra gets its name from white stripes on the leaves.

White Zebra is one of the best house plants.

This plant is not only pretty because of its white-veined foliage, but also for the apical inflorescence with its beautiful yellow bracts.

Easy to grow, takes low light, with average water needs.

🛒 Get your own White Zebra

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