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What happened to our favorite houseplants - hoyas? A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

What happened to our favorite houseplants - hoyas?

Hoya Ban Ngong Ngoy from Thailand

🏡 What happened to our favorite houseplants - hoyas?

Hoyas are not forgotten! It is one of the most favorite house plants. Hoya Ban Ngong Ngoy from Thailand has a lovely fragrance!
  • ♦️ Fragrance is lovely, subtle scent.
  • ♦️ Strong, vigorous, fast-growing species, similar to Hoya carnosa.
  • ♦️ Beautiful flowers: umbel of flowers is about 3" wide with tiny maroon stars and white frosted edges.
  • ♦️ Dark green leaves have silver white flecks and darker green veining.
  • ♦️ Provide a trellis or stake to manage its rambling growth.


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Thumbs up the most fragrant ginger ever! A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Thumbs up the most fragrant ginger ever!

Thumbs up the most fragrant ginger ever! Thumbs up the most fragrant ginger ever! Thumbs up the most fragrant ginger ever!
👍 Thumbs up the most fragrant ginger ever!

  • White Butterfly Ginger (Hedychium coronarium) is a must for every Southern garden.

  • Famous for its intense, sweet scent.

  • Symbol of Hawaiian Paradise along with Plumeria and Jasmine we mentioned earlier.

  • Lei and hair decoration: popular in Hawaii and the Pacific Islands for leis and hair adornments.

  • Butterfly-like flowers: bears fragrant, butterfly-resembling flowers in summer.

  • Great cut flower: long lasting cut flowers, ideal for scenting the home.

  • Can survive light freezes, with tops regrowing in the spring. Takes sun or shade.


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Thumbs up the most fragrant ginger ever! A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Thumbs up the most fragrant ginger ever!

White Butterfly Ginger (Hedychium coronarium)

White Butterfly Ginger (Hedychium coronarium)

White Butterfly Ginger (Hedychium coronarium)

White Butterfly Ginger (Hedychium coronarium)

White Butterfly Ginger (Hedychium coronarium)

White Butterfly Ginger (Hedychium coronarium)

👍 Thumbs up the most fragrant ginger ever!
  • White Butterfly Ginger (Hedychium coronarium) is a must for every Southern garden.
  • Famous for its intense, sweet scent.
  • Symbol of Hawaiian Paradise along with Plumeria and Jasmine we mentioned earlier.
  • Lei and hair decoration: popular in Hawaii and the Pacific Islands for leis and hair adornments.
  • Butterfly-like flowers: bears fragrant, butterfly-resembling flowers in summer.
  • Great cut flower: long lasting cut flowers, ideal for scenting the home.
  • Can survive light freezes, with tops regrowing in the spring. Takes sun or shade.


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Top 3 most wanted Papaya varieties. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Top 3 most wanted Papaya varieties

Papaya Maradol

Papaya Maradol

Papaya Solo Sunset, Semi-Dwarf from Hawaii.

Papaya Solo Sunset, Semi-Dwarf from Hawaii.

Papaya Solo Waimanalo, Dwarf

Papaya Solo Waimanalo, Dwarf

🍊 Top 3 most wanted Papaya varieties

Papaya fruit is one of the superfoods as we mentioned earlier. Below are the top 3 most interesting varieties: a full size tree, a semi-dwarf and a dwarf.
  1. Maradol. Vigorous full size plant with high yield. Commercially grown throughout Central Mexico, these papayas are 3 to 5 pounds in weight and the shape of an elongated melon. Soft and juicy, they have salmon pink or red flesh that is very sweet with a slightly perfumed, fruity flavor. Cut them in half lengthwise. Delicious and irresistible with a sprinkle of fresh lemon or lime juice.
  2. Solo Sunset, Semi-Dwarf from Hawaii. Commercially grown primarily on Kauai, it has dark pink to reddish-orange flesh. The fruit is medium to small size, shape is somewhat round. This is the sweetest Papya variety we ever tasted!
  3. Solo Waimanalo, Dwarf - oval, large size yellow fruit with dark yellow flesh. Low bearing tree makes harvesting easy. Grows wonderfully in Central Florida in both a container or in the ground. Will go from seed to fruit in just one year. Waimanalo has yellow-orange flesh.


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What is the largest tree-borne fruit in the world? A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

What is the largest tree-borne fruit in the world?

Jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus)

👀 What is the largest tree-borne fruit in the world?

🍈 Jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus) reaches 80 pounds in weight and up to 36 inches long! It is one of the most fascinating fruit in the world.
  • ✳️ The fruit consists of large edible bulbs of yellow, sweet, banana-flavored aromatic flesh. 
  • ✳️ The fruit is so large and heavy that the tree has a smart feature to produce only at the base of the trunk.  So the tree can be (and should be) pruned annually to 7-12' producing as much as 200 lbs. of fruit per year!
  • ✳️ Seedlings start fruiting within 3-4 years.  Fruit ripen pretty quickly, 4-6 months from flower to maturity. 


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Breaking news: flower smells of freshly baked bread! It smells so good, you want to eat it! A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Breaking news: flower smells of freshly baked bread! It smells so good, you want to eat it!

Vallaris glabra - Bread Flower

🍞 Breaking news: flower smells of freshly baked bread! It smells so good, you want to eat it!
  • 🍔 Vallaris glabra - Bread Flower - is one of the most impressive tropical vines that is very popular in Thailand and other South-East Asia countries.
  • 🍔 Moderate growth woody climber with clusters of freshly-baked-bread fragrant white flowers.
  • 🍔 Easy to care and tolerates wide range of conditions. It can be trained as a compact bush and is good for container culture.
  • 🍔 Attracts butterflies and hummingbirds.
  • 🍔 Relatively cold hardy, mild frost doesn't do any damage to it, even large tropical leaves stay glossy, green and healthy.
  • 🍔 It is very vigorous grower that can create nice privacy hedge or cover a large fence.


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Why these cats have no tails? A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Why these cats have no tails?

Why these cats have no tails? Why these cats have no tails?
❌ Why these cats have no tails?

  • 🐾 Manx - the Tailless Cats:

    • Manx cats are a charming breed known for their lack of tails. Originating from the Isle of Man, they have a rich history and delightful personalities.


👉 Learn why they are tailless from this touching story: Timo and Matilda - Manx cats.

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Everyone wants this showy Butterfly Attractor! Dwarf. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Everyone wants this showy Butterfly Attractor! Dwarf

Everyone wants this showy Butterfly Attractor! Dwarf Everyone wants this showy Butterfly Attractor! Dwarf
🔥 Everyone wants this showy Butterfly Attractor! Dwarf Poinciana.

  • 🟥 Caesalpinia pulcherrima - Dwarf Poinciana, that we mentioned earlier, is probably number 1️⃣ flowering plant that everybody wants in their garden.

  • 🟥 Pride of Barbados, Dwarf Poinciana, Peacock flower, Flower Fence - common names speak for themselves.

  • 🟥 National flower of Barbados.

  • 🟥 Comes in different colors - red, yellow, pink, orange...

  • 🟥 Eye-stopper! Showy flowers almost year round.

  • 🟥 Butterfly magnet


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Everyone wants this showy Butterfly Attractor! Dwarf. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Everyone wants this showy Butterfly Attractor! Dwarf

Caesalpinia pulcherrima - Dwarf Poinciana, with Monarch Butterfly

Caesalpinia pulcherrima - Dwarf Poinciana, Red

Caesalpinia pulcherrima - Dwarf Poinciana, Red

Caesalpinia pulcherrima - Dwarf Poinciana, Yello

Caesalpinia pulcherrima - Dwarf Poinciana, Yello

🔥 Everyone wants this showy Butterfly Attractor! Dwarf Poinciana.
  • 🟥 Caesalpinia pulcherrima - Dwarf Poinciana, that we mentioned earlier, is probably number 1 flowering plant that everybody wants in their garden.
  • 🟥 Pride of Barbados, Dwarf Poinciana, Peacock flower, Flower Fence - common names speak for themselves.
  • 🟥 National flower of Barbados.
  • 🟥 Comes in different colors - red, yellow, pink, orange...
  • 🟥 Eye-stopper! Showy flowers almost year round.
  • 🟥 Butterfly magnet


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