🌊 The truth about Seaside Clerodendrum: it can cover the whole beach! 😎
✅ Need to cover a large area, slope, or a fence with a pretty, fragrant dense shrub just in one season? This is your plant!
🏖 Clerodendrum inerme, also known as Wild Jasmine, Sorcerer's Bush, or Seaside Clerodendrum, is perfect for covering large areas or fences quickly in just one season. This is perfect privacy plant!
🏖 It is called Seaside Clerodendrum for a reason! It grows anywhere, including sand and, as we discovered, even over hot black plastic ground cover 😎
🏖 Fast growing vining shrub with round, shiny, deep green leaves. Always in flower with white, fragrant blooms.
🏖 Extremely hardy: withstands cold, heat, salt, and drought. Not picky about soil (can grow on sand! it's seaside!) and tolerates drought well.
🏖 Ideal for coastal areas, tolerates salt spray and harsh sun, as well as shaded areas.
🏖 Versatile: suitable for topiary or bonsai.
🏖 Wind-tolerant and robust, making it a reliable choice for various settings.
💫 What is a good plant for a fragrant elegant hedge? Discover the Angel Hair Jasmine.
💮Jasminum pubescens (multiflorum), also known as Angel Hair Jasmine, is a beloved choice for landscapes, prized for its multitude of exceptional qualities.
💮 Bushy, dense vining shrub with star-like white flowers emitting a delightful fragrance.
💮 Soft, velvet-like leaves add to its charm.
💮 Rapid growth makes it ideal for creating lush hedges or adding vertical interest to garden spaces.
💮 Perfect for hedges, fences, or trellises, adding a touch of beauty and fragrance to any outdoor setting.
Tabernaemontana Flore Pleno - Crape Jasmine, Carnation of India, Florida Gardenia
Tabernaemontana Flore Pleno - Crape Jasmine, Carnation of India, Florida Gardenia
Tabernaemontana Flore Pleno - Crape Jasmine, Carnation of India, Florida Gardenia
🤷 What is it, Jasmine, Carnation, or Gardenia?
💮 Tabernaemontana Flore Pleno is also called Crape Jasmine, Carnation of India, or Florida Gardenia. Although it is not related to Jasmine, Carnation, or Gardenia! It is in fact in the same family with Plumeria and Desert Roses!
This lovely bush or small tree with waxy leaves and beautiful fragrant flowers is a must in every tropical garden. Because:
These plants are large, developed and beautiful
NOW!
Hibiscus
schizopetalus - Coral Hibiscus. Spectacular weeping tree hibiscus, rare and hard
to find. Grows rapidly and blooms freely. Flowers look like parachutes and
can be recognized by the fringed and lacy petals which are bent backward. It
has slender and gracefully curved stems. Can be trained into a showy
standard.
Cestrum
nocturnum - Night blooming jasmine. Garden favorite - the sweetest fragrance at
night is intoxicating. One of the most famous and desirable fragrant plants.
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.
Juanulloa
aurantiaca - Gold Finger plant, Mexican Spoon Flower - this one is soooo pretty!
Unusual looking vine or shrub with yellow-orange fleshy flowers,
everblooming and a VERY fast growing. Rare, collectible plant.
Tabernaemontana
Flore Pleno - Crape Jasmine, Carnation of India, Florida Gardenia - this
fast growing bush with waxy leaves and beautiful fragrant flowers is a must in
tropical garden. Easy to grow and free flowering, dense bush.
Microsorum
musifolium - Alligator Fern, Crocodile Fern from Australasia. Perfect for
shade! An epiphytic fern with cool alligator-skin looking leaves. The strikingly
shaped, light green fronds of the fern form a lovely backdrop to its stunning
stiff, leathery, dark green alligator-skin foliage. Perfect as a houseplant,
or planted under a tree. Grows to 2-3 ft in height and likes a sheltered,
semi-shaded location, no direct sunlight.
💚 Ways to keep your yard weed-free without use of herbicide:
Mulch, mulch, mulch
Cover the area with cardboard (still getting those Amazon boxes?) and put mulch, mulch, mulch on top.
Plant dense ground cover plants! Weeds will lose competition for food and light.
🎥 Did you know that Confederate Jasmine (Trachelospermum jasminoides) makes not only a trellis/fence solution, but also a dense fragrant ground cover? It's not demanding, fast growing, drought tolerant plant, takes full sun or shade. Sweet, deliciously fragrant flowers is a pleasant bonus!
