Gardeners finally found a perfect everblooming hedge for shade! Top Tropicals Blog

Date: 23 Jun 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Gardeners finally found a perfect everblooming hedge for shade!

Kings Mantle - Thunbergia erecta

Kings Mantle - Thunbergia erecta purple

Kings Mantle - Thunbergia erecta Lavender Lace Variegated

Kings Mantle - Thunbergia erecta White

⚡️ Gardeners finally found a perfect everblooming hedge for shade!

💜 Kings Mantle - Thunbergia erecta - is a perfect flowering bush or hedge for the shady garden.
💜 Ever-blooming: Perfect for a continuously blooming hedge.
💜 Dense shrub: Bushy, fast-growing, and ideal for mixed beds or medium-to-low hedges.
💜 Beautiful flowers: flowers resemble morning glories, with common varieties having rich purple petals and yellow throats.
💜 Attractive foliage: Small, dark green leaves.
💜 Climber relatives: Unlike many Thunbergia species, this one is a sprawling shrub.
💜 Pruning responsive: Can be shaped into a dense hedge, pruning promotes flowering.
💜 Sun or shade: Prefers bright light and well-drained soil, but will also bloom in partial shade.
💜 Colors: comes in dark blue, white, and the unique, vigorous variegated variety - 'Lavender Ice'.

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Date: 19 Jun 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Thumbs up the most fragrant ginger ever!

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.

🛒 Shop Butterfly Ginger

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Date: 17 Jun 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Fragrant Fried Eggs for bees and butterflies

Oncoba spinosa - Fried egg tree

🍳 Fragrant Fried Eggs for bees and butterflies 🐝🦋

🟡 Oncoba spinosa - Fried egg tree - is a conversation piece in your garden.
🟡 A medium shrub or small tree.
🟡 Beautiful white and yellow camellia-like flowers look like 'fried eggs' when they drop off and fall on the ground with their yellow stamens facing upwards.
🟡 Flowers are honey-sweet fragrant and attract butterflies and bees.
🟡 The fruits have a sour, edible pulp.

🛒 Get a Fried egg tree

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Date: 14 Jun 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

This is not a Photoshop! It is a true color of Plumeria

Rainbow Plumeria

🌈 This is not a Photoshop! It is a true color of Plumeria. Such multi-color varieties are called Rainbow Plumeria.

The season started and we have lots of fragrant and colorful blooms on our Plumerias that we introduced earlier.

Some of the colors are just beyond description!

Plumeria, or Frangipani - is a symbol of Hawaiian Tropics and the most favorite perfume flower.

🛒 Choose from fantastic colors of Plumeria

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Date: 11 Jun 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Flamingo pink with a fruity fragrance, yet another variety

Quisqualis Indica - Rangoon Creeper

🦩 Flamingo pink with a fruity fragrance, yet another variety...

💕 This is a single-flower variety of Quisqualis we mentioned earlier.
💕 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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Date: 7 Jun 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Flower of Angels that every gardener wants: Angels Trumpet

Angel's Trumpet (Brugmansia) pink

Angel's Trumpet (Brugmansia) white

Angel's Trumpet (Brugmansia) peach

Angel's Trumpet (Brugmansia) yellow

Angel's Trumpet (Brugmansia) pink

Angel's Trumpet (Brugmansia) white

👼 Flower of Angels that every gardener wants: Angel's Trumpet.

🎺 Angel's Trumpet (Brugmansia) is one of the most wanted flowering shrubs in Southern landscapes.
🎺 It is known for its large, trumpet-shaped flowers that hang downward from the branches.
🎺 The flowers come in a range of colors🌈 including white, yellow, pink, orange, and emit a sweet, intoxicating fragrance, especially in the evening.
🎺 Very easy to grow and undemanding, this fast growing shrub or a small tree will fill your garden with happiness, blooms and fragrance just within one season.
🎺 Heavy feeder! Apply fertilizer on a monthly basis for rapid growth and free flowering.

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Date: 5 Jun 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

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Jasmine Sambac Belle of India

🌸✨ The Number One King of Perfume - Jasmine Sambac in bloom! Can you smell it from here? 😉

🔘 In full bloom today - Jasmine Sambac Belle of India. Everyone wants this variety, with long elegant petals and a fine structure.
🔘 Jasmine Sambac is number one source of essential oils in perfumery.
🔘 In India, this variety also goes under names Mangalore Malli, Uduppii Malli, or Shankarapuram Malli.
🔘 Belle of India can be grown as a small bush specimen, or a fragrant low hedge.
🔘 Perfect for containers, too. Takes both sun and shade. The more sun - the more flowers.

🛒 Get your own Perfume Factory for your garden

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Date: 3 Jun 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

The truth about Seaside Clerodendrum: it can cover the whole beach!

Clerodendrum inerme - Sorcerer's Bush, Seaside Clerodendrum

🌊 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.

🛒 Get your indestructible, fast growing Seaside Clerodendrum and have fun! 🏖

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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: 31 May 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

What is this shocking pink gardenia? Does it exist?

Kopsia fruticosa - Pink Gardenia

👁 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.

🛒 Treat yourself with a Pink Gardenia!

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