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If RED is your favorite flower color, this is your plant! A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

If RED is your favorite flower color, this is your plant!

Epidendrum radicans - Orange Reed Ground Orchid

Epidendrum radicans - Orange Reed Ground Orchid

Epidendrum radicans - Orange Reed Ground Orchid

Epidendrum radicans - Orange Reed Ground Orchid

Epidendrum radicans - Orange Reed Ground Orchid

💋 If RED is your favorite flower color, this is your plant!
  • 👄 Epidendrum radicans - Orange Reed Ground Orchid, Sunrise - is one of the most spectacular ground orchids.
  • 👄 The Orange Reed Ground Orchid symbolizes warmth and energy, much like a sunrise, bringing a splash of color and life wherever it grows.


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Life is like a tangled ball of yarn. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Life is like a tangled ball of yarn

Life is like a tangled ball of yarn
🏃‍♂️“Life is like a tangled ball of yarn, and you have to find the end and work through it to see what’s there.” - Anne Lamott

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How to always have your own Root Beer. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

How to always have your own Root Beer

How to always have your own Root Beer

  • Piper auritum - Root Beer Plant, Acuyo, False Kava-Kava - is a close relative of Piper methysticum (Kava-Kava), and Piper nigrum (Black Pepper). It is very often confused with Kava-Kava, and probably has some similar medicinal effects.

  • This herb originated from Tropical America and grows also in the South Pacific.

  • Large-leaved perennial, known for its leaves, which are used for their spicy aromatic scent and flavor, some liken to root beer, others to anise-clove. It can be used for making a root beer-flavoted drink.

  • This species is easily identified by its huge leaves which can grow over a foot long in older specimens.

  • The leaves are chopped and used for flavoring, as well as used whole, as wrappings for meats, tamales, etc.


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How to always have your own Root Beer. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

How to always have your own Root Beer

Piper auritum - Root Beer Plant, Acuyo, False Kava-Kava

How to always have your own Root Beer
  • Piper auritum - Root Beer Plant, Acuyo, False Kava-Kava - is a close relative of Piper methysticum (Kava-Kava), and Piper nigrum (Black Pepper). It is very often confused with Kava-Kava, and probably has some similar medicinal effects.
  • This herb originated from Tropical America and grows also in the South Pacific.
  • Large-leaved perennial, known for its leaves, which are used for their spicy aromatic scent and flavor, some liken to root beer, others to anise-clove. It can be used for making a root beer-flavoted drink.
  • This species is easily identified by its huge leaves which can grow over a foot long in older specimens.
  • The leaves are chopped and used for flavoring, as well as used whole, as wrappings for meats, tamales, etc.


📚 Learn more about Piper plants

🛒 Grow your own Root Beer Plant

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This is what butterflies love. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

This is what butterflies love

Odontonema - Butterfly Bush

😍 This is what butterflies love

💥 Odontonema - Butterfly Bush - is blooming since early spring non stop, attracting lots of butterflies in our garden.

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The most difficult thing is the decision to act. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act

The most difficult thing is the decision to act
😰 "The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity." - Amelia Earhart

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What is a good exotic looking flowering plant for a shade garden? A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

What is a good exotic looking flowering plant for a shade garden?

Chrysothemis pulchella - Copper Leaf, Black Flamingo

🔥 What is a good exotic looking flowering plant for a shade garden?
  • 🏀 One of the most unusual looking plants in or shade garden collection is Chrysothemis pulchella - Copper Leaf, Black Flamingo.
  • 🏀 It is a spectacular tropical perennial that can be grown as a houseplant or in a greenhouse.
  • 🏀 From summer to late fall it is covered with showy orange-red flowers, may bloom sporadically several times a year.
  • 🏀 Forms a dense mountain of flowers and foliage.
  • 🏀 The plant forms tubers at the base of the stem. By the end of fall the leaves may die back, the plant goes dormant till spring. Then it re-sprouts in Spring again.
  • 🏀 Reduce water to minimum during dormancy period.


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A man's kiss is his signature. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

A mans kiss is his signature

😆 "A man's kiss is his signature." - Mae West

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Why walking outdoors improves mental health. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Why walking outdoors improves mental health

Why walking outdoors improves mental health
🌳 Why walking outdoors improves mental health

  • 🚶‍♀️Spending time in nature - even as little as 10 minutes - can yield short-term benefits for individuals with mental illness, according to a new study involving 1,492 participants with a diagnosed mental illness and 14,168 studies.

  • 🚶‍♀️Just 10 minutes of walking, running, or exercising in nature has a positive effect.

  • 🚶‍♀️The type of setting doesn’t matter - parks, mountains, forests, and farms all work.

  • 🚶‍♀️Nature benefits people with mood disorders and stress the most.


So, lets go outside and touch some plants!

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Plumerias are in full bloom. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Plumerias are in full bloom

Plumerias in bloom

🌸 "Perfumes are the feelings of flowers." - Heinrich Heine

Plumerias are in full bloom in our garden today. Their fragrance is a heavenly delight!

📚 5 simple rules how to grow a fragrant Plumeria tree and make it bloom for you

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