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How to get a fountain of fragrant flowers in no time. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

How to get a fountain of fragrant flowers in no time

Clerodendrum minahasse - Fountain Clerodendrum

⛲️ How to get a fountain of fragrant flowers in no time

Clerodendrums are that we mentioned earlier are all-time favorites for Southern landscape or indoor culture. Today's hero -
  • 🌟 Clerodendrum minahasse - Fountain Clerodendrum, a dense, beautiful bush with beautiful, cascading, fragrant flowers.
  • 🌟 It grows very fast, especially the second year, turning into a cascading display of fragrant flowers almost year around.
  • 🌟 Takes both sun and shade, as most Clerodendrums.
  • 🌟 It is a rare and hard to propagate plant.


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How soon will Peanut Butter Tree fruit? A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

How soon will Peanut Butter Tree fruit?

Peanut Butter Tree (Bunchosia argentea)

🍲 How soon will Peanut Butter Tree fruit?

This is a 3-year old Peanut Butter Tree (Bunchosia argentea) that we introduced in earlier post. It's the second year it's been fruiting. Delicious fruit!

Bunchosia argentea - Peanut Butter Tree, earns its name from its fleshy fruits that boast a delightful peanut butter flavor.

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🛒 Get your own Peanut Butter Tree

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What is our most favorite Ginger plant? African Princess! A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

What is our most favorite Ginger plant? African Princess!

Costus fissiligulatus - African Princess, Cameroon Costus

🎀 What is our most favorite Ginger plant? African Princess!
  • 👸 The most beautiful Ginger flower, in our opinion, is Costus fissiligulatus - African Princess, or Cameroon Costus - an amazing flowering Ginger from Gabon in West Africa.
  • 👸 Dazzling pink trumpet flower with a yellow throat. It is very floriferous with an inflorescence of numerous flower buds.
  • 👸 Low-growing plant only 3-4 ft that stands very erect.
  • 👸 Easy grower with similar growing requirements to other gingers.


💻 What is your most favorite ginger? Share in comments!

📚 Gingers from previous posts:
Most interesting edible gingers
5 most spectacular Ginger species
How to French Kiss the Red Button Ginger

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How to properly eat a pineapple. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

How to properly eat a pineapple

🍴 How to properly eat a pineapple

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How to make exotic Passion Fruit Champagne Slush. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

How to make exotic Passion Fruit Champagne Slush

Passion Fruit Champagne Slush

Passion Fruit Champagne Slush

🍾 How to make exotic Passion Fruit Champagne Slush
  • Halve passion fruits crosswise and scoop out pulp with seeds into a bowl.
  • Sprinkle sugar over the pulp. Let sit at room temperature for an hour.
  • Stir in lime juice and boiling-hot water. Stir until sugar is dissolved.
  • Pour through a fine sieve, pressing on solids, then discard the seeds.
  • Freeze in ice cube tray.
  • Once frozen, add 1 cube per champagne flute, then slowly add the champagne.


Makes 6 cocktails:
  • ✔️ 10 passion fruits
  • ✔️ 1/2 cup sugar
  • ✔️ 1 tbsp lime juice
  • ✔️ 1/4 cup boiling hot water
  • ✔️ 1 chilled bottle of Champagne or sparkling wine


📚 From previous posts:
• The truth about Passion flower and Passion fruit

🛒 Grow your own Passion fruit

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How to cover an ugly spot with a fragrance and and beauty, A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

How to cover an ugly spot with a fragrance and and beauty,

Quisqualis vine - Rangoon Creeper

😍 How to cover an ugly spot with a fragrance and and beauty, stop and smell the roses
  • 🌹 Our Quisqualis vine - Rangoon Creeper - has grown over a roof of our water treatment system (which wasn't the prettiest view!). Now every time we pass by we have to "stop and smell the roses". It is so beautiful, and it does smell like roses!
  • 🌹 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.


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🛒 Get your own Quisqualis vine

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Where I fits, I sits. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Where I fits, I sits

🐟 "Where I fits, I sits"

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🍒 What's for lunch?

Yet another crop of Barbados cherry is here! Our Barbados cherry has been fruiting on and on for many months!

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Our Barbados cherry has been fruiting on and on. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Our Barbados cherry has been fruiting on and on

Barbados Cherry (Malpighia glabra)

🍒 What's for lunch?

Yet another crop of Barbados cherry is here! Our Barbados cherry has been fruiting on and on for many months!

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How this Raspberry ginger became spiral. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

How this Raspberry ginger became spiral

Costus vargasii - Spiral Ginger Raspberry Yogurt

😵 How this Raspberry ginger became spiral
  • 🍓Spectacular! Costus vargasii - Spiral Ginger Raspberry Yogurt
  • 🍓This interesting name refers to the colorful raspberry colored stem, but that's not the only colorful thing about this Spiraling Ginger.
  • 🍓The leaves are dark green, long and glossy with velvety deep purple undersides.
  • 🍓The inflorescence is a vivid red with tight bracts and bold yellow flowers.
  • 🍓The butterflies love to drink the nectar from the flowers.
  • 🍓This is a large vigorous ginger, the spirals are growing up to 5-6 ft tall!


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Self-care is not selfish. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Self-care is not selfish

"Self-care is not selfish. You cannot serve from an empty vessel." – Eleanor Brown

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Mango Rainbow tasting table-2: what's the taste of that Mango variety? A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Mango Rainbow tasting table-2: whats the taste of that Mango variety?

Mango Rainbow tasting table

🌈 Mango Rainbow tasting table-2: what's the taste of that Mango variety?

We've had another mango tasting table and asked participants to describe the taste in a few words. And this is what we got:
  • 🟠 Haden - mild, melting, classic heavenly mango flavor,dark yellow flesh, almost fiberless.
  • 🟠 Ugly Betty - opposite to the name, the taste is excellent , juicy, melting, sweet.
  • 🟠 Cotton Candy - true candy, fiberless, sweet, melting.
  • 🟠 Madame Fransis - dark orange pulp, slightly fibrous, robust, meaty like a steak, good with cognac. A little pulpy but unique flavor.
  • 🟠 Diamond - bright yellow, fiberless, sugary, juicy, no pulp at all, classic mango taste, good with ice cream, "wow" taste!
  • 🟠 Pickering - zesty, waterfall: all the flavors come at once, eat with White wine and/or a cake. Oval fruit somewhat flat, very large for a dwarf tree!
  • 🟠 Baptiste - hint of citrus, melts in your mouth, dark orange flesh, crisp, eat with Red wine and cheese.
  • 🟠 Florigon - creamy, buttery, spicy. Eat with Ice cream!
  • 🟠 Tommy Atkins - has a bit zing to it, perfect consistency, perfect taste. Super colorful, crimson red to purple skin!
  • 🟠 Nam Doc Mai - gold standard! Perfect every day.
  • 🟠 Carry - tastes even better than all others, smooth buttery, lite!


❔ What Mango varieties have you tried this year?
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📝 Previous post: Mango Rainbow Tasting Table

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Can a cactus be fragrant? A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Can a cactus be fragrant?

Echinopsis sp. - Easter Lily Cactus

🌵Can a cactus be fragrant?

The fragrant Easter Lily Cactus we introduced earlier is in bloom again! The flower only lasts a day or two, but what a delight!

❓ What other cactus species with fragrant flowers do you know? Share in comments👇

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Those who come first. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Those who come first

🍷 "Those who come first to the spring drink the purest water." – Ancient Proverb

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Colorful Mexican Clay Pottery:
Now available at our Garden Center!

Colorful Mexican Clay Pottery

Pick up only, no shipping

We've listened to your requests for beautiful planters and pots, and now we're excited to introduce these new items for our local customers!

Discover the charm of Mexican pottery with this handcrafted Talavera clay planter! Each pot is hand-painted with colorful flowers and geometric patterns, making every piece a unique work of art. Plus, it comes with a handy drainage hole to keep your plants happy and healthy!

Handcrafted in Mexico. Each pot has a unique, author's design. Exact details of pattern and color saturation vary.

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Colorful Mexican Clay Pottery

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