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How old is Southern Magnolia?

Magnolia grandiflora - Southern Magnolia

🦕 How old is Southern Magnolia? 95 million years old!
  • 💮 #Fun_Facts: Magnolia grandiflora - Southern Magnolia, is a unique and ancient flowering plant dating back about 95 million years to the time of the dinosaurs!
  • 💮 Its beautiful, large perfumed flowers are "primitive" and evolved before bees existed, relying on beetles for pollination. The tough petals and reproductive parts are a result of adapting to beetle activity.
  • 💮 Another fascinating feature is its cone-like fruit, which contains striking bright red seeds. These seeds are covered in a fleshy coating that attracts birds and small mammals, aiding in their dispersal, making the magnolia not only stunning but important for the ecosystem.


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Plumeria flowers, frangipani, and a cat

Plumeria flowers, frangipani, and a cat

🌸 Why Perfumed Plumeria is tricky

😳 #Fun_Facts: Plumeria flowers, also known as frangipani, are famous for their sweet fragrance and vibrant colors. A fun fact is that despite their lovely scent, the flowers are actually devoid of nectar! They trick pollinators, such as moths, into visiting them in search of food, aiding in pollination without offering a reward.

🪷 Enjoy the fragrant blooms!

📚 How to grow a fragrant Plumeria

🛒 Choose from fantastic colors of Plumeria

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What tree to plant for wonderful fragrance?

Magnolia (Michelia) champaca x Alba

💄 What tree to plant for wonderful fragrance?
  • 🏵 Champaka - Joy Perfume Tree is in full bloom in our garden (in the video: var. Alba). The fragrance is smelled yards away! It is filling the air around.
  • 🏵 The flowers from this tree - Magnolia (Michelia) champaca - are used to make the world's most expensive perfume 'Joy' and smell like fruity bubble gum 🎀... you can't stop sticking your nose in this flower!
  • 🏵 Sacred tree of India and SE Asia, its flowers exude a divine fragrance that is exceedingly pleasing to the Gods... and women.
  • 🏵 Perfect small landscape tree of a columnar shape. Ideal for containers.
  • 🏵 Relatively cold hardy
  • 🏵 Rare collectible, a gem of any plant collection!


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What flower is sweeter than any Jasmine

Cerbera x manghas - Enchanted Incense

Cerbera x manghas - Enchanted Incense

Cerbera x manghas - Enchanted Incense

Cerbera x manghas - Enchanted Incense

💥 What flower is sweeter than any Jasmine
  • 🌸 Cerbera x manghas - Enchanted Incense: absolutely NEW perfume plant! It is becoming one of the most wanted in rare fragrant plant market.
  • 🌸 This amazing flower was originally obtained in Thailand.
  • 🌸 Beautiful striped red-and-white flowers are highly fragrant. Fragrance is the most intense you can imagine and is much better than all jasmines and gardenias all together.
  • 🌸 The plant is very similar to plumeria in growth habit (and is close related to Plumeria). It grows into a small tree. Unlike Plumeria, it is evergreen in warm climate.
  • 🌸 Beautiful mauve colored leaves are very ornamental.
  • 🌸 Slow growing, compact plant, great for containers. Very undemanding and has low water needs.


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How to grow fragrant Cashmere Bouquet

Clerodendrum philippinum - Cashmere Bouquet, Scent Malli

💮 How to grow fragrant Cashmere Bouquet
  • 💐 Clerodendrum philippinum - Cashmere Bouquet, Scent Malli - is one of the most popular Indian fragrant flowers.
  • 💐 Fast growing bush with lush tropical foliage and very fragrant white flowers, carnation-like, coming in big clusters.
  • 💐 Shade tolerant, great for shade gardens and as an indoor plant to enjoy tropical fragrance year around.
  • 💐 This plant is fast growing in right conditions and can spread runners. Plant it in isolated corner or in keep in a pot unless you want to have a large size hedge in no time just from one plant within couple seasons...


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What happens when you cross Cream and Lavender?

runfelsia isola - Lavender Lady of the Night

💜 What happens when you cross Cream and Lavender?

 The flowers of this rare hybrid that we mentioned earlier, Brunfelsia isola, or Lavender Lady of the Night, are a "marble" twist of cream and purple, changing hue unpredictably. They are deliciously fragrant at night.

Brunfelsia isola is an unusual cross between B. americana and B. grandiflora. What a genetical surprise!

Brunfelsia isola has the benefit of fragrant cream-colored brunfelsia and light purple color from the other parent. 👫

💎 A gem for a rare plant collection of #Nature_Wonders!

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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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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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What vine to plant over a big fence

Chonemorpha fragrans - Frangipani vine

❗️ What vine to plant over a big fence.
  • 🔹 Chonemorpha fragrans, or Frangipani vine, that we mentioned before, is a large woody tropical liana with clusters of large, perfume-fragrant flowers and lush green foliage. It is close related to perfumed Plumeria - Frangipani.
  • 🔹 The fragrance is very fresh and pleasant, similar to Plumeria, fills the air around.
  • 🔹 Leaves reaching up to 12 (!) inches - very tropical, majestic look!
  • 🔹 Requires sturdy support - it can grow pretty big and heavy!
  • 🔹 Takes both sun or shade. Full sun and regular fertilizer is essential for profuse blooming.


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