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What is the biggest Gardenia flower? Tahitian Gardenia is as big as your hand! A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

What is the biggest Gardenia flower? Tahitian Gardenia is as big as your hand!

Gardenia taitensis "Heaven Scent"

โœ‹ What is the biggest Gardenia flower? Tahitian Gardenia is as big as your hand!
  • ๐Ÿ’ฎ Gardenia taitensis "Heaven Scent" has a double flower up to 6" in diameter!
  • ๐Ÿ’ฎ This hybrid is very rare and hard to find.
  • ๐Ÿ’ฎ The intoxicating sweet fragrant blossoms are creamy white works of art.
  • ๐Ÿ’ฎ Huge double flowers up to 5-6" in diameter and large glossy oval leaves.
  • ๐Ÿ’ฎ Perfect container plant


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Top 10 fast-fruiting trees: A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Top 10 fast-fruiting trees:

Guava (Psidium sp.) - Cattley and Tropical guava

Guava (Psidium sp.) - Cattley and Tropical guava

๐Ÿ‰ Top 10 fast-fruiting trees:
#2. Guava (Psidium sp.): Cattley and Tropical guava


โค๏ธ Guava is a reliable producer, starts fruiting in a pot at small size. Some varieties, especially Cattley guavas - Psidium littorale - are relatively cold hardy and can take some frost without damage. Guavas are fast growing small trees or large bushes.

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Fun Fact: King Anthurium. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Fun Fact: King Anthurium

Anthurium veitchii - King Anthurium

Anthurium veitchii - King Anthurium

Anthurium veitchii - King Anthurium

Anthurium veitchii - King Anthurium

Anthurium veitchii - King Anthurium

Anthurium veitchii - King Anthurium

๐Ÿ‘‘ Fun Fact: King Anthurium

๐Ÿ”– Crowning its title, Anthurium veitchii - King Anthurium - boasts leaves up to 3 feet long! Majestic houseplant! Very hard to find, rare plant.

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Love is a temporary madness. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Love is a temporary madness

"Love is a temporary madness." โ€“ Falling in Love (1990, starring Meryl Streep and Robert De Niro)

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Why Champaka tree is such a popular perfume tree. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Why Champaka tree is such a popular perfume tree

Joy Perfume tree - Magnolia (Michelia) champaca

๐Ÿ† Why Champaka tree is such a popular perfume tree
  • ๐Ÿต The flowers from Champaka, or Joy Perfume 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!
  • ๐Ÿต Sacred tree of India and SE Asia. The flowers exude a divine fragrance that is exceedingly pleasing to the Gods... and women.
  • ๐Ÿต The tree is very compact for both landscapes and containers. It has bushy, yet columnar shape. Can be grown in container with minimal pruning.
  • ๐Ÿต Blooms on and off several times a year. Relatively cold hardy, but requires regular watering.


๐ŸŽฅ Yellow Champaka in bloom. This tree is 3 years old.

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Flower of the most expensive perfume
White Champaka
Article about Champaka

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Top 10 fast-fruiting trees: A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Top 10 fast-fruiting trees:

Annona - Sugar Apple, Custard Apple

Annona - Sugar Apple, Custard Apple

๐Ÿ Top 10 fast-fruiting trees:
#1. Annona - Sugar Apple, Custard Apple


๐Ÿ’š Annonas are the fastest fruiting trees: 2-3-4 years from seed to fruit, depending on species. They are the best tropical fruit trees suited for container growing, due to their small height and can be maintained within 6-8 ft tall.

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Fun Fact: Voodoo Lily. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Fun Fact: Voodoo Lily

Amorphophallus konjak - Voodoo Lily plant

Amorphophallus konjak - Voodoo Lily plant

Amorphophallus konjak - Voodoo Lily, flower

Amorphophallus konjak - Voodoo Lily, flower

Amorphophallus konjak - Voodoo Lily, flower

Amorphophallus konjak - Voodoo Lily, flower

๐Ÿ˜ˆ Fun Fact: Voodoo Lily

๐Ÿ‘น Amorphophallus konjak - Voodoo Lily, blooms from a single corm and releases an unforgettable scent, often compared to rotting meat. Despite its bizarre appearance and smell (that only lasts one day!), it's a showstopper that can easily be grown as a houseplant.

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When doing computer work, take time to stretch! A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

When doing computer work, take time to stretch!

๐Ÿ’ป When doing computer work, take time to stretch!

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What trees will fruit quickly? Top 10 fast-fruiting trees. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

What trees will fruit quickly? Top 10 fast-fruiting trees

What trees will fruit quickly? Top 10 fast-fruiting trees
What trees will fruit quickly? Top 10 fast-fruiting trees

Q: I would like to plant several fruit trees... I am 85 years old and hope to see them fruiting soon. What fruit trees can you recommend that will fruit quickly?

A: Most grafted fruit trees, such as Mango, Avocado, and Peaches, will fruit quickly - often within the same year or the next. There are also many wonderful tropical fruits that will produce for you within a year or two, even without the need for grafting.

โš ๏ธ In our next posts we will introduce to you the top 10 of most popular, most rewarding and easy to grow fast fruiting tropical trees...

๐Ÿ“š Discover 10 fast-fruiting trees in the following posts:
1. Annona - Sugar Apple, Custard Apple
2. Guava (Psidium sp.): Cattley and Tropical guava
3. Eugenias - Tropical Cherries
4. Barbados Cherry (Malpighia glabra)
5. Loquat (Eriobotrya japonica)
6. Papaya (Carica papaya)
7. Mulberry (Morus hybrids)
8. Carambola - Starfruit (Averrhoa carambola)
9. Blackberry Jam Fruit (Randia formosa)
10. Peanut Butter Tree (Bunchosia argentea)

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