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Black cat night. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Black cat night
🐈 Black cat night

"A black cat is the most magical of creatures, bringing mystery and charm into every shadow." - Charles Dickens

Do you have a black cat? How many? 🐈

Share your cats in comments!
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Top 10 fast-fruiting trees: A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Blackberry Jam Fruit (Randia formosa)

Blackberry Jam Fruit (Randia formosa)

Top 10 fast-fruiting trees:
#9. Blackberry Jam Fruit (Randia formosa)

🖤 Blackberry Jam Fruit, Jasmin de Rosa is a curious small evergreen tree or bush that combines features of a fragrant flower and delicious dessert fruit which tastes like fresh Blackberry jam. Fragrant white flowers are similar to Gardenia.

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What to plant by the pond? A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Elephant Ears Illustris Colocasia

⛲️ What to plant by the pond?
  • 🐘 Elephant Ears Illustris Colocasia is a classic beauty.
  • 🐘 The heart-shaped, large purple-and-green leaves of Illustris are huge, and their dark highlights are stunning.
  • 🐘 This elephant ear is a lover of moist shade, but does best with a little dappled sunlight.
  • 🐘 It will tolerate boggy conditions.
  • 🐘 Provide light shade to full shade and consistently moist or boggy soil.
  • 🐘 It is a strong fast growing variety that does great in container, landscapes, ponds and patios.


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

Carambola - Starfruit (Averrhoa carambola)

Carambola - Starfruit (Averrhoa carambola)

⭐️ Top 10 fast-fruiting trees:
#8. Carambola - Starfruit (Averrhoa carambola)

💛 Growing Carambola tree is a fun and rewarding way to enjoy this unique star-shaped delicious fruit right at home. It fruits on the 3d year from seed. The tree is easy to grow and reliable producer, providing wind protection.

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Fun Fact: Giant Pelican Flower. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Aristolochia gigantea var. Brasiliensis - Giant Pelican Flower

Aristolochia gigantea var. Brasiliensis - Giant Pelican Flower

Aristolochia gigantea var. Brasiliensis - Giant Pelican Flower

Aristolochia gigantea var. Brasiliensis - Giant Pelican Flower

Aristolochia gigantea var. Brasiliensis - Giant Pelican Flower

Aristolochia gigantea var. Brasiliensis - Giant Pelican Flower

😱 Fun Fact: Giant Pelican Flower

Aristolochia gigantea var. Brasiliensis - Giant Pelican Flower - boasts flowers over 10 inches long, with a zany pelican-like shape and a lemony scent🍋
Its striking pattern of white and reddish-brown makes it a rare and fascinating collectible that thrives on a stake, trellis, or even in a hanging basket! Great butterfly attractor.
More info: previous post.

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

Mulberry

Mulberry

🍇 Top 10 fast-fruiting trees:
#7. Mulberry (Morus hybrids)

💜 Mulberry is very cold hardy and can grow in wide range of climate zones, from USDA 5 to 10. Everyone knows this sweet, tasty, juicy fruit. The tree will produce right away, you will see fruit the next season after planting, and the tree grows fast.

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How to grow your own Chanel #5. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Cananga fruticosa - Dwarf Ylang-Ylang, Chanel No 5 Tree

Cananga fruticosa - Dwarf Ylang-Ylang, Chanel No 5 Tree

🌞 How to grow your own Chanel #5.
  • ✨ Cananga fruticosa - Dwarf Ylang-Ylang, Chanel No 5 Tree is a highly sought-after plant fragrant small tree.
  • ✨It stays compact with a lovely tree-like shape.
  • ✨ Flowers smell just like the full-size Ylang-Ylang (source of Chanel#5 perfume fragrance), though the fragrance may be lighter in less humid conditions.
  • ✨Starts flowering right away and blooms year-round in warm conditions.
  • ✨ Thrives as a container- and houseplant. Needs bright light for profuse flowering.


🛒 Get your own Chanel #5

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How to have the Blue Sky in just one season and forever. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Thunbergia laurifolia - Blue Sky vine, Blue Trumpet Vine, Scrambling sky flower

💙 How to have the Blue Sky in just one season and forever
  • 🔵 Thunbergia laurifolia - Blue Sky vine, Blue Trumpet Vine, Scrambling sky flower - is a super-fast growing climber that will cover your fence in just one season.
  • 🔵 Scrambling sky flower is the most striking blue flowered vine in the world, with a robust and twining habit producing long hanging clusters of 3" sky blue funnel shaped flowers from fall through spring, displayed throughout it's dense deep green foliage.
  • 🔵 White flowering variety is Thunbergia grandiflora Alba.


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