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What Ginger makes a natural shampoo?

Pine Cone Ginger (Zingiber Zerumbet), Shampoo Ginger

🧴What Ginger makes a natural shampoo?
  • 🎍Pine Cone Ginger (Zingiber Zerumbet), also called Shampoo Ginger due to its unique, milky substance found in the cones. It is widely used as a natural shampoo in Asia and Hawaii, and even found in commercial shampoos.
  • 🎍Fragrant and Spicy: All parts of the plant are known for their strong, spicy fragrance.
  • 🎍Stunning Flowers: The cone-shaped flowers are long-lasting and perfect for cut flower arrangements.
  • 🎍Fun history: Pinecone ginger is a canoe plant, brought across the Pacific by ancient Polynesian settlers.


📚 Gingers from previous posts:

🛒 Plant your own Shampoo Ginger

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How to have the Deep Purple mood year around

Calathea rufibarba - Fuzzy Pheasant Feather, Deep Purple Velvet Furry

🎸 How to have the Deep Purple mood year around
  • 🟣 Calathea rufibarba - Fuzzy Pheasant Feather, Deep Purple Velvet Furry - a favorite of shade garden landscapers. This thin, fuzzy, rippled leaf Calathea is very attractive as well as durable. A purple leaf back adds to this plants rich color and texture.
  • 🟣 The upper foliage of Calathea rufibarba is semi-glossy, and olive green. The under side of the foliage, along with the stems are rich burgundy to deep purple!
  • 🟣 The stems are covered with fine purplish-brown hairs.
  • 🟣 Place your Deep Purple Calathea in bright filtered or indirect light.


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What to plant by the pond?

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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How to grow your own Chanel #5

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

Gardenia taitensis "Heaven Scent"

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


❓ What is your favorite Gardenia? Share in comments👇

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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

👑 Fun Fact: King Anthurium

🔖 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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Why Champaka tree is such a popular perfume tree

Joy Perfume tree - Magnolia (Michelia) champaca

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


🎥 Yellow Champaka in bloom. This tree is 3 years old.

📚 Learn more from previous posts:
Flower of the most expensive perfume
White Champaka
Article about Champaka

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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

😈 Fun Fact: Voodoo Lily

👹 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 Bat Head Devil Flower is in bloom

Tacca chantrieri - Black Tacca

🌚 When Bat Head Devil Flower is in bloom
  • 🦇 Tacca Lily - has been in bloom all summer, on an off.
  • 🦇 Curious, bat-like inflorescence both in shape and color, with wide spreading, wing-like bracts of rich maroon-black, accompanied by long trailing filaments or "whiskers".
  • 🦇 Perfect container plant for a greenhouse. Needs filtered light, prefers high humidity.
  • 🦇 Comes in different species and colors: Black, White, Green:

Tacca nivea - White Tacca
Tacca chantrieri - Black Tacca
Tacca leontopetaloides - Green Tacca

📚 Learn more from previous post:
Bat Head - Devil Flower

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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!


📚 See earlier post about Champaka Tree

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