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How Cardinals Guard runs red carpet for Christmas

Cardinals Guard (Pachystachys coccinea)

Cardinals Guard (Pachystachys coccinea)

Cardinals Guard (Pachystachys coccinea)

Cardinals Guard (Pachystachys coccinea)

Cardinals Guard (Pachystachys coccinea)

Cardinals Guard (Pachystachys coccinea)

🚩 How Cardinals Guard runs red carpet for Christmas⛔️👍
  • 💖 If your garden needs a pop of color, Cardinals Guard (Pachystachys coccinea) is ready to take the spotlight! With its bold, scarlet-red blooms perched atop green cones, this evergreen perennial looks like it's wearing a crown.
  • 💖 Striking Christmas-red flowers emerge from a green cone. Blooms most of the year.
  • 💖 Adds vibrant color and a festive, tropical feel to any space.
  • 💖 Upright, multi-stemmed growth with lush foliage.
  • 💖 Attracts hummingbirds, butterflies, and other pollinators.
  • 💖 Care: Morning sun and afternoon shade (semi-shade preferred). Trim stems to prevent legginess and encourage fresh growth. Perfect for Southern gardens and large containers.


🛒 Plant Cardinals Guard

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Why this Hibiscus is changing color?

Hibiscus mutabilis Cotton Candy - Mallow Hibiscus

Hibiscus mutabilis Cotton Candy - Mallow Hibiscus

Hibiscus mutabilis Cotton Candy - Mallow Hibiscus

Hibiscus mutabilis Cotton Candy - Mallow Hibiscus

Hibiscus mutabilis Cotton Candy - Mallow Hibiscus

Hibiscus mutabilis Cotton Candy - Mallow Hibiscus

Hibiscus mutabilis Cotton Candy - Mallow Hibiscus

Hibiscus mutabilis Cotton Candy - Mallow Hibiscus

🌸 Why this Hibiscus is changing color?
  • 🌸 Hibiscus mutabilis Cotton Candy - Mallow Hibiscus - is an amazing winter bloomer that chances flower color! It opens pure white than gradually shifts to baby pink to dark pink over three days, much like the Yesterday-Today-Tomorrow plant (Brunfelsia).
  • 🌸 As the blooms age, they take on a rich, deep pink hue, creating a stunning rainbow of colors on the bush all at once.
  • 🌸 Blossoms reach up to 5 inches across!


📚 From previous posts:
How hibiscus plant acts like a chameleon
How to make your Hibiscus plants thrive and bloom

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When Brunfelsia is in bloom? Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

🌸 When Brunfelsia is in bloom? Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow!

  • 🅱️ Purple-flowered Brunfelsias are at the peak of their bloom right now!

  • 🅱️ Known as Yesterday-Today-Tomorrow for their magical color transformation from purple to lavender to white over three days: B. grandiflora, B. paucifolia, B. australis.

  • 🅱️ Brunfelsias are wonderfully fragrant winter bloomers

  • 🅱️ Perfect flowering shrub for shaded areas

  • 🅱️ Ideal for growing in containers. Compact and graceful growers.


📚 Learn more about purple Brunfelsias:
The number one flower for shady spots
Yesterday-Today-Tomorrow, Brunfelsia from Brazil

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What happens when the Musical Note hits its peak?

Clerodendrum Musical Note - Clerodendrum incisum

🎶 What happens when the Musical Note hits its peak?
  • ♪ Say hello to our blooming Clerodendrum Musical Note! We mentioned it earlier.
  • ♪ This stunning plant doesn't just bloom - it puts on a show!
  • ♪ With flowers bursting everywhere, this bush even creates a dreamy carpet of musical-note-shaped blooms around its base. A true symphony for the garden!


ℹ️ The unopened flowers resemble musical notes, giving the plant its name.

🛒 Get some Music Notes for your garden

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Its never too many powderpuffs!

🍬 It's never too many powderpuffs!

💖 One more Powderpuff beauty - Calliandra surinamensis - is a large vigorous shrub that can be trained into a cute little standard tree.

📚 More Calliandras from previous posts:

🛒 Shop Calliandras - Powderpuffs

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Yet another fragrant Jasmine hedge!

Jasminum volubile - Wax Jasmine

🔤 Yet another fragrant Jasmine hedge!
  • ☀️ Jasminum volubile - Wax Jasmine is one more excellent choice of fragrant Jasmine bush for your landscaping needs, besides Angel Hair Jasmine we mentioned earlier.
  • ☀️ Lovely blooms: Fragrant, pinwheel-shaped white flowers from April to September.
  • ☀️ Versatile growth: Quick-growing vine for trellises, ground covers, or containers.
  • ☀️ Foliage: Glossy, dark green leaves add a lush touch.
  • ☀️ Perfect Hedge: Works beautifully as a hedge plant.


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What is the best Jasmine bush for an easy landscaping?

Jasminum multiflorum (pubescens) - Angel Hair Jasmine

🔤 What is the best Jasmine bush for an easy landscaping?
  • 🌸 Jasminum multiflorum (pubescens) - Angel Hair Jasmine - is a fragrant, fast-growing charmer for Southern landscape.
  • 🌸 Bloom beauty: Sweet-scented, starry white flowers bloom almost year-round.
  • 🌸 Wildlife friendly: Attracts butterflies and hummingbirds.
  • 🌸 Growth: Fast-growing, bushy, and dense - a perfect hedge option! Grows 5–6 ft with soft, velvety leaves.
  • 🌸 Care: Loves well-drained soil, handles sun to semi-shade, and even tolerates seaside conditions.
  • 🌸 Zones: Thrives in USDA Zones 9–11 or as a potted indoor beauty in colder areas.


🛒 Order Angel Hair Jasmine

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What color is garlic vine flower?

Garlic vine (Mansoa alliacea)

🦄 What color is garlic vine flower? Three-color!
  • 😈 Garlic vine (Mansoa alliacea) is in full bloom again this time of the year. What a spectacular view! Deep lavender flowers with white throat fading to a paler lavender within a few days, and you can see all three colors on the plant at the same time.
  • 😈 Crushed leaves smell just like crushed garlic!
  • 😈 Garlic vine has moderate growth rate and can stay compact in a pot as a specimen, and even can be grown as a house plant.


📚 Learn from previous post:
How to get rid of a bad luck with the Garlic Vine?

📱 Video: Garlic vine keeps away the vampires.

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When Butterfly Bush is in bloom

Butterfly Bush - Odontonema

🦋 When Butterfly Bush is in bloom
  • 🦋 Butterfly Bush - Odontonema is in full bloom again this time of the year! Spectacular Winter bloomer and butterfly attractor.
  • 🦋 Takes both sun and shade, and tolerates light frost. Very easy plant!


📚 From previous posts:

🛒 OrderButterfly Bush

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Baby-pink fluffy flower for butterflies

Calliandra selloi (brevipes) - Pink Powderpuff, Pink Lilian

🦋 Baby-pink fluffy flower for butterflies
  • 🐾 Calliandra selloi (brevipes) - The Pink Powderpuff, also known as Pink Lilian, is a spectacular bloomer that adds charm and grace to your butterfly garden.
  • 🐾 Native to southeastern Brazil, Uruguay, and northern Argentina, this shrub stands out with its finely divided leaves with teeny-tiny leaflets and dazzling clusters of baby pink, silky, powder-puff flowers.
  • 🐾 This medium-to-large shrub has a graceful growth habit, making it a stunning centerpiece or a lush addition to garden borders.
  • 🐾 Its delicate flowers bloom during the summer, looking like nature's fireworks and attracting pollinators with their fluffy appeal.


📚 More Calliandras from previous posts:

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