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The sunny show-off hummingbirds love. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Caesalpinia mexicana - Mexican Bird of Paradise

🌞 The sunny show-off hummingbirds love
  • 🌞 Caesalpinia mexicana - Mexican Bird of Paradise - the sunny show-off you didn't know you needed. Many gardeners have popular and more common common Bird of Paradise Caesalpinia pulcherrima, with red flowers, but this one is rare in gardens.
  • 🌞 While most Bird of Paradise plants rely on looks alone, this one ups the game with fragrant blooms. From spring through summer, it's covered in butter-yellow flowers that stand out against soft, feathery foliage. Hummingbirds love it, and when the blooms fade, it makes woody seed pods that snap open like nature's fireworks.
  • 🌞 It's native to northern Mexico, which means it handles heat, sun, and dry conditions without a fuss. You can grow it as a compact shrub or let it stretch into a small tree. Either way, it’s easygoing, low-maintenance, and beautiful all season.


🛒 Attract hummingbirds to your garden

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Why every garden has this one Purple Spray Tree. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Tibouchina granulosa - Glory Tree or Purple Spray Tree

💜 Why every garden has this one Purple Spray Tree
  • 🟪 Tibouchina granulosa - Glory Tree or Purple Spray Tree - is the one you'll see in every Florida garden!
  • 🟪 If you love purple flowers, this one's a no-brainer. From late summer through winter, it's covered in velvety purple blooms that form giant flower sprays. The whole tree lights up with color, and it's impossible to ignore!
  • 🟪 In Highlands County, Florida (where Top Tropicals farm is), you'll see this tree in garden after garden - and everyone says the same thing: You've gotta have one!
  • 🟪 It's tropical, eye-catching, and makes any landscape feel lush and vibrant. A true gem for southern gardens.


📚 Learn more:
💋How this addictive purple took over yards in Central Florida

🛒 Everyone has one - get yours today!

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What is the best purple flowering bush? Glory bush! A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Tibouchina multiflora (grandifolia) - Glory bush, Quaresmeira

💜 What is the best purple flowering bush? Glory bush!
  • 🟣 Why everyone in Florida wants this fuzzy-leaf Tibouchina? Tibouchina multiflora (grandifolia), Glory bush, Quaresmeira

    • is one of those plants that stops people in their tracks.
  • 🟣 The leaves are huge, soft, and fuzzy - up to 10 inches wide, sometimes 12 in shade. They're as fun to touch as they are to look at!
  • 🟣 And when it blooms? You get bold spikes of purple flowers from August through winter, turning your garden into a purple paradise.
  • 🟣 But here's the twist: the older leaves can surprise you by turning shades of orange and red - a rare bonus of fall color in the tropics.
  • 🟣 It thrives in sun or shade, grows fast, and handles Florida’s winters without a fuss.


This isn’t just a flowering shrub. It’s a statement.

🛒 Make your garden pop with purple: explore Tibouchina plants

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Why this Tibouchina is so popular

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The morning glory that sleeps in? Alamo Vine - the noon-blooming mystery. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Ipomoea sinuata - Alamo Vine

🌞 The morning glory that sleeps in? Alamo Vine - the noon-blooming mystery
  • 💮 Ipomoea sinuata - Alamo Vine or Woodrose isn't your average morning glory.
  • 💮It's a fast-growing, very fine vine with feathery, soft-textured leaves that look like they belong in a fairytale.
  • 💮 And its white pretty blooms? They're a little rebellious! Opening around noon instead of morning, then closing again before sunset.
  • 💮 Perfect for trellises, fences, or even a container if you want a vine with personality. Attracts butterflies and bees.
  • 💮 It's fast, it's different, and it's ready to cover a small fence or trellis.


🛒 Add this noontime bloomer to your garden

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Grows in neglect: tough plant for tough spots. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Devils Backbone, Jacobs Ladder - Pedilanthus tithymaloides

💪 Grows in neglect: tough plant for tough spots
  • 🌿If you've got a dry, rough patch where nothing wants to grow, try Devil's Backbone, or Jacobs Ladder - Pedilanthus tithymaloides.
  • 🌿This plant is seriously tough. It handles heat, drought, poor soil - no complaints.
  • 🌿Its zig-zag stems look like they were folded by hand, and the little pink flowers are a nice surprise.
  • 🌿Low maintenance, spreads well, and doesn’t mind being ignored.
  • 🌿Great as a groundcover, border filler, or just doing its thing in a forgotten corner.


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The best undemanding plant for dry and hot area

🛒 Add this survivor to your garden

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Color that lasts year-round: Ti plant: bold color, easy care. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Cordyline fruticosa - Hawaiian Ti plant

🌈 Color that lasts year-round: Ti plant: bold color, easy care
  • 🌿 Looking to add some serious color to your garden without adding a lot of work?

    • Cordyline fruticosa, also known as the Hawaiian Ti plant comes as beautiful colorful leaves in so many shades and varieties!
  • 🌿 Shades of deep burgundy, hot pink, bright green, even chocolate - and everything in between. The glossy, sword-shaped leaves look like something out of a vacation photo.
  • 🌿 And the best part? It's super easygoing. Ti plants grow well in sun or shade, in the ground or in pots, and need very little water.
  • 🌿 Perfect for borders, containers, or as a tropical accent - Ti Leaf brings instant island vibes to your space.


🛒 Ti time! Click to grow

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Why does Allamanda rule the tropics? A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Allamanda colorful varieties

🌸 Why does Allamanda rule the tropics?
  • 🌸 Allamanda is a top favorite - you'll see it in yards everywhere!
  • 🌸 Just look at the colors! Cherry pink, golden yellow, deep mauve, chocolate, even peach - so many stunning colors, blooming nonstop!
  • 🌸 It grows fast, loves the heat, and doesn't ask for much. Want a vine? Perfect. Prefer a shrub? That works too. It's easygoing, showy, and always putting on a show.
  • 🌸 Everyone can grow it - and once you do, you'll wonder how your garden ever got by without it.


🛒 Shop Allamanda colors

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The fastest vine to cover a fence - everyone asks about it. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Thunbergia laurifolia - Blue Sky vine

💙 The fastest vine to cover a fence - everyone asks about it
  • 🔵 If you need a beautiful vine to cover your fence quickly - plant Thunbergia laurifolia, Thunbergia grandiflora - Blue Sky vine, Blue Trumpet Vine, Scrambling sky flower.
  • 🔵 This vigorous tropical climber explodes with 3-inch trumpet-shaped blossoms in a shade of blue so vivid, it looks unreal. In just one season, it can cover a fence, trellis, or arbor with lush green foliage and long cascading chains of flowers.
  • 🔵 Once established, it blooms heavily from fall through spring, creating a waterfall of sky blue that feels cool and soothing even in the heat. It's not just a pretty face either - its fast growth makes it ideal for quickly creating privacy, shade, or a living screen.
  • 🔵 Thrives in heat and humidity, low-maintenance once established
  • 🔵 Dramatic focal point, pollinator magnet, and conversation piece! And if blue isn't your color, the rare white version, Thunbergia grandiflora Alba, offers the same performance in pure ivory tones.


🛒 Get the vine everyone asks about

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▫️How to have the Blue Sky in just one season and forever

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Do you see Musical Notes in this flower? A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Clerodendrum incisum - Musical Note, Morning Kiss Clerodendrum

🎶 Do you see Musical Notes in this flower?
  • 🎶 Our garden’s putting on a concert - Clerodendrum incisum is in full bloom, and these quirky little musical notes are ready to jazz up your space!
  • 🎶 Musical Note, or Morning Kiss Clerodendrum blooms at Top Tropicals garden most of the year, several times - during the warm period, from Spring to late Fall.


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

🛒 Bring home the bloom that sings

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Chonemorpha fragrans - Frangipani vine

💎 What is better than Plumeria? Only climbing Plumeria!
  • 💮 It's in bloom again at Top Tropicals Garden! Over and over, from Spring through Winter! Almost year around non stop. What a vigorous vine, and the perfume flowers never stop coming.
  • 💮 Imagine Plumeria's wild cousin climbing your fence: Chonemorpha fragrans, the Frangipani vine, is a tropical liana with jumbo 12-inch leaves and creamy white flowers that fill the air with that unmistakable Plumeria scent.
  • 💮 This beauty doesn’t grow like a tree - it climbs! Perfect for fences, trellises, or pergolas, it brings vertical drama and sweet, Plumeria-like fragrance to sunny or lightly shaded spots.
  • 💮 Give it some support and a little fertilizer, and your garden will bloom into a lush, fragrant escape that smells like a Hawaii vacation!


🛒 Grow your own wall of perfume

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