Garden Blog - Top Tropicals

Date: 17 Sep 2025 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Abutilon darwinii x striatum - Fireball, Biltmore Ballgown, Acalypha hispida - Cat Tail, Chenille plant, Allamanda, Brunfelsia - Lady of the night, Calliandra - Powderpuff, Clerodendrum speciosissimum - Java Glorybower, Hibiscus El Capitolio, Rondeletia leucophylla - Panama Rose, Senna alata - Empress Candle, Candelabra Plant

🌺 Nine best tropical shrubs that will bloom for you all summer

📸 Pictures for the previous post:

▫️Abutilon darwinii x striatum - Fireball, Biltmore Ballgown
▫️Acalypha hispida - Cat Tail, Chenille plant
▫️Allamanda
▫️Brunfelsia - Lady of the night
▫️Calliandra - Powderpuff
▫️Clerodendrum speciosissimum - Java Glorybower
▫️Hibiscus El Capitolio
▫️Rondeletia leucophylla - Panama Rose
▫️Senna alata - Empress Candle, Candelabra Plant

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Date: 17 Sep 2025 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

🌺 9 best tropical shrubs that bloom all summer long or year around

🌺 1. Abutilon darwinii x striatum - Fireball, Biltmore Ballgown. Lantern-like blooms in orange, red, and yellow keep coming all summer. Compact and graceful, perfect for pots or borders.
🌺 2. Acalypha hispida - Cat Tail, Chenille plant. Fuzzy red tassels dangle nonstop in the heat, adding playful texture to containers and garden beds.
🌺 3. Allamanda (many varieties). Fast growers with trumpet flowers in yellow or pink. Can be shaped as shrubs, trellised vines, or flowering hedges.
🌺 4. Brunfelsia - Lady of the night. Creamy white blooms open at dusk, filling the evening garden with a sweet fragrance.
🌺 5. Calliandra - Powderpuff (many varieties). Cheerful pompom flowers in red, pink, or white attract hummingbirds and bloom nearly year-round.
🌺 6. Clerodendrum speciosissimum - Java Glorybower. Bright red flower clusters stand out against tropical foliage. Loves sun and steady moisture.
🌺 7. Hibiscus El Capitolio - Unique, double-skirted, ruffled pendant blooms with pom-pom-like centers make this hibiscus a showpiece shrub for summer gardens.
🌺 8. Rondeletia leucophylla - Panama Rose. Compact and butterfly-friendly, with fragrant pink flower clusters that perfume warm evenings.
🌺 9. Senna alata - Empress Candle, Candelabra Plant. Bold, upright candles of golden flowers shine through the season and draw in pollinators.

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Date: 12 Sep 2025 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Butterfly on a flower that doesn't attract bees

❌� What flowers do NOT attract bees?

Most tropical flowers bring in pollinators, and bees are usually first in line. But what if you’d rather avoid them? Maybe you’re allergic, or just don’t want bees buzzing around. Good news: some flowers attract butterflies, hummingbirds, moths, or even flies - but not bees.

👉 Quick rules:

✔️ Night-blooming + strong fragrance = moths or bats, not bees.
✔️ Red tubular flowers with little scent = hummingbirds or butterflies, not bees.
✔️ Rotten or fermented smell = flies, not bees.
✔️ Carnivorous plants = trap insects, no bee nectar.

1. Night-blooming, fragrant - moth and bat flowers

Bees forage by day, so many night-fragrant flowers skip them.

▫️Brugmansia - Angel’s Trumpet - big, hanging blooms, moth and bat pollinated.
▫️Cestrum nocturnum - Night-blooming Jasmine - powerful night scent, moths only.
▫️Hylocereus Dragon Fruit - huge cactus flowers, bats and moths.
▫️Brunfelsia - Lady of the Night - sweet fragrance at dusk, no bee interest.

Hummingbird and butterfly flowers

▫️Hibiscus - hummingbirds and butterflies visit, bees less so.
▫️Heliconis and Gingers - designed for hummingbird beaks, bold tubes are for birds, not bees.
▫️More good picks: Ruellia, Sanchezia, Aeschynanthus, Aphelandra, Anisacanthus, Cuphea, Fuchsia, Iochroma, Justicia, Lonicera, Hamelia, Russelia, Odontonema, Tecomaria, Bougainvillea.

Fly-pollinated oddballs

▫️Amorphophallus (Voodoo Lily) - rotting meat scent.
▫️Tacca (Bat Head Lily) - spooky black flowers, fly-pollinated.
▫️Stapelia (Carrion Flower) - also fly-pollinated.
▫️Aristolochia (Pelican Flower) - giant, bizarre fly-traps.

Specialized orchids

▫️Vanilla orchid - its natural bee pollinator is absent in most regions, so no bee appeal elsewhere.
▫️Brassavola nodosa and others - open at night for moths, not bees.

Bonus: carnivorous curiosities

▫️Nepenthes (Pitcher Plant) - uses pitchers of liquid to lure and digest insects.

These flowers keep the beauty, fragrance, and wildlife appeal - but without making your garden a bee hotspot.

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Date: 21 Jul 2025 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Brunfelsia isola - Lavender Lady of the Night

☀️ Five best fragrant plants for summer plantings

☀️ Summer heat? No problem. These fragrant plants thrive in it - and will make your garden smell like vacation every day.
☀️ Brunfelsia - Lady of the Night - releases its sweet scent after sunset, filling warm evenings with a dreamy, tropical perfume.
☀️ Gardenia - Queen of Scent - classic creamy blooms with a rich, unmistakable fragrance that perfumes the air even in peak summer.
☀️ Jasminum sambac - the most popular and the most fragrant Jasmine for both indoor or outdoor culture. Varieties: Arabian Nights, Belle of India, Mangalore Malli, Grand Duke, Grand Duke Supreme, Gundu Malli, Maid of Orleans, Mali Chat, Mysore Mulli, Little Duke Supreme - Baby Duke.
☀️ Nyctanthes arbor-tristis - Parijat. Small tree or shrub from India with highly perfumed flowers, one of the most desired fragrant plants. Mythology says the plant came to earth with God Krishna, shedding flowers like tears before dawn.
☀️ Plumeria - tropical icon known for its heavenly scent and stunning flowers - blooms all summer and keeps your garden smelling like vacation!

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🎥 Brunfelsia isola, or Lavender Lady of the Night, are a "marble" twist of cream and purple, changing hue unpredictably. They are deliciously fragrant at night.

📚More fragrant garden ideas:
▫️ Six most desired perfume plants

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Date: 5 Jul 2025 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

What is the difference between Brunfelsia americana and nitida?

Brunfelsia americana - Lady of the Night

⭐️ What is the difference between Brunfelsia americana and nitida?

⭐️ Brunfelsia americana and Brunfelsia nitida are very similar and both are commonly called Lady of the Night, They are night-fragrant shrubs that bloom with creamy white flowers, but they differ slightly in form and character.
⭐️ Brunfelsia americana grows taller and more upright, reaching up to 12 feet in favorable conditions, with creamy white tubular flowers that release a rich, sweet fragrance after dusk - filling the garden with magic scent.
⭐️ Brunfelsia nitida has a more compact, bushy growth habit, making it better suited for smaller spaces or containers. Its star-shaped white flowers are also fragrant at night, though the scent is typically lighter or spicier than that of B. americana. The foliage of B. nitida is glossier and more refined, adding to its neat, ornamental appearance.
⭐️ While both offer evening blooms and fragrance, B. nitida stands out for its tidy size and formal appeal, whereas B. americana impresses with its height and intense perfume.

📚 Learn more:

▫️What is the most popular fragrant Lady of the Night
▫️Brunfelsia americana - Lady of the night
▫️Brunfelsia isola
▫️Brunfelsias

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Date: 7 Mar 2025 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

What is the most fragrant Brunfelsia?

💐 What is the most fragrant Brunfelsia?

*️⃣The most fragrant Brunfelsias, often referred to as Lady of the Night, are the creamy-white varieties. These flowers begin to release their sweet, captivating aroma at sunset and continue to fill the air with fragrance throughout the night.

*️⃣Brunfelsias are wonderful shade-loving, compact flowering shrubs, making them perfect for adding beauty to shaded areas or for growing in containers.

*️⃣The most popular white Brunfelsias are: B, americana, B. nitida, B. lactea, B. manaca, B. densifolia, B. gigantea.

📚 Learn more about Brunfelsias:
Brunfelsia americana - Lady of the night
Brunfelsia isola
Lavender Marble Perfume
Brunfelsias
Yesterday-Today-Tomorrow, Brunfelsia from Brazil

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Date: 7 Mar 2025 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

What is the most fragrant Brunfelsia?

Brunfelsias, often referred to as Lady of the Night

💐 What is the most fragrant Brunfelsia?

*The most fragrant Brunfelsias, often referred to as Lady of the Night, are the creamy-white varieties. These flowers begin to release their sweet, captivating aroma at sunset and continue to fill the air with fragrance throughout the night.

*Brunfelsias are wonderful shade-loving, compact flowering shrubs, making them perfect for adding beauty to shaded areas or for growing in containers.

*The most popular white Brunfelsias are: B, americana, B. nitida, B. lactea, B. manaca, B. densifolia, B. gigantea.

📚 Learn more about Brunfelsias:
Brunfelsia americana - Lady of the night
Brunfelsia isola
Lavender Marble Perfume
Brunfelsias
Yesterday-Today-Tomorrow, Brunfelsia from Brazil

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Date: 21 Dec 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

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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Date: 16 Dec 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

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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Date: 16 Dec 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

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.

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