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Flamingo pink with fruity fragrance!

🦩 Flamingo pink with fruity fragrance!

  • 💕 Quisqualis Indica - Rangoon Creeper - is an extremely beautiful plant.

  • 💕 Shrubby vine with pale-pink to deep crimson star shaped flowers, covering the entire plant when in full bloom.

  • 💕 It's scent is unforgettable, fruity and intoxicating...

  • 💕 The flowers are born in clusters and each flower has many variations of color, depending on how old the flower is.

  • 💕 The flower starts out white and or pink striped and turn solid pink and finally dark pink on maturity.

  • 💕 Can grow into large woody vine covering a fence or big trellis.


🛒 Get your own Quisqualis vine

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Fire on top of the tree! What is it bursting with orange brilliance? Meet Colvilles Glory

Fire on top of the tree! What is it bursting with orange brilliance? Meet Colvilles Glory Fire on top of the tree! What is it bursting with orange brilliance? Meet Colvilles Glory Fire on top of the tree! What is it bursting with orange brilliance? Meet Colvilles Glory Fire on top of the tree! What is it bursting with orange brilliance? Meet Colvilles Glory
🔥 Fire on top of the tree! What is it bursting with orange brilliance? Meet Colvilles Glory.

🧡 Colvillea racemosa, also known as Colvilles Glory, is a stunning specimen tree renowned for its vibrant orange flowers that bloom in fall.

  • 🟠 Fast growing tree able to reach heights of 30-50 ft

  • 🟠 Striking addition to any landscape where you need to grow a tree quickly.

  • 🟠 Fern-like foliage that may shed in cooler winters offers a captivating display with its long inflorescences and bright yellow stamens.

  • 🟠 Drought-tolerant and resistant to pests.

  • 🟠 Easy-to-care-for and relatively cold hardy.


🛒 Add some color to your garden with Colvilles Glory

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Why Dutchmans Pipe is the best butterfly attracting vine? Smell it!

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🦋 Why Dutchman's Pipe is the best butterfly attracting vine? Smell it!

Without any doubt, Aristolochia, or Dutchman's Pipe, is one of the best butterfly plants.

  • 🍃 Aristolochia trilobata - Birthwort Dutchman's Pipe is celebrated for its unique and intricate flowers that resemble Dutch smoking pipes, hence its name.

  • 🍃Dutchman's Pipe flowers emit a scent mimicking decaying matter, which certain butterfly species, like the Pipevine Swallowtail, find irresistible 💩🙄

  • 🍃The butterflies lay their eggs on the plant, as it serves as a suitable host for their larvae, contributing to the plant's ecological significance by promoting pollination and biodiversity.

  • 🍃 As a result, it not only beautifies gardens but also supports local butterfly populations, enriching the ecosystem.

  • 🍃 Beyond its distinctive appearance, it's valued for its historical use in traditional medicine, particularly for its alleged healing properties.


🛒 🦋 Bring butterflies to your garden!

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Watch out - Ball of Fire!

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🔥 Watch out - Ball of Fire!

Combretum constrictum - Ball of Fire - is very showy beautiful vining shrub with powderpuff red flowers.

  • 🔴 Easy to grow and undemanding, it only requires regular water to establish, then can be drought tolerant.

  • 🔴 Blooms almost year round in warm climates.

  • 🔴 Responds well to pruning.

  • 🔴 Attracts butterflies and hummingbirds


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What is the most spectacular flowering shrub?

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♥️ What is the most spectacular flowering shrub?

🔥 Caesalpinia pulcherrima - Dwarf Poinciana, or Bird of Paradise - is one of the most beautiful flowering shrubs. It is a low-maintenance yet visually striking plant to enhance outdoor spaces.

  • ♦️ Prized for its stunning, vibrant flowers that resemble miniature versions of tropical flamboyant blooms.
  • ♦️ Compact size
  • ♦️ Easy to care of
  • ♦️ Prolific blooming period
  • ♦️ Resilience to heat and drought
  • ♦️ Red, Yellow, and Pink flowering varieties available.


🛒 Get your own Dwarf Poinciana

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Why they call this Clerodendrum Musical Notes?

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🎶 Why they call this Clerodendrum Musical Notes?

Clerodendrum incisum - Musical Note, Morning Kiss - has very unusual and showy flowers.

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

  • ♪ A compact grower and low-maintenance plant, perfect for gardens as it blooms well in both full sun and shade, and tolerates some drought ☀️☁️ .

  • ♪ It attracts butterflies and hummingbirds, making it a great choice for people who want to encourage wildlife in their gardens

🦋🦜🐞🐝.

🛒 Get some Music Notes for your garden

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Why this blue tropical flower has a violet fragrance?

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🪻 Why this blue tropical flower has a violet fragrance?

You already saw one unusual blue flower of Tropics - Lead Flower. This one is even more interesting!

👄 Mazabuka, or Blue Lips (Sclerochiton harveyanus) has mauve-blue, unusually lipped flowers that are lightly violet-lavender-fragrant!

  • 💙 Blue Lips create a pretty floral display on this shade-loving shrub with its attractive glossy green foliage.

  • 💙 Flowers are mauve-blue to purple and the lower petals are ribbed, giving the impression of lips, hence the common name.

  • 💙 Five fringed lobes, equal in size, short and rounded, are the flowers distinguishing feature.

  • 💙 Shade lover. Will happily bloom in the shade!


🐝🐦 The numerous flowers produced in summer are attractive to pollinating insects which encourage insect-feeding birds into the garden.

📚 Learn more: Surprising Violet fragrance of the Blue Lips

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How to get a big flowering bush quickly?

How to get a big flowering bush quickly? How to get a big flowering bush quickly? How to get a big flowering bush quickly?
🏡 How to get a big flowering bush quickly? Calliandra - Powderpuff - is your answer for blocking the unwanted view!

💗 With so many varieties to choose from, Calliandras are the winners when you need to create a screen quickly. Just in one season you can have a nice dense shrub with benefits - the Powderpuff flowers are so pretty! Everbloomer.

🛒 Shop Calliandras - Powderpuffs

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What is the bluest flower of the Tropics?

What is the bluest flower of the Tropics?
What is the bluest flower of the Tropics?

Eranthemum pulchellum - Blue Sage, or Lead Flower is brightest gentian blue - very unusual color in the tropics!

  • 💙 Winter heavy bloomer

  • 💙 Attracts butterflies and bees 🐝

  • 💙 Compact shrub, responds well to pruning.

  • 💙 Shade lover. Will happily bloom in the shade!


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What is Lions Ears: the plant that keeps growing through the flower!

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🦁 What is Lion's Ears: the plant that keeps growing "through the flower"!

Leonotis leonurus is another Nature's Wonder. Flower petals purportedly resemble Lion's ears, and bunch of upper leaves from a distance resemble Lions tails. A curious thing, the plant continues growing through the flower! This creates a multi-level appearance.

🦋 Attracts butterflies and hummingbirds. Everblooming.

⚕️ Used in Eastern medicine

📚 More about Leonotis Lion's Ears

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