🦩 How to grow Bird of Paradise

• ⭐️ Strelitzia reginae - Bird of Paradise (more photos in earlier post) - is incredibly easy to grow, especially in warm climates!
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  ⭐️ This tough, low-maintenance tropical thrives in full sun to partial shade, needs well-draining soil, and can handle drought once established.
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  ⭐️ It's resilient, long-lived, and nearly indestructible - perfect for beginners!
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  ⭐️ To keep it happy, just give it regular watering during growth and occasional fertilizer for best blooms.
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  ⭐️ It loves warm temperatures (zones 9-11), but in cooler areas, grow it in a pot and bring it inside during winter.
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  ⭐️ With minimal care, you'll get stunning, bird-like orange and blue flowers that bloom year after year. A showstopper, a survivor, and a statement plant all in one!

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💎 What is the cutest miniature plant

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  🥳 Haemaria discolor - Jewel Orchid - is a true gem of the plant world.
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  🥳 Jewel Orchid stuns with deep green leaves crisscrossed by glowing red veins, making it a showstopper even when not in bloom.
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  🥳When it does flower, expect delicate, bell-shaped white blooms with golden centers, lightly fragrant and lasting up to three weeks!
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  🥳This compact, low-growing orchid thrives in shade, perfect for containers or as an underplanting beneath trees. Easy to care for, it enjoys warmth, humidity, but no direct sun!
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  🥳A must-have for a plant lover looking for drama and elegance in one.

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🌸 What are the most beautiful desert roses

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  🌸 Check out Top Tropicals selection of Desert roses - Adeniums, while we still have the most interesting varieties.
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  🌸 If the weather is still cold in your area, we can hold shipping of your order weather-permitting. Don't miss the varieties you always wanted! They are selling fast, first come first serve.

📚 About Adeniums:

• · Why Adeniums are the most popular container plants
• · How to grow a happy Adenium
• · What is the easiest container plant with beautiful flowers
• · Multi-grafted Adenium with different colors of flowers on the same plant
• · What you need for successful growing Adeniums

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🎈 Clerodendrum schmitii and Clerodendrum wallichii

📸 Clerodendrum wallichii (left) and Clerodendrum schmitii (right)

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🧐 What is the difference between Clerodendrum schmitii and Clerodendrum wallichii?

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  ⭐️ The main difference between Clerodendrum schmitii and Clerodendrum wallichii lies in the color of their flower stalk and a slight variation in their growth habits, though both share similar overall characteristics.
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  ⭐️ Clerodendrum schmitii - also known as Chains of Glory or Light Bulb Flower, is a rare species that features elegant white, fragrant flowers held in loose, pendulous panicles. These blooms are showy against the plant's dark green foliage and typically hang down a foot and a half or more. This winter bloomer often has two flowering periods during the season and is distinguished by its striking red stems, adding a touch of drama to its graceful form.
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  ⭐️ Clerodendrum wallichiii, also known as Bridal Veil, has a similar cascading growth habit with fragrant white flowers in loose panicles, which appear around Thanksgiving. The flowers are beautiful, but the key difference is in its green stems. This plant grows up to 7 feet tall and has narrow, pointed leaves. It blooms from fall to spring, preferring to be protected from wind and hot afternoon sun.
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  ⭐️ While both plants feature fountain-like shapes and are covered in flowers during the winter to spring season, the red flower stalks of Clerodendrum schmitii and the green ones of Clerodendrum wallichii set them apart.

🎥 Clerodendrum schmitii - Chains of Glory, Light Bulb Flower.
More pictures in next post ⬇️

📚 More about Clerodendrums in previous posts:

• 💋What is the most spectacular Clerodendrum
• 💋How to grow Clerodendrums
• 💋Fireworks of Winter
• 💋Fragrant Cashmere Bouquet
• 💋Fountain Clerodendrum
• 💋What is better - Blue or Pink
• 💋Why is it called Blue Butterfly
• 💋Clerodendrum paniculatum
• 💋Seaside Clerodendrum
• 💋Pink Bleeding Heart
• 💋Why is it called Musical Notes
• 💋Bleeding Heart Vine
• 💋Cashmere Bouquet

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🌈 Why this plant is called Bird of Paradise

Strelitzia reginae - Bird of Paradise - is known for its striking, bird-like flowers that resemble a vibrant bird in flight. Native to South Africa, it's a popular ornamental plant that thrives in sunny, tropical gardens.

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🌸 What is the easiest Gardenia

• 🥰 Gardenia (Kailarsenia) vietnamensis - Vietnamese Gardenia - is one of the easiest and hardiest Gardenias in our collection is the Vietnamese Gardenia. This plant is much easier to grow than many other Gardenias. It can handle overly moist soils much better, is quite drought tolerant once established and has a high resistance to the typical Gardenia woes.
• 🥰 Fragrant & Beautiful: Creamy white, 3-inch flowers with an unforgettable fragrance. Flowers are very unusual shape, work of art!
• 🥰 Hardy & Easy to Grow: More resistant to typical Gardenia issues like root rot, mildew, and bud drop. Tolerates moist soil and is drought-tolerant once established.
• 🥰 Cold-Hardy: The most cold-hardy of all tropical Gardenias, perfect for various climates.
• 🥰 Perfect for Containers: A compact, bushy shrub that thrives in pots or the ground.
• 🥰 Low Maintenance: Prefers well-drained, acidic soil and some afternoon shade. Prune after flowering for best shape.
• 🥰 Evergreen Beauty: Blooming year-round. Ideal for beginners who want a reliable and fragrant plant!

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🥰 Have you ever seen a pink gardenia?

• 🌸 Kopsia fruticosa also called "Pink Gardenia", is one of nature's most exquisite and elusive treasures. Technically not a Gardenia, this beauty is a close relative of Plumeria and Adenium as well as Tabernaemontana (also often confused with Gardenia). All these beauties belong to the esteemed plant family Apocynaceae.
• 🌸 This bush has been in bloom for us for many months, since Fall, through Winter, and and is still flowering!

📚 Learn more about this elusive treasure:
What is pink gardenia? Does it exist?

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💐 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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🤘 How easy to grow is Pigeon Pea

• 🍿 Cajanus cajan - Pigeon Pea - is a bushy perennial shrub with pretty yellow flowers and abundant production of beans!
• 🍿 It is very fast growing, free branching, easy to grow and very low maintenance plant. Cold hardy to light frost. The plant tolerates poor soils, drought tolerant, improves soil quality like many other beans. Can be grown in container
• 🍿 Provides flavorful, nutritious, and healthy super-food. The beans used in rice dishes, soups, stews, tempeh, tofu. Unripe pods eaten in curries, leaves and young shoots cooked as a vegetable. Rich source of fiber, protein, vitamins (B, C, E, K), and minerals (calcium, iron, magnesium, manganese, phosphorus, potassium, zinc). It has many medicinal uses.

📚 Learn more from previous posts:
What was discovered in the Pyramids
Pigeon Pea - an Ancient Superfood

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