Blooming shrubs

This is a very rare spectacular species of Plumbago from India. It has bright scarlet flowers and prefers shade locations. Perfect for shade garden that needs some color, and for container and indoor culture.

Red/Pink Bell Flower, Tree Lily. Exotic rare collectible Portlandia with red flowers. Endemic to Jamaica, all species extremely rare in their natural environment. Some of the species are sometimes cultivated in local gardens for their large, ornamental flowers.

Glorious Flower of Cuba. Bell flower, Glorious Flower of Cuba, White horse flower. Extremely rare plant. Luscious perfume of bell-like flowers, reminiscent of warm, creamy chocolate. One of very few tropical plants that tolerate alkaline soils!

Jazmin de embarcadero, Needle flower tree. Small tree with large glossy dark green leaves and long cascading flowers that are extremely fragrant. Very exotic look!

Shooting Star, Star Flower, Furple False Erantheum, Dazzler. Very attractive bushy, small to medium size shrub, everblooming with bright pinkish-lavender or off-pink 1" flowers resembling a star. Requires frequent pruning, otherwise becomes leggy. Lower leaves tend to drop, but when pruned, new growth forms nice dense shrub. Fertilize regularly to provide flowering.

A showy tropical perennial, this plant is very rare in private collections. It grows in jungles of Peru and prefers humid environment with filtered light. Flowers are blood red and resemble a feather. Attracts hummingbirds.

Mauve-blue, unusually lipped flowers are lightly lavender-fragrant! They 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. The numerous flowers produced in summer are attractive to pollinating insects which encourage insect-feeding birds into the garden.
Due to its fast-growing nature, suitability to shady conditions and unusual floral display this species has great horticultural value. It is best to grow it in a shaded to semi-shaded area of the garden.
See Article about this plant.

Orange Bird of Paradise. One of the most well-known plants in the world. The fascinating blooms are sold as cut flowers by the million. The most tropical-looking!

Pink Strobilanthes, Chinese Rain Bell, Vein Leaf Acanthus. Impressively statured herbaceous shrub with thickened veins and bright pink flowers. Very showy plant. relatively cold tolerant.
See article about this plant: Strobilanthes, Chinese Rain Bell - a source of Blue, Green, and Purple.

Columbian petunia - a very rare plant. It is a large shrub with green herbaceous branches and bright pink flowers in spring through summer. Leaves are large, hairy and dark green. It is a nice unusual plant that should be more widely grown. Cold hardy to light freeze.

With its fragrant white flowers of a beautiful shape and very dark green waxy leaves, elongated and pointed, this plant is an amazing addition to a rare fragrant plant collection.
Slow growing, and low growing bush which makes it very valuable for landscape understory. It can be trimmed and maintained in small size 3-4 ft; however if you let it go it will grow into very attractive, dense and bushy specimen up to 5-6 ft tall. Great specimen, accent plant, and container plant.
This rare species of Tabernaemontana is often confused with T. divaricata (commonly known as Pinwheel Jasmine) and T. orientalis (Banana Bush). However this Australian relative of Pinwheen Jasmine plant has its own distinctive features, and flowers look more like T. africana, although smaller size (1" in diameter).

This variety commonly has been called "Salmon" but it fact it is bright orange. We changed the name to avoid confusion with another variety "Apricot" (item 5973) that is closer to salmon color.
One of the most rewarding flowering plants! Stunning display of orange flowers year round, from winter through spring and summer. Unlike other tecomarias, it is more of an upright shrub with naturally compact shape and doesn't shoot long leggy branches. You don't have to prune it, it keeps naturally rounded, bushy shape. Attracts butterflies.
It's an eye catching flower that appears all year round!

Thai Cherry, Scented Bread Flower, Asphota. This plant is a woody shrub with vining habit, close related to Vallaris glabra and Wrightia sp. Fragrant flowers resemble cherry flowers. They have an intense, interesting fragrance. The smell is said to be close to that of Pandan leaves, a relative of Kewda, which is used to flavor rice in some South-East Asian countries. An essential ingredient of the bunga rampai, the decorated arrangement of finely sliced, fragrant leaves used for Malay weddings. Can be trained as a compact bush and is good for container culture.
The plant can be trained into a nice small tree or trimmed into a shrub, but the best way is to let it go: the twisting branches form weird shapes. Slow growing plant, makes compact forms. The plant blooms profusely on and off during spring and summer. Relatively cold tolerant, will stand short period of cool weather. Attracts butterflies and hummingbirds.