Garden Blog - Top Tropicals
Three tropical plants that help you to stay young
- Longevity Spinach - as the name suggests, this is one of the superfoods, and it lowers cholesterol. The leaves and young shoot tips can be used fresh in salads, steamed, used in stir fry, stews, and soups. Just add them at the very end. Recipes here
- Amlak, or Otaheite Gooseberry - fruit is a major ingredient of Chavyanprash, a popular Ayurvedic tonic. It is the richest source of vitamin C. Makes a perfect lemonade.
- Noni - a world-famous medicinal fruit. The noni juice works on a cellular level and rejuvenates nearly every system in the body. Large leaves, very tropical look, quick to fruit... This is a perfect tree for container and indoors. PDF: Noni's health benefits (Tropical Treasures Magazine).
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What size can be a flower of Gardenia? Look at the crazy size of this Tahitian Gardenia flower! As big as my hand!
Gardenia taitensis "Heaven Scent"
Gardenia taitensis "Heaven Scent" with a double flower, up to 6" in diameter!
- 💠 This hybrid is very rare and hard to find.
- 💠 The intoxicating sweet fragrant blossoms are creamy white works of art.
- 💠 Huge double flowers up to 5-6" in diameter and large glossy oval leaves.
- 💠 Perfect container plant .
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How to keep weeds away?
"Give a weed an inch and it’ll take a yard...."
Hot season started, and so did the weed season!
💚 Ways to keep your yard weed-free without use of herbicide:
- Mulch, mulch, mulch
- Cover the area with cardboard (still getting those Amazon boxes?) and put mulch, mulch, mulch on top.
- Plant dense ground cover plants! Weeds will lose competition for food and light.
🎥 Did you know that Confederate Jasmine (Trachelospermum jasminoides) makes not only a trellis/fence solution, but also a dense fragrant ground cover? It's not demanding, fast growing, drought tolerant plant, takes full sun or shade. Sweet, deliciously fragrant flowers is a pleasant bonus!
🛒Get your fragrant ground cover
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Cat of the Day - George
George is a completely black cat - this kind brings good luck. He is wishing you a lucky day tomorrow and a good rest tonight. 🌜
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How June plum can fruit itself to death: look at this heavy load!
DWARF June plum, Ambarella (Spondias cytherea)
This exciting fruit tree will amaze you with its ability to fruit abundantly at a young age and small size. This is a DWARF variety of June plum, or Ambarella (Spondias cytherea).
- ✳️ Grows as a compact 6-7 ft tree.
- ✳️ Very aromatic fruit, Its feel and juiciness resembles that of a mango (it's Mango's close relative) but with completely different, delicious flavor.
- ✳️ Expect heavy fruit production within a year. Starts fruiting in winter and holds the fruit up to 6-8 months and more.
- ✳️ Perfect containerDWARF variety of June plum, or Ambarella (Spondias cytherea). fruit tree.
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