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What plant is fragrant, easy and fast growing? Cashmere Bouquet! A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

What plant is fragrant, easy and fast growing? Cashmere Bouquet!

Clerodendrum bungei - Glory Bower, Cashmere bouquet

Clerodendrum bungei - Glory Bower, Cashmere bouquet

Clerodendrum bungei - Glory Bower, Cashmere bouquet

Clerodendrum bungei - Glory Bower, Cashmere bouquet

Clerodendrum bungei - Glory Bower, Cashmere bouquet

💐 What plant is fragrant, easy and fast growing? Cashmere Bouquet!

Clerodendrum bungei - Glory Bower, Cashmere bouquet.

🌸 Need a fast growing, spreading shrub for privacy? Cashmere bouquet is a shrub with benefits - the flowers are beautiful and sweetly fragrant.

Also ideal for the container grown patio plant.

Attracts butterflies to the large flower trusses.

🌡 Hardy to zone 8.

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How to keep weeds away? A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

How to keep weeds away?

Confederate Jasmine (Trachelospermum jasminoides)

Confederate Jasmine (Trachelospermum jasminoides)

Confederate Jasmine (Trachelospermum jasminoides)

☘️ 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:
  1. Mulch, mulch, mulch
  2. Cover the area with cardboard (still getting those Amazon boxes?) and put mulch, mulch, mulch on top.
  3. Plant dense ground cover plants! Weeds will lose competition for food and light.


    4. 🎥 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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What size can be a flower of Gardenia? Look at the crazy size of this Tahitian Gardenia flower! As big as my hand! A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

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"

💮 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" 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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What is the best perfume tree for container culture? Dwarf Chanel No 5 Tree. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

What is the best perfume tree for container culture? Dwarf Chanel No 5 Tree

Cananga fruticosa - Dwarf Ylang-Ylang, Chanel No5 Tree

Cananga fruticosa - Dwarf Ylang-Ylang, Chanel No5 Tree

Cananga fruticosa - Dwarf Ylang-Ylang, Chanel No5 Tree

Cananga fruticosa - Dwarf Ylang-Ylang, Chanel No5 Tree

Cananga fruticosa - Dwarf Ylang-Ylang, Chanel No5 Tree

Cananga fruticosa - Dwarf Ylang-Ylang, Chanel No5 Tree

Cananga fruticosa - Dwarf Ylang-Ylang, Chanel No5 Tree

Cananga fruticosa - Dwarf Ylang-Ylang, Chanel No5 Tree

⚜️ What is the best perfume tree for container culture? Dwarf Chanel No 5 Tree!

Cananga fruticosa - Dwarf Ylang-Ylang, or Chanel No5 Tree - is the most desired and sought after perfume plants.
  • 🔅 Elegant pendant flowers are a piece of art.
  • 🔅 Easy to grow, stays compact and in nice tree-like shape. Flowers smell as great as full size Ylang Ylang tree.
  • 🔅 Needs warm and humid conditions for a full aroma.
  • 🔅 Perfect container plantand a house plant, but keep in mind it requires bright light for profuse flowering.


📚 Learn more about Chanel No5 Ylang Ylang Tree

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What is Lion's Ears: the plant that keeps growing "through the flower"! A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

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

Lion's Ears - Leonotis leonurus

Lion's Ears - Leonotis leonurus

Lion's Ears - Leonotis leonurus

Lion's Ears - Leonotis leonurus

Lion's Ears - Leonotis leonurus

Lion's Ears - Leonotis leonurus

Lion's Ears - Leonotis leonurus

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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Caesalpinia pulcherrima - Red Dwarf Poinciana. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Caesalpinia pulcherrima - Red Dwarf Poinciana

Caesalpinia pulcherrima - Red Dwarf Poinciana

Caesalpinia pulcherrima - Red Dwarf Poinciana

🎨 "Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint, and the soil and sky as canvas." - Elizabeth Murray

❓ Why is it called a Peacock Flower? See yourself...

📷 Caesalpinia pulcherrima - Red Dwarf Poinciana, Bird of Paradise, Pride of Barbados, Peacock flower...

One of the most spectacular tropical bloomers. An eye-stopper!

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What is the best butterfly and hummingbird attractor? That's the one, called. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

What is the best butterfly and hummingbird attractor? Thats the one, called

Odontonema callistachyum - Butterfly Bush

What is the best butterfly and hummingbird attractor? That's the one, called Butterfly Bush.

Odontonema callistachyum - Butterfly Bush, is an easy to grow medium size shrub. It is very fast growing and will bloom for you in both shade or full sun.

🌞 Here in Florida it starts blooming in late Winter and keeps going throughout the year.

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Why Bauhinias are called Orchid Trees: orchid flowers with butterfly wings. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Why Bauhinias are called Orchid Trees: orchid flowers with butterfly wings

Bauhinia monandra - Nepoleons Plume

Bauhinia monandra - Nepoleons Plume

Why Bauhinias are called Orchid Trees: orchid flowers with butterfly wings...

Bauhinia trees have striking orchid-like flowers in hues ranging from white and pink to purple and red. The flowers boast delicate petals with intricate patterns, resembling the elegance of true orchids.

The leaves are deeply divided, typically into two lobes or halves, hence another common name "Butterfly tree" due to their resemblance to butterfly wings.

Need a fast growing, easy to care tree with beautiful blooms? Orchid trees offer quick shade solution and guarantee a spectacular winter flower show.

📚 Learn more about Orchid trees

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What is the best fast growing flowering shrub to hide an unwanted view? Sunflower Tree will do the job just in one season! A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

What is the best fast growing flowering shrub to hide an unwanted view? Sunflower Tree will do the job just in one season!

Sunflower Tree, Tree Marigold

🌼 What is the best fast growing flowering shrub to hide an unwanted view? Sunflower Tree will do the job just in one season!

Sunflower Tree, or Tree Marigold, is a fast-growing shrub, an ideal option for quickly concealing unsightly areas with its rapid growth. Not only does it provide effective coverage, but it also boasts cheerful, sunflower-like blooms!

Reaching heights and widths of approximately 10 feet, this resilient plant withstands light freezes and rejuvenates vigorously each spring. Sunflower - is for Happy Garden!

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What is the bluest flower of the Tropics? A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

What is the bluest flower of the Tropics?

Eranthemum pulchellum - Blue Sage, Lead Flower

Eranthemum pulchellum - Blue Sage, Lead Flower

Eranthemum pulchellum - Blue Sage, Lead Flower

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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