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How to keep weeds away?
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:
"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!
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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"
💮 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!
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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 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
💐 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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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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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
⚜️ 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.
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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.
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What orchids can be grown in the ground?
Spathoglottis Tropical Punch - Sorbet Ground Orchid
Spathoglottis Tropical Punch - Sorbet Ground Orchid
Epidendrum radicans - Orange Reed Ground Orchid, Sunrise
Spathoglottis Lemon Kiss - Sorbet Ground Orchid
Bletilla striata x formosana Kate - Yokohama Ground orchid
Epidendrum elongatum x radicans - Lavender Reed Ground Orchid
Spathoglottis Rainbow - Sorbet Ground Orchid
Arundina graminifolia - Bamboo Orchid, Bird Ground Orchid
🌸 What orchids can be grown in the ground?
Orchids have a mystique that seems to set them apart from most other flowers... they are elegant and almost unreal in their perfection... But not every gardener has luck growing traditional orchids.
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Orchids have a mystique that seems to set them apart from most other flowers... they are elegant and almost unreal in their perfection... But not every gardener has luck growing traditional orchids.
- ⚜️ Terrestrial orchids (a.k.a. ground orchids) grow in regular garden soil instead of in the air on tree branches!
- ⚜️ Ground orchids come in many colors and shapes.
- ⚜️ Ground orchids will be happy to bloom in sun or shade and are very easy to grow!
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When you need an easy plant for a shady spot, Calathea zebrina is a winner!
Calathea zebrina - Zebra Plant
🌿 When you need an easy plant for a shady spot, Calathea zebrina is a winner!
Calathea zebrina - Zebra Plant - is an absolute winner for your shade garden. It's very easy to establish, fast growing and always happy - as long as you water it💧
✅ Great plant for beginners, Zebra Plant won't disappoint you!
It's a large and vigorous Calathea, beautiful velvety leaves have dark green stripes, like Zebra stripes
The underside of the leaves is purple and not always visible right away because leaves grow horizontally.
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Calathea zebrina - Zebra Plant - is an absolute winner for your shade garden. It's very easy to establish, fast growing and always happy - as long as you water it💧
✅ Great plant for beginners, Zebra Plant won't disappoint you!
It's a large and vigorous Calathea, beautiful velvety leaves have dark green stripes, like Zebra stripes
The underside of the leaves is purple and not always visible right away because leaves grow horizontally.
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What is the bluest flower of the Tropics?
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!
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- 💙 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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