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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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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

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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 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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Brown thumb? No problem. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Brown thumb? No problem

Peperomia x scandens - Emerald Girl

Peperomia x scandens - Emerald Girl

Peperomia x scandens - Emerald Girl

Peperomia x scandens - Emerald Girl

Peperomia x scandens - Emerald Girl

👍🏾 Brown thumb? No problem. This is how to get an indestructible massive indoor plant that is easier than a plastic plant!

🌿 Peperomia x scandens - Emerald Girl is the most exceptional plant we've ever seen.
- doesn't care about water
- doesn't care about light
- doesn't care about cats messing with it
- just keeps growing, and growing, and growing...

😵 It is an indoor miracle!

🛒 Get the plant no one can kill

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Hot-hot-hot HEART! Yet so tasty and flavorful! How hot is it, really? A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Hot-hot-hot HEART! Yet so tasty and flavorful! How hot is it, really?

Capsicum annuum x chinense - Biquinho Pepper

Capsicum annuum x chinense - Biquinho Pepper

Capsicum annuum x chinense - Biquinho Pepper

Capsicum annuum x chinense - Biquinho Pepper

Capsicum annuum x chinense - Biquinho Pepper

🌶 Hot-hot-hot HEART! Yet so tasty and flavorful! How hot is it, really?

🔥 Capsicum annuum x chinense - Biquinho Pepper ❤️-shaped!
  • ❤️ An exceptionally distinct pepper, an ancient hybrid of Capsicum annuum (bird pepper) and Capsicum chinense (habanero group).
  • ❤️ While of small size (1"), these heart-shaped red fruits are prolifically produced along the branches of compact plants.
  • ❤️ Extremely showy, ornamental peppers with culinary benefits. Great for container garden.
  • ❤️ What separates this variety from others is its unique intense fruity habanero flavor which packs quite a bang! 💥
  • ❤️ For abundant crops, fertilizer with Sunshine C-Cibus plant booster.


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How June plum can "fruit itself to death": look at this heavy load! A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

How June plum can fruit itself to death: look at this heavy load!

DWARF June plum, Ambarella (Spondias cytherea)

🍈 How June plum can "fruit itself to death": look at this heavy load!

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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What orchids can be grown in the ground? A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

What orchids can be grown in the ground?

Spathoglottis Tropical Punch - Sorbet Ground Orchid

Spathoglottis Tropical Punch - Sorbet Ground Orchid

Spathoglottis Tropical Punch - Sorbet Ground Orchid

Epidendrum radicans - Orange Reed Ground Orchid, Sunrise

Epidendrum radicans - Orange Reed Ground Orchid, Sunrise

Spathoglottis Lemon Kiss - Sorbet Ground Orchid

Spathoglottis Lemon Kiss - Sorbet Ground Orchid

Bletilla striata x formosana Kate - Yokohama Ground orchid

Bletilla striata x formosana Kate - Yokohama Ground orchid

Epidendrum elongatum x radicans - Lavender Reed Ground Orchid

Epidendrum elongatum x radicans - Lavender Reed Ground Orchid

Spathoglottis Rainbow - Sorbet Ground Orchid

Spathoglottis Rainbow - Sorbet Ground Orchid

Arundina graminifolia - Bamboo Orchid, Bird 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.
  • ⚜️ 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! A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

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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