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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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Why this blue tropical flower has a violet fragrance?
Mazabuka, Blue Lips (Sclerochiton harveyanus)
Mazabuka, Blue Lips (Sclerochiton harveyanus)
Mazabuka, Blue Lips (Sclerochiton harveyanus)
Mazabuka, Blue Lips (Sclerochiton harveyanus)
Why this blue tropical flower has a violet fragrance?
You already saw one unusual blue flower of Tropics - Lead Flower. This one is even more interesting!
👄 Mazabuka, or Blue Lips (Sclerochiton harveyanus) has mauve-blue, unusually lipped flowers that are lightly violet-lavender-fragrant!
🐝🐦 The numerous flowers produced in summer are attractive to pollinating insects which encourage insect-feeding birds into the garden.
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You already saw one unusual blue flower of Tropics - Lead Flower. This one is even more interesting!
👄 Mazabuka, or Blue Lips (Sclerochiton harveyanus) has mauve-blue, unusually lipped flowers that are lightly violet-lavender-fragrant!
- 💙 Blue Lips 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.
- 💙 Shade lover. Will happily bloom in the shade!
🐝🐦 The numerous flowers produced in summer are attractive to pollinating insects which encourage insect-feeding birds into the garden.
📚 Learn more: Surprising Violet fragrance of the Blue Lips
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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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Who thinks this is an Eggplant? Do you? What is it?
🍆 Who thinks this is an Eggplant? Do you? What is it?
Correct answer:Avocado Red Russel.
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Its not a cherry blossom! What is this pink-flowered beauty? Its one of the most beautiful Florida trees
Tabebuia impetiginosa - Dwarf Pink Tabebuia
🌸 It's not a cherry blossom! What is this pink-flowered beauty? It's one of the most beautiful Florida trees...
Tabebuia impetiginosa - Dwarf Pink Tabebuia, is a spectacular Winter-Spring bloomer!
❄️ Tabebuia is a cold hardy tropical, at least to upper 20's. Grows well in Central Florida.
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- ♦️ Nice landscape tree, compact and fits small yards.
- ♦️Beautiful bright pink flowers with yellow throats, covering the tree before new leaves appear.
- ♦️ Winter bloomer - great choice with snow birds who stay in Florida in winter and want to see some flowers.
- ♦️ More tabebuia varieties exist with yellow, white, purple flowers.
❄️ Tabebuia is a cold hardy tropical, at least to upper 20's. Grows well in Central Florida.
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How to grow the biggest fruit on Earth
Jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus)
Jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus)
Jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus)
🍐 How to grow the biggest fruit on Earth.
Jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus) is one of the most fascinating tropical fruit, as we showed earlier.
🔻 Secrets of Jackfruit successful production:
🎥 Videos: of the fruit and of the tree
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Jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus) is one of the most fascinating tropical fruit, as we showed earlier.
- 👉 In spite of reputation being ultra tropical, the tree is not as cold sensitive as everyone believes. Mature trees can withstand light frost for a few hours without significant damage. Keeping Jackfruit in a pot is also an option in colder areas.
- 👉 The fruit is so large and heavy that the tree has a smart feature to produce only at the base of the trunk. This makes it possible to keep Jackfruit tree at very short height - 6-7 ft tall. It can be grown in containers considering regular topping/pruning.
🔻 Secrets of Jackfruit successful production:
- 📍 Frost free temperatures
- 📍 Soil rich of organic matter (compost, manure, peat moss)
- 📍 Moist soil and regular watering
- 📍 Constant pruning and keeping under 7-10 ft
- 📍Regular application of fertilizer, microelements and SUNSHINE-Honey supplement for better quality fruit.
🎥 Videos: of the fruit and of the tree
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One of the top 10 most impressive trees on the planet
Royal poinciana, Flamboyant tree, Delonix regia
💃 One of the top 10 most impressive trees on the planet
✍️ "To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow." - Audrey Hepburn
📷 Royal poinciana, Flamboyant tree, Delonix regia - one of the most popular tropical trees covered with bright red orchid-like flowers from late winter through early summer.
"The Royal Poinciana is one of the most spectacular flowering trees in the USA, and probably among the top 10 on this planet. In full bloom, it is like a regal elephant caparisoned in red and yellow brilliance."
(Larry M. Schokman, The Kampong, National Tropical Botanic Garden)
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✍️ "To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow." - Audrey Hepburn
📷 Royal poinciana, Flamboyant tree, Delonix regia - one of the most popular tropical trees covered with bright red orchid-like flowers from late winter through early summer.
"The Royal Poinciana is one of the most spectacular flowering trees in the USA, and probably among the top 10 on this planet. In full bloom, it is like a regal elephant caparisoned in red and yellow brilliance."
(Larry M. Schokman, The Kampong, National Tropical Botanic Garden)
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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
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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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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