Garden Blog - Top Tropicals

The number one flower for shady spots! Every tropical gardener wants Brunfelsias: the magical, fragrant shrubs of Day and Night

🌗 The number one flower for shady spots! Every tropical gardener wants Brunfelsias: the magical, fragrant shrubs of Day and Night.

💠 Brunfelsias are truly enchanting tropical flowers. There are two groups - purple-flowered and cream/white-flowered.
💠 All Brunfelsias are wonderfully fragrant.
💠 Perfect flowering shrub for shaded areas; ideal for growing in containers.
💠 Compact and graceful growers.
💠 Purple-flowered are known as Yesterday-Today-Tomorrow for their magical color transformation from purple to lavender to white over three days. Examples: B. grandiflora, B. paucifolia, B. australis.
💠 White-flowered: intensely fragrant at night, earning the name Lady of the Night.

💠 Hybrids: A standout hybrid is Brunfelsia isola, that we mentioned earlier. It is blending the best of both purple and white varieties, inheriting purple color from the purple parent and night fragrance from the white one.

Brunfelsia lactea

Brunfelsia australis

Brunfelsia grandiflora

Brunfelsia manaca

Brunfelsia grandiflora

Brunfelsia paucifolia

🌗 The number one flower for shady spots! Every tropical gardener wants Brunfelsias: the magical, fragrant shrubs of Day and Night.

💠 Brunfelsias are truly enchanting tropical flowers. There are two groups - purple-flowered and cream/white-flowered.
💠 All Brunfelsias are wonderfully fragrant.
💠 Perfect flowering shrub for shaded areas; ideal for growing in containers.
💠 Compact and graceful growers.
💠 Purple-flowered are known as Yesterday-Today-Tomorrow for their magical color transformation from purple to lavender to white over three days. Examples: B. grandiflora, B. paucifolia, B. australis.
💠 White-flowered: intensely fragrant at night, earning the name Lady of the Night.

💠 Hybrids: A standout hybrid is Brunfelsia isola, that we mentioned earlier. It is blending the best of both purple and white varieties, inheriting purple color from the purple parent and night fragrance from the white one.

Solandra maxima variegata

🌼 How to cover a fence quickly with a large impressive vine? Try Fragrant Butter Cup of Gold with Coconut fragrance!

🏆 Variegated Butter Cup, Cup-of-Gold or Chalice Vine - Solandra maxima variegata - is a stunning Vine with large fragrant flowers shaped like chalices.

☀️ Very fast growing and large plant, needing a strong support or a fence.
☀️ Boasts glossy variegated leaves with bright purple flush on new growth.
☀️ Large, showy off-white flowers shaped like chalices, up to 7" across, are truly spectacular with reflexed lobes marked with a purplish brown ridge.
☀️ Fragrant, especially at night, the flowers emit a coconut-like scent
☀️ Blooming intermittently, mainly in the winter dry season, this vine adds charm to any garden with its striking beauty.