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How to grow Zebra in container?
Aphelandra squarrosa Dania (Snow White)
Aphelandra squarrosa Dania (Snow White)
Aphelandra squarrosa Dania (Snow White)
Aphelandra squarrosa Dania (or Snow White) - White Zebra Plant is a showy small perennial with unusual leaves and pretty flowers.
White Zebra gets its name from white stripes on the leaves.
White Zebra is one of the best house plants.
This plant is not only pretty because of its white-veined foliage, but also for the apical inflorescence with its beautiful yellow bracts.
Easy to grow, takes low light, with average water needs.
🛒 Get your own White Zebra
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The number one flower for shady spots! Every tropical gardener wants Brunfelsias: the magical, fragrant shrubs of Day and Night
Brunfelsia lactea
Brunfelsia australis
Brunfelsia grandiflora
Brunfelsia manaca
Brunfelsia grandiflora
Brunfelsia paucifolia
- 💠 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.
Examples: B. americana, B. nitida, B. plicata, B. manaca.
📚 Learn more about purple Brunfelsias:
Yesterday-Today-Tomorrow, Brunfelsia from Brazil
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What is the most popular and the easiest tropical fruit tree grown as a house plant?
No doubt about it - it's a Coffee tree!
- 🔸 Coffee is the most popular fruit tree suitable for indoors.
- 🔸 Coffee is shade loving plant, easy to grow, providing regular water.
- 🔸 Coffee grows into a beautiful dark green shrub or small tree.
- 🔸 The white, fragrant, star-shaped flowers are clustered and resemble gardenias to which they are related.
- 🔸 The whole fruit is edible, it is a small fleshy berry changing in color from green to yellow to red.
- 🔸 The seeds are the actual "coffee beans", they can easily be dried, roasted and ground at home.
🎁 Coffee is a perfect gift plant and a great indoor container fruit tree.
🎥 Coffee Tree Showcase · Grow your own: Free Coffee Everyday
🛒 Get your own Coffee Tree
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What is this Lavender Marble Perfume? Is it a possible combination?
Brunfelsia isola, or Lavender Lady of the Night
Brunfelsia isola, or Lavender Lady of the Night
Brunfelsia isola, or Lavender Lady of the Night
Brunfelsia isola, or Lavender Lady of the Night
The flowers of this rare hybrid - Brunfelsia isola, or Lavender Lady of the Night, are a "marble" twist of cream and purple, changing hue unpredictably. They are deliciously fragrant at night.
❓ Why such an unusual combination?
- 🌟 Nocturnum flowers (fragrant at night) are mostly white or off-white. This rare Brunfelsia is a cross between B. americana and B. grandiflora.
- 🌟Brunfelsia isola has the benefit of fragrant cream-colored brunfelsia and light purple color from the other parent. 👫
- 🌟 Flowers change sometimes to cream-yellow, remaining purple margins.
👑 A must have 1 for rare fragrant plant collection!
🛒 Order Brunfelsia isola
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Brown thumb? No problem
Peperomia x scandens - Emerald Girl
Peperomia x scandens - Emerald Girl
Peperomia x scandens - Emerald Girl
🌿 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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