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Date: 18 May 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

How to get rid of a bad luck with the Garlic Vine?

Garlic vine (Mansoa alliacea)

👾 How to get rid of a bad luck with the Garlic Vine?

🟣 Garlic vine (Mansoa alliacea) is one of the most wanted flowering tropical vines.
🟣 When in full bloom, it looks like a cascade of blue-purple over a fence or trellis.
🟣 The fun part is, crushed leaves smell like garlic, which will keep away the vampires and bad luck!
🟣 Deep lavender flowers with white throat fading to a paler lavender within a few days, and you can see all three colors on the plant at the same time.
🟣 Garlic vine has moderate growth rate and can stay compact in a pot as a specimen, and even can be grown as a house plant.

📚 Garlic vine: how to get rid of bad luck

🎥 Video: Garlic vine keeps away the vampires.

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Date: 13 May 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Fire on top of the tree! What is it bursting with orange brilliance? Meet Colvilles Glory

Colvillea racemosa, Colvilles Glory

🔥 Fire on top of the tree! What is it bursting with orange brilliance? Meet Colvilles Glory.

Colvillea racemosa, also known as Colvilles Glory, is a stunning specimen tree renowned for its vibrant orange flowers that bloom in fall.

🟠 Fast growing tree able to reach heights of 30-50 ft
🟠 Striking addition to any landscape where you need to grow a tree quickly.
🟠 Fern-like foliage that may shed in cooler winters offers a captivating display with its long inflorescences and bright yellow stamens.
🟠 Drought-tolerant and resistant to pests.
🟠 Easy-to-care-for and relatively cold hardy.

🛒 Add some color to your garden with Colvilles Glory

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Date: 28 Apr 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

What is Lions Ears: the plant that keeps growing through the flower!

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

📚 More about Leonotis Lion's Ears

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Date: 23 May 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Index of TopTropicals Telegram Channel

🗂 Index of TopTropicals Telegram Channel

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#Butterfly_Plants - Butterfly attracting plants.

#Container_Garden - Plants suitable for container garden and indoor culture.

#Fertilizers - All the truth about fertilizers, plant food supplements, and our recommendations for different types of plants.

#Food_Forest - Fruit trees, Spice plants, and Edibles.
Including: #Avocado, #Mango, #Papaya, #Guava, #Jackfruit, #Loquat

📖 #Fun_Facts - interesting plant facts and legends.

🌳 #Hedges_with_benefits - Practical approach to your landscape and how to properly select showy and useful plants for your yard.

♍️ #Horoscope - Plant Horoscopes and Cat Horoscopes. Did you know that cats also have their Zodiac signs?

🛠 #How_to - Q&A about growing plants, tropical garden lifehacks.

👀 #Nature_Wonders - Unusual, amusing, outrageous, bizarre plants...

🐈 #PeopleCats - our Favorite PeopleCats (and some PeopleDogs, too).

🌸 #Perfume_Plants - Fragrant plants and perfume trees.

✍️ #Quotes - Interesting quotes.

#Recipes - Exotic recipes for tropical fruit and edibles.

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Date: 27 May 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

What do you think about this Giant? This is the coolest looking flower!

Aristolochia gigantea var. Brasiliensis - Giant Pelican Flower

🐙 What do you think about this Giant? This is the coolest looking flower!

Aristolochia gigantea var. Brasiliensis - Giant Pelican Flower - is one of the most outrageous flowers in the world.
This striking plant from Brazil is known for its outrageous, huge - over ten-inch-long - lemon-scented flowers 🍋
Flowers have an elaborate pattern of white and mottled reddish brown.
Not a vigorous vine, making it easy to train on a stake, trellis, or in a hanging basket.
Rare and highly collectible variety.
Like all Dunchman's Pipes we mentioned earlier, this plant is a great butterfly attractor.

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Date: 27 May 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Why sunflowers are growing on a tree?

Tree Marigold (Tithonia diversifolia)

🌼 Why sunflowers are growing on a tree?

🌻 Sunflower tree or Tree Marigold (Tithonia diversifolia) that we mentioned earlier, is a perfect choice when you need a fast-growing shrub to hide unwanted view in just a few months.
🌻 Beautiful sunflowers look really happy! The flowers that are about 3 inches wide.
🌻 When it's fully grown, Sunflower Tree is about 10 feet tall and 10 feet wide, like a big, cozy blanket.
🌻 Tolerates both cold and heat.
🌻 Attracts lots of butterflies and bees 🐝
🌻 If the winter was too cold, it still bounces back every spring, even stronger than before, like a champion.
🌻 Sunflower Tree is a tough, colorful dense plant that grows fast and makes your yard look awesome.

🛒 Get Sunflower Tree for your Happy Garden

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Date: 26 May 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Why this Bleeding Heart is bleeding pink?

Clerodendrum speciosum - Red Bleeding Heart

❤️ Why this Bleeding Heart is bleeding pink?

Clerodendrum speciosum, also known as the Red Bleeding Heart, is a captivating twist on the classic Bleeding Heart, C. thomsoniae that we mentioned earlier.

❣️ Features stunning pink bracts and vibrant red heart-shaped flowers, enhancing the charm of the original variety.
❣️ Vigorous and fast-growing vine, perfect for creating a privacy hedge (as on the video) or a cascading floral display over a fence.
❣️ Butterflies and bees adore its bright pink-and-red flowers, making it a pollinator-friendly choice 🐝
❣️ Ideal for quickly covering fences or structures with its lush, showy blooms in just one season.

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Date: 24 May 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Another flamingo pink Quisqualis in full bloom

Quisqualis

Another Flamingo pink Quisqualis in full bloom - you never have enough of this flower fruity fragrance!

🛒 Get your own Quisqualis vine

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Date: 24 May 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Purple sandpaper? You cant get enough of this purple! And it has plenty of it: Queens Wreath

Petrea volubilis, Queen's Wreath, Sandpaper vine

💜👑 Purple sandpaper? You can't get enough of this purple! And it has plenty of it: Queen's Wreath.

🟣 Petrea volubilis, also known as Queen's Wreath or Sandpaper vine, is a twining vine with large, rough leaves - just like a sandpaper!
🟣 But look at the flowers - spectacular Royal show! Does it remind you of a Northern Wisteria? It is actually another common name of Petrea - Tropical Wisteria.
🟣 The tall clusters of purple flowers, reaching over 1 foot long 👀 are truly spectacular.
🟣 Thriving in warm and humid conditions, its blooms last a couple of days, but the blue calices persist much longer, and more new flowers are coming every day.
🟣 Attracts butterflies, bees, and hummingbirds 🐝
🟣 This woody vine grows fast and can cover a large fence within just a couple of seasons. It's a show stopper! 👏

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Date: 21 May 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Why is it called Parrot Beak Flower?

Gmelina philippensis, Parrot's Beak

Why is it called Parrot Beak Flower?

🔸 Gmelina philippensis, also known as Parrot's Beak, is a unique round shrub with whimsical pendant branches and leaves.
🔸 Leaves and flowers unmistakably resemble a parrot's beak, adding endless whimsy to the garden.
🔸 Vibrant yellow blossoms hang upside-down, creating a perpetual garden carnival all year long.
🔸 It is a butterfly magnet!
🔸 The leaves, in their comical way, mimic a parrot doing a joyful handstand. Vibrant and green, they bring smiles effortlessly.
🔸 Low-maintenance, sun-loving plant, it grows fast, making it suitable for garden centerpieces or live hedges.
🔸 Water-wise and tolerant of dry spells, it adds a touch of the tropics to any garden while requiring minimal care.

🎥 Watch YouTube Video about Parrot's Beak

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