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What is this shocking pink gardenia? Does it exist?
Kopsia fruticosa - Pink Gardenia
Kopsia fruticosa - Pink Gardenia
Kopsia fruticosa - Pink Gardenia
Kopsia fruticosa - Pink Gardenia
- 🌸 Kopsia fruticosa: fondly known as the "Pink Gardenia", this gem is one of nature's most exquisite and elusive treasures.
- 🌸 Its flowers are a marvel, transitioning from delicate light pink to deep hues with crimson centers, emitting a subtle fragrance.
- 🌸 Imagine our surprise when we stumbled upon this enchanting plant labeled as a Pink Gardenia during our expedition in Thailand!
- 🌸 Intrigued, we delved deeper into its botanical identity. While technically not a Gardenia, this beauty is a close relative of Plumeria and Adenium we mentioned earlier, as well as Tabernaemontana (also often confused with Gardenia). All these beauties belong to the esteemed plant family Apocynaceae.
- 🌸 It's no wonder this plant has captured our hearts; its beauty is simply irresistible, leaving us wanting more.
- 🌸 With its compact growth habit, it's perfect for containers or in-ground planting, adding a touch of elegance to any garden space.
🛒 Treat yourself with a Pink Gardenia!
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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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Horny plant hanging in the air
Staghorn fern (Platycerium)
Staghorn fern (Platycerium)
Staghorn fern (Platycerium)
Staghorn fern (Platycerium)
- 👀 Staghorn fern (Platycerium) is one of those #Nature_Wonders... Everyone who sees it, wants to have one!
- 👀 Showy, tropical looking epiphyte that can be grown on a tree or in a large hanging basket.
- 👀 It is able to grow high in the trees of the rainforest, often grows in large masses.
- 👀 Long, pendulous, much bifurcated fertile fronds produce spores on special cup-shaped appendages. Basal fronds form a crown-shaped basket.
🛒 Order online - we have a few X-large plants
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The Number One King of Perfume -
Jasmine Sambac Belle of India
- 🔘 In full bloom today - Jasmine Sambac Belle of India. Everyone wants this variety, with long elegant petals and a fine structure.
- 🔘 Jasmine Sambac is number one source of essential oils in perfumery.
- 🔘 In India, this variety also goes under names Mangalore Malli, Uduppii Malli, or Shankarapuram Malli.
- 🔘 Belle of India can be grown as a small bush specimen, or a fragrant low hedge.
- 🔘 Perfect for containers, too. Takes both sun and shade. The more sun - the more flowers.
🛒 Get your own Perfume Factory for your garden
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The truth about Seaside Clerodendrum: it can cover the whole beach!
Clerodendrum inerme - Sorcerer's Bush, Seaside Clerodendrum
Clerodendrum inerme - Sorcerer's Bush, Seaside Clerodendrum
✅ Need to cover a large area, slope, or a fence with a pretty, fragrant dense shrub just in one season? This is your plant!
- 🏖 Clerodendrum inerme, also known as Wild Jasmine, Sorcerer's Bush, or Seaside Clerodendrum, is perfect for covering large areas or fences quickly in just one season. This is perfect privacy plant!
- 🏖 It is called Seaside Clerodendrum for a reason! It grows anywhere, including sand and, as we discovered, even over hot black plastic ground cover 😎
- 🏖 Fast growing vining shrub with round, shiny, deep green leaves. Always in flower with white, fragrant blooms.
- 🏖 Extremely hardy: withstands cold, heat, salt, and drought. Not picky about soil (can grow on sand! it's seaside!) and tolerates drought well.
- 🏖 Ideal for coastal areas, tolerates salt spray and harsh sun, as well as shaded areas.
- 🏖 Versatile: suitable for topiary or bonsai.
- 🏖 Wind-tolerant and robust, making it a reliable choice for various settings.
🛒 Get your indestructible, fast growing Seaside Clerodendrum and have fun! 🏖
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Why everybody wants this plant? Intoxicating sweet fragrance is the answer!
Cestrum nocturnum - Night blooming jasmine
Cestrum nocturnum - Night blooming jasmine
Cestrum nocturnum - Night blooming jasmine
Cestrum nocturnum - Night blooming jasmine
⭐️ This fast growing, dense shrub is a garden favorite, one of the most famous and desirable fragrant plants.
🌃 The sweetest fragrance at night is intoxicating.
🌄 Flowers are pale yellow to white, open at night and stay extremely fragrant until sunrise.
🙏 These flowers are widely used in India and other countries of South Asia for perfumery, medicinal applications and in religious ceremonies.
🏡 Best location will be near driveway, window or entrance, where the magic fragrance can be appreciated.
🛒 Order online
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Tired of an ugly hedge? Replace it with Aglaia - Chinese Rice Flower, and enjoy Lemony Fragrance year around!
Aglaia odorata - Chinese Perfume Plant flowers
Aglaia odorata - Chinese Perfume Plant
Aglaia odorata - Chinese Perfume Plant
Aglaia odorata - Chinese Perfume Plant hedge
- 🟡 Aglaia odorata is also known as Chinese Perfume Plant, Chinese Rice Flower, or Mock Lemon.
- 🟡 The plant has an outstanding fragrance from tiny, rice-sized yellow flowers.
- 🟡 Aglaia grows into a dense bush without pruning. It is relatively slow-growing; so large plants are rare and hard to find.
- 🟡 Easy to grow bush, it is perfect for a cold tolerant tropical hedge.
- 🟡 Aglaia has many medicinal uses; contains odorine and odorinol, which have cancer chemopreventive activity.
🛒 Get a few bushes of Aglaia for lemony-fragrant hedge
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How to cover a fence quickly with a large impressive vine? Try Fragrant Butter Cup of Gold with Coconut fragrance!
Solandra maxima variegata
Solandra maxima variegata
Solandra maxima variegata
Solandra maxima variegata
- 🏆 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.
🛒 Get your own Cup-of-Gold 🏆
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Another flamingo pink Quisqualis in full bloom
Quisqualis
🛒 Get your own Quisqualis vine
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