Garden Blog - Top Tropicals

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!

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Date: 20 May 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

What plant has fragrant leaves and flowers? Soft and fuzzy Tropical Lilac!

Cornutia grandifolia, African lilac, Jamaican lilac, Tropical Lilac

What plant has fragrant leaves and flowers? Soft and fuzzy Tropical Lilac!

🟣 Cornutia grandifolia, also known as African lilac, Jamaican lilac, or Tropical Lilac, is a fast-growing, large shrub with astonishing fragrant velvet leaves.
🟣 Tall stalks shoot out multiple lavender blue flowers, creating an outstanding display.
🟣 Attracting butterflies and hummingbirds, it adds life to any garden with its lively inflorescence
🟣 Leaves can grow very large, up to 10" wide. They are fuzzy, very soft to touch, and aromatic, emitting pleasant tobacco-like scent when rubbed.
🟣 Relatively cold hardy, Tropical Lilac thrives in full sun or semi-shade positions, bringing joy with its pleasant aroma and beautiful blooms.

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Date: 19 May 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Flamingo pink with fruity fragrance!

Quisqualis Indica - Rangoon Creeper

Flamingo pink with fruity fragrance!

💕 Quisqualis Indica - Rangoon Creeper - is an extremely beautiful plant.
💕 Shrubby vine with pale-pink to deep crimson star shaped flowers, covering the entire plant when in full bloom.
💕 It's scent is unforgettable, fruity and intoxicating...
💕 The flowers are born in clusters and each flower has many variations of color, depending on how old the flower is.
💕 The flower starts out white and or pink striped and turn solid pink and finally dark pink on maturity.
💕 Can grow into large woody vine covering a fence or big trellis.

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Date: 23 May 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Index of TopTropicals Telegram Channel

🗂 Index of TopTropicals Telegram Channel

Follow these tags to find your interests:

#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.

💊 #Remedies - Medicinal plants.

☁️ #Shade_Garden - Plants suitable for low light conditions.

🌼 #Trees - Spectacular flowering tropical trees.

🏆 #Win - Contests, Sweepstakes, and other specials.

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Date: 1 May 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Why this blue tropical flower has a violet fragrance?

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!

💙 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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Date: 24 Apr 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

What plant is fragrant, easy and fast growing? 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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Date: 7 Jun 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Flower of Angels that every gardener wants: Angels Trumpet

Angel's Trumpet (Brugmansia) pink

Angel's Trumpet (Brugmansia) white

Angel's Trumpet (Brugmansia) peach

Angel's Trumpet (Brugmansia) yellow

Angel's Trumpet (Brugmansia) pink

Angel's Trumpet (Brugmansia) white

👼 Flower of Angels that every gardener wants: Angel's Trumpet.

🎺 Angel's Trumpet (Brugmansia) is one of the most wanted flowering shrubs in Southern landscapes.
🎺 It is known for its large, trumpet-shaped flowers that hang downward from the branches.
🎺 The flowers come in a range of colors🌈 including white, yellow, pink, orange, and emit a sweet, intoxicating fragrance, especially in the evening.
🎺 Very easy to grow and undemanding, this fast growing shrub or a small tree will fill your garden with happiness, blooms and fragrance just within one season.
🎺 Heavy feeder! Apply fertilizer on a monthly basis for rapid growth and free flowering.

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Date: 5 Jun 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

The Number One King of Perfume -

Jasmine Sambac Belle of India

🌸✨ The Number One King of Perfume - Jasmine Sambac in bloom! Can you smell it from here? 😉

🔘 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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Date: 3 Jun 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

The truth about Seaside Clerodendrum: it can cover the whole beach!

Clerodendrum inerme - Sorcerer's Bush, Seaside Clerodendrum

🌊 The truth about Seaside Clerodendrum: it can cover the whole beach! 😎

✅ 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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Date: 2 Jun 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Why everybody wants this plant? Intoxicating sweet fragrance is the answer!

Cestrum nocturnum - Night blooming jasmine

🍬 Why everybody wants this plant? Intoxicating sweet fragrance is the answer! Do you have one?

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.

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