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🍔 Hamburger Bean: how to cover a fence fast with an exotic vine: Jade Vine here.

• 🟡 Mucuna sloanei - Yellow Jade Vine or Hamburger Bean. You saw the Sea-Green Jade vine in our earlier post. This one is lemon yellow.
• 🟡 It is much more hardier than the Sea-Green variety and is super fast growing!
• 🟡 This is a high-climbing woody vine native to rain forests of South America.
• 🟡 It has long, rope-like stalks hanging below the forest canopy where night-flying bats can easily access the fragrant blossoms.
• 🟡 The name Brown Hamburger Bean is because of the beautiful seeds (looking like little hamburgers) that are often collected and polished by natives and made into lovely necklaces and bracelets.

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🍳 Fragrant Fried Eggs for bees and butterflies 🐝

• 🟡 Oncoba spinosa - Fried egg tree - is a conversation piece in your garden.
• 🟡 A medium shrub or small tree.
• 🟡 Beautiful white and yellow camellia-like flowers look like 'fried eggs' when they drop off and fall on the ground with their yellow stamens facing upwards.
• 🟡 Flowers are honey-sweet fragrant and attract butterflies and bees.
• 🟡 The fruits have a sour, edible pulp.

🛒 Get a Fried egg tree

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🍷 Cabernet Allamanda is in full bloom again!

♥️ Allamanda x violacea Cabernet - Wine Red Allamanda that we mentioned earlier - blooms non stop most of the year. We never saw it without flowers! Spectacular vine.

🛒 Add some Cabernet to your garden

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⬆️ The number one seller of tropical flowering shrubs: Tropical Rose Hydrangea.

• 🌸 Dombeya seminole - Tropical Rose Hydrangea is one of the showiest landscape plants and a real showstopper
• 🌸 Known as the tropical hydrangea due to similar flowers. Flowers are pink to rose in color.
• 🌸 Blooms from fall to spring. Blooms all winter, providing much-desired color
• 🌸 Grows up to 7 feet tall and about the same in width. Can be pruned to about 5 feet tall. Does well in a container.
• 🌸 Thrives in full sun to partial shade, tolerates poor soil. Fuller shrub and more flowers with more sun.

Fairly drought-tolerant once established.
• 🌸 Serves as a nectar plant for many butterflies

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👑 Do you want an unusual flowering plant for a shady spot? Panama Queen is the winner! 🏆

• ✴️ Aphelandra sinclairiana - Panama Queen is a very rare plant with extremely tropical look.
• ✴️ Fragrant flowers have unusual color combination: orange and pink.
• ✴️ Thrives in semi-shade or shade.

❓ What is your favorite shade plant? Share in comments👇

🛒 Order Panama Queen

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❤️ What is the most lovable flowering shrub?

Clerodendrums are one of the most favorite and rewarding flowering shrubs and vines for Southern landscape or indoor culture.

• ❤️ Free flowering, bloom year around
• ❤️ Undemanding and fast growing
• ❤️ Take sun or shade
• ❤️ Many species are fragrant
• ❤️ Attract butterflies and birds
• ❤️ Perfect for container culture, compact and manageable plants
• ❤️ Cold tolerant, quickly recover from cold damage, respond well to pruning.

📚 Clerodendrums mentioned earlier: Seaside Clerodendrum, Red Bleeding Heart, Bleeding Heart Vine, Musical Note, Glory Bower.

🎥 Clerodendrum paniculatum - Pagoda Flower

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Flamingo pink with a fruity fragrance, yet another variety...

• 💕 This is a single-flower variety of Quisqualis we mentioned earlier.
• 💕 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.

🛒 Get your own Quisqualis vine

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👼 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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🌸✨ 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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