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🌗 The number one flower for shady spots! Every tropical gardener wants Brunfelsias: the magical, fragrant shrubs of Day and Night.

• 💠 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.

Examples: B. americana, B. nitida, B. plicata, B. manaca.
• 💠 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.

📚 Learn more about purple Brunfelsias:
Yesterday-Today-Tomorrow, Brunfelsia from Brazil

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🟣 What is this Lavender Marble Perfume? Is it a possible combination?

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!

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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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🍳 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.

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🌈 This is not a Photoshop! It is a true color of Plumeria. Such multi-color varieties are called Rainbow Plumeria.

The season started and we have lots of fragrant and colorful blooms on our Plumerias that we introduced earlier.

Some of the colors are just beyond description!

Plumeria, or Frangipani - is a symbol of Hawaiian Tropics and the most favorite perfume 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.

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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.

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