Garden Blog - Top Tropicals

Date: 15 May 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

What does a dragon taste like? Does Dragon Fruit come from a monster cactus? Learn why you need to grow your own

🐲 What does a dragon taste like? Does Dragon Fruit come from a monster cactus? Learn why you need to grow your own. 🌵

🔴 You may have tried a Dragon fruit from the store l, but do you know how it grows? On a cactus tree!
🔴 Names: varieties of Hylocereus and Selenicereus - these fruit bearing cactus plants are also called Dragon Fruit or Pitaya.
🔴 Commercially grown fruit sold in a grocery store may be tasteless. You need to grow your own good variety to have tasty, sweet, flavorful fruit!
🔴 Dragon fruit comes in many varieties. Colors of flesh differ: white, pink, dark red and even purple. The outside of the fruit can be red/pink or yellow.
🔴 In commercial groves, Pitayas grow like cactus trees, over a strong support - big "umbrella frames" ☂️
🔴 It is an easy plant, with low water needs, takes both sun and semi-shade.
🔴 Our favorite variety is Yellow Dragon Fruit Palora, (Selenicereus megalanthus). It is the sweetest and has the most flavor of all. We shared some recipes earlier.
🔴 Can be grown in container with a wooden trellis. And the flower is beautiful, too!

📚 Learn more about Dragon Fruit
🍹 Recipe: What to do with a Dragon fruit?

🛒Grow your own Tasty Dragon Fruits

#Food_Forest #Recipes #Nature_Wonders #Dragon_Fruit

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Date: 4 Jul 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly our whole life would change

Cananga fruticosa - Dwarf Ylang-Ylang, Chanel No 5 Tree, flower

💻 "If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly our whole life would change." - Buddha

📸 Cananga fruticosa - Dwarf Ylang-Ylang, Chanel No 5 Tree

📚 Learn more: The Ylang-Ylang, Queen of the Perfume World, the Bearer of an Ideal Fragrance.

🛒Grow your own Ylang Ylang Tree

#Perfume_Plants #Quotes

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Date: 28 Jun 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Researchers discover what a perfume from Ancient Rome was made of: Patchouli!

Pogostemon cablin - Patchouli

Researchers discover what a perfume from Ancient Rome was made of: Patchouli!

⚡️ A research team at the University of Cordoba has identified the composition of a Roman perfume more than 2,000 years old thanks to the discovery of a small vessel of ointment in Carmona, Spain.
⚡️ The mausoleum held the remains of six individuals in six urns, one of which was made of glass and contained the remains of a woman who died between 30 and 40 years of age. Her cloth bag held a rock crystal flask sealed with a stone and bitumen and three amber beads...
⚡️The well-preserved material inside the flask was examined with X-ray diffraction, gas chromatography, and mass spectrometry. The study determined that the scent was derived from Pogostemon cablin, a plant from India used to produce the scent Patchouli.
⚡️Patchouli only grows in the tropical climates of southern and southeastern Asia. This means it would have been imported into Roman territory and sold in products crafted for wealthy patrons who craved access to exotic ingredients.
⚡️ The high quality of the flask holding the scent suggests that it was a valuable product.

⚠️ Get your own valuable Patchouli Plant and always have the heavenly smell with you!

🛒 Plant your own Patchouli

#Perfume_Plants #Remedies #Fun_Facts

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Date: 27 Jun 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Is Magnolia edible? Vanilla Magnolia: its for cooking!

Florida Sweet Bay - Vanilla Magnolia (Magnolia virginiana)

❔ Is Magnolia edible? Vanilla Magnolia: it's for cooking!

💮 Florida Sweet Bay, or Vanilla Magnolia (Magnolia virginiana) has beautiful flowers with strong vanilla fragrance, while the leaves offer unique culinary uses.

🔹 Strong vanilla scent: fragrance can be noticed hundreds of yards away.
🔹 White, delicate blooms.
🔹 Unique leaf flavor: fresh leaves have a distinct taste, fun for cooking. Sweet Bay offers unique cooking flavors.
🔹 Prefers moist, acidic soil conditions, tolerates flooding, ideal for wet spots in your yard.
🔹 Pest-free: no bugs or other pests.

🛒 Shop Magnolia trees

#Trees #Perfume_Plants

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Date: 23 Jun 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Gardeners finally found a perfect everblooming hedge for shade!

Kings Mantle - Thunbergia erecta

Kings Mantle - Thunbergia erecta purple

Kings Mantle - Thunbergia erecta Lavender Lace Variegated

Kings Mantle - Thunbergia erecta White

⚡️ Gardeners finally found a perfect everblooming hedge for shade!

💜 Kings Mantle - Thunbergia erecta - is a perfect flowering bush or hedge for the shady garden.
💜 Ever-blooming: Perfect for a continuously blooming hedge.
💜 Dense shrub: Bushy, fast-growing, and ideal for mixed beds or medium-to-low hedges.
💜 Beautiful flowers: flowers resemble morning glories, with common varieties having rich purple petals and yellow throats.
💜 Attractive foliage: Small, dark green leaves.
💜 Climber relatives: Unlike many Thunbergia species, this one is a sprawling shrub.
💜 Pruning responsive: Can be shaped into a dense hedge, pruning promotes flowering.
💜 Sun or shade: Prefers bright light and well-drained soil, but will also bloom in partial shade.
💜 Colors: comes in dark blue, white, and the unique, vigorous variegated variety - 'Lavender Ice'.

🛒 Shop King's Mantle

#Perfume_Plants #Hedges_with_benefits

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Date: 19 Jun 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Thumbs up the most fragrant ginger ever!

White Butterfly Ginger (Hedychium coronarium)

👍 Thumbs up the most fragrant ginger ever!

White Butterfly Ginger (Hedychium coronarium) is a must for every Southern garden.
Famous for its intense, sweet scent.
Symbol of Hawaiian Paradise along with Plumeria and Jasmine we mentioned earlier.
Lei and hair decoration: popular in Hawaii and the Pacific Islands for leis and hair adornments.
Butterfly-like flowers: bears fragrant, butterfly-resembling flowers in summer.
Great cut flower: long lasting cut flowers, ideal for scenting the home.
Can survive light freezes, with tops regrowing in the spring. Takes sun or shade.

🛒 Shop Butterfly Ginger

#Shade_Garden #Perfume_Plants

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Date: 17 Jun 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Fragrant Fried Eggs for bees and butterflies

Oncoba spinosa - Fried egg tree

🍳 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

#Hedges_with_benefits #Butterfly_Plants #Perfume_Plants

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Date: 14 Jun 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

This is not a Photoshop! It is a true color of Plumeria

Rainbow Plumeria

🌈 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.

🛒 Choose from fantastic colors of Plumeria

#Perfume_Plants #Container_Garden #Trees

Date: 11 Jun 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Flamingo pink with a fruity fragrance, yet another variety

Quisqualis Indica - Rangoon Creeper

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

#Butterfly_Plants #Perfume_Plants #Hedges_with_benefits

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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.

🛒 Shop Angel's Trumpets

#Perfume_Plants #Hedges_with_benefits

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