Garden Blog - Top Tropicals

Date: 2 Jun 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

What is a perfect shade tree with flower benefits? Discover the sunny Kassod Tree

Cassia siamea - Kassod Tree (Siamese Senna)

🌻 What is a perfect shade tree with flower benefits? Discover the sunny Kassod Tree...

🟡 Cassia siamea - Kassod Tree (Siamese Senna) is a remarkable subtropical tree known for several special features:
🟡 Fast Growing, making it an excellent choice for quick shade and ornamental use.
🟡 Bright yellow flowers that bloom in clusters, adding a vibrant splash of color.
🟡 Evergreen foliage: lush green leaves year-round, providing continuous beauty and shade.
🟡 Hardy: highly resilient and can thrive in a variety of soil types and conditions, including poor soils and dry climates. Tolerates both light frost and summer heat.
🟡 Low maintenance, easy care, not messy, making it an ideal choice for both novice and experienced gardeners.
🟡 Nitrogen fixation: Improves soil fertility by fixing nitrogen, benefiting surrounding plants and enhancing garden productivity.
🟡 Medicinal use: herbal medicine (laxative properties and to treat various ailments).
🟡 Attracts bees, butterflies, and other pollinators, supporting local biodiversity and ecosystem health 🐞🐝
🟡 Shade provider: Ideal for creating shaded areas in gardens and landscapes, contributing to a cooler environment during hot weather.

🛒 Add shade and color to your garden with Kassod Tree

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Date: 30 Apr 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

What is your cats Zodiac sign?

♉️ 😸 What is your cat's Zodiac sign?
Cat Horoscope: Taurus Cats 4/21-5/20

❓ How to know the astrological sign of your cat? It can be determined by either their date of birth or adoption, as adoption is often considered a second birth for cats.

✨ You can discover the astrological traits that describe the cat, such as their independence, diva-like tendencies, sense of humor, intelligence, and more.
✨ It's also important to consider the astrological relationship between cats and plants...

♉️ Taurus Cats are:

▪️sybarites
▪️gourmands
▪️pragmatic
▪️excellent ratters
▪️possessive

🌟 Learn more about Taurus Cats and discover their lucky plants

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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

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Date: 14 May 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

What is a good plant for a fragrant elegant hedge? Discover the Angel Hair Jasmine

Jasminum pubescens (multiflorum) - Angel Hair Jasmine

💫 What is a good plant for a fragrant elegant hedge? Discover the Angel Hair Jasmine.

💮 Jasminum pubescens (multiflorum), also known as Angel Hair Jasmine, is a beloved choice for landscapes, prized for its multitude of exceptional qualities.
💮 Bushy, dense vining shrub with star-like white flowers emitting a delightful fragrance.
💮 Soft, velvet-like leaves add to its charm.
💮 Rapid growth makes it ideal for creating lush hedges or adding vertical interest to garden spaces.
💮 Perfect for hedges, fences, or trellises, adding a touch of beauty and fragrance to any outdoor setting.

🛒 Make a fragrant hedge with Angel Hair Jasmine

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Date: 5 Jun 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Yearning for Jungle Vibes? Discover the Giant Birds Nest Anthurium - look at the size of this monster!

Anthurium x hookeri - Giant Bird's Nest

Anthurium x hookeri - Giant Bird's Nest fruit

Yearning for Jungle Vibes? Discover the Giant Bird’s Nest Anthurium - look at the size of this monster!

Anthurium x hookeri - Giant Bird's Nest - is one of the most wanted tropical jungle plants. It has impressive foliage: enormous, wrinkly leaves with a unique cardboard-like texture that can grow up to 7 feet long! The bright red berries add to the show.
Jungle allure: perfect for creating a lush, tropical atmosphere with its striking and bold presence.
Ideal for spacious areas: thrives in places with good natural light and ample space, making it a standout feature.
Easy care: low-maintenance epiphyte, requires very little water.
Tolerates low light conditions, perfect for a shade garden.
Conversation piece: eye-catching texture adds visual interest and depth to your plant collection with its distinctive leaf surface. The size of the leaves is unbelievable!
Suitable for indoor and outdoor settings.
Air purifying: helps improve air quality, making it a functional and beautiful addition to your home.
Tropical statement: brings a piece of the jungle into your environment, transforming it into a green oasis.

🛒 Order Giant Birdnest

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Date: 22 Jun 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Need more ideas for compact and showy flowering trees? Try Rainbow Cassias

Rainbow cassia - Cassia Marginata.

🌈 Need more ideas for compact and showy flowering trees? Try Rainbow Cassias.

♦️ Some hybrid cassias have spectacular color combinations and are called Rainbow Cassias.
♦️ We mentioned earlier some sunny, yellow-flowering cassias: Senna surattensis (Cassia glauca) - Scrambled Egg Bush, and Cassia siamea - Kassod Tree.
♦️ Other cassias can be pink or with multi-color flower combination, so-called Rainbow cassias (which are hybrids between yellow and pink cassias):

♦️ Cassia trees are compact, fast growing, tolerant to drought and poor soils, free-flowering and relatively cold hardy. Always a great choice!

❓ What cassias do you have in your garden? Share photos in comments👇

🎥 Rainbow cassia - Cassia Marginata.

🛒 Shop showy Cassia trees

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Date: 21 Jun 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Why is it called Clock Vine?

Thunbergia mysorensis - Clock Vine

👁 Why is it called Clock Vine? It will cover a Pagoda in NO TIME!

🕰 Thunbergia mysorensis - Clock Vine - is a stunning vine originating from India.
🕰 Vibrant yellow flowers with a dark mauve border, of a unique, eye-catching shape.
🕰 Supposedly, it is called the Clock Vine because the flowers hang down in a regular, clock-like pattern around the vine. This consistent and orderly arrangement of the blooms resembles the numbers on a clock face, giving the plant its charming and unique name. Do you see it in the flower?
🕰 The blooms hang in cascading clusters, creating a spectacular display that can beautifully drape over a trellis or pagoda.
🕰 Attaracts butterflies and hummingbirds.
🕰 Though it's one of the most popular species among garden enthusiasts, its rarity adds an element of exclusivity to any garden lucky enough to host it.

🛒 Shop flowering vines

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Date: 19 Jun 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Breaking news: flower smells of freshly baked bread! It smells so good, you want to eat it!

Vallaris glabra - Bread Flower

🍞 Breaking news: flower smells of freshly baked bread! It smells so good, you want to eat it!

🍔 Vallaris glabra - Bread Flower - is one of the most impressive tropical vines that is very popular in Thailand and other South-East Asia countries.
🍔 Moderate growth woody climber with clusters of freshly-baked-bread fragrant white flowers.
🍔 Easy to care and tolerates wide range of conditions. It can be trained as a compact bush and is good for container culture.
🍔 Attracts butterflies and hummingbirds.
🍔 Relatively cold hardy, mild frost doesn't do any damage to it, even large tropical leaves stay glossy, green and healthy.
🍔 It is very vigorous grower that can create nice privacy hedge or cover a large fence.

❓ Have you smelled the Bread Flower? Did you like the fragrance? Share in comments👇

🛒 Shop tropical vines

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Date: 18 Jun 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Everyone wants this showy Butterfly Attractor! Dwarf

Caesalpinia pulcherrima - Dwarf Poinciana, with Monarch Butterfly

Caesalpinia pulcherrima - Dwarf Poinciana, Red

Caesalpinia pulcherrima - Dwarf Poinciana, Yello

🔥 Everyone wants this showy Butterfly Attractor! Dwarf Poinciana.

🟥 Caesalpinia pulcherrima - Dwarf Poinciana, that we mentioned earlier, is probably number 1 flowering plant that everybody wants in their garden.
🟥 Pride of Barbados, Dwarf Poinciana, Peacock flower, Flower Fence - common names speak for themselves.
🟥 National flower of Barbados.
🟥 Comes in different colors - red, yellow, pink, orange...
🟥 Eye-stopper! Showy flowers almost year round.
🟥 Butterfly magnet

🛒 Shop Dwarf Poinciana

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Date: 18 Jun 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Medusas Head Flower - from Greek mythology

Strophanthus preussii - Poison Arrow Vine, Medusa Flower

Medusa's Head Flower - from Greek mythology...

🐙 Strophanthus preussii - Poison Arrow Vine, Medusa Flower - has an intriguing flower!
🐙 The faintly fragrant flowers have long, slender, and curly petals that resemble the snakes on Medusa's head from Greek mythology, giving it the nickname "Medusa Flower." The petals often extend and twist dramatically, creating an eye-catching appearance. The tips of the petals become narrowed and elongated, forming a twisting, sticky string that dangles down from the flower and touches lower leaves.
🐙 The flowers are brightly colored, often in shades of white, yellow, and red, which can attract pollinators and add to their striking visual appeal.
🐙 As suggested by another common name "Poison Arrow Vine," parts of the plant contain toxic compounds. Historically, the seeds were used by some African tribes to poison the tips of arrows for hunting. This gives the plant a certain mystique...
🐙 Interesting pollination mechanism: the elaborate design of the flowers is not just for show; it plays a role in the plant's pollination strategy. The intricate structure can help ensure that pollinators come into contact with the reproductive parts of the flower, thereby facilitating cross-pollination.
🐙 Blooms almost year around

❓ What bizarre plants do you have in your collection? Share in comments👇

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