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🏵 What is the flower of the most expensive perfume? Champaka - Joy Perfume Tree. It is the fragrance the most expensive perfume Joy is made of, and our signature flower!

The flowers from this tree - Magnolia (Michelia) champaca - are used to make the world's most expensive perfume 'Joy' and smell like fruity bubble gum 🎀... you can't stop sticking your nose in this flower!

👼 Sacred tree of India and SE Asia
flowers exude a divine fragrance that is exceedingly pleasing to the Gods... and women

🌳 Perfect small landscape tree of a columnar shape. Ideal for containers.

🌡 Relatively cold hardy

💎 Rare collectible, a gem of any plant collection!

📚 Learn more about Champaka

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💻 "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

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❔ 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.

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⚡️ 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'.

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👍 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.

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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.

🛒 Choose from fantastic colors of Plumeria

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