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💐 What plant is fragrant, easy and fast growing? Cashmere Bouquet!

Clerodendrum bungei - Glory Bower, Cashmere bouquet.

🌸 Need a fast growing, spreading shrub for privacy? Cashmere bouquet is a shrub with benefits - the flowers are beautiful and sweetly fragrant.

Also ideal for the container grown patio plant.

Attracts butterflies to the large flower trusses.

🌡 Hardy to zone 8.

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❓ Why red flowers are so attractive? ❤️

💋 If red is your favorite color for flowers, this is your plant!👇

• ❤️ Bauhinia galpinii (punctata) - Pride of De Kaap or Nasturtium Bauhinia - belongs to Orchid trees that we mentioned earlier. But this one has very unusual color of flowers for Bauhinias: bright red or scarlet!
• ❤️ Native to South Africa, this is a woody, vining shrub that also can be trained into a small tree, reaching 6-10 ft in height.
• ❤️ As a all orchid trees it has deep green, bilobed leaves are resembling butterfly wings.
• ❤️ Blooms almost year around, from Summer through late Fall, with vibrant orange-red, resembling those of nasturtiums, coming in clusters. Well-known for its stunning floral display.
• ❤️ Hardy, low-maintenance, drought-tolerant once established. Prefers full sun but can tolerate partial shade.
• ❤️ Attracts butterflies and bees

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What is the best showy shrub to plant under a shade tree?

• 💮 Tabernaemontana divaricata, also known as Pinwheel Jasmine or Crape Jasmine, is a true garden gem, blooming year-round to bring constant beauty to your outdoor space.
• 💮 This cute bush can be also shaped into a small tree.
• 💮 It looks beautiful beneath palms or trees.
• 💮 Blooms year-round with pretty, white, pinwheel-shaped flowers.
• 💮 Needs bright light for profuse blooming, but can tolerate shade conditions.
• 💮 Makes your garden look stunning all year around.

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☕️ What is Nescafe Coffee made from? Purple Jade.

💜 Earlier we mentioned Green Jade Vine and Yellow Jade Vine. This one is purple!

• Mucuna pruriens - Nescafe, Purple Jade Vine has unusual royal purple flowers. The dark violet blooms appear closely pushed together in grape like clusters, up to 1 ft long and 6" in diameter.
• The seeds known as mucuna beans or Nescafe and used as a coffee substitute.
• It has been used for generations in India as a medicinal plant.
• Very vigorous woody tree creeper - during warmer weather this vine can grow 2 feet a day!
• Related to red Jade vine (Mucuna bennettii).

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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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👁 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.

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🍞 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👇

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🔥 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

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