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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. 🌵
📚 Learn more about Dragon Fruit
🍹 Recipe: What to do with a Dragon fruit?
🛒Grow your own Tasty Dragon Fruits
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🔴 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
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Do red, white and yellow Dragon fruit taste differently?
White Dragon Fruit
Red Dragon Fruit
Yellow Dragon Fruit
⚡️Do red, white and yellow Dragon fruit taste differently?
🐉 White Dragon Fruit is not as common as the red variety and has a slightly sweeter taste. The sweetest one, however, is the yellow variety.
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🐉 White Dragon Fruit is not as common as the red variety and has a slightly sweeter taste. The sweetest one, however, is the yellow variety.
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How to grow Popcorn with pretty flowers
Cassia didymobotrya (Popcorn Cassia)
Cassia didymobotrya (Popcorn Cassia)
Cassia didymobotrya (Popcorn Cassia)
Cassia didymobotrya (Popcorn Cassia)
🍿 How to grow Popcorn with pretty flowers
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- 🌽 Cassia didymobotrya (Popcorn Cassia) is a fun plant! When rubbed, its leaves emit a scent similar to buttered popcorn, hence its name.
- 🌽 It blooms with beautiful large clusters of sunny yellow flowers.
- 🌽 Perfect fast growing flowering shrub - ideal for places where you want to see a showy, pretty plant quickly
- 🌽 Butterfly magnet - one of the favorite flowers for all kinds of butterflies! Everyone who is working on a butterfly garden, plants Popcorn Cassia
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Why red flowers are so attractive?
Bauhinia galpinii (punctata) - Pride of De Kaap, Nasturtium Bauhinia
❓ Why red flowers are so attractive? ❤️
💋 If red is your favorite color for flowers, this is your plant!👇
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💋 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 - Pinwheel Jasmine, Crape Jasmine
What is the best showy shrub to plant under a shade tree?
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- 💮 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?
Mucuna pruriens - Nescafe, Purple Jade Vine
☕️ What is Nescafe Coffee made from? Purple Jade.
💜 Earlier we mentioned Green Jade Vine and Yellow Jade Vine. This one is purple!
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💜 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
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!
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- 💜 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?
Thunbergia mysorensis - Clock Vine
Thunbergia mysorensis - Clock Vine
👁 Why is it called Clock Vine? It will cover a Pagoda in NO TIME!
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- 🕰 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
🍞 Breaking news: flower smells of freshly baked bread! It smells so good, you want to eat it!
❓ Have you smelled the Bread Flower? Did you like the fragrance? Share in comments👇
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- 🍔 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
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.
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- 🟥 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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