Garden Blog - Top Tropicals
What vine to plant over a big fence
Chonemorpha fragrans - Frangipani vine
- 🔹 Chonemorpha fragrans, or Frangipani vine, that we mentioned before, is a large woody tropical liana with clusters of large, perfume-fragrant flowers and lush green foliage. It is close related to perfumed Plumeria - Frangipani.
- 🔹 The fragrance is very fresh and pleasant, similar to Plumeria, fills the air around.
- 🔹 Leaves reaching up to 12 (!) inches - very tropical, majestic look!
- 🔹 Requires sturdy support - it can grow pretty big and heavy!
- 🔹 Takes both sun or shade. Full sun and regular fertilizer is essential for profuse blooming.
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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
- 💜 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
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Fragrant Fried Eggs for bees and butterflies
Oncoba spinosa - Fried egg tree
- 🟡 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
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Flamingo pink with a fruity fragrance, yet another variety
Quisqualis Indica - Rangoon Creeper
- 💕 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
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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
- 🎺 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
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The Number One King of Perfume -
Jasmine Sambac Belle of India
- 🔘 In full bloom today - Jasmine Sambac Belle of India. Everyone wants this variety, with long elegant petals and a fine structure.
- 🔘 Jasmine Sambac is number one source of essential oils in perfumery.
- 🔘 In India, this variety also goes under names Mangalore Malli, Uduppii Malli, or Shankarapuram Malli.
- 🔘 Belle of India can be grown as a small bush specimen, or a fragrant low hedge.
- 🔘 Perfect for containers, too. Takes both sun and shade. The more sun - the more flowers.
🛒 Get your own Perfume Factory for your garden
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The truth about Seaside Clerodendrum: it can cover the whole beach!
Clerodendrum inerme - Sorcerer's Bush, Seaside Clerodendrum
Clerodendrum inerme - Sorcerer's Bush, Seaside Clerodendrum
✅ Need to cover a large area, slope, or a fence with a pretty, fragrant dense shrub just in one season? This is your plant!
- 🏖 Clerodendrum inerme, also known as Wild Jasmine, Sorcerer's Bush, or Seaside Clerodendrum, is perfect for covering large areas or fences quickly in just one season. This is perfect privacy plant!
- 🏖 It is called Seaside Clerodendrum for a reason! It grows anywhere, including sand and, as we discovered, even over hot black plastic ground cover 😎
- 🏖 Fast growing vining shrub with round, shiny, deep green leaves. Always in flower with white, fragrant blooms.
- 🏖 Extremely hardy: withstands cold, heat, salt, and drought. Not picky about soil (can grow on sand! it's seaside!) and tolerates drought well.
- 🏖 Ideal for coastal areas, tolerates salt spray and harsh sun, as well as shaded areas.
- 🏖 Versatile: suitable for topiary or bonsai.
- 🏖 Wind-tolerant and robust, making it a reliable choice for various settings.
🛒 Get your indestructible, fast growing Seaside Clerodendrum and have fun! 🏖
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Why everybody wants this plant? Intoxicating sweet fragrance is the answer!
Cestrum nocturnum - Night blooming jasmine
Cestrum nocturnum - Night blooming jasmine
Cestrum nocturnum - Night blooming jasmine
Cestrum nocturnum - Night blooming jasmine
⭐️ This fast growing, dense shrub is a garden favorite, one of the most famous and desirable fragrant plants.
🌃 The sweetest fragrance at night is intoxicating.
🌄 Flowers are pale yellow to white, open at night and stay extremely fragrant until sunrise.
🙏 These flowers are widely used in India and other countries of South Asia for perfumery, medicinal applications and in religious ceremonies.
🏡 Best location will be near driveway, window or entrance, where the magic fragrance can be appreciated.
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Tired of an ugly hedge? Replace it with Aglaia - Chinese Rice Flower, and enjoy Lemony Fragrance year around!
Aglaia odorata - Chinese Perfume Plant flowers
Aglaia odorata - Chinese Perfume Plant
Aglaia odorata - Chinese Perfume Plant
Aglaia odorata - Chinese Perfume Plant hedge
- 🟡 Aglaia odorata is also known as Chinese Perfume Plant, Chinese Rice Flower, or Mock Lemon.
- 🟡 The plant has an outstanding fragrance from tiny, rice-sized yellow flowers.
- 🟡 Aglaia grows into a dense bush without pruning. It is relatively slow-growing; so large plants are rare and hard to find.
- 🟡 Easy to grow bush, it is perfect for a cold tolerant tropical hedge.
- 🟡 Aglaia has many medicinal uses; contains odorine and odorinol, which have cancer chemopreventive activity.
🛒 Get a few bushes of Aglaia for lemony-fragrant hedge
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How to cover a fence quickly with a large impressive vine? Try Fragrant Butter Cup of Gold with Coconut fragrance!
Solandra maxima variegata
Solandra maxima variegata
Solandra maxima variegata
Solandra maxima variegata
- 🏆 Variegated Butter Cup, Cup-of-Gold or Chalice Vine - Solandra maxima variegata - is a stunning Vine with large fragrant flowers shaped like chalices.
- ☀️ Very fast growing and large plant, needing a strong support or a fence.
- ☀️ Boasts glossy variegated leaves with bright purple flush on new growth.
- ☀️ Large, showy off-white flowers shaped like chalices, up to 7" across, are truly spectacular with reflexed lobes marked with a purplish brown ridge.
- ☀️ Fragrant, especially at night, the flowers emit a coconut-like scent
- ☀️ Blooming intermittently, mainly in the winter dry season, this vine adds charm to any garden with its striking beauty.
🛒 Get your own Cup-of-Gold 🏆
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