Garden Blog - Top Tropicals

Date: 1 Aug 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Plumerias are in full bloom

Plumerias in bloom

🌸 "Perfumes are the feelings of flowers." - Heinrich Heine

Plumerias are in full bloom in our garden today. Their fragrance is a heavenly delight!

📚 5 simple rules how to grow a fragrant Plumeria tree and make it bloom for you

🛒 Shop fragrant Plumerias

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Date: 14 Jun 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

This is not a Photoshop! It is a true color of Plumeria

Rainbow Plumeria

🌈 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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Date: 31 May 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

What is this shocking pink gardenia? Does it exist?

Kopsia fruticosa - Pink Gardenia

👁 What is this shocking pink gardenia? Does it exist?

🌸 Kopsia fruticosa: fondly known as the "Pink Gardenia", this gem is one of nature's most exquisite and elusive treasures.
🌸 Its flowers are a marvel, transitioning from delicate light pink to deep hues with crimson centers, emitting a subtle fragrance.
🌸 Imagine our surprise when we stumbled upon this enchanting plant labeled as a Pink Gardenia during our expedition in Thailand!
🌸 Intrigued, we delved deeper into its botanical identity. While technically not a Gardenia, this beauty is a close relative of Plumeria and Adenium we mentioned earlier, as well as Tabernaemontana (also often confused with Gardenia). All these beauties belong to the esteemed plant family Apocynaceae.
🌸 It's no wonder this plant has captured our hearts; its beauty is simply irresistible, leaving us wanting more.
🌸 With its compact growth habit, it's perfect for containers or in-ground planting, adding a touch of elegance to any garden space.

🛒 Treat yourself with a Pink Gardenia!

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Date: 23 Aug 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

What tree to plant for wonderful fragrance?

Magnolia (Michelia) champaca x Alba

💄 What tree to plant for wonderful fragrance?

🏵 Champaka - Joy Perfume Tree is in full bloom in our garden (in the video: var. Alba). The fragrance is smelled yards away! It is filling the air around.
🏵 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, its 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!

📚 See earlier post about Champaka Tree

🛒 Shop Champaka - Joy Perfume Tree

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Date: 22 Aug 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

What flower is sweeter than any Jasmine

Cerbera x manghas - Enchanted Incense

💥 What flower is sweeter than any Jasmine

🌸 Cerbera x manghas - Enchanted Incense: absolutely NEW perfume plant! It is becoming one of the most wanted in rare fragrant plant market.
🌸 This amazing flower was originally obtained in Thailand.
🌸 Beautiful striped red-and-white flowers are highly fragrant. Fragrance is the most intense you can imagine and is much better than all jasmines and gardenias all together.
🌸 The plant is very similar to plumeria in growth habit (and is close related to Plumeria). It grows into a small tree. Unlike Plumeria, it is evergreen in warm climate.
🌸 Beautiful mauve colored leaves are very ornamental.
🌸 Slow growing, compact plant, great for containers. Very undemanding and has low water needs.

🛒 Get your own Enchanted Incense

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Date: 30 Aug 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

What is the biggest Gardenia flower? Tahitian Gardenia is as big as your hand!

Gardenia taitensis "Heaven Scent"

✋ What is the biggest Gardenia flower? Tahitian Gardenia is as big as your hand!

💮 Gardenia taitensis "Heaven Scent" has a double flower up to 6" in diameter!
💮 This hybrid is very rare and hard to find.
💮 The intoxicating sweet fragrant blossoms are creamy white works of art.
💮 Huge double flowers up to 5-6" in diameter and large glossy oval leaves.
💮 Perfect container plant

❓ What is your favorite Gardenia? Share in comments👇

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Date: 28 Aug 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Why Champaka tree is such a popular perfume tree

Joy Perfume tree - Magnolia (Michelia) champaca

🏆 Why Champaka tree is such a popular perfume tree

🏵 The flowers from Champaka, or Joy Perfume 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. The flowers exude a divine fragrance that is exceedingly pleasing to the Gods... and women.
🏵 The tree is very compact for both landscapes and containers. It has bushy, yet columnar shape. Can be grown in container with minimal pruning.
🏵 Blooms on and off several times a year. Relatively cold hardy, but requires regular watering.

🎥 Yellow Champaka in bloom. This tree is 3 years old.

📚 Learn more from previous posts:
Flower of the most expensive perfume
White Champaka
Article about Champaka

🛒 Shop Champaka - Joy Perfume Tree

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Date: 4 Sep 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

How to grow your own Chanel #5

Cananga fruticosa - Dwarf Ylang-Ylang, Chanel No 5 Tree

🌞 How to grow your own Chanel #5.

✨ Cananga fruticosa - Dwarf Ylang-Ylang, Chanel No 5 Tree is a highly sought-after plant fragrant small tree.
✨It stays compact with a lovely tree-like shape.
✨ Flowers smell just like the full-size Ylang-Ylang (source of Chanel#5 perfume fragrance), though the fragrance may be lighter in less humid conditions.
✨Starts flowering right away and blooms year-round in warm conditions.
✨ Thrives as a container- and houseplant. Needs bright light for profuse flowering.

🛒 Get your own Chanel #5

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Date: 25 May 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

The number one flower for shady spots! Every tropical gardener wants Brunfelsias: the magical, fragrant shrubs of Day and Night

Brunfelsia lactea

Brunfelsia australis

Brunfelsia grandiflora

Brunfelsia manaca

Brunfelsia grandiflora

Brunfelsia paucifolia

🌗 The number one flower for shady spots! Every tropical gardener wants Brunfelsias: the magical, fragrant shrubs of Day and Night.

💠 Brunfelsias are truly enchanting tropical flowers. There are two groups - purple-flowered and cream/white-flowered.
💠 All Brunfelsias are wonderfully fragrant.
💠 Perfect flowering shrub for shaded areas; ideal for growing in containers.
💠 Compact and graceful growers.
💠 Purple-flowered are known as Yesterday-Today-Tomorrow for their magical color transformation from purple to lavender to white over three days. Examples: B. grandiflora, B. paucifolia, B. australis.
💠 White-flowered: intensely fragrant at night, earning the name Lady of the Night.

💠 Hybrids: A standout hybrid is Brunfelsia isola, that we mentioned earlier. It is blending the best of both purple and white varieties, inheriting purple color from the purple parent and night fragrance from the white one.