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💕 Why New Guinea Creeper is a must-have for your garden

• 💖 It's this time of the year when beautiful Tecomanthe is opening her majestic blooms!

The New Guinea Creeper (Tecomanthe dendrophila) is a stunning, non-aggressive vine that will captivate with its vibrant blooms and lush foliage.
• 💖 Spectacular flowers: In late winter to early spring, it produces large clusters of trumpet-shaped flowers with deep pink tubes and creamy-white lobes, creating a striking contrast.
• 💖 Non-invasive growth: This well-behaved climber can reach up to 40 feet but is easily maintained at shorter lengths, making it suitable for trellises, arbors, or even large containers.
• 💖 Evergreen beauty: With its glossy, pinnate leaves, the New Guinea Creeper adds year-round interest to your garden, even when not in bloom.
• 💖 Great Butterfly attractor!

Care tip for New Guinea Creeper

🌞 Light: Thrives in partial to full sun; however, it prefers some shade during the hottest part of the day.
💦 Water: Keep the soil consistently moist but well-drained, especially during the growing season.
🌡 Temperature: Ideal for USDA Zones 9-11; protect from frost and provide a warm, humid environment.
⛩ Support: Provide a sturdy structure for it to climb, such as a trellis or arbor, to showcase its cascading blooms.

Introduce the New Guinea Creeper to your garden and enjoy a breathtaking display of color and elegance that will be the envy of your neighborhood!

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🚩 How Cardinals Guard runs red carpet for Christmas⛔️👍

• 💖 If your garden needs a pop of color, Cardinals Guard (Pachystachys coccinea) is ready to take the spotlight! With its bold, scarlet-red blooms perched atop green cones, this evergreen perennial looks like it's wearing a crown.
• 💖 Striking Christmas-red flowers emerge from a green cone. Blooms most of the year.
• 💖 Adds vibrant color and a festive, tropical feel to any space.
• 💖 Upright, multi-stemmed growth with lush foliage.
• 💖 Attracts hummingbirds, butterflies, and other pollinators.
• 💖 Care: Morning sun and afternoon shade (semi-shade preferred). Trim stems to prevent legginess and encourage fresh growth. Perfect for Southern gardens and large containers.

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🌸 Why this Hibiscus is changing color?

• 🌸 Hibiscus mutabilis Cotton Candy - Mallow Hibiscus - is an amazing winter bloomer that chances flower color! It opens pure white than gradually shifts to baby pink to dark pink over three days, much like the Yesterday-Today-Tomorrow plant (Brunfelsia).
• 🌸 As the blooms age, they take on a rich, deep pink hue, creating a stunning rainbow of colors on the bush all at once.
• 🌸 Blossoms reach up to 5 inches across!

📚 From previous posts:
How hibiscus plant acts like a chameleon
How to make your Hibiscus plants thrive and bloom

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🌸 When Brunfelsia is in bloom? Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow!

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  🅱️ Purple-flowered Brunfelsias are at the peak of their bloom right now!
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  🅱️ Known as Yesterday-Today-Tomorrow for their magical color transformation from purple to lavender to white over three days: B. grandiflora, B. paucifolia, B. australis.
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  🅱️ Brunfelsias are wonderfully fragrant winter bloomers
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  🅱️ Perfect flowering shrub for shaded areas
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  🅱️ Ideal for growing in containers. Compact and graceful growers.

📚 Learn more about purple Brunfelsias:
The number one flower for shady spots
Yesterday-Today-Tomorrow, Brunfelsia from Brazil

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🌸 When Brunfelsia is in bloom? Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow!

• 
  🅱️ Purple-flowered Brunfelsias are at the peak of their bloom right now!
• 
  🅱️ Known as Yesterday-Today-Tomorrow for their magical color transformation from purple to lavender to white over three days: B. grandiflora, B. paucifolia, B. australis.
• 
  🅱️ Brunfelsias are wonderfully fragrant winter bloomers
• 
  🅱️ Perfect flowering shrub for shaded areas
• 
  🅱️ Ideal for growing in containers. Compact and graceful growers.

📚 Learn more about purple Brunfelsias:
The number one flower for shady spots
Yesterday-Today-Tomorrow, Brunfelsia from Brazil

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🎶 What happens when the Musical Note hits its peak?

• ♪ Say hello to our blooming Clerodendrum Musical Note! We mentioned it earlier.
• ♪ This stunning plant doesn't just bloom - it puts on a show!
• ♪ With flowers bursting everywhere, this bush even creates a dreamy carpet of musical-note-shaped blooms around its base. A true symphony for the garden!

ℹ️ The unopened flowers resemble musical notes, giving the plant its name.

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🍬 It's never too many powderpuffs!

💖 One more Powderpuff beauty - Calliandra surinamensis - is a large vigorous shrub that can be trained into a cute little standard tree.

📚 More Calliandras from previous posts:

• · Baby-pink fluffy flower for butterflies - Lilian
• · Flowering bush that everyone loves
• · Tree Calliandra
• · How to get a big flowering bush quickly? Calliandra - Powderpuff for blocking the unwanted view

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🔤 Yet another fragrant Jasmine hedge!

• ☀️ Jasminum volubile - Wax Jasmine is one more excellent choice of fragrant Jasmine bush for your landscaping needs, besides Angel Hair Jasmine we mentioned earlier.
• ☀️ Lovely blooms: Fragrant, pinwheel-shaped white flowers from April to September.
• ☀️ Versatile growth: Quick-growing vine for trellises, ground covers, or containers.
• ☀️ Foliage: Glossy, dark green leaves add a lush touch.
• ☀️ Perfect Hedge: Works beautifully as a hedge plant.

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🔤 What is the best Jasmine bush for an easy landscaping?

• 🌸 Jasminum multiflorum (pubescens) - Angel Hair Jasmine - is a fragrant, fast-growing charmer for Southern landscape.
• 🌸 Bloom beauty: Sweet-scented, starry white flowers bloom almost year-round.
• 🌸 Wildlife friendly: Attracts butterflies and hummingbirds.
• 🌸 Growth: Fast-growing, bushy, and dense - a perfect hedge option! Grows 5–6 ft with soft, velvety leaves.
• 🌸 Care: Loves well-drained soil, handles sun to semi-shade, and even tolerates seaside conditions.
• 🌸 Zones: Thrives in USDA Zones 9–11 or as a potted indoor beauty in colder areas.

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