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How to keep weeds away? A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

How to keep weeds away?

Confederate Jasmine (Trachelospermum jasminoides)

Confederate Jasmine (Trachelospermum jasminoides)

Confederate Jasmine (Trachelospermum jasminoides)

☘️ How to keep weeds away?

"Give a weed an inch and it’ll take a yard...."

Hot season started, and so did the weed season!

💚 Ways to keep your yard weed-free without use of herbicide:
  1. Mulch, mulch, mulch
  2. Cover the area with cardboard (still getting those Amazon boxes?) and put mulch, mulch, mulch on top.
  3. Plant dense ground cover plants! Weeds will lose competition for food and light.


  4. 🎥 Did you know that Confederate Jasmine (Trachelospermum jasminoides) makes not only a trellis/fence solution, but also a dense fragrant ground cover? It's not demanding, fast growing, drought tolerant plant, takes full sun or shade. Sweet, deliciously fragrant flowers is a pleasant bonus!

    🛒Get your fragrant ground cover

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Index of TopTropicals Telegram Channel. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Index of TopTropicals Telegram Channel

Index of TopTropicals Telegram Channel
🗂 Index of TopTropicals Telegram Channel

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What vine to plant over a big fence. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

What vine to plant over a big fence

Chonemorpha fragrans - Frangipani vine

❗️ What vine to plant over a big fence.
  • 🔹 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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Discover the magic of tropical plants for your home and garden: A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Discover the magic of tropical plants for your home and garden:

Tropical flowers

🌺 Discover the magic of tropical plants for your home and garden:

In today's world, this is your escape into the real life of happy plants.
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"If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly our whole life would change. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly our whole life would change

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

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

💻 "If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly our whole life would change." - Buddha

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

📚 Learn more: The Ylang-Ylang, Queen of the Perfume World, the Bearer of an Ideal Fragrance.

🛒Grow your own Ylang Ylang Tree

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Plumerias are in full bloom. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

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

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Researchers discover what a perfume from Ancient Rome was made of: Patchouli! A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Researchers discover what a perfume from Ancient Rome was made of: Patchouli!

Pogostemon cablin - Patchouli

Pogostemon cablin - Patchouli

Pogostemon cablin - Patchouli

Pogostemon cablin - Patchouli

Researchers discover what a perfume from Ancient Rome was made of: Patchouli!
  • ⚡️ A research team at the University of Cordoba has identified the composition of a Roman perfume more than 2,000 years old thanks to the discovery of a small vessel of ointment in Carmona, Spain.
  • ⚡️ The mausoleum held the remains of six individuals in six urns, one of which was made of glass and contained the remains of a woman who died between 30 and 40 years of age. Her cloth bag held a rock crystal flask sealed with a stone and bitumen and three amber beads...
  • ⚡️The well-preserved material inside the flask was examined with X-ray diffraction, gas chromatography, and mass spectrometry. The study determined that the scent was derived from Pogostemon cablin, a plant from India used to produce the scent Patchouli.
  • ⚡️Patchouli only grows in the tropical climates of southern and southeastern Asia. This means it would have been imported into Roman territory and sold in products crafted for wealthy patrons who craved access to exotic ingredients.
  • ⚡️ The high quality of the flask holding the scent suggests that it was a valuable product.


⚠️ Get your own valuable Patchouli Plant and always have the heavenly smell with you!

🛒 Plant your own Patchouli

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How to cover an ugly spot with a fragrance and and beauty, A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

How to cover an ugly spot with a fragrance and and beauty,

Quisqualis vine - Rangoon Creeper

😍 How to cover an ugly spot with a fragrance and and beauty, stop and smell the roses
  • 🌹 Our Quisqualis vine - Rangoon Creeper - has grown over a roof of our water treatment system (which wasn't the prettiest view!). Now every time we pass by we have to "stop and smell the roses". It is so beautiful, and it does smell like roses!
  • 🌹 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.


📚 Learn more from previous posts:

🛒 Get your own Quisqualis vine

#Butterfly_Plants #Perfume_Plants #Hedges_with_benefits

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What happens when you cross Cream and Lavender? A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

What happens when you cross Cream and Lavender?

runfelsia isola - Lavender Lady of the Night

💜 What happens when you cross Cream and Lavender?

The flowers of this rare hybrid that we mentioned earlier, Brunfelsia isola, or Lavender Lady of the Night, are a "marble" twist of cream and purple, changing hue unpredictably. They are deliciously fragrant at night.

Brunfelsia isola is an unusual cross between B. americana and B. grandiflora. What a genetical surprise!

Brunfelsia isola has the benefit of fragrant cream-colored brunfelsia and light purple color from the other parent. 👫

💎 A gem for a rare plant collection of #Nature_Wonders!

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Is Magnolia edible? Vanilla Magnolia: it's for cooking! A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Is Magnolia edible? Vanilla Magnolia: its for cooking!

Florida Sweet Bay - Vanilla Magnolia (Magnolia virginiana)

Florida Sweet Bay - Vanilla Magnolia (Magnolia virginiana)

Florida Sweet Bay - Vanilla Magnolia (Magnolia virginiana)

Florida Sweet Bay - Vanilla Magnolia (Magnolia virginiana)

Florida Sweet Bay - Vanilla Magnolia (Magnolia virginiana)

Is Magnolia edible? Vanilla Magnolia: it's for cooking!

💮 Florida Sweet Bay, or Vanilla Magnolia (Magnolia virginiana) has beautiful flowers with strong vanilla fragrance, while the leaves offer unique culinary uses.
  • 🔹 Strong vanilla scent: fragrance can be noticed hundreds of yards away.
  • 🔹 White, delicate blooms.
  • 🔹 Unique leaf flavor: fresh leaves have a distinct taste, fun for cooking. Sweet Bay offers unique cooking flavors.
  • 🔹 Prefers moist, acidic soil conditions, tolerates flooding, ideal for wet spots in your yard.
  • 🔹 Pest-free: no bugs or other pests.


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