Garden Blog - Top Tropicals

Date: 26 Jul 2025

More than white: rare Butterfly Gingers

Hedychium - Butterfly Ginger

More than white: rare Butterfly Gingers



If you’re a fan of that sweet, heady scent of the classic White Butterfly Ginger (Hedychium coronarium) - a symbol of Hawaiian paradise - you’ll be happy to know it has some beautiful, fragrant relatives!

Hedychium coronarium - White Butterfly Ginger
This is the one everyone knows and loves. Big, white, butterfly-shaped blooms with an intense perfume. Grows in sun or shade, survives light freezes, and fills the summer air with scent. A must for Southern gardens and anyone who wants a piece of island paradise.

Hedychium flavum x coccineum cv. Dr. Moy, Variegated Hardy Ginger Lily
A showstopper with variegated leaves splashed in creamy white, and peachy-orange fragrant flowers in late summer. This hybrid from Dr. Moy of the San Antonio Botanical Garden brings both bold foliage and beautiful scent. A real garden standout.

Hedychium flavum x coronarium, Yellow Butterfly Ginger, Nardo Ginger Lily
Looks like the classic white, but with soft yellow blooms and the same rich fragrance. Long, slightly fuzzy green leaves and flower spikes that light up late summer with scent and color. This variety grow fast and much bigger than plant also much bigger and vigorous than classic white Butterfly ginger.

🛒 Smell the difference - get your ginger trio

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Date: 25 Jul 2025

Perfume in a pot: exotic Dwarf Chanel No 5 Tree

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

✨ Perfume in a pot: exotic Dwarf Chanel No 5 Tree



⭐️ The Chanel No. 5 tree in a pot? Yep.
Cananga fruticosa - Dwarf Ylang-Ylang Tree, is the compact cousin of the famous perfume tree. It has the same elegant, drooping flowers that smell like the original Ylang-Ylang - the scent behind Chanel No. 5 - just in a smaller, easy-to-grow version.

⭐️ It stays nicely shaped like a little tree, blooms year-round in warm weather, and does great in a container. Just give it bright light, and if the air is humid, you'll get that dreamy fragrance in full force.

⭐️ A perfect plant for anyone who wants their space to smell amazing - naturally.

🛒 Grow your own Chanel No. 5

📚Learn more:
Flowering season of Dwarf Chanel No 5
How to grow your own Chanel #5
What is the best perfume tree for container culture
Ylang Ylang Tree

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Date: 21 Jul 2025

Five best fragrant plants for summer plantings

Brunfelsia isola - Lavender Lady of the Night

☀️ Five best fragrant plants for summer plantings



☀️ Summer heat? No problem. These fragrant plants thrive in it - and will make your garden smell like vacation every day.

☀️ Brunfelsia - Lady of the Night - releases its sweet scent after sunset, filling warm evenings with a dreamy, tropical perfume.

☀️ Gardenia - Queen of Scent - classic creamy blooms with a rich, unmistakable fragrance that perfumes the air even in peak summer.

☀️ Jasminum sambac - the most popular and the most fragrant Jasmine for both indoor or outdoor culture. Varieties: Arabian Nights, Belle of India, Mangalore Malli, Grand Duke, Grand Duke Supreme, Gundu Malli, Maid of Orleans, Mali Chat, Mysore Mulli, Little Duke Supreme - Baby Duke.

☀️ Nyctanthes arbor-tristis - Parijat. Small tree or shrub from India with highly perfumed flowers, one of the most desired fragrant plants. Mythology says the plant came to earth with God Krishna, shedding flowers like tears before dawn.

☀️ Plumeria - tropical icon known for its heavenly scent and stunning flowers - blooms all summer and keeps your garden smelling like vacation!

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🎥 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.

📚 More fragrant garden ideas:


Six most desired perfume plants

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Date: 18 Jul 2025

Fragrance lovers, this plant changes everything!

Cerbera x manghas - Enchanted Incense

🌸 Fragrance lovers, this plant changes everything!



🌸 Cerbera x manghas - Enchanted Incense - is one of the newest and most sought-after perfume plants, prized for its incredible fragrance that outshines even jasmine and gardenia. Its red-and-white flowers release an intense, sweet scent you won't forget.

🌸 This compact, plumeria-like tree has beautiful mauve-tinted leaves and grows slowly, making it perfect for containers.

🌸 Easy-care, evergreen in warm climates, and low on water needs - this is a rare gem for fragrance lovers.

🛒 Add rare perfume power to your patio

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Cerbera Enchanted Incense Plant Facts

Botanical name: Cerbera sp.
Also known as: Cerbera Enchanted Incense
USDA Zone: 9 - 11
Highligths Small tree 10-20 ftFull sunWatering: Regular. Let topsoil dry slightlyOrnamental foliageWhite, off-white flowersPink flowersToxic or PoisonousDeciduous plantFragrant plantSubtropical plant. Mature plant cold hardy at least to 30s F for a short timeSeaside, salt tolerant plant
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What flower is sweeter than any Jasmine

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Date: 7 Jul 2025

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Chonemorpha fragrans - Frangipani vine

💎 What is better than Plumeria? Only climbing Plumeria!

💮 It's in bloom again at Top Tropicals Garden! Over and over, from Spring through Winter! Almost year around non stop. What a vigorous vine, and the perfume flowers never stop coming.

💮 Imagine Plumeria's wild cousin climbing your fence: Chonemorpha fragrans, the Frangipani vine, is a tropical liana with jumbo 12-inch leaves and creamy white flowers that fill the air with that unmistakable Plumeria scent.

💮 This beauty doesn’t grow like a tree - it climbs! Perfect for fences, trellises, or pergolas, it brings vertical drama and sweet, Plumeria-like fragrance to sunny or lightly shaded spots.

💮 Give it some support and a little fertilizer, and your garden will bloom into a lush, fragrant escape that smells like a Hawaii vacation!

🛒 Grow your own wall of perfume

📚 Learn more:


A Plumeria you can train to climb
Plant this vine over a fence to bring fragrance into your garden
Can Frangipani be a vine? How to bring fragrance into your garden

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