Garden Blog - Top Tropicals

Date: 5 Feb 2026

How to get three colors on the same plant: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

Brunfelsia grandiflora - Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

🌸 How to get three colors on the same plant: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

  • 💜 Brunfelsia is one of those plants that makes people stop mid-sentence.
  • It blooms in shade, smells incredible at night, and then does something unexpected - the flowers change color over just three days.
  • 💜 Purple. Lavender. White.
  • All at the same time, on one plant.
  • 💜 It is easy to grow, loves warm weather and part shade, and turns any garden path or patio into an instant conversation starter. Once it starts blooming, it just keeps going.
  • 💜 These are the most interesting varieties 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.


🛒 Explore Brunfelsias - the ultmate shade flowers

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Date: 19 Aug 2019

Colorful Yesterday-Today-Tomorrow

Q: I have a large oak in front of the house and nothing grows under it, even grass. Can you recommend me a compact, colorful flowering shrub that will tolerate shade location and still will bloom for me? I love fragrant flowers, that would be nice... Also, I am a snowbird staying in Florida mostly from Fall to Spring so I miss the flowering season! Any winter bloomers? Or am I asking for too much?

A: There is a plant for every location and every need! Here is a perfect plant for you, Brunfelsia grandiflora - Yesterday-Today-Tomorrow. It is a winter bloomer and it enjoys filtered light. In fact, in full sun Brunfellsia leaves sometimes turn yellowish, so a shade location will be perfect for it, leaves will be healthy and dark green.
It is a beautiful specimen plant. The unusual popular name of this medium-sized shrub becomes clear to anyone who observes it over the course of two or three days. Its tubular fragrant flowers change from purple to lavender and then to white over a three day period (First they open as rich lavender-blue; then they change to pale lavender and finally to almost white before they fall). Then all three colors can be seen on the same plant. It grows to about 3-6 ft and does best in filtered sunlight. Blooms fall to winter.

Check out all Brunfelsias from our store - they all are shade lover and free-flowering!

And here is a list of all winter flowering plants for you... and a Winter-Flowering Guide for Snow Birds (PDF file) that includes many late-season trees, shrubs and fruiting plants.

Date: 10 Jun 2024

When is the best time to plant a tree?

When is the best time to plant a tree?
🌳 When is the best time to plant a tree? 🌳

  • 🌴 "A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in." - Greek proverb

  • 🌴 "The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. And the second best time is now." - Chinese Proverb.

  • 🌴 "Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago." - Warren Buffett

  • 🌴 "Regardless of which wisdom you follow, plant a tree today to make the difference. You have a chance to see the shade very soon." - TopTropicals.


🛒 Plant a Tree

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Date: 15 Jun 2024

Do you want an unusual flowering plant for a shady spot? Panama Queen is the winner!

Aphelandra sinclairiana - Panama Queen

👑 Do you want an unusual flowering plant for a shady spot? Panama Queen is the winner! 🏆



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Date: 10 Jun 2024

What is the best shade tree that is fast growing and beautiful?

Bauhinia blakeana - Hong Kong Orchid Tree flower

Bauhinia blakeana - Hong Kong Orchid Tree flower

Bauhinia blakeana - Hong Kong Orchid Tree

Bauhinia blakeana - Hong Kong Orchid Tree

🌳 What is the best shade tree that is fast growing and beautiful?

  • 🌸 Orchid trees that we mentioned earlier are one of the most popular shade trees in Southern gardens.
  • 🌸 Bauhinia blakeana - Hong Kong Orchid Tree - is the most beautiful of all orchid trees.
  • 🌸 It has the largest flowers, brightly colored.
  • 🌸 Winter bloomer.
  • 🌸 Starts flowering in very small size, when only 2-3 ft tall.
  • 🌸 Very fast growing.


📚 Learn more: Bauhinias - trees with Orchid Flowers and Butterfly Wings
🎥 YouTube Video: Hong Kong Orchid Tree

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