Garden Blog - Top Tropicals

Date: 17 May 2024

Why cucumbers grow on a tree? Because they are candles!

Parmentiera edulis - Candle Tree, Guahalote

Parmentiera edulis - Candle Tree, Guahalote

Parmentiera edulis - Candle Tree, Guahalote

Parmentiera edulis - Candle Tree, Guahalote

Parmentiera edulis - Candle Tree, Guahalote

Parmentiera edulis - Candle Tree, Guahalote

Parmentiera edulis - Candle Tree, Guahalote fruit

Parmentiera edulis - Candle Tree, Guahalote fruit

Parmentiera edulis - Candle Tree, Guahalote flower

Parmentiera edulis - Candle Tree, Guahalote flower

Why cucumbers grow on a tree? Because they are "candles"! 🕯
  • 🕯 This bizarre tree is a conversation piece and every plant collector should have one!
  • 🕯 Parmentiera edulis - Candle Tree, or Guahalote - is a highly ornamental tree with interesting leaves, pretty cream flowers and...ready?
  • 🕯One foot long fruits resembling a greenish-yellow cucumbers or candles that hang off the tree!
  • 🕯Juicy fruit is edible and has a sweet flavor similar to sugar cane. Eaten raw or cooked; used to make pickles or preserves
  • 🕯The fruit is a remedy for colds; roots used as a diuretic.
  • 🕯Easy to grow and not fussy about conditions. Cold tolerant to light frost.


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🛒Get your own Candle Tree

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Date: 3 Mar 2025

Why this Magnolia flower smells like banana?

Magnolia figo, Banana Magnolia

🍌 Why this flower smells like banana?
  • Magnolia figo, or Banana Magnolia that we mentioned earlier, is currently in full bloom and filling the air with its unbelievably delightful fragrance! The sweet, fruity aroma of its perfume-like flowers carries a hint of banana, making it a truly irresistible addition to your garden.
  • Looking for a little perfume tree for a small garden or container? Compact and evergreen, reaching only5-6 ft in container, this small tree or shrub adds sophistication to any landscape. Glossy, deep green foliage enhances its visual charm.
  • Cold tolerant and heat tolerant. Takes sun and shade.


🛍 Plant Banana Magnolia

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Date: 22 Mar 2025

What are the most beautiful desert roses

Desert roses - Adeniums, collage of varieties

Desert roses - Adeniums, collage of varieties

🌸 What are the most beautiful desert roses
  • 🌸 Check out Top Tropicals selection of Desert roses - Adeniums, while we still have the most interesting varieties.
  • 🌸 If the weather is still cold in your area, we can hold shipping of your order weather-permitting. Don't miss the varieties you always wanted! They are selling fast, first come first serve.


📚 About Adeniums:



🛍 Shop Adenium colors and hybrids

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Date: 7 Apr 2025

What is the best plant for a carefree flower border

Dietes - African Iris

🔤 What is the best plant for a carefree flower border

  • How to add effortless elegance in your garden?


    Dietes - African Iris - is a stunning, exotic beauty with delicate pale yellow flowers and bold maroon markings. It blooms in cycles throughout the warm months, giving your garden a fresh, elegant look time and time again. With its graceful, clumping sword-like foliage, it adds texture year-round. Plus, it thrives on neglect!
  • What makes African Iris a must-have?


    Tough, drought-tolerant, flood-tolerant, and cold-tolerant, African Iris is perfect for virtually any type of landscape. It handles heat, sun, and even partial shade like a champ, and it's perfect for xeriscaping, borders, or mass plantings.


🛒 Get African Iris for a low-maintenance, always-blooming showstopper

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Date: 24 Apr 2025

This Jasmine Blooms 365 Days a Year - And It Smells Divine!

Jasminum dichotomum - Rose Bud Jasmine, Everblooming Jasmine

🗓 This Jasmine Blooms 365 Days a Year - And It Smells Divine!

  • 🌹 Looking for a jasmine that blooms nonstop and smells absolutely divine? Jasminum dichotomum, the rare Rose Bud Jasmine, also known as Everblooming Jasmine - has the fragrance that never quits!
  • 🌹 Dark rose-pink buds open into pure white, perfumed flowers - year-round!
  • 🌹 Glossy ornamental foliage creates the perfect contrast.
  • 🌹 Covers fences, trellises, or arches in one season!
  • 🌹 Cold-tolerant, fast-growing, and ridiculously easy to grow.
  • 🌹 This isn’t just another jasmine - it's a rare collector’s favorite that delivers nonstop fragrance.
  • 🌹 Who wouldn't want a jasmine that smells like heaven and flowers every day?


🛒 Snag Your Rose Bud Jasmine Now – Before It Sells Out!

📚 Lean more from previous posts:


What jasmine blooms year around?
Perfumed Rose Bud, but not a Rose?

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