Garden Blog - Top Tropicals

Date: 5 Aug 2024

How to get an easy and showy butterfly attracting bush

Tecoma stans - Yellow Elder

Tecoma stans - Yellow Elder, flower

Tecoma stans - Yellow Elder, flower

Tecoma stans - Yellow Elder flowering

Tecoma stans - Yellow Elder flowering

💛 How to get an easy and showy butterfly attracting bush

🐝 Tecoma stans
- Yellow Elder is a great everblooming bush or a small tree for your butterfly garden.

🐝 Golden Blooms: Bright yellow trumpet-shaped flowers that light up your garden with vibrant color.

🐝 Pollinator's Delight: Attracts hummingbirds, butterflies, bees, adding lively visitors to your garden.

🐝 Drought-Tolerant: Tough and resilient, perfect for sunny spots and low-water gardens.

🐝 Long Blooming: Flowers almost all year round, providing continuous bursts of sunshine.

🐝 Compact Size: Ideal for small spaces or containers, fitting nicely into any garden layout.

🐝 Easy Care: Low-maintenance and hardy to light freeze, great for gardeners of all experience levels.

🐝 Lush Greenery: Rich green foliage that stays beautiful all year, even when not in bloom.

🐝 Tropical Charm: Adds a bright, tropical feel, making every day feel like a sunny getaway.

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Date: 14 Nov 2024

Indoor Garden hooligans looking for trouble

👣 Indoor Garden hooligans looking for trouble



"The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness." - John Muir

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Date: 21 May 2024

Why is it called Parrot Beak Flower?

Gmelina philippensis, Parrot's Beak

Gmelina philippensis, Parrot's Beak

Gmelina philippensis, Parrot's Beak

Gmelina philippensis, Parrot's Beak

Gmelina philippensis, Parrot's Beak

Gmelina philippensis, Parrot's Beak

Gmelina philippensis, Parrot's Beak

Gmelina philippensis, Parrot's Beak

Why is it called Parrot Beak Flower?



🔸 Gmelina philippensis, also known as Parrot's Beak, is a unique round shrub with whimsical pendant branches and leaves.

🔸 Leaves and flowers unmistakably resemble a parrot's beak, adding endless whimsy to the garden.

🔸 Vibrant yellow blossoms hang upside-down, creating a perpetual garden carnival all year long.

🔸 It is a butterfly magnet!

🔸 The leaves, in their comical way, mimic a parrot doing a joyful handstand. Vibrant and green, they bring smiles effortlessly.

🔸 Low-maintenance, sun-loving plant, it grows fast, making it suitable for garden centerpieces or live hedges.

🔸 Water-wise and tolerant of dry spells, it adds a touch of the tropics to any garden while requiring minimal care.



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Date: 18 Apr 2025

Want a Fence Covered in Royal Blooms?

Petrea volubilis, Queen's Wreath, Sandpaper vine

👑 Want a Fence Covered in Royal Blooms?

😈 Petrea volubilis, also known as Queen's Wreath or Sandpaper vine, started blooming in our garden again in April. This tropical wisteria that steals the show is a twining vine with large, rough leaves - just like a sandpaper!

😈 Petrea is the ultimate tropical climber - fast-growing, bold, and breathtaking. Its rough, sandpaper-like leaves are just the beginning... the real magic is in the massive cascading clusters of royal purple flowers that can stretch over a foot long!

😈 There's also a rare white variety - Petrea glandulosa Alba - White Queen's Wreath. It features the same cascading form as the purple type, but with elegant snow-white, pinwheel-like flowers that create a soft, striking contrast in the garden.

😈 Often called Tropical Wisteria, Petrea thrives in warm, humid climates and puts on a non-stop floral display. Each bloom lasts a few days, but the blue calyxes remain, giving the illusion of continuous flowering.

😈 These flowers draw in butterflies, bees, and hummingbirds, turning your garden into a buzzing paradise.

😈 Let it climb a trellis, fence, or arbor and watch it become the centerpiece of your yard - fast!

🛒 Add the Queen's Wreath to your garden and grow your own royal display! 👑

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The Royal Snow White that everyone loves
Purple Sandpaper Vine

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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

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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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