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• &🐘 Elephant Ears Illustris Colocasia is a classic beauty.
• &🐘 The heart-shaped, large purple-and-green leaves of Illustris are huge, and their dark highlights are stunning.
• &🐘 This elephant ear is a lover of moist shade, but does best with a little dappled sunlight.
• &🐘 It will tolerate boggy conditions.
• &🐘 Provide light shade to full shade and consistently moist or boggy soil.
• &🐘 It is a strong fast growing variety that does great in container, landscapes, ponds and patios.

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👍 Why Red Plumbago is so wanted for shade gardens

• &♥️ Plumbago indica - Chitraka, Scarlett Leadwort, Red Plumbago is a rare gem from India that boasts vibrant scarlet-red flowers. A semi-woody perennial shrub with graceful, flexible branches.
• &♥️ Thrives in low-light areas, bringing bold color to places where many plants struggle.
• &♥️ Works great in shade gardens, containers, or even indoors as a striking ornamental plant.
• &♥️ Traditionally used in India for enhancing digestion and stimulating appetite, thanks to compounds like Plumbagin.
• &♥️ Cold sensitive plant, protect from frost, keep above 40F.

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💎 Is Sapphire Gem really a ginger?

• &💎 Despite its name, Blue Ginger is not a true ginger but a member of the Commelinaceae family, closely related to the well-known Tradescantia houseplants.
• &💎 Dichorisandra thyrsiflora - Blue Ginger, Sapphire Gem is a clump-forming perennial enchants with its deep sapphire-blue blooms - a rare and striking color for the tropics.
• &💎 Growing 2-5 feet tall, it features dark green stems with leopard-like spots at the leaf axils and shiny, horizontally held foliage.
• &💎 Native to Brazil and Peru, Blue Ginger thrives in semi-shade or partial shade with moist, well-draining soil, making it an ideal addition to shade gardens, patios, or indoor collections.
• &💎 Its vibrant blue, lavender, or purple flowers attract hummingbirds, butterflies, and other pollinators, creating a lively display.
• &💎 In warm climates it remains evergreen and can tolerate brief dips into the low 30s. In cooler regions, it grows beautifully in pots and can be overwintered indoors in a cool, bright location. For best results, keep the soil moist but not waterlogged, maintain good air circulation, and fertilize moderately during the growing season.
• &💎 In warm environment, the plant is evergreen and doesn't go dormant (unlike true gingers). Close relative - Dichorisandra pendula - Weeping Blue Ginger

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Ice Cream Bean Tree (Inga edulis) - fast growing shade tree with wonderful fruit that kids love! 👯‍♀️

• &✳️ Bean pods up to 3 ft long contain sweet, juicy, white pulp that has a soft cotton wool texture and tastes of vanilla ice-cream.
• &✳️ The fruit has fantastic health benefits. It contains up to 25% sugar, 10% protein, 5% fiber, vitamins C, A and E, and minerals such as phosphorus, calcium, magnesium and zinc. The protein content is two times higher than that of a banana!
• &✳️ A mature tree will produce around 100 fruits in a season. Seedlings start fruiting within 3-4 years.
• &✳️ Fast growing, umbrella-shaped tree, 20 ft tall and almost as wide, provides plenty of shade. This is our favorite tree when we need to create shade quickly.

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Valencia Pride mango - a stunning shade tree with red-blushed, fiberless, honeyed fruit.
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🥭 Valencia Pride is a vigorous Florida heirloom - a Haden seedling from 1941, famed for its large, oblong-sigmoid fruit with yellow skin and crimson blush. The nearly fiberless, firm flesh is juicy and flavorful, offering sweet-tart notes of honey, coconut, and stone fruit . The tree grows tall and open, making it ideal for shade in zones 9-11, and is moderately cold-hardy with good disease resistance. It ripens mid- to late summer (July-August in Florida) and produces reliably once established.<
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