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Date: 2 May 2024

Fun Fact: Bleeding Heart Vine

Bleeding Heart Vine (Clerodendrum thomsoniae)

Bleeding Heart Vine (Clerodendrum thomsoniae)

Bleeding Heart Vine (Clerodendrum thomsoniae)

Bleeding Heart Vine (Clerodendrum thomsoniae)

Bleeding Heart Vine (Clerodendrum thomsoniae)

📖 Fun Fact: Bleeding Heart Vine (Clerodendrum thomsoniae) is named for its unique red and white flowers that resemble... bleeding hearts! 😍

❣️Native to tropical West Africa
❣️ Spectacular, dramatic flowers look like a line of dangling hearts, each emerging from the other.
❣️ It's a climbing vine often grown as a houseplant or in gardens with a trellis for support.
❣️Winder heavy bloomer, but as long as you provide lots of light to it, it'll bloom most of the time.

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Date: 30 Apr 2024

Its not a cherry blossom! What is this pink-flowered beauty? Its one of the most beautiful Florida trees

Tabebuia impetiginosa - Dwarf Pink Tabebuia

🌸 It's not a cherry blossom! What is this pink-flowered beauty? It's one of the most beautiful Florida trees...

Tabebuia impetiginosa - Dwarf Pink Tabebuia, is a spectacular Winter-Spring bloomer!

♦️ Nice landscape tree, compact and fits small yards.
♦️Beautiful bright pink flowers with yellow throats, covering the tree before new leaves appear.
♦️ Winter bloomer - great choice with snow birds who stay in Florida in winter and want to see some flowers.
♦️ More tabebuia varieties exist with yellow, white, purple flowers.

❄️ Tabebuia is a cold hardy tropical, at least to upper 20's. Grows well in Central Florida.

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Date: 26 Apr 2024

Caesalpinia pulcherrima - Red Dwarf Poinciana

Caesalpinia pulcherrima - Red Dwarf Poinciana

Caesalpinia pulcherrima - Red Dwarf Poinciana

🎨 "Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint, and the soil and sky as canvas." - Elizabeth Murray

❓ Why is it called a Peacock Flower? See yourself...

📷 Caesalpinia pulcherrima - Red Dwarf Poinciana, Bird of Paradise, Pride of Barbados, Peacock flower...

One of the most spectacular tropical bloomers. An eye-stopper!

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Date: 21 Apr 2024

How to make exotic fries from beautiful Cassava Tree (Yuca Root, Tapioca)

Cassava Tree (Yuca Root, Tapioca) - Manihot esculenta

🍟 How to make exotic fries from beautiful Cassava Tree (Yuca Root, Tapioca).

▪️ Cassava (Manihot esculenta), also called Yuca Root, Manihot, Tapioca - is an exotic tropical root vegetable plant. The fries are more delicious than any fries you every tried!
▪️ Besides culinary value, it is simply a stunning little tree! Don't be shy to harvest the roots - this plant is easy to regrow from cuttings, so you can have your crops year round.

❗️Don't confuse Yuca Root (Cassava) with Yucca Plant from the Agave family - a no-go in the culinary world - you definitely don't want to cook that up for dinner!

📚 Learn more about Yuca Root

🍲 Cassava Fries Recipe

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Date: 19 Apr 2024

How to make Dragon Fruit Smoothie? What to do with a

Dragon fruit and a cat

Dragon fruit and a cat

Dragon fruit smoothie

Dragon fruit smoothie

Dragon fruit yellow

Dragon fruit yellow

🍹 How to make Dragon Fruit Smoothie? What to do with a Dragon Fruit?

Dragon fruit, regardless of variety, makes excellent smoothies. A perfect Dragon Fruit Smoothie can be made with a creamy blend of dragon fruit, mango, and banana. The tropical flavor is played up with a squeeze of fresh lime.

Recipe:
Mix in a blender:
2 dragon fruit, peeled
1/2 cup of mango pulp

banana
1 cup of milk of your preference
tbsp sugar

1/2 tsp Lime juce
Some Ice
Add Mint for decoration

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