Garden Blog - Top Tropicals

Date: 5 Mar 2025

What is your favorite blue tropical flower?

Eranthemum pulchellum - Blue Sage, Lead Flower

👏 What is your favorite blue tropical flower?

  • 💙 In full bloom right now: Eranthemum pulchellum - Blue Sage, Lead Flower that we mentioned earlier.
  • 💙 It is the brightest gentian blue flower - very unusual color in the tropics!
  • 💙 Winter heavy bloomer
  • 💙 Attracts butterflies and bees 🐝
  • 💙 Compact shrub, responds well to pruning.
  • 💙 Shade lover. Will happily bloom in the shade!


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Date: 25 Feb 2025

A flowering hedge everyone wants: how big and fast does Hawaiian Sunset grow?

Stictocardia beraviensis - Hawaiian Sunset Bell

🔔 A flowering hedge everyone wants: how big and fast does Hawaiian Sunset grow?



❤️ Check out yourself: Stictocardia beraviensis - Hawaiian Sunset Bell - this dense live hedge grew from just ONE plant over the fence in one season! Just give it some space and Hawaiian Sunset Bell won't disappoint you.

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Everybody wants it: the breathtaking dramatic Hawaiian Sunset

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Date: 21 Feb 2025

Why you need these pretty bells in your garden

🔔 Why you need these pretty bells in your garden


  • 💕 Strobilanthes cusia (flaccidifolius) - Chinese Rain Bell - Very showy, charming little shrub that will bring a touch of elegance and color to your garden.

  • 💕 Impressively statured herbaceous shrub with graceful, arching branches and lovely pink, bell-shaped flowers that bloom from fall to spring, like a natural fountain of beauty.

  • 💕 Not only is it eye-catching, but it also has a fascinating history - used to make the famous Assam Indigo dye and even for treating common ailments in traditional medicine.

  • 💕 This fast-growing, cold-hardy plant is also great for containers

  • 💕 Those delicate bells will attract butterflies. Add some charm and whimsy to your outdoor space!


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Date: 21 Feb 2025

Why you need these pretty bells in your garden

Strobilanthes cusia (flaccidifolius) - Chinese Rain Bell

🔔 Why you need these pretty bells in your garden

  • 💕 Strobilanthes cusia (flaccidifolius) - Chinese Rain Bell - Very showy, charming little shrub that will bring a touch of elegance and color to your garden.
  • 💕 Impressively statured herbaceous shrub with graceful, arching branches and lovely pink, bell-shaped flowers that bloom from fall to spring, like a natural fountain of beauty.
  • 💕 Not only is it eye-catching, but it also has a fascinating history - used to make the famous Assam Indigo dye and even for treating common ailments in traditional medicine.
  • 💕 This fast-growing, cold-hardy plant is also great for containers
  • 💕 Those delicate bells will attract butterflies. Add some charm and whimsy to your outdoor space!


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Date: 20 Feb 2025

Powderpuff and a Bee

Calliandra haematocephala - Red Powderpuff