Garden Blog - Top Tropicals

Date: 9 Jun 2024

Would you like to spice Up Your Garden with Variegated Ginger?

Alpinia Zerumbet Variegata Variegated Ginger

Alpinia Zerumbet Variegata Variegated Ginger

Alpinia Zerumbet Variegata Variegated Ginger

Alpinia Zerumbet Variegata Variegated Ginger

Alpinia Zerumbet Variegata Variegated Ginger flower

Alpinia Zerumbet Variegata Variegated Ginger flower

Alpinia Zerumbet Variegata Variegated Ginger

Alpinia Zerumbet Variegata Variegated Ginger

Alpinia Zerumbet Variegata Variegated Ginger

Alpinia Zerumbet Variegata Variegated Ginger

Would you like to spice Up Your Garden with Variegated Ginger?

  • 🌿 Alpinia Zerumbet Variegata is a clumping ginger valued for its beautiful variegated foliage. With its colorful foliage and beautiful flowers, variegated ginger is a stunning ornamental.
  • 🌿 Striking Foliage: Glossy green leaves with white striping add a pop of color and interest to your garden.
  • 🌿 Unique Flowers: Unlike other gingers, its beautiful, fragrant, shell-like flowers droop from leafy stems, adding summer charm.
  • 🌿 Perfect Size: This small shrub grows 2-4 feet tall and can be pruned for size control.
  • 🌿 Moisture Lover: Keep the soil moist for happy, thriving plants.
  • 🌿 Ideal Conditions: Thrives in shaded garden corners with organically rich, well-drained soil. Mulch for best results.
  • 🌿 Low Maintenance: No serious insect or disease problems, making it an easy addition to your garden.
  • 🌿 Indoor Option: Can be grown as a houseplant with bright light and humid conditions, reaching 3-4 feet indoors.
  • 🌿 Edibe: Like every ginger, this ornamental beauty also has edible rhizomes.


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Date: 6 Jun 2024

Horny plant hanging in the air

Staghorn fern (Platycerium)

Staghorn fern (Platycerium)

Staghorn fern (Platycerium)

Staghorn fern (Platycerium)

Staghorn fern (Platycerium)

Staghorn fern (Platycerium)

Staghorn fern (Platycerium)

Horny plant hanging in the air...

  • 👀 Staghorn fern (Platycerium) is one of those #Nature_Wonders... Everyone who sees it, wants to have one!
  • 👀 Showy, tropical looking epiphyte that can be grown on a tree or in a large hanging basket.
  • 👀 It is able to grow high in the trees of the rainforest, often grows in large masses.
  • 👀 Long, pendulous, much bifurcated fertile fronds produce spores on special cup-shaped appendages. Basal fronds form a crown-shaped basket.


🛒 Order online - we have a few X-large plants

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Date: 2 Jun 2024

Why everybody wants this plant? Intoxicating sweet fragrance is the answer!

Cestrum nocturnum - Night blooming jasmine

Cestrum nocturnum - Night blooming jasmine

Cestrum nocturnum - Night blooming jasmine

Cestrum nocturnum - Night blooming jasmine

Cestrum nocturnum - Night blooming jasmine

Cestrum nocturnum - Night blooming jasmine

Cestrum nocturnum - Night blooming jasmine

Cestrum nocturnum - Night blooming jasmine

🍬 Why everybody wants this plant? Intoxicating sweet fragrance is the answer! Do you have one?
Cestrum nocturnum - Night blooming jasmine.

⭐️ This fast growing, dense shrub is a garden favorite, one of the most famous and desirable fragrant plants.

🌃 The sweetest fragrance at night is intoxicating.

🌄 Flowers are pale yellow to white, open at night and stay extremely fragrant until sunrise.

🙏 These flowers are widely used in India and other countries of South Asia for perfumery, medicinal applications and in religious ceremonies.

🏡 Best location will be near driveway, window or entrance, where the magic fragrance can be appreciated.

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Date: 2 Jun 2024

What is a perfect shade tree with flower benefits? Discover the sunny Kassod Tree

Cassia siamea - Kassod Tree (Siamese Senna)

Cassia siamea - Kassod Tree (Siamese Senna)

Cassia siamea - Kassod Tree (Siamese Senna)

Cassia siamea - Kassod Tree (Siamese Senna)

Cassia siamea - Kassod Tree (Siamese Senna)

Cassia siamea - Kassod Tree (Siamese Senna)

🌻 What is a perfect shade tree with flower benefits? Discover the sunny Kassod Tree...

  • 🟡 Cassia siamea - Kassod Tree (Siamese Senna) is a remarkable subtropical tree known for several special features:
  • 🟡 Fast Growing, making it an excellent choice for quick shade and ornamental use.
  • 🟡 Bright yellow flowers that bloom in clusters, adding a vibrant splash of color.
  • 🟡 Evergreen foliage: lush green leaves year-round, providing continuous beauty and shade.
  • 🟡 Hardy: highly resilient and can thrive in a variety of soil types and conditions, including poor soils and dry climates. Tolerates both light frost and summer heat.
  • 🟡 Low maintenance, easy care, not messy, making it an ideal choice for both novice and experienced gardeners.
  • 🟡 Nitrogen fixation: Improves soil fertility by fixing nitrogen, benefiting surrounding plants and enhancing garden productivity.
  • 🟡 Medicinal use: herbal medicine (laxative properties and to treat various ailments).
  • 🟡 Attracts bees, butterflies, and other pollinators, supporting local biodiversity and ecosystem health 🐞🐝
  • 🟡 Shade provider: Ideal for creating shaded areas in gardens and landscapes, contributing to a cooler environment during hot weather.


🛒 Add shade and color to your garden with Kassod Tree

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Date: 31 May 2024

Black-black-black plant! Its totally black, thats right

Black ZZ Plant, Zamioculcas x Black Dragon

Black ZZ Plant, Zamioculcas x Black Dragon

Black ZZ Plant, Zamioculcas x Black Dragon

Black ZZ Plant, Zamioculcas x Black Dragon

Black ZZ Plant, Zamioculcas x Black Dragon

Black ZZ Plant, Zamioculcas x Black Dragon

Black ZZ Plant, Zamioculcas x Black Dragon

Black ZZ Plant, Zamioculcas x Black Dragon

♣️ Black-black-black plant! It's totally black, that's right.

  • ▪️ Meet the elusive Black ZZ Plant, where the leaves of this dragon truly live up to its name with their mesmerizing black hue.
    • Zamioculcas x Black Dragon - yes, the leaves of this Dragon are absolutely black!
  • ▪️Indoor plant enthusiasts may be familiar with its green counterpart, but this rare black variety is a collector's dream come true! You can see both green and black varieties on one of the photos.
  • ▪️The Black ZZ Plant is a succulent marvel, boasting dark glossy foliage thanks to its high chlorophyll concentration - a rarity in the plant kingdom.
  • ▪️With its exceptional ability to store water, the ZZ Plant can endure long periods without watering, earning its title as one of the most drought-tolerant plants on the planet.
  • ▪️Sometimes referred to as the Aroid Palm, this ancient relic shares a unique characteristic with Gonatopus: its leaflets can detach, root, and form bulblets, a trait unseen in other aroids outside the Zamioculcadeae family.
  • ▪️Witness the magic as juvenile leaves emerge green and transform into striking black as they mature, adding a touch of mystery and elegance to any indoor oasis.


🛒 Get the Black ZZ and surprise your friends

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