Garden Blog - Top Tropicals

Date: 26 Dec 2024

Does Barleria Lavender Lace really have striped flowers

⭐️ Does Barleria Lavender Lace really have striped flowers


  • 🔮 Looking for an easy, compact, beautiful shrub that takes both sun and shade? Barleria cristata Lavender Lace (Striped Philippine Violet) is a rare and stunning variety perfect for fall and winter blooms.

  • 🔮 Striking lavender-and-white-striped trumpet-shaped blooms appear in clusters from Fall through Winter. They are truly striped! 👀

  • 🔮 Grows to about 3 feet tall, perfect as a garden hedge or shaped into neat geometrical forms with minimal pruning.

  • 🔮 Needs some sun for profuse flowering and occasional pruning to encourage bushy growth.

  • 🔮 Can handle cooler temperatures, making it a reliable fall and winter bloomer.


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Date: 26 Dec 2024

Does Barleria Lavender Lace really have striped flowers

Barleria cristata Lavender Lace (Striped Philippine Violet)

⭐️ Does Barleria Lavender Lace really have striped flowers

  • 🔮 Looking for an easy, compact, beautiful shrub that takes both sun and shade? Barleria cristata Lavender Lace (Striped Philippine Violet) is a rare and stunning variety perfect for fall and winter blooms.
  • 🔮 Striking lavender-and-white-striped trumpet-shaped blooms appear in clusters from Fall through Winter. They are truly striped! 👀
  • 🔮 Grows to about 3 feet tall, perfect as a garden hedge or shaped into neat geometrical forms with minimal pruning.
  • 🔮 Needs some sun for profuse flowering and occasional pruning to encourage bushy growth.
  • 🔮 Can handle cooler temperatures, making it a reliable fall and winter bloomer.


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Date: 24 Dec 2024

How Cardinals Guard runs red carpet for Christmas

Cardinals Guard (Pachystachys coccinea)

Cardinals Guard (Pachystachys coccinea)

Cardinals Guard (Pachystachys coccinea)

Cardinals Guard (Pachystachys coccinea)

Cardinals Guard (Pachystachys coccinea)

Cardinals Guard (Pachystachys coccinea)

🚩 How Cardinals Guard runs red carpet for Christmas⛔️👍
  • 💖 If your garden needs a pop of color, Cardinals Guard (Pachystachys coccinea) is ready to take the spotlight! With its bold, scarlet-red blooms perched atop green cones, this evergreen perennial looks like it's wearing a crown.
  • 💖 Striking Christmas-red flowers emerge from a green cone. Blooms most of the year.
  • 💖 Adds vibrant color and a festive, tropical feel to any space.
  • 💖 Upright, multi-stemmed growth with lush foliage.
  • 💖 Attracts hummingbirds, butterflies, and other pollinators.
  • 💖 Care: Morning sun and afternoon shade (semi-shade preferred). Trim stems to prevent legginess and encourage fresh growth. Perfect for Southern gardens and large containers.


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Date: 14 Dec 2024

What happens when the Musical Note hits its peak?

Clerodendrum Musical Note - Clerodendrum incisum

🎶 What happens when the Musical Note hits its peak?
  • ♪ Say hello to our blooming Clerodendrum Musical Note! We mentioned it earlier.
  • ♪ This stunning plant doesn't just bloom - it puts on a show!
  • ♪ With flowers bursting everywhere, this bush even creates a dreamy carpet of musical-note-shaped blooms around its base. A true symphony for the garden!


ℹ️ The unopened flowers resemble musical notes, giving the plant its name.

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Date: 13 Dec 2024

Its never too many powderpuffs!

🍬 It's never too many powderpuffs!



💖 One more Powderpuff beauty - Calliandra surinamensis - is a large vigorous shrub that can be trained into a cute little standard tree.

📚 More Calliandras from previous posts:



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