👄 Blue lips smell like violets

• 💙 Sclerochiton harveyanus - Mazabuka, or Blue Lips blooms with quirky blue-to-purple flowers that really do look like lips. And in the tropical plant world, blue flowers are rare. And they are lightly violet-lavender-fragrant!
• 💙 Even better? It's a total shade lover. No need for blazing sun - this beauty is happy to bloom in the cool, leafy spots of your garden.
• 💙 Loved by bees and birds, and just the right mix of weird and wonderful.

🛒 Add Blue Lips to your shade garden

📚 Learn more:

• Why this blue tropical flower has a violet fragrance?
• Surprising Violet fragrance of the Blue Lips

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💜 What is the best purple flowering bush? Glory bush!

• 🟣 Why everyone in Florida wants this fuzzy-leaf Tibouchina? Tibouchina multiflora (grandifolia), Glory bush, Quaresmeira
is one of those plants that stops people in their tracks.
• 🟣 The leaves are huge, soft, and fuzzy - up to 10 inches wide, sometimes 12 in shade. They're as fun to touch as they are to look at!
• 🟣 And when it blooms? You get bold spikes of purple flowers from August through winter, turning your garden into a purple paradise.
• 🟣 But here's the twist: the older leaves can surprise you by turning shades of orange and red - a rare bonus of fall color in the tropics.
• 🟣 It thrives in sun or shade, grows fast, and handles Florida’s winters without a fuss.

This isn’t just a flowering shrub. It’s a statement.

🛒 Make your garden pop with purple: explore Tibouchina plants

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Why this Tibouchina is so popular

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🌱 Variegated Chaya - beauty meets nutrition

• 🌿 Variegated Chaya - Variegated Maya Spinach Tree or Cnidoscolus aconitifolius variegatus - is a showstopper in the edible garden. Its heavily cut, creamy-white variegated leaves look like they belong in a tropical ornamental bed, but this beauty is also a powerhouse leafy green.
• 🌿 Native to the Yucatan Peninsula, Chaya has been a traditional food for centuries. Younger leaves (and a little stem) are cooked like spinach, simmered for at least 5-15 minutes to neutralize toxins, then served with butter, oil, or in soups. Once cooked, they’re loaded with protein, calcium, iron, and vitamins A and C - a true garden superfood.
• 🌿 Fast-growing and low-maintenance, Chaya can reach 6-8 feet and thrives in full sun or partial shade. It's drought-tolerant, attracts butterflies and hummingbirds with its white flowers, and grows easily from cuttings. Perfect for food forests, permaculture gardens, or anyone wanting beauty and function in one plant.

🛒 Plant it, cook it, love it

📚 Learn more:

• Bright, bold, and edible: Variegated Chaya
• Chaya's health benefits: a must-have tropical leafy vegetable for sustainable gardening

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😦 How many cats in the tree?

Three (don't forget the black tail with eyes upstairs)

🐈📸 Matilda's tree visitors at PeopleCats.Garden. 

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