Garden Blog - Top Tropicals

Date: 30 Jun 2025

Shooting Star Gardenia: a rare scent from Africa

Gardenia nitida (Posoqueria), Shooting Star Gardenia

⭐️ Shooting Star Gardenia: a rare scent from Africa



⭐️ Gardenia nitida (Posoqueria), Shooting Star Gardenia - is a rare African treasure prized for its star-like tubular flowers and rich, intoxicating fragrance.

⭐️ Blooming sporadically throughout the year, this plant puts on a dazzling show when in bloom - often covered in clusters of white blossoms that light up the garden like stars.

⭐️ Its leaves are unusually shaped and add to its exotic charm. It is a must-have for fragrance lovers and rare plant collectors.

🛒 Bring the stars with scent to your garden

#Perfume_Plants #Hedges_with_benefits

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Date: 2 Jul 2025

The perfect ever-bloom beneath your shade tree

Tabernaemontana divaricata - Pinwheel Jasmine in bloom

🎡 The perfect ever-bloom beneath your shade tree



Tabernaemontana divaricata, also known as Pinwheel Jasmine or Crape Jasmine, is in bloom virtually year around at Top Tropicals garden.

➕ It is a charming, low-maintenance shrub that thrives under taller trees, like palms or oaks. With glossy green leaves and delicate white, pinwheel-shaped flowers, it adds brightness and elegance to shaded spaces.

➕ Blooming year-round, Pinwheel Jasmine brings steady beauty to your garden and can even be trained into a small ornamental tree.

➕ While it loves bright light for the best floral show, it's surprisingly shade-tolerant - making it a go-to choice for under-tree planting.

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Let your shady spots bloom beautifully!

📚 Learn more:


What is the best showy shrub to plant under a shade tree?

#Hedges_with_benefits

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Date: 4 Jul 2025

Three things you will love about the tiniest Powderpuff - for the Tidiest Garden

Calliandra emarginata Nana, Dwarf Powderpuff

💖 Three things you will love about the tiniest Powderpuff - for the Tidiest Garden



💖 Calliandra emarginata Nana, Dwarf Powderpuff - this cheerful little shrub stays compact and blooms non-stop with fluffy pink powderpuff flowers that bees and butterflies can't resist.

💖 The name Calliandra means "beautiful stamens" - and it delivers! You'll see round, silky flowerheads popping out along the branches almost all year.

💖 It's easy to grow, easy to shape into a tidy bush or a mini tree, and easy to love!

🛒 Shop Calliandras - Powderpuffs

📚 More about Calliandras:


· Powderpuff and a Bee
· The best fast growing flowering bush for a privacy screen
· Baby-pink fluffy flower for butterflies - Lilian
· Flowering bush that everyone loves
· Tree Calliandra
· How to get a big flowering bush quickly? Calliandra - Powderpuff for blocking the unwanted view

#Hedges_with_benefits #Butterfly_Plants

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Date: 18 Oct 2024

What is the most spectacular variegated ginger?

😵‍ What is the most spectacular variegated ginger?



🌀 Variegated Spiral Ginger - Costus arabicus (amazonicus) variegata - is a tropical stunner originally from South America but adored in Hawaii and Florida

🌀 This ginger's eye-catching, spiraling stems are streaked with striking white variegation, topped with elegant pure white flowers with yellow centers.

🌀 The pure white blooms are truly a piece of art! Perfect for shade gardens (but also can take sun), this plant thrives in moist soil and loves plenty of water.

🌀 If you're looking to add a bit of drama and elegance to your garden, this beauty is a must-have!

📚 Learn more about gingers from previous posts:
💋Ginger makes a natural shampoo
💋Our most favorite Ginger plant - African Princess
💋How Raspberry ginger became spiral
💋The most interesting edible gingers
💋5 most spectacular Gingers
💋French Kiss the Red Button Ginger
💋Kaempferia angustifolia - Laos Silver Stripe Peacock Ginger
💋The most fragrant ginger ever
💋Spice Up Your Garden with Variegated Ginger

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#Container_Garden #Shade_Garden

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Date: 12 Jul 2025

Whats inside the Napoleons Hat?

Napoleon's Hat - Napoleonaea imperialis

🎩 What's inside the Napoleons Hat? False Kola experience!



🎩 Napoleon's Hat (Napoleonaea imperialis), lives up to its name with large, saucer-shaped flowers that bloom straight from the leaf axils or even directly from the trunk!

🎩 The hat-shaped, brightly colored flowers smell like butterscotch!

🎩 The reddish seeds resemble kola nuts and even have a similar taste, giving you a fun, "false kola" experience.

🎩 An instant conversation starter, Napoleon's Hat is a quirky, fragrant addition to your garden - perfect for those looking for something a little different.

🛒 Experience Napoleon's Hat - the most bizarre flower with benefits!

📚 Learn more:


A French Emperor's Hat Blooming in Your Garden
Napoleons Hat - Endangered species from the outgone era of the Napoleon's War

#Fun_facts #Trees #Nature_Wonders

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