Garden Blog - Top Tropicals

Date: 18 Jul 2025

Fragrance lovers, this plant changes everything!

Cerbera x manghas - Enchanted Incense

🌸 Fragrance lovers, this plant changes everything!

  • 🌸 Cerbera x manghas - Enchanted Incense - is one of the newest and most sought-after perfume plants, prized for its incredible fragrance that outshines even jasmine and gardenia. Its red-and-white flowers release an intense, sweet scent you won't forget.
  • 🌸 This compact, plumeria-like tree has beautiful mauve-tinted leaves and grows slowly, making it perfect for containers.
  • 🌸 Easy-care, evergreen in warm climates, and low on water needs - this is a rare gem for fragrance lovers.


🛒 Add rare perfume power to your patio

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Plant Facts

Cerbera sp.
Cerbera Enchanted Incense
USDA Zone: 9-11
Small tree 10-20 ftFull sunRegular waterOrnamental foliageWhite, off-white flowersPink flowersToxic or PoisonousDeciduous plantFragrant plantSubtropical plant. Mature plant cold hardy at least to 30s F for a short timeSeaside, salt tolerant plant

What flower is sweeter than any Jasmine

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Date: 28 Sep 2025

Moringa omelet: quick-n-fun exotic recipes

Moringa omelet

Moringa omelet

🍴 Moringa omelet: quick-n-fun exotic recipes

  • 🟡Whisk eggs with chopped Moringa leaves, garlic, and a dash of soy sauce.
  • 🟡Pour into a hot pan with some cooking oil and cook for a minute or two until fluffy and golden.
  • 🟡A green power-packed breakfast!

Moringa Omelet

Ingredients

  • 2 eggs
  • 1/2 cup fresh Moringa leaves (chopped)
  • 1 small onion (chopped)
  • 1 tomato (diced)
  • 1 clove garlic (minced)
  • Salt and pepper to taste
  • 1 tsp oil or butter

Instructions

  1. Beat the eggs in a bowl and season with salt and pepper.
  2. Heat oil in a pan, sauté onion, garlic, and tomato until soft.
  3. Add the chopped Moringa leaves and cook for 1 minute.
  4. Pour in the beaten eggs and cook until set, flipping once.
  5. Serve hot with rice or bread.

🛒 Plant Moringa tree and harvest superfood year around

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Date: 8 Feb 2024

2/10/2024: Chinese Year of the Dragon

2024  Year  of  the  Dragon

Q: What is the lucky plant for Chinese New Year 2024?

A: 2024 is the year of the Green Wooden Dragon according to the Chinese calendar. It will be celebrated this year on Saturday, February 10.
Dragon symbol is considered the most powerful in Chinese astrology, representing energy, strength, and power.

The lucky plant of the year 2024, the Dragon fruit, steals the show with its striking red skin and juicy white flesh. Plates overflow with succulent slices of dragon fruit, its fiery red skin contrasting beautifully with the snowy white flesh speckled with tiny black seeds, symbolizing prosperity and abundance.

2024  the  year  of  the  Green  Wooden  Dragon  with  Dragon  Fruit

Dragon fruit comes in many varieties that differ in flavor, sweetness, and texture.

Date: 9 Aug 2021

August 8
International Cat Day

...August 8 is International Cat Day - a day to celebrate one of man's most common and ancient pets. They have even been worshiped as gods (we see you, Egypt.) Well, it is not surprising, Cats are one of the coolest beings on the planet: they are independent, inquisitive, adventurous, have an amazing physiognomy, and the power to heal by themselves... And - cats and plants always go together!..

...Nowadays, cats seem to be one of the pop icons in modern society - we have about half of a billion among us. And, since 2002, thanks to the International Fund for Animal Welfare cats have their own holiday!..

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Q: What do you call a huge pile of cats?

A: Take your pick - a Meowntain or a Purramid!

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Date: 4 Jun 2021

Fragrant plants - Sweet memories

...More than any other sense, the sense of smell has the power to recall memories of the past. Perhaps this is because the olfactory impressions are received by the brain's limbic system, one of the most ancient components that also associated with emotions. The result is that even a whiff of a certain flower or leaf can instantly transport us in time to when we first encountered the fragrance. Little wonder that fragrant plants have always ranked high among Southern favorites...

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