Garden Blog - Top Tropicals

Date: 17 Jun 2024

Fragrant Fried Eggs for bees and butterflies

Oncoba spinosa - Fried egg tree

🍳 Fragrant Fried Eggs for bees and butterflies 🐝

🟡 Oncoba spinosa - Fried egg tree - is a conversation piece in your garden.

🟡 A medium shrub or small tree.

🟡 Beautiful white and yellow camellia-like flowers look like 'fried eggs' when they drop off and fall on the ground with their yellow stamens facing upwards.

🟡 Flowers are honey-sweet fragrant and attract butterflies and bees.

🟡 The fruits have a sour, edible pulp.

🛒 Get a Fried egg tree

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Date: 16 Jun 2024

The number one seller of tropical flowering shrubs:

Dombeya seminole - Tropical Rose Hydrangea

⬆️ The number one seller of tropical flowering shrubs: Tropical Rose Hydrangea.

🌸 Dombeya seminole - Tropical Rose Hydrangea is one of the showiest landscape plants and a real showstopper

🌸 Known as the tropical hydrangea due to similar flowers. Flowers are pink to rose in color.

🌸 Blooms from fall to spring. Blooms all winter, providing much-desired color

🌸 Grows up to 7 feet tall and about the same in width. Can be pruned to about 5 feet tall. Does well in a container.

🌸 Thrives in full sun to partial shade, tolerates poor soil. Fuller shrub and more flowers with more sun.
Fairly drought-tolerant once established.

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Serves as a nectar plant for many butterflies

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Date: 12 Jun 2024

What is the most lovable flowering shrub?

Clerodendrum paniculatum - Pagoda Flower

❤️ What is the most lovable flowering shrub?



Clerodendrums are one of the most favorite and rewarding flowering shrubs and vines for Southern landscape or indoor culture.

❤️ Free flowering, bloom year around

❤️ Undemanding and fast growing

❤️ Take sun or shade

❤️ Many species are fragrant

❤️ Attract butterflies and birds

❤️ Perfect for container culture, compact and manageable plants

❤️ Cold tolerant, quickly recover from cold damage, respond well to pruning.

📚 Clerodendrums mentioned earlier: Seaside Clerodendrum, Red Bleeding Heart, Bleeding Heart Vine, Musical Note, Glory Bower.

🎥 Clerodendrum paniculatum - Pagoda Flower

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Date: 11 Jun 2024

Flamingo pink with a fruity fragrance, yet another variety

Quisqualis Indica - Rangoon Creeper

Flamingo pink with a fruity fragrance, yet another variety...

💕 This is a single-flower variety of Quisqualis we mentioned earlier.

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Quisqualis Indica - Rangoon Creeper - is an extremely beautiful plant.

💕 Shrubby vine with pale-pink to deep crimson star shaped flowers, covering the entire plant when in full bloom.

💕 It's scent is unforgettable, fruity and intoxicating...

💕 The flowers are born in clusters and each flower has many variations of color, depending on how old the flower is.

💕 The flower starts out white and or pink striped and turn solid pink and finally dark pink on maturity.

💕 Can grow into large woody vine covering a fence or big trellis.

🛒 Get your own Quisqualis vine

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Date: 8 Jun 2024

The Drama you want in your garden: dazzling Medinilla!

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🌺 The Drama you want in your garden: dazzling Medinilla!


  • 🎀 Show-Stopping Blooms: The Medinilla plant is known for its spectacular, dramatic clusters of pink, pendulous flowers that cascade like floral chandeliers - perfect for turning heads!
  • 🎀 Tropical Flair: With its lush, leathery leaves and exotic appearance, the medinilla adds a touch of the tropics to any indoor or outdoor space.
  • 🎀 Conversation Starter: Its unique and eye-catching flowers make the Medinilla a true centerpiece, sparking admiration and conversation among garden visitors.
  • 🎀 Low Maintenance: Despite its luxurious look, the Medinilla is surprisingly easy to care for, thriving in indirect light (loves shade!) and only moderate watering.
  • 🎀 Pollinator's Delight: The vibrant blooms attract a variety of pollinators, making your garden not only more beautiful but also more buzzing with life 🐞🐝
  • 🎀 Year-Round Beauty: Unlike many plants that only shine for a season, the Medinilla can bloom multiple times a year.


🛒 Shop Medinilla plants

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