Can you eat bird-looking flowers? You can eat the whole tree!

🐧 Sesbania grandiflora - Hummingbird Tree - is named for its flowers resembling little birds.

🐧 It produces a mass of large, 3-4", curved flowers from November to June. Flowers can be coral red or white.

🐧 The fun part is - the flowers are edible! As well as the rest of the plant: tender leaves, green fruit (bean pods), and flowers, used in curries, salads, or fried in batter.

🐧 Medicinal uses: bark, leaves, gums, and flowers have medicinal properties.

🐧 Lower branches form a beautiful floral canopy. It is a fast growing, but a small tree that will fit any yard. Great everblooming tree for container culture.

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🔥 Dwarf Poinciana we have now in our Nursery - beautiful bushes in 3-15 gal pots, in full bloom. Spectacular show! ❤️

📚 See our previous post about Dwarf Poinciana.

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🐙 What do you think about this Giant? This is the coolest looking flower!

Aristolochia gigantea var. Brasiliensis - Giant Pelican Flower - is one of the most outrageous flowers in the world.

This striking plant from Brazil is known for its outrageous, huge - over ten-inch-long - lemon-scented flowers 🍋

Flowers have an elaborate pattern of white and mottled reddish brown.

Not a vigorous vine, making it easy to train on a stake, trellis, or in a hanging basket.

Rare and highly collectible variety.

Like all Dunchman's Pipes we mentioned earlier, this plant is a great butterfly attractor.

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🌼 Why sunflowers are growing on a tree?

🌻 Sunflower tree or Tree Marigold (Tithonia diversifolia) that we mentioned earlier, is a perfect choice when you need a fast-growing shrub to hide unwanted view in just a few months.

🌻 Beautiful sunflowers look really happy! The flowers that are about 3 inches wide.

🌻 When it's fully grown, Sunflower Tree is about 10 feet tall and 10 feet wide, like a big, cozy blanket.

🌻 Tolerates both cold and heat.

🌻 Attracts lots of butterflies and bees 🐝

🌻 If the winter was too cold, it still bounces back every spring, even stronger than before, like a champion.

🌻 Sunflower Tree is a tough, colorful dense plant that grows fast and makes your yard look awesome.

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❤️ Why this Bleeding Heart is bleeding pink?

Clerodendrum speciosum, also known as the Red Bleeding Heart, is a captivating twist on the classic Bleeding Heart, C. thomsoniae that we mentioned earlier.

❣️ Features stunning pink bracts and vibrant red heart-shaped flowers, enhancing the charm of the original variety.

❣️ Vigorous and fast-growing vine, perfect for creating a privacy hedge (as on the video) or a cascading floral display over a fence.

❣️ Butterflies and bees adore its bright pink-and-red flowers, making it a pollinator-friendly choice 🐝

❣️ Ideal for quickly covering fences or structures with its lush, showy blooms in just one season.

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