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Date: 22 Jun 2024

Need more ideas for compact and showy flowering trees? Try Rainbow Cassias

Rainbow cassia - Cassia Marginata.

🌈 Need more ideas for compact and showy flowering trees? Try Rainbow Cassias.

  • ♦️ Some hybrid cassias have spectacular color combinations and are called Rainbow Cassias.
  • ♦️ We mentioned earlier some sunny, yellow-flowering cassias: Senna surattensis (Cassia glauca) - Scrambled Egg Bush, and Cassia siamea - Kassod Tree.
  • ♦️ Other cassias can be pink or with multi-color flower combination, so-called Rainbow cassias (which are hybrids between yellow and pink cassias):
    • Cassia grandis - Red Cassia
    Cassia javanica - Apple Blossom Tree
    Cassia marginata - Rainbow Shower Tree
    Cassia roxburghii - Ceylon Senna
    Cassia x nodosa - Pink Shower, Appleblossom.
  • ♦️ Cassia trees are compact, fast growing, tolerant to drought and poor soils, free-flowering and relatively cold hardy. Always a great choice!


❓ What cassias do you have in your garden? Share photos in comments👇

🎥 Rainbow cassia - Cassia Marginata.

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Date: 16 Jun 2024

Good luck tree that brings money and prosperity? And yet shade, spectacular flowers and edible nuts? It is

Pachira aquatica (Bombax glabra) - Malabar Peanut or Guiana Chestnut

💰 Good luck tree that brings money and prosperity? And yet shade, spectacular flowers and edible nuts? It is Guiana Chestnut!

  • Pachira aquatica (Bombax glabra) - Malabar Peanut or Guiana Chestnut is a beautiful, fast growing flowering tree with edible nuts!
  • Tropical wetland tree native to Central and South America, known for its large, glossy leaves and its distinctive, braided trunk.
  • The tree is believed to bring good luck and prosperity to those who own it, and is sometimes referred to as a "money tree."
  • Pachira aquatica is also used in traditional medicine and often used for bonsai.


❓ What other plants bring good luck? Share in comments👇

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Date: 14 Jun 2024

2 most favorite flowering trees for small yards

2 most favorite flowering trees for small yards 2 most favorite flowering trees for small yards 2 most favorite flowering trees for small yards 2 most favorite flowering trees for small yards

🌸 2 most favorite flowering trees for small yards



❓ What tree to plant when you have a limited space? Two winners under 20 ft will fit any garden setting:

💛 Tabebuia chrysotricha - Dwarf Golden Tabebuia

💗 Tabebuia impetiginosa - Dwarf Pink Tabebuia

  • ✔️ These two small trees are spectacular bloomers in late winter to spring. The leafless trees are covered with bright flowers - yellow and pink. The flowers cover these trees completely, before new leaves appear.

  • ✔️ They both are great or container culture. Perfect for small yard or patio.

  • ✔️ Hardy and easy to grow.


🎥 Video of spectacular Tabebuia bloom in earlier post

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Date: 14 Jun 2024

2 most favorite flowering trees for small yards

Tabebuia chrysotricha - Dwarf Golden Tabebuia tree

Tabebuia chrysotricha - Dwarf Golden Tabebuia tree

Tabebuia chrysotricha - Dwarf Golden Tabebuia flowers

Tabebuia chrysotricha - Dwarf Golden Tabebuia flowers

Tabebuia impetiginosa - Dwarf Pink Tabebuia tree

Tabebuia impetiginosa - Dwarf Pink Tabebuia tree

Tabebuia impetiginosa - Dwarf Pink Tabebuia flowers

Tabebuia impetiginosa - Dwarf Pink Tabebuia flowers

🌸 2 most favorite flowering trees for small yards



❓ What tree to plant when you have a limited space? Two winners under 20 ft will fit any garden setting:

💛 Tabebuia chrysotricha - Dwarf Golden Tabebuia

💗 Tabebuia impetiginosa - Dwarf Pink Tabebuia
  • ✔️ These two small trees are spectacular bloomers in late winter to spring. The leafless trees are covered with bright flowers - yellow and pink. The flowers cover these trees completely, before new leaves appear.
  • ✔️ They both are great or container culture. Perfect for small yard or patio.
  • ✔️ Hardy and easy to grow.


🎥 Video of spectacular Tabebuia bloom in earlier post

🛒 Shop Tabebuia trees

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Date: 10 Jun 2024

What is the best shade tree that is fast growing and beautiful?

Bauhinia blakeana - Hong Kong Orchid Tree flower

Bauhinia blakeana - Hong Kong Orchid Tree flower

Bauhinia blakeana - Hong Kong Orchid Tree

Bauhinia blakeana - Hong Kong Orchid Tree

🌳 What is the best shade tree that is fast growing and beautiful?

  • 🌸 Orchid trees that we mentioned earlier are one of the most popular shade trees in Southern gardens.
  • 🌸 Bauhinia blakeana - Hong Kong Orchid Tree - is the most beautiful of all orchid trees.
  • 🌸 It has the largest flowers, brightly colored.
  • 🌸 Winter bloomer.
  • 🌸 Starts flowering in very small size, when only 2-3 ft tall.
  • 🌸 Very fast growing.


📚 Learn more: Bauhinias - trees with Orchid Flowers and Butterfly Wings
🎥 YouTube Video: Hong Kong Orchid Tree

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