Garden Blog - Top Tropicals

Date: 14 Jan 2026

How to clone yourself: Diplazium baby tricks

Peacock Fern (Diplazium proliferum)

👀 How to clone yourself: Diplazium baby tricks

  • 🌿 This fern looks normal at first glance - until you look closer. Peacock Fern (Diplazium proliferum) does something unbelievable: it grows tiny baby plants right on its own fronds! Those little clones are called bulbils, and they develop while still attached to the leaf, ready to root and become new ferns. And once those baby plantlets get big enough, you can pin them to soil and they root into brand-new ferns.
  • 🌿 In fern books, you might also hear this called a "viviparous" or "proliferous" frond - because the new plants start developing right on the leaf. Basically, the fern is cloning itself in public!
  • 🌿 And it gets even better. When new fronds emerge, they curl up tightly and slowly unfurl like tiny baby dragons waking up. This classic fern move is called circinate vernation, and on Peacock Fern it looks especially wild.
  • 🌿 A rare, collectible fern and a conversation piece that feels more like a science experiment than a houseplant!
  • 🌿 Perfect for shaded, humid spaces and anyone who loves plants that do something unexpected.


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Date: 14 Jan 2026

Did you know that Tacca is a cat?

Tacca plants and Cats

Tacca plants and Cats

🐈‍⬛ Did you know that Tacca is a cat?



That’s probably the real evolutionary secret no botanist will admit! Those whiskers? Pure marketing genius from nature.
Cats had it figured out first — look mysterious, add long elegant whiskers, and everyone falls in love.
Tacca just took notes and said, “Alright, I can work with that!
Continue reading: Tacca wants to be a cat! - and everyone loves cats!

Tacca colors: Black, White, Green:


Tacca nivea - White Tacca
Tacca chantrieri - Black Tacca
Tacca leontopetaloides - Green Tacca

🛒 Add Get your own Bat Head Lily Tacca

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Date: 12 Jan 2026

Watch how to squeeze natural shampoo from the Ginger!

Shampoo Ginger, Zingiber zerumbet, Pine Cone Ginger

💄 Watch how to squeeze natural shampoo from the Ginger!

  • 🎆 Shampoo ginger uses and fragrance



    Shampoo Ginger, also known as Zingiber zerumbet or Pine Cone Ginger, is one of those plants that sounds too good to be true - but isn’t. This tropical ginger has been used for centuries not just as an ornamental plant, but as a practical, fragrant, everyday resource.
  • 🎆 Natural shampoo from a flower cone



    The most famous use of shampoo ginger comes from its bright red, pine cone-shaped flower bracts. When the cones mature, they fill with a milky, slippery liquid. Simply squeezing the cone releases this natural cleanser, traditionally used as shampoo in Asia and Hawaii. It gently cleans hair, leaves it soft, and adds a light, fresh scent. Even today, extracts of shampoo ginger are still used in commercial shampoos and hair products.
  • 🎆 Fragrance throughout the entire plant



    Shampoo ginger isn’t just useful - it smells amazing. The leaves, stems, and cones all carry a warm, spicy fragrance typical of true gingers. The scent is fresh and clean, with earthy and slightly citrusy notes. Because of this, the plant has also been used in traditional body rinses, hair treatments, and natural perfumes.
  • 🎆 More than hair care



    Beyond shampoo, the cones are popular as long-lasting cut flowers, often used in tropical floral arrangements. The plant itself grows into a lush, leafy clump that adds strong tropical character to gardens, especially in warm, humid climates.
  • 🎆 A plant with a traveling history



    Shampoo ginger is also known as a “canoe plant.” Ancient Polynesian voyagers intentionally carried it across the Pacific as they settled new islands. Its usefulness, fragrance, and beauty made it valuable enough to earn a place on long ocean journeys.

    Shampoo ginger is a rare mix of beauty, history, fragrance, and function - a plant that proves some of the most interesting garden plants are also the most practical.


🛒 Get your own natural shampoo from Pine Cone Ginger

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Date: 4 Jan 2026

Dont drink your coffee until you see this!

Coffea arabica - Coffee tree, fruit

☕️ Don't drink your coffee until you see this!

  • Our coffee trees, Coffea arabica, are growing in 7-gallon pots, and after months of waiting, the cherries are fully ripe!
  • They bloomed in May, set fruit in August, and now in winter the fruit has turned red and ready to harvest.
  • Coffee is one of the easiest fruiting plants you can grow at home. It does well in containers, loves shade, and can be grown indoors or outdoors in warm climates. With regular watering and a little patience, you can grow, harvest, roast, and brew your own coffee right from your home garden.
  • We are harvesting now, and the next video will show the full roasting process step by step.

  • 👉 Coming up next: Roasting video coming soon - stay with us!


🛒 Start your own coffee harvest

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Date: 29 Dec 2025

New way to grow Vanilla Orchid, and a wise message at the end

Vanilla planifolia - Vanilla Bean Orchid

🎆 New way to grow Vanilla Orchid, and a wise message at the end

  • Vanilla planifolia - Vanilla Bean Orchid (they call it also Madagascar, Bourbon, or French Vanilla) discovered a new set up!
  • ✨ I gave this vanilla orchid as a tiny plant last year: "Bathroom with a skylight, add trellis" - classic vanilla advice.
  • ✨ Fast forward to this Christmas - and this thing has gone rogue! It climbed out of the bathroom, marched down the hallway, and claimed the concrete wall by the front door. And yes, it looks very happy doing it!
  • ✨ Every visitor stops. Every visitor stares. And then they notice the sign underneath. Turns out vanilla orchids are excellent at pointing things out.
  • ✨ If you’ve ever wondered where vanilla really wants to grow… this one has opinions. Add something unexpected to your garden - or your house.


🛒 Plant Vanilla Orchid the new way!

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📱How to produce your own vanilla: secrets of hand-pollination.

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