Garden Blog - Top Tropicals

Date: 13 Dec 2024

Its never too many powderpuffs!

🍬 It's never too many powderpuffs!



💖 One more Powderpuff beauty - Calliandra surinamensis - is a large vigorous shrub that can be trained into a cute little standard tree.

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Date: 12 Dec 2024

Yet another fragrant Jasmine hedge!

Jasminum volubile - Wax Jasmine

🔤 Yet another fragrant Jasmine hedge!

  • ☀️ Jasminum volubile - Wax Jasmine is one more excellent choice of fragrant Jasmine bush for your landscaping needs, besides Angel Hair Jasmine we mentioned earlier.
  • ☀️ Lovely blooms: Fragrant, pinwheel-shaped white flowers from April to September.
  • ☀️ Versatile growth: Quick-growing vine for trellises, ground covers, or containers.
  • ☀️ Foliage: Glossy, dark green leaves add a lush touch.
  • ☀️ Perfect Hedge: Works beautifully as a hedge plant.


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Date: 10 Dec 2024

What is the best Jasmine bush for an easy landscaping?

Jasminum multiflorum (pubescens) - Angel Hair Jasmine

🔤 What is the best Jasmine bush for an easy landscaping?

  • 🌸 Jasminum multiflorum (pubescens) - Angel Hair Jasmine - is a fragrant, fast-growing charmer for Southern landscape.
  • 🌸 Bloom beauty: Sweet-scented, starry white flowers bloom almost year-round.
  • 🌸 Wildlife friendly: Attracts butterflies and hummingbirds.
  • 🌸 Growth: Fast-growing, bushy, and dense - a perfect hedge option! Grows 5–6 ft with soft, velvety leaves.
  • 🌸 Care: Loves well-drained soil, handles sun to semi-shade, and even tolerates seaside conditions.
  • 🌸 Zones: Thrives in USDA Zones 9–11 or as a potted indoor beauty in colder areas.


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Date: 7 Dec 2024

What color is garlic vine flower?

Garlic vine (Mansoa alliacea)

What color is garlic vine flower? Three-color!
  • 😈 Garlic vine (Mansoa alliacea) is in full bloom again this time of the year. What a spectacular view! Deep lavender flowers with white throat fading to a paler lavender within a few days, and you can see all three colors on the plant at the same time.
  • 😈 Crushed leaves smell just like crushed garlic!
  • 😈 Garlic vine has moderate growth rate and can stay compact in a pot as a specimen, and even can be grown as a house plant.


📚 Learn from previous post:
How to get rid of a bad luck with the Garlic Vine?

📱 Video: Garlic vine keeps away the vampires.

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Date: 29 Nov 2024

When Butterfly Bush is in bloom

Butterfly Bush - Odontonema

When Butterfly Bush is in bloom

  • Butterfly Bush - Odontonema is in full bloom again this time of the year! Spectacular Winter bloomer and butterfly attractor.
  • Takes both sun and shade, and tolerates light frost. Very easy plant!


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