Garden Blog - Top Tropicals

Date: 3 Jun 2025

What is the most colorful houseplant?

Columnea Melissa - Flying Goldfish Plant

🐟 What is the most colorful houseplant?

  • 🐡 Yet another Goldfish Plant! Columnea Melissa - Flying Goldfish Plant isn't just a houseplant - it's a little jungle fantasy.
  • 🐡 Bright orange flowers shaped like tiny goldfish with wings seem to hover in midair, suspended by cascading stems of velvety green foliage. The blooms pop out all along the trailing branches, creating the illusion of a school of flying fish!
  • 🐡 Native to tropical cloud forests, Columnea loves humidity, filtered light, and showing off. Perfect for hanging baskets where it can spill and shimmer like a living waterfall of color. A total conversation piece you don't see every day!


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Date: 6 Jun 2025

How to grow Dragon Fruit

🐉 How to grow Dragon Fruit


  • 🌵 Selenicereus megalanthus - Yellow Pitaya, Dragon Fruit Palora, is the best tasting Dragon Fruit in the world that is not only sweet, it has a great flavor (unlike most pitayas that are pretty watery).

  • 🌵This particular species of Dragon fruit doesn't mind regular water and rains but is also drought-tolerant. Watch a short video how to grow it:

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🛒Grow your own Tasty Dragon Fruits

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Date: 6 Jun 2025

Most valuable things cannot be purchased

Scooby the Cat

❤️ Most valuable things cannot be purchased...



"With money, you can buy a bed, but not sleep; food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; servants, but not friends; women, but not love; a house, but not a home; entertainment, but not joy; teachers, but not wisdom." - Socrates (Scooby the Cat agrees!)

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Date: 6 Jun 2025

Mandevilla or Dipladenia?

Mandevilla and Dipladenia

❤️ Mandevilla or Dipladenia?



❓Q: What is the correct name – Mandevilla or Dipladenia? I see both names in garden centers, and they come in many colors. What color is Dipladenia and what is Mandevilla?

‼️ A: Both names are correct, and you’ll often see them used interchangeably - but they aren’t exactly the same. Mandevilla and Dipladenia are closely related, and with so many hybrids, the lines between them can blur.

🌺 Difference Between Mandevilla and Dipladenia

  • 💋Mandevilla is a vigorous woody vine with large, stiff leaves. It’s ideal for vertical spaces like trellises and fences.
  • 💋Dipladenia is a bushier, more compact plant with smaller, smoother leaves. While it can be trained on a trellis, it’s better suited for hanging baskets, pots, or as a specimen plant.
  • 💋Both Mandevilla and Dipladenia come in a variety of colors - white, pink, red, and even yellow so color is not what distinguishes them. It's the growth habit and leaf type that set them apart.


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🛒 Explore Mandevilla-Dipladenia colors: collect them all!

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Date: 5 Jun 2025

Tomorrow is ours

Makaron the Cat

Makaron the Cat

😆 Tomorrow is ours



"Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose." - Lyndon B. Johnson.

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