Garden Blog - Top Tropicals

Date: 22 Dec 2024

Do you have Longevity Spinach in your garden?

Gynura crepioides - Okinawa Spinach, Purple leaves

Gynura crepioides - Okinawa Spinach, Purple leaves

Longevity Spinach (Gynura)

Longevity Spinach (Gynura)

Gynura crepioides - Okinawa Spinach, Purple leaves

Gynura crepioides - Okinawa Spinach, Purple leaves

Gynura crepioides - Okinawa Spinach, Purple leaves

Gynura crepioides - Okinawa Spinach, Purple leaves

Do you have Longevity Spinach in your garden?
  • Longevity Spinach (Gynura) is a leafy green plant known for its mild flavor and nutritional benefits. It is one of the Superfoods, known for its longevity-promoting properties in traditional medicine. There are two varieties - Green (Gynura procubens) and Purple leaves (Gynura crepioides - Okinawa Spinach).
  • It's often used in Southeast Asian cuisine, added to soups, stews, and salads for its health-promoting properties, including immune support and improved digestion.
  • It is prized for being easy to grow and rich in vitamins and antioxidants. This green is also known as cholesterol spinach, and there are many claims that it lowers can cholesterol.
  • Perfect for hot and humid climates unlike traditional Spinach that only grown in cooler areas. It will thrive in any type of soil, any type of light other than dark shade, and is pest-free.
  • Very adaptable to container gardening and even grows well on a windowsill.
  • The leaves and young shoot tips can be steamed, used in stir fry, tempura, stews, and soups. Just add them at the very end.

Check out the recipes⬇️⬇️⬇️

📚 Learn more:
5 most useful edibles for tropical garden
How to make healthy food taste delicious: Longevity Spinach Super-food Recipes
Gynura: Longevity Spinach Superfood Recipes


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Date: 16 May 2024

Can Frangipani be a vine? How to bring fragrance into your garden

Chonemorpha fragrans, Frangipani vine

Chonemorpha fragrans, Frangipani vine

Chonemorpha fragrans, Frangipani vine

Chonemorpha fragrans, Frangipani vine

Chonemorpha fragrans, Frangipani vine

Chonemorpha fragrans, Frangipani vine

💮 Can Frangipani be a vine? How to bring fragrance into your garden.

Chonemorpha fragrans, or Frangipani vine, is a large woody tropical liana with clusters of large, perfume-fragrant flowers and lush green foliage. It is close related to perfumed Plumeria - Frangipani.
  • 🌸 Chonemorpha's intoxicating scent fills the air, creating a sensory delight for all nearby.
  • 🌸 Leaves reaching up to 12 (!) inches add to its allure.
  • 🌸 Being a large woody vine, Frangipani vine requires sturdy support, making it a majestic addition to any garden or indoor space.
  • 🌸 Takes both sun or shade. Full sun is essential for profuse blooming.


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Date: 30 Sep 2024

The solution to eliminate weeds finally found!

Senna (Cassia) alata - Empress Candle, Candelabra Plant

🌞 The solution to eliminate weeds finally found! Yet it has beautiful sunny flowers!

  • 🟡 Imagine a plant that grows fast, stays in bloom almost year-round, and covers your garden with lush, vibrant greenery with sunny, candle-like flowers. That's the Senna (Cassia) alata – Empress Candle, Candelabra Plant.
  • 🟡 This garden wonder lights up your space with golden, candle-like flowers, while its huge leaves provide cool shade and keep weeds at bay! Weeds 🌱 just don't have a chance to grow under its canopy!
  • 🟡 In just one or two seasons, it can grow up to 10 feet wide and 6-8 feet tall, creating a natural masterpiece of beauty.
  • 🟡 Butterflies, hummingbirds, and bees flock to its bright yellow flowers, which are followed by intriguing, rattling seed pods 🐝
  • 🟡 The Empress Candle isn't just a plant - it's a stunning, must-have addition that transforms any garden into a living work of art.


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Date: 30 Mar 2025

What small plant can bring both beauty and aroma in your garden

Datura metel - Horn-of-Plenty

😈 What small plant can bring both beauty and aroma in your garden 🌸
  • ⭕️ A true showstopper, Datura metel - also known as Horn-of-Plenty - is a close relative of Angel Trumpet bush, but much more compact plant.
  • ⭕️ It boasts huge, double trumpet-shaped flowers that spiral outward like a horn, often in a unique mottled purple shade. These blooms are not only spectacular in appearance but also richly fragrant, filling the air from spring through fall.
  • ⭕️ Growing to 2–3 feet in containers, this fast-growing plant blooms repeatedly in spring, summer, and fall, adding a bold, tropical flair to gardens and patios.
  • ⭕️ Datura has a long history of medicinal uses.
  • ⭕️ With its exotic flowers, intoxicating scent, and lush foliage, Datura metel brings a mystical, surreal beauty to your garden like no other.


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Angel Trumpet in bloom

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Date: 6 May 2025

How to grow your own avocado tree?

How to grow your own avocado tree?
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  • 💚 Growing your own avocado tree has many benefits. You can enjoy fresh, delicious avocados right from your garden.

  • 💚 Avocado trees are attractive, provide shade, and enhance your landscape.

  • 💚 There are many avocado varieties to choose from, offering unique flavors, sizes, and ripening times.

  • 💚 Visit our garden center in Ft. Myers or BFarm in Sebring, FL, and let our fruit tree expert Kristi help you choose the perfect Avocado trees for your garden!


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