Garden Blog - Top Tropicals

Date: 16 Oct 2024

Do you love Hibiscus? This one is exceptional!

Hibiscus El Capitolio Bloody Mary

🌺 Do you love Hibiscus? This one is exceptional!



❗️Looking for a show-stopper in your garden? Hibiscus El Capitolio Bloody Mary delivers with its rare, dramatic pendant flowers.

❗️Picture a double layer of ruffled, vinous-red petals hanging gracefully, adding vibrant color to sunny or semi-shady spots - even seaside gardens!

❗️This evergreen to semi-evergreen shrub can reach 5 to 10 feet tall with lovely arching branches, making it a true standout.

❗️Thriving in USDA Zones 9-11, it's tough enough to handle moderate water, flooding, and needs well-draining soil.

❗️Its crimson blooms peak in summer, bringing year-round beauty to any garden!

❗️This is a large Hibiscus plant; however, it can be grown in container with some pruning.

📚 Learn more from previous posts:


💋Most useful Hibiscus plants
💋How to get rid of pests on Hibiscus?
💋Skeleton Hibiscus with "crazy petals" - flower will blow your mind

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Date: 14 Oct 2024

What is our favorite flowering shrub?

🔥 What is our favorite flowering shrub?

🔥 Ball of Fire! Combretum constrictum is very showy beautiful vining shrub with powderpuff fire-red flowers. It is easy to grow and undemanding and booms almost year round; attracts butterflies and hummingbirds.

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Watch out - Ball of Fire!

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Date: 14 Oct 2024

What is our favorite flowering shrub?

Ball of Fire - Combretum constrictum

🔥 What is our favorite flowering shrub?

🔥 Ball of Fire! Combretum constrictum is very showy beautiful vining shrub with powderpuff fire-red flowers. It is easy to grow and undemanding and booms almost year round; attracts butterflies and hummingbirds.

📚 Learn more from previous post:


Watch out - Ball of Fire!

🛒 Order your Ball of Fire

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Date: 12 Oct 2024

What does Dragon Fruit Flower look like?

Dragon fruit flowers

🐲 What does Dragon Fruit Flower look like?



Dragon fruit flowers are large, bright, and truly eye-catching. They have long, pale petals that spread out like a star, with a creamy white or yellowish center.

The flowers open at night, giving them a magical, moonlit vibe, and their size makes them look almost otherworldly.

When they bloom, they can be up to a foot wide, and they give off a sweet, subtle fragrance. It's like seeing a flower from a fairy tale!

📚 More about Dragon Fruit from previous posts:


💋Do red, white and yellow Dragon fruit taste differently?
💋What does a dragon taste like?
💋How to make Dragon Fruit Smoothie

🛒 Plant a Dragon fruit

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Date: 11 Oct 2024

Everyone wants this vine: Blue Sky is in full bloom now!

Thunbergia laurifolia - Blue Sky vine, Blue Trumpet Vine, Scrambling sky flower

Everyone wants this vine: Blue Sky is in full bloom now!



Thunbergia laurifolia - Blue Sky vine, Blue Trumpet Vine, Scrambling sky flower - is a super-fast growing climber that will cover your fence in just one season!

📚 Learn more about Thunbergias from previous posts:


Perfect everblooming hedge for shade
Blue Sky in just one season and forever
Clock Vine

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