Garden Blog - Top Tropicals

Date: 20 Aug 2025

What is your favorite variety of Jasmine Sambac?

💮 What is your favorite variety of Jasmine Sambac?



💮 Jasminum Sambac is hands-down the queen of fragrant flowers. The scent is heavenly - so much so that it's the key to jasmine perfume and the secret behind authentic jasmine tea.

💮 Jasmine sambac comes in all shapes and sizes - from neat little shrubs to big, vigorous bushes and even climbing vines. Every variety shows off a different flower form. It’s happy in sun or shade, perfect for pots, and loved as an indoor plant.

💮 At TopTropicals we love them all, but these three are our favorites:
- Belle of India - with elegant long petals
- Arabian Nights - vigorous yet compact, always covered in blooms
- Little Duke - same big carnation-like flowers as Grand Duke, but in a smaller, tidy package

👉 At Top Tropicals, we grow every known variety of Jasminum sambac in cultivation:



Which one would you choose for your garden?

✔️ Arabian Nights - compact slow growing shrub with small delicate flowers
✔️ Belle of India - compact vine with long elegant petals, shade lover
✔️ Grand Duke of Tuscany - the most popular, vigorous bush with carnation-like flowers
✔️ Grand Duke Supreme - bigger, more vigorous version of Grand Duke with larger flowers
✔️ Gundu Malli - new hybrid between Arabian Nights and Grand Duke
✔️ Little Duke - more compact version of the Grand Duke
✔️ Maid of Orleans - vigorous full sun climber, great for hedges and fences
✔️ Mali Chat - very delicate, rare variety, with miniature 3-tier flowers, not easy to establish, shade lover
✔️ Mysore Mulli - vigorous vining shrub for sunny or semi-shade locations

👉 To get more flowers, just use Sunshine Pikake plant booster and enjoy the perfume all day long!

🛒 Smell the Difference – collect Sambac varieties

📚 Learn more:


The most wanted fragrant plant
How to tell the difference between Jasmine Sambac Varieties
Jasmine Sambac in bloom
📚 Jasminum Sambac Absolute Flower - book download
📱 Jasminum Sambac - Absolute Flower
📱 Jasminum Sambac Page

#Perfume_Plants #Hedges_with_benefits

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Date: 20 Aug 2025

What is your favorite variety of Jasmine Sambac?

Jasminum Sambac varieties

💮 What is your favorite variety of Jasmine Sambac?



💮 Jasminum Sambac is hands-down the queen of fragrant flowers. The scent is heavenly - so much so that it's the key to jasmine perfume and the secret behind authentic jasmine tea.

💮 Jasmine sambac comes in all shapes and sizes - from neat little shrubs to big, vigorous bushes and even climbing vines. Every variety shows off a different flower form. It’s happy in sun or shade, perfect for pots, and loved as an indoor plant.

💮 At TopTropicals we love them all, but these three are our favorites:
- Belle of India - with elegant long petals
- Arabian Nights - vigorous yet compact, always covered in blooms
- Little Duke - same big carnation-like flowers as Grand Duke, but in a smaller, tidy package

👉 At Top Tropicals, we grow every known variety of Jasminum sambac in cultivation:



Which one would you choose for your garden?

✔️ Arabian Nights - compact slow growing shrub with small delicate flowers
✔️ Belle of India - compact vine with long elegant petals, shade lover
✔️ Grand Duke of Tuscany - the most popular, vigorous bush with carnation-like flowers
✔️ Grand Duke Supreme - bigger, more vigorous version of Grand Duke with larger flowers
✔️ Gundu Malli - new hybrid between Arabian Nights and Grand Duke
✔️ Little Duke - more compact version of the Grand Duke
✔️ Maid of Orleans - vigorous full sun climber, great for hedges and fences
✔️ Mali Chat - very delicate, rare variety, with miniature 3-tier flowers, not easy to establish, shade lover
✔️ Mysore Mulli - vigorous vining shrub for sunny or semi-shade locations

👉 To get more flowers, just use Sunshine Pikake plant booster and enjoy the perfume all day long!

🛒 Smell the Difference – collect Sambac varieties

📚 Learn more:


The most wanted fragrant plant
How to tell the difference between Jasmine Sambac Varieties
Jasmine Sambac in bloom
📚 Jasminum Sambac Absolute Flower - book download
📱 Jasminum Sambac - Absolute Flower
📱 Jasminum Sambac Page

#Perfume_Plants #Hedges_with_benefits

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Date: 5 Aug 2025

Blue lips smell like violets - Mazabuka, Sclerochiton harveyanus

Sclerochiton harveyanus - Mazabuka, Blue Lips

👄 Blue lips smell like violets

💙 Sclerochiton harveyanus - Mazabuka, or Blue Lips blooms with quirky blue-to-purple flowers that really do look like lips. And in the tropical plant world, blue flowers are rare. And they are lightly violet-lavender-fragrant!

💙 Even better? It's a total shade lover. No need for blazing sun - this beauty is happy to bloom in the cool, leafy spots of your garden.

💙 Loved by bees and birds, and just the right mix of weird and wonderful.

🛒 Add Blue Lips to your shade garden

📚 Learn more:


Why this blue tropical flower has a violet fragrance?
Surprising Violet fragrance of the Blue Lips

#Perfume_Plants #Shade_Garden #Butterfly_Plants

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Date: 26 Jul 2025

More than white: rare Butterfly Gingers

Hedychium - Butterfly Ginger

More than white: rare Butterfly Gingers



If you’re a fan of that sweet, heady scent of the classic White Butterfly Ginger (Hedychium coronarium) - a symbol of Hawaiian paradise - you’ll be happy to know it has some beautiful, fragrant relatives!

Hedychium coronarium - White Butterfly Ginger
This is the one everyone knows and loves. Big, white, butterfly-shaped blooms with an intense perfume. Grows in sun or shade, survives light freezes, and fills the summer air with scent. A must for Southern gardens and anyone who wants a piece of island paradise.

Hedychium flavum x coccineum cv. Dr. Moy, Variegated Hardy Ginger Lily
A showstopper with variegated leaves splashed in creamy white, and peachy-orange fragrant flowers in late summer. This hybrid from Dr. Moy of the San Antonio Botanical Garden brings both bold foliage and beautiful scent. A real garden standout.

Hedychium flavum x coronarium, Yellow Butterfly Ginger, Nardo Ginger Lily
Looks like the classic white, but with soft yellow blooms and the same rich fragrance. Long, slightly fuzzy green leaves and flower spikes that light up late summer with scent and color. This variety grow fast and much bigger than plant also much bigger and vigorous than classic white Butterfly ginger.

🛒 Smell the difference - get your ginger trio

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Date: 25 Jul 2025

Perfume in a pot: exotic Dwarf Chanel No 5 Tree

Cananga fruticosa - Dwarf Ylang-Ylang Tree, Chanel No 5 Tree

✨ Perfume in a pot: exotic Dwarf Chanel No 5 Tree



⭐️ The Chanel No. 5 tree in a pot? Yep.
Cananga fruticosa - Dwarf Ylang-Ylang Tree, is the compact cousin of the famous perfume tree. It has the same elegant, drooping flowers that smell like the original Ylang-Ylang - the scent behind Chanel No. 5 - just in a smaller, easy-to-grow version.

⭐️ It stays nicely shaped like a little tree, blooms year-round in warm weather, and does great in a container. Just give it bright light, and if the air is humid, you'll get that dreamy fragrance in full force.

⭐️ A perfect plant for anyone who wants their space to smell amazing - naturally.

🛒 Grow your own Chanel No. 5

📚Learn more:
Flowering season of Dwarf Chanel No 5
How to grow your own Chanel #5
What is the best perfume tree for container culture
Ylang Ylang Tree

#Perfume_Plants #Container_Garden #Trees

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