Garden Blog - Top Tropicals

Date: 7 May 2024

Have you ever seen a hibiscus like that? This flower will blow your mind!

Hibiscus schizopetalus - Skeleton Hibiscus, Coral Hibiscus

🌺 Have you ever seen a hibiscus like that? This flower will blow your mind! 👀

💀 Hibiscus schizopetalus - Skeleton Hibiscus, or Coral Hibiscus - earns its nickname due to the delicate, lacy appearance of its flowers. The Latin word schizopetalus literally means "crazy petals"! Flowers look like parachutes, with lacy petals bent backward. The petals are thin and elongated, resembling the intricate structure of a skeleton or bones! 💀

♦️ When the flowers bloom, they create a beautiful, ethereal effect, which has led to the association with the term "skeleton." This unique characteristic sets it apart from other hibiscus varieties, hence the distinctive moniker.
♦️ Spectacular weeping tree shape, it has slender and gracefully curved stems.
♦️ Rare and hard to find.
♦️ Grows rapidly and blooms freely.
♦️ Can be trained into a showy standard.

🛒 Get Skeleton Hibiscus

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Date: 5 May 2024

Can you grow a Crocodile? This is how to grow an Alligator

Microsorum musifolium - Alligator Fern, Crocodile Fern

🐊 Can you grow a Crocodile? This is how to grow an Alligator...

Microsorum musifolium - Alligator Fern, or Crocodile Fern - is from Australasia.

👽 Very unusual looking, epiphytic fern with cool alligator-skin looking leaves. The strikingly shaped, light green fronds of the fern form a lovely backdrop to its stunning stiff, leathery, dark green alligator-skin foliage.

Grows to 2-3 ft in height. Grow it as a houseplant, or plant under a tree.

🌳 Perfect for shade! Likes a sheltered, semi-shaded location, with no direct sunlight.

🛒 Get your own Alligator

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Date: 2 May 2024

What is this Lavender Marble Perfume? Is it a possible combination?

Brunfelsia isola, or Lavender Lady of the Night

🟣 What is this Lavender Marble Perfume? Is it a possible combination?

The flowers of this rare hybrid - Brunfelsia isola, or Lavender Lady of the Night, are a "marble" twist of cream and purple, changing hue unpredictably. They are deliciously fragrant at night.

❓ Why such an unusual combination?

🌟 Nocturnum flowers (fragrant at night) are mostly white or off-white. This rare Brunfelsia is a cross between B. americana and B. grandiflora.
🌟Brunfelsia isola has the benefit of fragrant cream-colored brunfelsia and light purple color from the other parent. 👫
🌟 Flowers change sometimes to cream-yellow, remaining purple margins.

👑 A must have 1 for rare fragrant plant collection!

🛒 Order Brunfelsia isola

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Date: 30 Apr 2024

Its not a cherry blossom! What is this pink-flowered beauty? Its one of the most beautiful Florida trees

🌸 It's not a cherry blossom! What is this pink-flowered beauty? It's one of the most beautiful Florida trees...

Tabebuia impetiginosa - Dwarf Pink Tabebuia, is a spectacular Winter-Spring bloomer!

♦️ Nice landscape tree, compact and fits small yards.
♦️Beautiful bright pink flowers with yellow throats, covering the tree before new leaves appear.
♦️ Winter bloomer - great choice with snow birds who stay in Florida in winter and want to see some flowers.
♦️ More tabebuia varieties exist with yellow, white, purple flowers.

❄️ Tabebuia is a cold hardy tropical, at least to upper 20's. Grows well in Central Florida.

🛒 Shop Tabebuias

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Date: 30 Apr 2024

Its not a cherry blossom! What is this pink-flowered beauty? Its one of the most beautiful Florida trees

Tabebuia impetiginosa - Dwarf Pink Tabebuia

♦️ Nice landscape tree, compact and fits small yards.
♦️Beautiful bright pink flowers with yellow throats, covering the tree before new leaves appear.
♦️ Winter bloomer - great choice with snow birds who stay in Florida in winter and want to see some flowers.
♦️ More tabebuia varieties exist with yellow, white, purple flowers.

❄️ Tabebuia is a cold hardy tropical, at least to upper 20's. Grows well in Central Florida.

🛒 Shop Tabebuias

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