Garden Blog - Top Tropicals

Date: 5 Jul 2024

Discover the magic of tropical plants for your home and garden:

Tropical flowers

🌺 Discover the magic of tropical plants for your home and garden:


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Date: 3 Jul 2024

What is the best showy shrub to plant under a shade tree?

Tabernaemontana divaricata - Pinwheel Jasmine, Crape Jasmine

What is the best showy shrub to plant under a shade tree?

  • 💮 Tabernaemontana divaricata, also known as Pinwheel Jasmine or Crape Jasmine, is a true garden gem, blooming year-round to bring constant beauty to your outdoor space.
  • 💮 This cute bush can be also shaped into a small tree.
  • 💮 It looks beautiful beneath palms or trees.
  • 💮 Blooms year-round with pretty, white, pinwheel-shaped flowers.
  • 💮 Needs bright light for profuse blooming, but can tolerate shade conditions.
  • 💮 Makes your garden look stunning all year around.


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Date: 2 Jul 2024

Money-making plant for your windowsil

Pilea peperomioides - Chinese Money Plant

Pilea peperomioides - Chinese Money Plant

💰 Money-making plant for your windowsil

  • Pilea peperomioides - Chinese Money Plant - is a perfect indoor plant that is famous for its lore of attracting money into your life! It is a small version of a money-making machine, in addition to the Good Luck Plant - Malabar Peanut we mentioned earlier.
  • It is a highly sought-after houseplant and also known as the missionary plant, pancake plant, UFO plant.
  • Known for its charming beauty and dwarf size, it is a perfect addition to the windowsill garden.
  • The round, shiny, peltate leaves become mounded as the plant matures and give the appearance of large, green coins stacked on top of one another.
  • Its adaptation to low light and succulent leaf structure make it an easy-care plant.


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Date: 29 Jun 2024

How to get big shade tree in one season with an ice cream on it? Its real!

Ice Cream Bean Inga

Ice Cream Bean Inga

Ice Cream Bean Inga

Ice Cream Bean Inga

Ice Cream Bean Inga fruit

Ice Cream Bean Inga fruit

Ice Cream Bean Inga tree

Ice Cream Bean Inga tree

🍧 How to get big shade tree in one season with an ice cream on it? It's real!

  • 🍦 Ice Cream Bean Inga is the ultimate fast-growing, shade-providing fruit tree with an irresistible twist! It not only transforms your yard into a cool, inviting oasis in record time but also produces fruit that kids (and adults!) can't get enough of!
  • 🍦 Picture this: pods up to a foot long, bursting with sweet, creamy pulp that tastes exactly like ice cream!
  • 🍦 Craving instant shade? Perfect for those sunny spots where you need shade, the Ice Cream Bean Inga rapidly unfurls its lush, umbrella-like canopy, creating a natural, leafy retreat in just one season!
  • 🍦 With its delectable treats and speedy growth, this extraordinary tree is sure to be the highlight of your garden - where shade and sweetness meet!


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Date: 22 Jul 2024

What are the best butterfly attracting plants for a Southern garden?

Asclepias - Milkweed, butterfly attractor

What are the best butterfly attracting plants for a Southern garden? 5 best butterfly attractors.



If you love butterflies and if you enjoy having nature around your home, then plant a butterfly garden. Caterpillars, which transform into butterflies, require special kinds of plants to feed upon. Below are the top five winners that butterflies appreciate the most. Besides, remember That all yellow flowers are attractive to butterflies, for example Cassias. Butterflies like the Sun and everything that looks like the Sun! 🌞

🏆 5 best butterfly attractors:

1. Calotropis gigantea - Giant milkweed, Arka
2. Odontonema cuspidatum - Firespike
3. Plumbago - blue, white and red
4. Rondeletia leucophylla - Panama Rose
5. Asclepias - Milkweed

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🎥 ABC-7: Butterfly plants at Top Tropicals
The Milkweed and the Monarch, how to raise your own
Musings of a butterfly gardener about the milkweed bug
Plants that attract butterflies and hummingbirds

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