⚡️ Gardeners finally found a perfect everblooming hedge for shade!

• 💜 Kings Mantle - Thunbergia erecta - is a perfect flowering bush or hedge for the shady garden.
• 💜 Ever-blooming: Perfect for a continuously blooming hedge.
• 💜 Dense shrub: Bushy, fast-growing, and ideal for mixed beds or medium-to-low hedges.
• 💜 Beautiful flowers: flowers resemble morning glories, with common varieties having rich purple petals and yellow throats.
• 💜 Attractive foliage: Small, dark green leaves.
• 💜 Climber relatives: Unlike many Thunbergia species, this one is a sprawling shrub.
• 💜 Pruning responsive: Can be shaped into a dense hedge, pruning promotes flowering.
• 💜 Sun or shade: Prefers bright light and well-drained soil, but will also bloom in partial shade.
• 💜 Colors: comes in dark blue, white, and the unique, vigorous variegated variety - 'Lavender Ice'.

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💮 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!

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📚 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

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🐘 How to get a quick shade from Elephant Ear and crafts from Monkey Ear?

• 🙉 Looking for a cool looking tree that grows faster than your to-do list? Meet Enterolobium cyclocarpum - Monkey Ear Tree, or Elephant Ear Tree. This large, feathery beauty is one of the quirkiest members of the subtropics.
• 🙉 This fast-growing, cold-hardy giant provides ample shade in no time, making it perfect for anyone seeking instant relaxation under a canopy.
• 🙉 But here's the real kicker - the tree's pods curl up to resemble ears! These unique legume pods aren't just fun to look at, they're also great for crafts and decorations. Nature's art project, anyone?
• 🙉 So, if you're looking for a curious tree with personality (and maybe a bit of ear charm), the Monkey Ear Tree is ready to impress. Grow it, shade it, and get crafty with its ear-shaped pods!

📱 See video how to make Monkey Ear bonsai in next post👇

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🌹 Why is it called Nun Orchid

• 🔠 Phaius tankervilleae – Chinese Ground Orchid - is a magnificent terrestrial orchid. It is also called the Nun Orchid because its flowers resemble the traditional white wimple and brown habit worn by nuns. The graceful, nodding blooms with white, rose, and brown hues create a shape reminiscent of a nun's veil. A truly heavenly plant!
• 🔠 It forms large clumps of bold, sword-like leaves and sends up towering flower spikes that can reach four feet tall! Each spike carries 10-20 fragrant blooms, unfurling in succession for an extended show.
• 🔠 The flowers are a striking mix of white, rose, and brown, blooming brilliantly in late spring, with peak flowering in March and April.
• 🔠 This hardy orchid spreads naturally, producing a new plant each year from a short bulb-like runner. It prefers shade, especially under trees, and can handle dry periods before its grand floral display.
• 🔠 Perfect for mass plantings, as a specimen in part shade, or even in pots, this orchid brings grace, beauty, and an exotic touch.

📚 Learn more from previous posts:

• 💋 How to grow Ground orchids
• 💋 When Bamboo blooms with orchid flowers
• 💋 The prettiest flower for shade
• 💋 Ground orchids: all-summer colors
• 💋 Why do we love Ground Orchids
• 💋 Epidendrum radicans - Orange Reed Ground Orchid, Sunrise
• 💋 Terrestrial orchids
• 💋 What orchids can be grown in the ground

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⏳ How to tell the difference between Jasmine Sambac Varieties

• 💮 Jasminum Sambac is hands down the most fragrant jasmine in existence - and the most popular among tropical gardeners and plant collectors.
• 💮 Native to India, it's the source of jasmine perfume oil and the signature ingredient in jasmine tea.
• 💮 This plant comes in several varieties, each with unique flower size, shape, and growth habit - ranging from compact shrubs to vigorous bushes and climbing vines. It takes both sun and shade and makes a perfect container plant and indoor plant favorite.
• 💮 All varieties of Sambac are equally fragrant. To get more flowers, just use Sunshine Pikake plant booster and enjoy the perfume all day long!
• 💮 At Top Tropicals, we grow every known variety of Jasminum sambac in cultivation:

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

🛒 Smell the Difference – Shop Sambac varieties

Learn more:
📚 Jasminum Sambac Absolute Flower - book download

• 📱 Sambac varieties
• 📱 Jasminum Sambac Page

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