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🐘 Elephant Ears Illustris Colocasia is a classic beauty.

🐘 The heart-shaped, large purple-and-green leaves of Illustris are huge, and their dark highlights are stunning.

🐘 This elephant ear is a lover of moist shade, but does best with a little dappled sunlight.

🐘 It will tolerate boggy conditions.

🐘 Provide light shade to full shade and consistently moist or boggy soil.

🐘 It is a strong fast growing variety that does great in container, landscapes, ponds and patios.

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🌞 How to grow your own Chanel #5.

✨ Cananga fruticosa - Dwarf Ylang-Ylang, Chanel No 5 Tree is a highly sought-after plant fragrant small tree.

✨It stays compact with a lovely tree-like shape.

✨ Flowers smell just like the full-size Ylang-Ylang (source of Chanel#5 perfume fragrance), though the fragrance may be lighter in less humid conditions.

✨Starts flowering right away and blooms year-round in warm conditions.

✨ Thrives as a container- and houseplant. Needs bright light for profuse flowering.

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✋ What is the biggest Gardenia flower? Tahitian Gardenia is as big as your hand!

💮 Gardenia taitensis "Heaven Scent" has a double flower up to 6"in diameter!

💮 This hybrid is very rare and hard to find.

💮 The intoxicating sweet fragrant blossoms are creamy white works of art.

💮 Huge double flowers up to 5-6" in diameter and large glossy oval leaves.

💮 Perfect container plant

❓ What is your favorite Gardenia? Share in comments👇

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👑 Fun Fact: King Anthurium

🔖 Crowning its title, Anthurium veitchii - King Anthurium - boasts leaves up to 3 feet long! Majestic houseplant! Very hard to find, rare plant.

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🏆 Why Champaka tree is such a popular perfume tree

🏵 The flowers from Champaka, or Joy Perfume tree (Magnolia (Michelia) champaca) - are used to make the world's most expensive perfume 'Joy' and smell like fruity bubble gum... you can't stop sticking your nose in this flower!

🏵 Sacred tree of India and SE Asia. The flowers exude a divine fragrance that is exceedingly pleasing to the Gods... and women.

🏵 The tree is very compact for both landscapes and containers. It has bushy, yet columnar shape. Can be grown in container with minimal pruning.

🏵 Blooms on and off several times a year. Relatively cold hardy, but requires regular watering.

🎥 Yellow Champaka in bloom. This tree is 3 years old.

📚 Learn more from previous posts:
Flower of the most expensive perfume
White Champaka
Article about Champaka

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