Date: 16 Feb 2019
Featured plant. Randia formosa - Blackberry jam fruit
Randia formosa - Blackberry jam fruit
This unique compact plant, perfect for container culture, combines features of a fragrant flower and tasty desert fruit. Kids love it! Originally from Central and South America, this rare tropical small evergreen tree bears fruit which tastes like fresh Blackberry jam. Many claim that it's even better than preserves. Closely related to the gardenia, its flowers are sweetly fragrant. This relatively hardy tropical has attractive foliage and can be grown in a container as well as in the ground. The Randia formosa (or Rosenbergiodendron formosum) produces as many as 25 to 30 fruits at a time. Since it blooms for a few months in the fall and winter, fruiting and flowering can be enjoyed when many other plants are dormant. Large tubular white flowers that attract nocturnal moths... Read more about this plant...
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Date: 1 Jun 2024
The Winner of the Tropical Flowering Plant contest will get the Joy Perfume Tree - Champaka
22 participants posted their plant photos. We counted the votes. The biggest number of likes:
The Lotus Flower by Harita Nair
This plant received 20 likes! ❤️
Congratulations! Your Joy Perfume Tree will be on the way as soon as we confirm your shipping info.
💰$69.95 Value + FREE shipping 🚚
yes, delivered to your door absolutely FREE!
Thank you all participants!
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Date: 19 Jul 2024
What is the best flowering shrub for a shady spot?
Aphelandra hartwegiana - Yellow Aphelandra
Aphelandra squarrosa - White Zebra Plant
Aphelandra sinclairiana - Panama Queen
Aphelandra x panamensis - Scarlet Candle
💐 What is the best flowering shrub for a shady spot?
- 🚩 Aphelandra is hands down one of the best solutions for a shade garden where you want to see more colors. It is a great addition to a collectible tropical butterfly garden, can grow into 4-5"tall bushy specimen. Tolerates both sun and shade.
- 🚩Aphelandras have beautiful lush foliage and showy, long terminal inflorescences throughout the warm season.
- 🚩These flowers are loved by hummingbirds.
- 🚩Aphelandra hartwegiana - Yellow Aphelandra. Yellow flowers emerge out of long orange stalks in the fall time. Pretty and unusual!
- 🚩Aphelandra squarrosa Dania (Snow White) - White Zebra Plant. It is also one of the best house plants, not only pretty because of its white-veined"Zebra"foliage, but also for the apical inflorescence with its beautiful yellow bracts.
- 🚩Aphelandra sinclairiana - Panama Queen, has extremely tropical look and fragrant flowers of unusual color combination: orange and pink.
- 🚩Aphelandra x panamensis - Scarlet Candle - a rare hybrid with bright red flowers
📚 Learn more from previous posts:
Panama Queen
How to grow Zebra in container?
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Date: 10 Jul 2024
What vine to plant over a big fence
Chonemorpha fragrans - Frangipani vine
- 🔹 Chonemorpha fragrans, or Frangipani vine, that we mentioned before, is a large woody tropical liana with clusters of large, perfume-fragrant flowers and lush green foliage. It is close related to perfumed Plumeria - Frangipani.
- 🔹 The fragrance is very fresh and pleasant, similar to Plumeria, fills the air around.
- 🔹 Leaves reaching up to 12 (!) inches - very tropical, majestic look!
- 🔹 Requires sturdy support - it can grow pretty big and heavy!
- 🔹 Takes both sun or shade. Full sun and regular fertilizer is essential for profuse blooming.
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Date: 3 Jul 2024
Why everyone wants the Sugar Apple?
Annona squamosa - Sugar apple, Red fruit Kampong Mauve
Annona squamosa - Sugar apple, Green fruit Thai Lessard
🍏 Why everyone wants the Sugar Apple?
Annona squamosa - Sugar apple - is considered by many as the most delicious tropical fruit. We introduced the Annona trees earlier.
- ✳️ Very small, compact tree, perfect for container or small yard, see photos from our Tropical Fruit Tree contest Winner.
- ✳️ Starts fruiting within 3 year from seed!
- ✳️ Easy to grow and undemanding
- ✳️ The fruit is sheer deliciousness, pulp resembling custard.
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