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Date: 9 Dec 2024

Are you tired of boring office plants?

ZZ Plant (Zamioculcas zamiifolia)

🏕 Are you tired of boring office plants?

  • 💤 Tired of boring office plants? Try the ZZ Plant! This ancient beauty, nicknamed the Aroid Palm, is anything but ordinary. Its thick glossy leaves make it a bold statement piece, miles ahead of a common Ficus or Dieffenbachia.
  • 💤 The ZZ Plant (Zamioculcas zamiifolia) isn't just stylish - it's tough. This drought-tolerant wonder thrives on negleform new plants all on their own, a quirky trick unique to this ancient relic. And its very shade-tolerant, so you can place it in pretty much any spot except a closet...
  • 💤 Easy care, jaw-dropping looks, and an air of mystery - the ZZ Plant is the ultimate pick to upgrade your workspace vibe!


📚 Check out the black leaf variety Zamioculcas x Black Dragon - Black ZZ Plant that we mentioned earlier:
Black-black-black plant! It's totally black, that's right!

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Date: 1 Jan 2025

What is the most spectacular Clerodendrum?

Clerodendrum speciosissimum - Java Glorybower Mary Jane

✨ What is the most spectacular Clerodendrum?

  • 🌸 Clerodendrums are tropical favorites, easy to grow, and bloom year-round. Thriving in sun or shade, they're perfect for home gardens. Many bloom in winter, brightening dark days - even on a windowsill!
  • 🌸 One of our favorites is Clerodendrum speciosissimum - Java Glorybower Mary Jane. This fast growing bush blooms with bright coral flowers, virtually year around!


🎥 Clerodendrum speciosissimum - Java Glorybower Mary Jane

📚 More about Clerodendrums in previous posts:



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Date: 11 May 2024

What is the most popular and the easiest tropical fruit tree grown as a house plant?

Coffee tree in a cup

Coffee tree in a cup

Coffee tree flowers

Coffee tree flowers

Coffee tree in a pot

Coffee tree in a pot

Coffee tree fruit

Coffee tree fruit

☕️ What is the most popular and the easiest tropical fruit tree grown as a house plant?

No doubt about it - it's a Coffee tree!
  • 🔸 Coffee is the most popular fruit tree suitable for indoors.
  • 🔸 Coffee is shade loving plant, easy to grow, providing regular water.
  • 🔸 Coffee grows into a beautiful dark green shrub or small tree.
  • 🔸 The white, fragrant, star-shaped flowers are clustered and resemble gardenias to which they are related.
  • 🔸 The whole fruit is edible, it is a small fleshy berry changing in color from green to yellow to red.
  • 🔸 The seeds are the actual "coffee beans", they can easily be dried, roasted and ground at home.


🎁 Coffee is a perfect gift plant and a great indoor container fruit tree.

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🛒 Get your own Coffee Tree

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Date: 29 Apr 2024

Fun Facts: Cacao beans

Cacao Chocolate Tree (Theobroma cacao)

Cacao Chocolate Tree (Theobroma cacao)

Cacao Chocolate Tree (Theobroma cacao)

Cacao Chocolate Tree (Theobroma cacao)

Cacao Chocolate Tree (Theobroma cacao)

Cacao Chocolate Tree (Theobroma cacao)

Cacao Chocolate Tree (Theobroma cacao)

Cacao Chocolate Tree (Theobroma cacao)

📖 Fun Facts: Cacao beans (Theobroma cacao) were used to make chocolate, and the ancient Maya and Aztec civilizations valued cacao beans as currency 💰 Can we use chocolate as money?
  • 🍫 Chocolate tree has large dark green leaves that shade the fruit pods which grow directly from the trunk and branches.
  • 🍫 The flesh of the fruit is eaten as a dessert, and the seeds are the raw material of chocolate. Hot chocolate can be made by drying the seeds, roasting, grinding, and adding milk.
  • 🍫 This exotic rare tree makes a gem of a houseplant collection.


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Date: 25 Apr 2024

How to keep weeds away?

Confederate Jasmine (Trachelospermum jasminoides)

Confederate Jasmine (Trachelospermum jasminoides)

Confederate Jasmine (Trachelospermum jasminoides)

☘️ How to keep weeds away?



"Give a weed an inch and it’ll take a yard...."

Hot season started, and so did the weed season!

💚 Ways to keep your yard weed-free without use of herbicide:

  1. Mulch, mulch, mulch
  2. Cover the area with cardboard (still getting those Amazon boxes?) and put mulch, mulch, mulch on top.
  3. Plant dense ground cover plants! Weeds will lose competition for food and light.


🎥 Did you know that Confederate Jasmine (Trachelospermum jasminoides) makes not only a trellis/fence solution, but also a dense fragrant ground cover? It's not demanding, fast growing, drought tolerant plant, takes full sun or shade. Sweet, deliciously fragrant flowers is a pleasant bonus!

🛒Get your fragrant ground cover

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