✨ 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:

💋How to grow Clerodendrums
💋Fireworks of Winter
💋Fragrant Cashmere Bouquet
💋Fountain Clerodendrum
💋What is better - Blue or Pink?
💋Why is it called Blue Butterfly?
💋Clerodendrum paniculatum
💋Seaside Clerodendrum
💋Pink Bleeding Heart
💋Why is it called Musical Notes?
💋Bleeding Heart Vine
💋Cashmere Bouquet!

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☕️ 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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📖 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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☘️ 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!

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What is the best butterfly and hummingbird attractor? That's the one, called Butterfly Bush.

Odontonema callistachyum - Butterfly Bush, is an easy to grow medium size shrub. It is very fast growing and will bloom for you in both shade or full sun.

🌞 Here in Florida it starts blooming in late Winter and keeps going throughout the year.

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