🍒 Don't plant cherries until you see this one!

• 🍒 Cherry of the Rio Grande (Eugenia aggregata) is one of those tropical fruits you don't forget once you taste it. The fruit looks like a dark ruby jewel and ripens to almost black, with a sweet, full cherry-like flavor.
• 🍒 Unlike the temperate cherries, this one thrives in warm climates and starts flowering as early as March, keeping the harvest going well into summer.
• 🍒 This little fruit tree that fits anywhere! It's slender, branching, fits neatly in limited spaces or even in a pot, yet still produces plenty of fruit.
• 🍒 Can a tropical cherry really handle freezing temps? Once mature, Cherry of the Rio Grande can handle surprising cold snaps down into the 20s. A tough little tree that gives you a taste of the tropics right in your own backyard!

🛒 From Rio Grande to your garden

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💄 Free natural shampoo: squeeze it and see what comes out!

• 💄Pine Cone Ginger (Zingiber Zerumbet), is called Shampoo Ginger due to its unique, milky substance found in the cones. If you squeeze these bright red cones, a fragrant, milky liquid seeps out - traditionally used in Asia and Hawaii as a natural shampoo. Even today, you’ll find it in commercial shampoos.
• 💄 But there's more to it than hair care. All parts of the plant carry a spicy fragrance, the cones make striking, long-lasting cut flowers, and the whole plant adds a tropical vibe to your garden.
• 💄 And here's a fun history twist: Pine Cone Ginger is a "canoe plant", carried across the Pacific by ancient Polynesian voyagers. Imagine - this little shampoo factory traveled the ocean in canoes centuries ago!

Would you try washing your hair with this tropical ginger?

🛒 Grow your own Natural Shampoo Ginger

📚 Learn more:

• 🟡 What Ginger makes a natural shampoo?
• 🟡5 most spectacular Ginger species

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🌺 Nine best tropical shrubs that will bloom for you all summer

📸 Pictures for the previous post:

• Abutilon darwinii x striatum - Fireball, Biltmore Ballgown
• Acalypha hispida - Cat Tail, Chenille plant
• Allamanda
• Brunfelsia - Lady of the night
• Calliandra - Powderpuff
• Clerodendrum speciosissimum - Java Glorybower
• Hibiscus El Capitolio
• Rondeletia leucophylla - Panama Rose
• Senna alata - Empress Candle, Candelabra Plant

🛒 Explore most spectacular flowering shrubs

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