Garden Blog - Top Tropicals

Date: 30 Apr 2025

How to enhance your garden with hardy tropical: Fast Growing White Orchid Tree

Bauhinia alba (candida) - White Orchid Tree

How to enhance your garden with hardy tropical: Fast Growing White Orchid Tree



💮 Bauhinia alba (candida) - White Orchid Tree - is the most cold hardy of all bauhinias. It is a medium-sized, fast-growing tree with short trunk and spreading branches that provide excellent shade.

💮 Abundant, fragrant white flowers adorned with subtle lemon-green markings, blooming from winter through spring and intermittently in summer.

💮 Cold Hardy: Among the most frost-tolerant Bauhinias, thriving in temperatures as low as 26F. ​

💮 Rapid Growth: Grows quickly, reaching heights of 15 to 30 feet, ideal for creating a lush, shaded area. ​

💮 Attracts Pollinators: The large, showy flowers attract hummingbirds, bees, and butterflies, enhancing your garden's ecosystem.​

💮 Low Maintenance: Drought-tolerant once established and thrives in well-drained soil with full sun exposure. ​

📚 Orchid trees from previous posts:
💋White Orchid Tree
💋Pure white and elegant
💋The most beautiful of all orchid trees - Hong Kong
💋Orchid tree with stunning red-and-yellow flowers
💋How to grow Orchid Trees in pots
💋Pride of De Kaap or Nasturtium Bauhinia
💋What is the best shade tree that is fast growing and beautiful?
💋Why Bauhinias are called Orchid Trees: orchid flowers with butterfly wings

🛒 Enhance your garden with White Orchid Tree

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Date: 28 Apr 2025

How to choose the right Butterfly plants?

How to choose the right Butterfly plants?
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Want to bring more butterflies to your garden? It's simple - plant butterfly-friendly plants!

Not sure which plants to choose? Top Tropicals has a wide selection of butterfly attractors ready for you! Visit our nursery or shop online today.

Top Tropicals plant expert Kristi will help you to select the best butterfly plants for your yard!

📱 Watch ABC7 Fort Myers News: Butterfly plants with Kristi at Top Tropicals


Shop Now for Butterfly Plants!

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Date: 18 Apr 2025

Want a Fence Covered in Royal Blooms?

Petrea volubilis, Queen's Wreath, Sandpaper vine

👑 Want a Fence Covered in Royal Blooms?

😈 Petrea volubilis, also known as Queen's Wreath or Sandpaper vine, started blooming in our garden again in April. This tropical wisteria that steals the show is a twining vine with large, rough leaves - just like a sandpaper!

😈 Petrea is the ultimate tropical climber - fast-growing, bold, and breathtaking. Its rough, sandpaper-like leaves are just the beginning... the real magic is in the massive cascading clusters of royal purple flowers that can stretch over a foot long!

😈 There's also a rare white variety - Petrea glandulosa Alba - White Queen's Wreath. It features the same cascading form as the purple type, but with elegant snow-white, pinwheel-like flowers that create a soft, striking contrast in the garden.

😈 Often called Tropical Wisteria, Petrea thrives in warm, humid climates and puts on a non-stop floral display. Each bloom lasts a few days, but the blue calyxes remain, giving the illusion of continuous flowering.

😈 These flowers draw in butterflies, bees, and hummingbirds, turning your garden into a buzzing paradise.

😈 Let it climb a trellis, fence, or arbor and watch it become the centerpiece of your yard - fast!

🛒 Add the Queen's Wreath to your garden and grow your own royal display! 👑

📚 Learn more:


The Royal Snow White that everyone loves
Purple Sandpaper Vine

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Date: 16 Apr 2025

The Orchid Tree that NEVER Stops Blooming

Bauhinia madagascariensis - Red Butterfly Orchid Tree

Bauhinia madagascariensis - Red Butterfly Orchid Tree

🔥 The Orchid Tree that NEVER Stops Blooming



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Yes, you read that right - stunning red flowers year-round. The Bauhinia madagascariensis, or Red Butterfly Orchid Tree, is one of the most spectacular and rare Bauhinias in cultivation today.

🌺 Flowers that look like scarlet butterflies - with bold yellow flames at the base of each petal.

🌺 Grows into a compact tree or tall bush/standard - perfect for small gardens or containers.

🌺 Constant color + butterfly magnet = living fireworks in your yard!

🌺 Loves full sun and rewards you with nonstop blooms.

👉 Ready to grow your own rare, flowering masterpiece? Get yours before it's gone!

🛒 Bring home the tree that blooms 365 days a year

📚 More about Bauhinias:


· Orchid tree with stunning red and yellow flowers year around
· How to grow Orchid Trees in pots
· Why Bauhinias are called Orchid Trees: orchid flowers with butterfly wings...
· What is the best shade tree that is fast growing and beautiful?
· Why red flowers are so attractive? Bauhinia galpinii - Pride of De Kaap

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Date: 5 Apr 2025

What will Tree Calliandra bring into your garden?

🎶 What will Tree Calliandra bring into your garden?



🐾 Calliandra houstoniana - Tree Calliandra - is a stunning, bushy tree with vibrant pink blooms.

🐾 Why every garden needs a Calliandra tree? It effortlessly adds charm in your garden and attracts wildlife: fluffy pink flowers attract hummingbirds and butterflies year around.

🐾 How big and fast does it grow? This is the only tree form of Powderpuff. It quickly grows into a bushy beautiful tree under 20 ft - in just one season.

📚 More prom previous post:


Calliandra Tree everyone should have: how big and fast does it grow?
What Tree Calliandra brings into your garden

🛒 Order Tree Calliandra to create an impressive butterfly paradise in no time

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