Garden Blog - Top Tropicals

Date: 16 Nov 2024

Why black flowers are so charming

Sesbania aegyptiaca Bicolor - Egyptian Pea, Black Bud

Sesbania aegyptiaca Bicolor - Egyptian Pea, Black Bud

Sesbania aegyptiaca Bicolor - Egyptian Pea, Black Bud

Sesbania aegyptiaca Bicolor - Egyptian Pea, Black Bud

Sesbania aegyptiaca Bicolor - Egyptian Pea, Black Bud

Sesbania aegyptiaca Bicolor - Egyptian Pea, Black Bud

Sesbania aegyptiaca Bicolor - Egyptian Pea, Black Bud

Sesbania aegyptiaca Bicolor - Egyptian Pea, Black Bud

Why black flowers are so charming

  • ❣️ Sesbania aegyptiaca Bicolor - Egyptian Pea, Black Bud - is a breathtaking tree that adds mystery and drama to your garden.
  • ❣️ Native to Africa, this enchanting small tree produces unbelievable blooms that start as pure black buds, then gradually reveal an exotic palette of black, red, and orange as they open. These multicolored flowers form in clusters of 2-20 on elegant racemes, creating a striking contrast with the tree's lush green foliage.
  • ❣️ Growing to around 12-15 feet, Egyptian Pea is often multi-stemmed. Its delicate, pinnately compound leaves give it a fine-textured appearance.
  • ❣️ This rare beauty is more than just ornamental - it's a conversation starter! If you're looking for something truly extraordinary, Sesbania aegyptiaca Bicolor brings an alluring charm that's hard to find.


🎥 Video in the next post ⬇️⬇️⬇️

🛒 Plant Egyptian Pea Tree

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Date: 19 Jun 2025

One look and youre hooked: Macaranga!

Macaranga grandifolia - Elephant Ear Tree

One look and you're hooked: Macaranga!

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  • 🐘 These leaves are bigger than your head!
    • Macaranga grandifolia – the Elephant Ear Tree - came from Hawaii. It has leaves so huge, they look like elephant ears or jungle umbrellas! Each one can grow over a foot wide, with a glossy, rounded shape that's pure eye candy.
  • 🐘 Macaranga is easy to grow - perfect for a frost-free garden or in a big pot.
  • 🐘 Macaranga is a real conversation starter. It looks like something straight out of a rainforest dream. Big, bold, and totally tropical! Fast-growing, it brings that lush, exotic vibe instantly to your garden.
  • 🐘 Hard to find, super cool, and ridiculously showy - you’ll want this beauty front and center. Once you see it, you have to have it!


🛒 Get your giant leaves - Elephant Ear from Hawaii

#Nature_Wonders #Trees

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Date: 10 Aug 2025

Why every garden needs a banana tree (or three!)

Bananas

🍌 Why every garden needs a banana tree (or three!)

  • 🍌 Peel this: Banana secrets revealed.
    • The truth about bananas is - Bananas are everyone's favorite snack. Sweet, nutritious, and loaded with potassium. They're great for muscle cramps, post-workout recovery, and quick energy. But did you know you can grow your own bananas, even in a small backyard or container?
  • 🍌Banana Trees (Musa x acuminata) are:

  • 🟡Super easy to grow
  • 🟡Fast-growing and low maintenance
  • 🟡Clumping and self-reproducing
  • 🟡Beautiful and tropical-looking with their big, tropical leaves and showy, exotic flowers

  • 🍌Dwarf varieties fit in tight spaces, and rare types like Red Bananas or the creamy Banana Ice Cream bring flavors you’ll never find at the grocery store. Plus, your own bananas are organic, fresh, and way tastier.
  • 🍌 Start your banana patch today - and enjoy your own homegrown fruit all year long!


🛒 Explore Banana Varieties

📚 Learn more about Banana varieties:



📱Red Leaves, Red Fruit, Real Wow Banana

#Food_Forest #Bananas

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Date: 13 Feb 2017

New Video. Radio Top Tropicals.

New Video: 10 plants that will make you happy, Plant #2 - Candle Tree.

We continue your series about Ten Plants That Will Make You Happy. Today's story is about Candle Tree... one of the most fascinating ornamental and fruit trees in cultivation. This unusual plant will be a conversation piece of your plant collection. Happy candles will help you to cope with a cold and will definitely make you happy.
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Check out this video: 10 plants that will make you happy. Plant #2 - Candle Tree.

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Radio Top Tropicals - every Saturday 11 am! Introducing Radio Top Tropicals. Our first live webcast last Saturday was a success.
The topic was Plants of Love - Aphrodisiacs.

The webcast followed our Valentine's Day local sale.
We are extending this sale for 2 days, from local customers, to those who live in other states. Hurry up and take advantage of this generous 25% off on Plants of Love - Aphrodisiacs! Sale ends end of Valentines day, Tuesday, February 14.

Our next air time: Saturday February 18, at 11 am.
Topic: WEED OR WONDER PLANT?
We will explore plants considered invasive species, or weeds, here in Florida, and reveal interesting and not-so-well-known facts about them. Our Host Robert Riefer - State Certified Crop Adviser, and Weed Specialist - answering all your gardening questions.

Listen to Radio Top Tropicals, every Saturday, at 11 am! You may use our website radio player DURING AIR TIME and see the pictures of plants we are talking about. To ask questions using live chat, you need to log in at Mixlr.com or simply call our office 239-689-5745 during air time!

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Date: 15 Dec 2016

SUNSHINE in a Bottle

SUNSHINE-H - plant booster for house plants specially formulated for plants grown indoors:
- protect from insects and improve disease resistance,
- improve tolerance of indoor plants to low light, and low humidity conditions;
- maintain healthy dormancy of seasonal species and help to rapidly break dormancy in Spring.


Directions:Mix with distilled water as follows: 2.5 ml to 1 gal. Spray traditional house plants - once in 2 weeks, tropical plants overwintering indoors, including woody ornamentals and potted fruit trees - once a week, leafy herbaceous perennials - once a month.

SUNSHINE in a Bottle - effective plant stimulant from new line of plant boosters, the representative of a new generation of agricultural chemicals. Developed by TT Laboratories LLC and designed specifically for applications on tropical plants. Can be used as well on seeds, seedlings, and small vegetable plants (completely organic and safe). It is proved to be a magic growth promoter, improves cold hardiness and heat tolerance of tropical plants.
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