Garden Blog - Top Tropicals

Date: 2 Jun 2024

What is a perfect shade tree with flower benefits? Discover the sunny Kassod Tree

Cassia siamea - Kassod Tree (Siamese Senna)

Cassia siamea - Kassod Tree (Siamese Senna)

Cassia siamea - Kassod Tree (Siamese Senna)

Cassia siamea - Kassod Tree (Siamese Senna)

Cassia siamea - Kassod Tree (Siamese Senna)

Cassia siamea - Kassod Tree (Siamese Senna)

🌻 What is a perfect shade tree with flower benefits? Discover the sunny Kassod Tree...

  • 🟡 Cassia siamea - Kassod Tree (Siamese Senna) is a remarkable subtropical tree known for several special features:
  • 🟡 Fast Growing, making it an excellent choice for quick shade and ornamental use.
  • 🟡 Bright yellow flowers that bloom in clusters, adding a vibrant splash of color.
  • 🟡 Evergreen foliage: lush green leaves year-round, providing continuous beauty and shade.
  • 🟡 Hardy: highly resilient and can thrive in a variety of soil types and conditions, including poor soils and dry climates. Tolerates both light frost and summer heat.
  • 🟡 Low maintenance, easy care, not messy, making it an ideal choice for both novice and experienced gardeners.
  • 🟡 Nitrogen fixation: Improves soil fertility by fixing nitrogen, benefiting surrounding plants and enhancing garden productivity.
  • 🟡 Medicinal use: herbal medicine (laxative properties and to treat various ailments).
  • 🟡 Attracts bees, butterflies, and other pollinators, supporting local biodiversity and ecosystem health 🐞🐝
  • 🟡 Shade provider: Ideal for creating shaded areas in gardens and landscapes, contributing to a cooler environment during hot weather.


🛒 Add shade and color to your garden with Kassod Tree

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Date: 16 Aug 2024

Discover the most impressive Florida Vine

Pyrostegia venusta - Flame Vine

Pyrostegia venusta - Flame Vine

🔥 Discover the most impressive Florida Vine!

💻 "I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers." - Claude Monet

📸 Pyrostegia venusta - Flame Vine, is a stunning winter bloomer native to Florida. Its vibrant orange flowers resemble a fiery cascade, blanketing the tops of trees where the vine climbs. The tubular blossoms form dense clusters, creating a striking, flame-like appearance that stands out against the winter landscape, making it a spectacular sight during the cooler months.

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Date: 24 Aug 2024

How old is Southern Magnolia?

Magnolia grandiflora - Southern Magnolia

How old is Southern Magnolia? 95 million years old!
  • 💮 #Fun_Facts: Magnolia grandiflora - Southern Magnolia, is a unique and ancient flowering plant dating back about 95 million years to the time of the dinosaurs!
  • 💮 Its beautiful, large perfumed flowers are "primitive" and evolved before bees existed, relying on beetles for pollination. The tough petals and reproductive parts are a result of adapting to beetle activity.
  • 💮 Another fascinating feature is its cone-like fruit, which contains striking bright red seeds. These seeds are covered in a fleshy coating that attracts birds and small mammals, aiding in their dispersal, making the magnolia not only stunning but important for the ecosystem.


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Date: 23 Aug 2024

What tree to plant for wonderful fragrance?

Magnolia (Michelia) champaca x Alba

💄 What tree to plant for wonderful fragrance?
  • 🏵 Champaka - Joy Perfume Tree is in full bloom in our garden (in the video: var. Alba). The fragrance is smelled yards away! It is filling the air around.
  • 🏵 The flowers from this tree - Magnolia (Michelia) champaca - are used to make the world's most expensive perfume 'Joy' and smell like fruity bubble gum 🎀... you can't stop sticking your nose in this flower!
  • 🏵 Sacred tree of India and SE Asia, its flowers exude a divine fragrance that is exceedingly pleasing to the Gods... and women.
  • 🏵 Perfect small landscape tree of a columnar shape. Ideal for containers.
  • 🏵 Relatively cold hardy
  • 🏵 Rare collectible, a gem of any plant collection!


📚 See earlier post about Champaka Tree

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Date: 2 Sep 2024

Fun Fact: what Bougainvillea is thornless and grows as a tree

Bougainvillea arborea

Bougainvillea arborea

Bougainvillea arborea

Bougainvillea arborea

😳 Fun Fact: what Bougainvillea is thornless and grows as a tree



💜 Bougainvillea arborea is a rare gem with fragrant lavender-pink blooms and no thorns! Its slow, compact growth naturally forms a charming tree shape, and best of all, it doesn’t need pruning—perfect for low-maintenance gardens.
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