How to deal with chocolate cravings? Chocolate with zero calories
Portlandia - glorious flower of Cuba
🍪 How to deal with chocolate cravings? Chocolate with zero calories
🍪 Do you have to deal with chocolate temptation all the time? Portlandia, the glorious flower of Cuba, smells like creamy chocolate and blooms in stunning bells. Rare, fragrant, and tough - even thrives in alkaline soil!
💐 Fragrant Blooms: Enjoy clusters of sweetly scented, pink flowers that attract butterflies and other pollinators. They open in terminal panicles up to six inches across.
💐 Versatile Growth: Dark green leaves often tinged purple are up to 8 inches long. This plant can be grown as a compact shrub or allowed to spread. This plant is incredibly vigorous and fast-growing, spreading quickly through root suckers. If you don’t want it to take over your yard in just one season, make sure to plant it in a contained corner or a container.
💐 Hardy and Resilient: Cashmere Bouquet is hardy to USDA Zones 8-10 and can tolerate light freezes, rejuvenating each spring.
💐 Low Maintenance: It thrives in full sun to part shade and is drought-tolerant once established. Keep the soil moist during the growing season. Regular pruning helps maintain its shape and encourages more blooms.
🕊 Get up close with the Magnolia grandiflora - Southern Magnolia - its huge, creamy white petals look like sculpted wax, and the scent is fresh, lemony, and unforgettable!
New Plumerias just landed! Heres how to make them bloom
Plumeria flowers slide show
🌸 New Plumerias just landed! Here's how to make them bloom
🌸 We've got stunning new Plumeria varieties in stock - but quantities are limited, so don’t wait! Choose your favorite colors and bring home the fragrance of the tropics!
🌸 These tropical beauties are famous for their rich colors and incredible fragrance. With just a few simple steps, you can grow your own blooming Plumeria tree and enjoy flowers just like in the pictures.
🌸 How to Grow a Blooming Plumeria?
Give your Plumeria the right soil, the right pot, and plenty of sun. Let it rest in winter, and feed it with the right fertilizer - and it will reward you with nonstop blooms! Use Sunshine Abundance Soil Mix for healthy roots and Sunshine Megaflor Bloom Booster to fuel abundant flowering.
This Jasmine Blooms 365 Days a Year - And It Smells Divine!
Jasminum dichotomum - Rose Bud Jasmine, Everblooming Jasmine
🗓 This Jasmine Blooms 365 Days a Year - And It Smells Divine!
🌹 Looking for a jasmine that blooms nonstop and smells absolutely divine? Jasminum dichotomum, the rare Rose Bud Jasmine, also known as Everblooming Jasmine - has the fragrance that never quits!
🌹 Dark rose-pink buds open into pure white, perfumed flowers - year-round!
🌹 Glossy ornamental foliage creates the perfect contrast.
🌹 Covers fences, trellises, or arches in one season!
🌹 Cold-tolerant, fast-growing, and ridiculously easy to grow.
🌹 This isn’t just another jasmine - it's a rare collector’s favorite that delivers nonstop fragrance.
🌹 Who wouldn't want a jasmine that smells like heaven and flowers every day?
How to tell the difference between Jasmine Sambac Varieties
Jasminum Sambac varieties
⏳ How to tell the difference between Jasmine Sambac Varieties
💮 Jasminum Sambac is hands down the most fragrant jasmine in existence - and the most popular among tropical gardeners and plant collectors.
💮 Native to India, it's the source of jasmine perfume oil and the signature ingredient in jasmine tea.
💮 This plant comes in several varieties, each with unique flower size, shape, and growth habit - ranging from compact shrubs to vigorous bushes and climbing vines. It takes both sun and shade and makes a perfect container plant and indoor plant favorite.
💮 All varieties of Sambac are equally fragrant. To get more flowers, just use Sunshine Pikake plant booster and enjoy the perfume all day long!
💮 At Top Tropicals, we grow every known variety of Jasminum sambac in cultivation:
Arabian Nights - compact slow growing shrub with small delicate flowers
Belle of India - compact vine with long elegant petals, shade lover
What does a mature Champaka Tree look like? Practical Growing Guide
Joy Perfume tree (Magnolia champaca)
☀️ What does a mature Champaka Tree look like? Practical Growing Guide.
🏵 Champaka, or Joy Perfume tree (Magnolia champaca) is the most desirable perfume tree for Southern landscapes - and a Signature Plant of Top Tropicals! You can see several of these beautiful trees around our B-Farm in Sebring, including the one right by the office front door.
🏵 The flowers are used to make the world's most expensive perfume, Joy - and they smell like fruity bubble gum… you won't be able to stop sticking your nose in this flower! The Joy Perfume Tree blooms on and off year-round.
🏵 The Champaka tree has a striking columnar shape and becomes very bushy and full when established - whether in a pot (with a proper fertilizer program) or in the ground.
🏵 The lemon-lime, light green leaves are lush, soft, and tropical-looking, with a unique and beautiful color!
🏵 Champaka trees begin flowering within 2-3 years from seed.
🏵 Singing birds love this tree and in Spring make their nests in its bushy crown.
🏵 The tree is relatively cold hardy and can withstand light freeze for a short time once established. Make sure to provide regular watering for Champaka tree.
🏵 We have beautiful Champaka trees in all sizes:
3 gal pot: 3-4 ft tall - ready to bloom within a year, can be shipped 7 gal pot: 5-6 ft tall - ready to bloom, can be shipped 15 gal pot: 7-8 ft tall - have already bloomed, pick up or delivery* 25 gal pot: 10 ft tall - have already bloomed, pick up or delivery*
* Free delivery for qualified orders
🎥 These Champaka trees in the video are 5 years old (3 years in the ground) and already bloomed for the last 3 years!
Fragrance, color, and hummingbirds - all in one tree
🌳 Fragrance, color, and hummingbirds - all in one tree
💜 Looking for a fast-growing, elegant tree with year-round beauty and seasonal magic? Lilac Tree (Lonchocarpus violaceus) is a fragrant fountain of color!
💜 The Lilac Treeis a stunning evergreen native to Africa. Reaching 25 feet tall, it forms a graceful, fountain-like shape with lush, architectural foliage.
💜 In late summer and fall, this tree bursts into fragrant lavender to purple-blue blooms that fill the air with a scent reminiscent of lilac.
💜 Butterflies and hummingbirds flock to the flowers, bringing your garden to life. Long, slender seed pods follow, adding unique texture.
💜 Cold hardy to the 30s F for short periods, it's perfect for USDA Zones 9–11. Whether you're after fast growth, tropical charm, or simply a breathtaking flowering tree, the Lilac Tree checks all the boxes - graceful, fragrant, and irresistible.
Fragrance, color, and hummingbirds - all in one tree
Lilac Tree (Lonchocarpus violaceus) flowers
Lilac Tree (Lonchocarpus violaceus) flowers on a branch
Lilac Tree (Lonchocarpus violaceus)
🌳 Fragrance, color, and hummingbirds - all in one tree
💜 Looking for a fast-growing, elegant tree with year-round beauty and seasonal magic? Lilac Tree (Lonchocarpus violaceus) is a fragrant fountain of color!
💜 The Lilac Treeis a stunning evergreen native to Africa. Reaching 25 feet tall, it forms a graceful, fountain-like shape with lush, architectural foliage.
💜 In late summer and fall, this tree bursts into fragrant lavender to purple-blue blooms that fill the air with a scent reminiscent of lilac.
💜 Butterflies and hummingbirds flock to the flowers, bringing your garden to life. Long, slender seed pods follow, adding unique texture.
💜 Cold hardy to the 30s F for short periods, it's perfect for USDA Zones 9–11. Whether you're after fast growth, tropical charm, or simply a breathtaking flowering tree, the Lilac Tree checks all the boxes - graceful, fragrant, and irresistible.
