Garden Blog - Top Tropicals

Date: 23 May 2024

Now you have seen everything: multi-grafted Adenium with different colors of flowers on the same plant!

Adenium

🌸 Now you have seen everything: multi-grafted Adenium with different colors of flowers on the same plant!

🛒 Shop Adenium colors and hybrids

#Container_Garden #Nature_Wonders

🏵 TopTropicals

Date: 22 May 2024

Why did she say its a dog poo? Its a beauty from Argentina!

Why did she say its a dog poo? Its a beauty from Argentina! Why did she say its a dog poo? Its a beauty from Argentina! Why did she say its a dog poo? Its a beauty from Argentina! Why did she say its a dog poo? Its a beauty from Argentina! Why did she say its a dog poo? Its a beauty from Argentina! Why did she say its a dog poo? Its a beauty from Argentina! Why did she say its a dog poo? Its a beauty from Argentina! Why did she say its a dog poo? Its a beauty from Argentina!
💩 💃 Why did she say it's a dog poo? It's a beauty from Argentina!

  • 🌸 This remarkable caudiciform Morning Glory - Ipomoea platensis - is native to arid regions of Argentina.

  • 🌸 This is a showy flowering vine growing from a large caudex! The caudex can be of some weird shapes and forms. Some old lady once said "it's a dog poo plant!"

  • 🌸 Similar to Desert roses (Adeniums), it grows caudex for water storage to survive extended drought periods.

  • 🌸 Caudex grows over 2 ft! Vines reach over 6 ft, easily trimmed to shape, covered with beautiful bell-shaped pink flowers.

  • 🌸 Can be kept as a bonsai in a pot, easy to control as a container specimen with trellis or pruning.

  • 🌸 Although it doesn't mind dry conditions, the plant benefits from regular watering and good drainage, then it grows fast.

  • 🌸 This is one of our favorite plants, easy to grow, makes a great conversation piece. It is a perfect for bonsai


🛒 Order Caudiciform Morning Glory

#Nature_Wonders

🏵 TopTropicals

Date: 22 May 2024

Why did she say its a dog poo? Its a beauty from Argentina!

Caudiciform Morning Glory - Ipomoea platensis

Caudiciform Morning Glory - Ipomoea platensis

Caudiciform Morning Glory - Ipomoea platensis

Caudiciform Morning Glory - Ipomoea platensis

Caudiciform Morning Glory - Ipomoea platensis

Caudiciform Morning Glory - Ipomoea platensis

Caudiciform Morning Glory - Ipomoea platensis

Caudiciform Morning Glory - Ipomoea platensis

Caudiciform Morning Glory - Ipomoea platensis

Caudiciform Morning Glory - Ipomoea platensis

Caudiciform Morning Glory - Ipomoea platensis

Caudiciform Morning Glory - Ipomoea platensis

Caudiciform Morning Glory - Ipomoea platensis

Caudiciform Morning Glory - Ipomoea platensis

Caudiciform Morning Glory - Ipomoea platensis

Caudiciform Morning Glory - Ipomoea platensis

💩 💃 Why did she say it's a dog poo? It's a beauty from Argentina!
  • 🌸 This remarkable caudiciform Morning Glory - Ipomoea platensis - is native to arid regions of Argentina.
  • 🌸 This is a showy flowering vine growing from a large caudex! The caudex can be of some weird shapes and forms. Some old lady once said "it's a dog poo plant!"
  • 🌸 Similar to Desert roses (Adeniums), it grows caudex for water storage to survive extended drought periods.
  • 🌸 Caudex grows over 2 ft! Vines reach over 12 ft, covered with beautiful bell-shaped pink flowers.
  • 🌸 Can be kept as a bonsai in a pot, easy to control as a container specimen with trellis or pruning.
  • 🌸 Although it doesn't mind dry conditions, the plant benefits from regular watering and good drainage, then it grows fast.
  • 🌸 This is one of our favorite plants, easy to grow, makes a great conversation piece. It is a perfect for bonsai


🛒 Order Caudiciform Morning Glory

#Nature_Wonders

🏵 TopTropicals

Date: 18 May 2024

How to get rid of a bad luck with the Garlic Vine?

Garlic vine (Mansoa alliacea)

Garlic vine (Mansoa alliacea)

👾 How to get rid of a bad luck with the Garlic Vine?
  • 🟣 Garlic vine (Mansoa alliacea) is one of the most wanted flowering tropical vines.
  • 🟣 When in full bloom, it looks like a cascade of blue-purple over a fence or trellis.
  • 🟣 The fun part is, crushed leaves smell like garlic, which will keep away the vampires and bad luck!
  • 🟣 Deep lavender flowers with white throat fading to a paler lavender within a few days, and you can see all three colors on the plant at the same time.
  • 🟣 Garlic vine has moderate growth rate and can stay compact in a pot as a specimen, and even can be grown as a house plant.


📚 Garlic vine: how to get rid of bad luck

🎥 Video: Garlic vine keeps away the vampires.

🛒 Get rid of bad luck by getting the Garlic Vine

#Butterfly_Plants #Hedges_with_benefits #Fun_Facts #How_to #Nature_Wonders

🏵 TopTropicals

Date: 17 May 2024

Why cucumbers grow on a tree? Because they are candles!

Why cucumbers grow on a tree? Because they are candles! Why cucumbers grow on a tree? Because they are candles! Why cucumbers grow on a tree? Because they are candles! Why cucumbers grow on a tree? Because they are candles! Why cucumbers grow on a tree? Because they are candles!
Why cucumbers grow on a tree? Because they are "candles"! 🕯

  • 🕯 This bizarre tree is a conversation piece and every plant collector should have one!

  • 🕯 Parmentiera edulis - Candle Tree, or Guahalote - is a highly ornamental tree with interesting leaves, pretty cream flowers and...ready?

  • 🕯One foot long fruits resembling a greenish-yellow cucumbers or candles that hang off the tree!

  • 🕯Juicy fruit is edible and has a sweet flavor similar to sugar cane. Eaten raw or cooked; used to make pickles or preserves

  • 🕯The fruit is a remedy for colds; roots used as a diuretic.

  • 🕯Easy to grow and not fussy about conditions. Cold tolerant to light frost.


🎥

🛒Get your own Candle Tree

#Food_Forest #Recipes #Nature_Wonders #Remedies

🏵 TopTropicals

Date: 17 May 2024

Why cucumbers grow on a tree? Because they are candles!

Parmentiera edulis - Candle Tree, Guahalote

Parmentiera edulis - Candle Tree, Guahalote

Parmentiera edulis - Candle Tree, Guahalote

Parmentiera edulis - Candle Tree, Guahalote

Parmentiera edulis - Candle Tree, Guahalote

Parmentiera edulis - Candle Tree, Guahalote

Parmentiera edulis - Candle Tree, Guahalote fruit

Parmentiera edulis - Candle Tree, Guahalote fruit

Parmentiera edulis - Candle Tree, Guahalote flower

Parmentiera edulis - Candle Tree, Guahalote flower

Why cucumbers grow on a tree? Because they are "candles"! 🕯
  • 🕯 This bizarre tree is a conversation piece and every plant collector should have one!
  • 🕯 Parmentiera edulis - Candle Tree, or Guahalote - is a highly ornamental tree with interesting leaves, pretty cream flowers and...ready?
  • 🕯One foot long fruits resembling a greenish-yellow cucumbers or candles that hang off the tree!
  • 🕯Juicy fruit is edible and has a sweet flavor similar to sugar cane. Eaten raw or cooked; used to make pickles or preserves
  • 🕯The fruit is a remedy for colds; roots used as a diuretic.
  • 🕯Easy to grow and not fussy about conditions. Cold tolerant to light frost.


🎥

🛒Get your own Candle Tree

#Food_Forest #Recipes #Nature_Wonders #Remedies

🏵 TopTropicals

Date: 15 May 2024

What does a dragon taste like? Does Dragon Fruit come from a monster cactus? Learn why you need to grow your own

What does a dragon taste like? Does Dragon Fruit come from a monster cactus? Learn why you need to grow your own
🐲 What does a dragon taste like? Does Dragon Fruit come from a monster cactus? Learn why you need to grow your own. 🌵

  • 🔴 You may have tried a Dragon fruit from the store l, but do you know how it grows? On a cactus tree!

  • 🔴 Names: varieties of Hylocereus and Selenicereus - these fruit bearing cactus plants are also called Dragon Fruit or Pitaya.

  • 🔴 Commercially grown fruit sold in a grocery store may be tasteless. You need to grow your own good variety to have tasty, sweet, flavorful fruit!

  • 🔴 Dragon fruit comes in many varieties. Colors of flesh differ: white, pink, dark red and even purple. The outside of the fruit can be red/pink or yellow.

  • 🔴 In commercial groves, Pitayas grow like cactus trees, over a strong support - big "umbrella frames" ☂️

  • 🔴 It is an easy plant, with low water needs, takes both sun and semi-shade.

  • 🔴 Our favorite variety is Yellow Dragon Fruit Palora, (Selenicereus megalanthus). It is the sweetest and has the most flavor of all. We shared some recipes earlier.

  • 🔴 Can be grown in container with a wooden trellis. And the flower is beautiful, too!


📚 Learn more about Dragon Fruit
🍹 Recipe: What to do with a Dragon fruit?

🛒Grow your own Tasty Dragon Fruits

#Food_Forest #Recipes #Nature_Wonders #Dragon_Fruit

🏵 TopTropicals

Date: 15 May 2024

What does a dragon taste like? Does Dragon Fruit come from a monster cactus? Learn why you need to grow your own

Hylocereus and Selenicereus Dragon Fruit or Pitaya

Hylocereus and Selenicereus Dragon Fruit or Pitaya

Hylocereus and Selenicereus Dragon Fruit or Pitaya trees on trellis

Hylocereus and Selenicereus Dragon Fruit or Pitaya trees on trellis

Hylocereus and Selenicereus Dragon Fruit or Pitaya on trellis

Hylocereus and Selenicereus Dragon Fruit or Pitaya on trellis

Hylocereus and Selenicereus Dragon Fruit or Pitaya red fruit

Hylocereus and Selenicereus Dragon Fruit or Pitaya red fruit

Hylocereus and Selenicereus Dragon Fruit or Pitaya purple fruit

Hylocereus and Selenicereus Dragon Fruit or Pitaya purple fruit

Hylocereus and Selenicereus Dragon Fruit or Pitaya Yellow Parlora

Hylocereus and Selenicereus Dragon Fruit or Pitaya Yellow Parlora

Hylocereus and Selenicereus Dragon Fruit or Pitaya flower

Hylocereus and Selenicereus Dragon Fruit or Pitaya flower

🐲 What does a dragon taste like? Does Dragon Fruit come from a monster cactus? Learn why you need to grow your own. 🌵
  • 🔴 You may have tried a Dragon fruit from the store l, but do you know how it grows? On a cactus tree!
  • 🔴 Names: varieties of Hylocereus and Selenicereus - these fruit bearing cactus plants are also called Dragon Fruit or Pitaya.
  • 🔴 Commercially grown fruit sold in a grocery store may be tasteless. You need to grow your own good variety to have tasty, sweet, flavorful fruit!
  • 🔴 Dragon fruit comes in many varieties. Colors of flesh differ: white, pink, dark red and even purple. The outside of the fruit can be red/pink or yellow.
  • 🔴 In commercial groves, Pitayas grow like cactus trees, over a strong support - big "umbrella frames" ☂️
  • 🔴 It is an easy plant, with low water needs, takes both sun and semi-shade.
  • 🔴 Our favorite variety is Yellow Dragon Fruit Palora, (Selenicereus megalanthus). It is the sweetest and has the most flavor of all. We shared some recipes earlier.
  • 🔴 Can be grown in container with a wooden trellis. And the flower is beautiful, too!


📚 Learn more about Dragon Fruit
🍹 Recipe: What to do with a Dragon fruit?

🛒Grow your own Tasty Dragon Fruits

#Food_Forest #Recipes #Nature_Wonders

🏵 TopTropicals

Date: 13 May 2024

Why nuts? We are not nuts! But we taste like peanut butter

Why nuts? We are not nuts! But we taste like peanut butter Why nuts? We are not nuts! But we taste like peanut butter Why nuts? We are not nuts! But we taste like peanut butter Why nuts? We are not nuts! But we taste like peanut butter Why nuts? We are not nuts! But we taste like peanut butter Why nuts? We are not nuts! But we taste like peanut butter
Why nuts? We are not nuts! But we taste like peanut butter... Craving a Nutty Surprise? Meet the Delectable Peanut Butter Tree!

  • 🔴 Bunchosia argentea, commonly known as the Peanut Butter Tree, earns its name from its fleshy fruits that boast a delightful peanut butter flavor - how cool is that?

  • 🔴 This attractive small tree dazzles with clusters of yellow flowers, followed by an abundance of dark red fruit with rich, sweet flesh reminiscent of peanut butter.

  • 🔴 Loved by both kids and adults, this exotic fruit is as fascinating as the Miracle fruit, making it a rare gem in cultivation.

  • 🔴 Compact in size, small tree reaching only 10-15 ft or kept as a bush, it's a perfect choice for limited spaces.

  • 🔴 Can thrive indoors, starting to fruit within just 2-3 years from seed.


🛒 Get your own Peanut Butter Tree

#Food_Forest #Nature_Wonders

🏵 TopTropicals

Date: 13 May 2024

Why nuts? We are not nuts! But we taste like peanut butter

Bunchosia argentea, Peanut Butter Tree

Bunchosia argentea, Peanut Butter Tree

Bunchosia argentea, Peanut Butter Tree

Bunchosia argentea, Peanut Butter Tree

Bunchosia argentea, Peanut Butter Tree

Bunchosia argentea, Peanut Butter Tree

Bunchosia argentea, Peanut Butter Tree

Bunchosia argentea, Peanut Butter Tree

Bunchosia argentea, Peanut Butter Tree

Bunchosia argentea, Peanut Butter Tree

Bunchosia argentea, Peanut Butter Tree

Bunchosia argentea, Peanut Butter Tree

Why nuts? We are not nuts! But we taste like peanut butter... Craving a Nutty Surprise? Meet the Delectable Peanut Butter Tree!
  • 🔴 Bunchosia argentea, commonly known as the Peanut Butter Tree, earns its name from its fleshy fruits that boast a delightful peanut butter flavor - how cool is that?
  • 🔴 This attractive small tree dazzles with clusters of yellow flowers, followed by an abundance of dark red fruit with rich, sweet flesh reminiscent of peanut butter.
  • 🔴 Loved by both kids and adults, this exotic fruit is as fascinating as the Miracle fruit, making it a rare gem in cultivation.
  • 🔴 Compact in size, small tree reaching only 10-15 ft or kept as a bush, it's a perfect choice for limited spaces.
  • 🔴 Can thrive indoors, starting to fruit within just 2-3 years from seed.


🛒 Get your own Peanut Butter Tree

#Food_Forest #Nature_Wonders

🏵 TopTropicals
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