Garden Blog - Top Tropicals

What is the easiest container plant with beautiful flowers?

Adenium collage

🎍What is the easiest container plant with beautiful flowers?

🌸 Desert roses - Adeniums! With so many colors of hybrids available in cultivation, you want to collect them all!
🌸 Double flowers, red, purple, yellow, striped, dotted, rainbow, and even black flowers!
🌸 Unlike most tropical and house plants, Adeniums like a neutral to hard water. They have very low water needs, can grow in full sun or shade.
🌸 A secret how to create a large swollen caudex: raise the plant a bit every time you re-pot it, so that the upper part of roots will be a little exposed. The plant will form more roots that will go down.

Persimmon (Diospyros sp.)

🍯 Who wants a cold hardy, dramatic looking tropical fruit tree with a sweet fruit? Or, who doesn't?

🍑 Persimmon (Diospyros sp.) is a graceful, small, subtropical fruit tree from China, with multitrunked or single-stemmed structure and drooping leaves and branches, turning dramatic shades in autumn.
🍑 People love Persimmon fruit for its sweet and unique flavor, often described as a blend of honey and apricot.
🍑 The tree thrives in deep, well-drained loam soil, tolerating alkaline conditions.
🍑 The fruit classified into astringent (soft, sweeter pulp) and non-astringent (crunchy) cultivars.
🍑 Best Varieties for Container Culture:

Non-Astringent:

Astringent:

Cajanus cajan - Pigeon Pea and Egyptian pyramids

Cajanus cajan - Pigeon Pea

What was discovered in the Pyramids: Pigeon Pea - an Ancient Superfood...

Cajanus cajan - Pigeon Pea - existed for more than 4800 year! It's been widely consumed in South Asia, South East Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Documented in India since 2,800 BC; reached Ancient Egypt around 2,200 BC.
Provides flavorful, nutritious, and healthy food, with potential to become widely popular like Japanese sushi 🍱
It is a showy perennial woody shrub or small tree, 4-8 ft tall, with soft leaves. Can be grown in container
Pretty flowers are yellow, with purple or red streaks, pods containing oval to round seeds.
Many culinary uses: the tasty and healthy beans used in rice dishes, soups, stews, tempeh, tofu. Unripe pods eaten in curries, leaves and young shoots cooked as a vegetable.
Rich source of fiber, protein, vitamins (B, C, E, K), and minerals (calcium, iron, magnesium, manganese, phosphorus, potassium, zinc).
Medicinal value: various folk medicinal uses for sores, bladderstones, jaundice, skin irritations, bronchitis, coughs, pneumonia, toothache, dysentery, and more.
Everyone can grow it! The plant is super easy, tolerates poor soils, drought tolerant, improves soil quality like many other beans.