Garden Blog - Top Tropicals
How to grow Zebra in container?
Aphelandra squarrosa Dania (Snow White)
Aphelandra squarrosa Dania (Snow White)
Aphelandra squarrosa Dania (Snow White)
How to grow Zebra in container? 👀
Aphelandra squarrosa Dania (or Snow White) - White Zebra Plant is a showy small perennial with unusual leaves and pretty flowers.
White Zebra gets its name from white stripes on the leaves.
White Zebra is one of the best house plants.
This plant is not only pretty because of its white-veined foliage, but also for the apical inflorescence with its beautiful yellow bracts.
Easy to grow, takes low light, with average water needs.
🛒 Get your own White Zebra
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Aphelandra squarrosa Dania (or Snow White) - White Zebra Plant is a showy small perennial with unusual leaves and pretty flowers.
White Zebra gets its name from white stripes on the leaves.
White Zebra is one of the best house plants.
This plant is not only pretty because of its white-veined foliage, but also for the apical inflorescence with its beautiful yellow bracts.
Easy to grow, takes low light, with average water needs.
🛒 Get your own White Zebra
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The number one flower for shady spots! Every tropical gardener wants Brunfelsias: the magical, fragrant shrubs of Day and Night
Brunfelsia lactea
Brunfelsia australis
Brunfelsia grandiflora
Brunfelsia manaca
Brunfelsia grandiflora
Brunfelsia paucifolia
🌗 The number one flower for shady spots! Every tropical gardener wants Brunfelsias: the magical, fragrant shrubs of Day and Night.
📚 Learn more about purple Brunfelsias:
Yesterday-Today-Tomorrow, Brunfelsia from Brazil
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- 💠 Brunfelsias are truly enchanting tropical flowers. There are two groups - purple-flowered and cream/white-flowered.
- 💠 All Brunfelsias are wonderfully fragrant.
- 💠 Perfect flowering shrub for shaded areas; ideal for growing in containers.
- 💠 Compact and graceful growers.
- 💠 Purple-flowered are known as Yesterday-Today-Tomorrow for their magical color transformation from purple to lavender to white over three days. Examples: B. grandiflora, B. paucifolia, B. australis.
- 💠 White-flowered: intensely fragrant at night, earning the name Lady of the Night.
- 💠 Hybrids: A standout hybrid is Brunfelsia isola, that we mentioned earlier. It is blending the best of both purple and white varieties, inheriting purple color from the purple parent and night fragrance from the white one.
Examples: B. americana, B. nitida, B. plicata, B. manaca.
📚 Learn more about purple Brunfelsias:
Yesterday-Today-Tomorrow, Brunfelsia from Brazil
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Who wants a cold hardy, dramatic looking tropical fruit tree with a sweet fruit? Or, who doesnt?
Persimmon (Diospyros sp.)
Persimmon (Diospyros sp.)
Persimmon (Diospyros sp.)
Persimmon (Diospyros sp.)
Persimmon (Diospyros sp.)
Persimmon (Diospyros sp.)
🍯 Who wants a cold hardy, dramatic looking tropical fruit tree with a sweet fruit? Or, who doesn't?
📚 How to grow Persimmon tree
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- 🍑 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:
- 🍑 Hardy to USDA zones 7-10, may need protection in colder regions.
Non-Astringent: Fuyu, Giant Fuyu, Matsumoto-Wase, Jiro, Maekawa, Izu.
Astringent: Chocolate, Guang Yang, Hachiya, Meader, Saijo, Tanenashi, Winterset.
📚 How to grow Persimmon tree
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What flower smells like warm chocolate?
Portlandia grandiflora - Glorious Flower of Cuba
☕️ What flower smells like warm chocolate?
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💙 Portlandia grandiflora - Glorious Flower of Cuba is an extremely rare plant. - 💙 Luscious perfume of bell-like flowers reminiscent of warm, creamy chocolate.
- 💙 Small compact tree, perfect for containers or small gardens.
- 💙 One of very few tropical plants that tolerate alkaline soils❗️
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What was discovered in the Pyramids: Pigeon Pea - an Ancient Superfood
Cajanus cajan - Pigeon Pea and Egyptian pyramids
Cajanus cajan - Pigeon Pea
Cajanus cajan - Pigeon Pea
Cajanus cajan - Pigeon Pea
What was discovered in the Pyramids: Pigeon Pea - an Ancient Superfood...
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- 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.
📚 Learn more about Pigeon Pea
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