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What is a perfect shade tree with flower benefits? Discover the sunny Kassod Tree. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

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

What is a perfect shade tree with flower benefits? Discover the sunny Kassod Tree What is a perfect shade tree with flower benefits? Discover the sunny Kassod Tree What is a perfect shade tree with flower benefits? Discover the sunny Kassod Tree
🌻 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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What is a perfect shade tree with flower benefits? Discover the sunny Kassod Tree. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

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

#Butterfly_Plants #Trees

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Try cleaning bottles with this brush! A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Try cleaning bottles with this brush!

Bottlebrush Tree (Callistemon spp.)

Bottlebrush Tree (Callistemon spp.)

Bottlebrush Tree (Callistemon spp.) Little John

Bottlebrush Tree (Callistemon spp.) Little John

Bottlebrush Tree (Callistemon spp.)

Bottlebrush Tree (Callistemon spp.)

Bottlebrush Tree (Callistemon spp.)

Bottlebrush Tree (Callistemon spp.)

Bottlebrush Tree (Callistemon spp.)

Bottlebrush Tree (Callistemon spp.)

Bottlebrush Tree (Callistemon spp.)

Bottlebrush Tree (Callistemon spp.)

♨️ Try cleaning bottles with this brush!
  • 🍾 Bottlebrush Tree (Callistemon spp.) is renowned for its spectacular, fire-red brush-like flowers and landscape appeal.
  • 🍾 Originated from Australia, this exotic tree can add a touch of exotic charm to any landscape.
  • 🍾 Cold hardy to zone 8, tolerates both cold and heat.
  • 🍾 Its striking, vibrant flowers resemble bottle brushes.
  • 🍾 Attracts pollinators such as bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds with its nectar-rich blooms.
  • 🍾 Adds a burst of color and texture to gardens and landscapes.
  • 🍾 Ideal for creating focal points, hedges, or as standalone specimens.
  • 🍾 Thrives in warm climates and is drought-tolerant once established, making it a low-maintenance choice for Southern landscapes.
  • 🍾 Offers many varieties, including the dwarf 'Little John,' perfect for containers, reaching only 4ft tall.


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What is the most celebreated fragrant flower? A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

What is the most celebreated fragrant flower?

Plumeria, Frangipani

What is the most celebreated fragrant flower?
  • 🌸 Plumeria, or Frangipani, is the symbol flower of Hawaii that radiates beauty and grace in many amazing colors.
  • 🌸 Plumeria sweet and fruity fragrance is enchanting and soothing, captivating the senses... It is one of the most favorite essences in perfumery.
  • 🌸 Often woven into Hawaiian leis, plumeria blossoms embody the spirit of Aloha as a warm welcome and heartfelt hospitality.
  • 🌸 Plumeria tree is very easy to grow and can happily flower in container. See important growing tips in our next post 👇


🛒 Choose from fantastic colors of Plumeria

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How can Banana be a flower? Meet the Banana Magnolia, a Fragrant Marvel. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

How can Banana be a flower? Meet the Banana Magnolia, a Fragrant Marvel

Magnolia figo - Banana Magnolia

Magnolia figo - Banana Magnolia

Magnolia figo - Banana Magnolia

Magnolia figo - Banana Magnolia

Magnolia figo - Banana Magnolia

Magnolia figo - Banana Magnolia

Magnolia figo - Banana Magnolia

Magnolia figo - Banana Magnolia

🍌 How can Banana be a flower? Meet the Banana Magnolia, a Fragrant Marvel.
  • Magnolia figo, or Banana Magnolia, boasts creamy yellow, banana-shaped flowers with a sweet, fruity aroma with a hint of banana.
  • Glossy, deep green foliage enhances its visual charm.
  • Compact and evergreen, reaching only 7-10 feet, this small tree or shrub adds sophistication to any landscape.
  • Cold tolerant and heat tolerant. Takes sun and shade.
  • Great choice for both gardens and containers.


🛒 Buy Banana Magnolia

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Fire on top of the tree! What is it bursting with orange brilliance? Meet Colvilles Glory. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Fire on top of the tree! What is it bursting with orange brilliance? Meet Colvilles Glory

Colvillea racemosa, Colvilles Glory

Colvillea racemosa, Colvilles Glory

Colvillea racemosa, Colvilles Glory

Colvillea racemosa, Colvilles Glory

Colvillea racemosa, Colvilles Glory

Colvillea racemosa, Colvilles Glory

Colvillea racemosa, Colvilles Glory

Colvillea racemosa, Colvilles Glory

🔥 Fire on top of the tree! What is it bursting with orange brilliance? Meet Colvilles Glory.

Colvillea racemosa, also known as Colvilles Glory, is a stunning specimen tree renowned for its vibrant orange flowers that bloom in fall.
  • 🟠 Fast growing tree able to reach heights of 30-50 ft
  • 🟠 Striking addition to any landscape where you need to grow a tree quickly.
  • 🟠 Fern-like foliage that may shed in cooler winters offers a captivating display with its long inflorescences and bright yellow stamens.
  • 🟠 Drought-tolerant and resistant to pests.
  • 🟠 Easy-to-care-for and relatively cold hardy.


🛒 Add some color to your garden with Colvilles Glory

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What is the best time to plant a tree? A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

What is the best time to plant a tree?

Koelreuteria paniculata - Golden Rain Tree

Koelreuteria paniculata - Golden Rain Tree

Koelreuteria paniculata - Golden Rain Tree

Koelreuteria paniculata - Golden Rain Tree

Koelreuteria paniculata - Golden Rain Tree

Koelreuteria paniculata - Golden Rain Tree

🌳 What is the best time to plant a tree?

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now." - Chinese Proverb


📷 Koelreuteria paniculata - Golden Rain Tree, one of the most spectacular trees of subtopics that is actually very cold hardy and drought resistant.
  • 🔰 Cascading clusters of bright yellow flowers in summer are followed by bright pink, papery, lantern-like seed pods that gracefully dangle through autumn.
  • 🔰 Its elegant foliage and attractive form make it a captivating centerpiece in any garden or landscape.
  • 🔰 Very fast growing, nice solution for a shade tree.
  • 🔰 According to ancient Chinese manuscripts, the Golden Rain Tree is crucial for Dragons, as it is believed to be connected to their existence, guarding and complementing each other. Growing these plants is considered auspicious and is believed to safeguard the Dragon family.

2024 is a year of Dragon! 🐉

🛒 Order Golden Rain Tree

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What is the flower of the most expensive perfume? A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

What is the flower of the most expensive perfume?

Champaka, Joy Perfume Tree - Magnolia (Michelia) champaca

Champaka, Joy Perfume Tree - Magnolia (Michelia) champaca - white flower Alba

Champaka, Joy Perfume Tree - Magnolia (Michelia) champaca - white flower Alba

Champaka, Joy Perfume Tree - Magnolia (Michelia) champaca

Champaka, Joy Perfume Tree - Magnolia (Michelia) champaca

Champaka, Joy Perfume Tree - Magnolia (Michelia) champaca

Champaka, Joy Perfume Tree - Magnolia (Michelia) champaca

🏵 What is the flower of the most expensive perfume? Champaka - Joy Perfume Tree. It is the fragrance the most expensive perfume Joy is made of, and our signature flower!

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
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!

📚 Learn more about Champaka

🛒 Shop Champaka - Joy Perfume Tree

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It's not a cherry blossom! What is this pink-flowered beauty? It's one of the most beautiful Florida trees. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Its not a cherry blossom! What is this pink-flowered beauty? Its one of the most beautiful Florida trees

🌸 It's not a cherry blossom! What is this pink-flowered beauty? It's one of the most beautiful Florida trees...

Tabebuia impetiginosa
- Dwarf Pink Tabebuia, is a spectacular Winter-Spring bloomer!

  • ♦️ Nice landscape tree, compact and fits small yards.

  • ♦️Beautiful bright pink flowers with yellow throats, covering the tree before new leaves appear.

  • ♦️ Winter bloomer - great choice with snow birds who stay in Florida in winter and want to see some flowers.

  • ♦️ More tabebuia varieties exist with yellow, white, purple flowers.


❄️ Tabebuia is a cold hardy tropical, at least to upper 20's. Grows well in Central Florida.

🛒 Shop Tabebuias

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