Garden Blog - Top Tropicals
Date: 22 Jun 2024
Need more ideas for compact and showy flowering trees? Try Rainbow Cassias
Rainbow cassia - Cassia Marginata.
🌈 Need more ideas for compact and showy flowering trees? Try Rainbow Cassias.
♦️ Some hybrid cassias have spectacular color combinations and are called Rainbow Cassias.
♦️ We mentioned earlier some sunny, yellow-flowering cassias: Senna surattensis (Cassia glauca) - Scrambled Egg Bush, and Cassia siamea - Kassod Tree.
♦️ Other cassias can be pink or with multi-color flower combination, so-called Rainbow cassias (which are hybrids between yellow and pink cassias):
Cassia grandis - Red Cassia
Cassia javanica - Apple Blossom Tree
Cassia marginata - Rainbow Shower Tree
Cassia roxburghii - Ceylon Senna
Cassia x nodosa - Pink Shower, Appleblossom.
♦️ Cassia trees are compact, fast growing, tolerant to drought and poor soils, free-flowering and relatively cold hardy. Always a great choice!
❓ What cassias do you have in your garden? Share photos in comments👇
🎥 Rainbow cassia - Cassia Marginata.
🛒 Shop showy Cassia trees
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Date: 22 Jun 2024
Pineapple Season started!
The most luscious Hospitality Fruit
Pineapple plant (Ananas comosus) produces a delicious fruit treat and is a fascinating plant to grow.
King of fruits. Pineapple is often referred to as the "king of fruits" (along with Durian and Mango). It is cherished for its sweet and tangy taste, refreshing qualities, culinary uses, and health benefits, including high vitamin C content and digestive enzymes.
Bromelain for healthy guts: pineapples contain an enzyme called bromelain that can break down proteins and is often used as a meat tenderizer. It's great for digestion; eat 1 slice of pineapple after every meal to maintain healthy digestive system.
Single fruit per plant: each pineapple plant produces just one pineapple per year.
Growth time: It takes about 18-24 months for a pineapple to mature and be ready for harvest.
Symbol of Hospitality: in many cultures, pineapples are a symbol of hospitality and welcome.
Those are berries! A pineapple is formed from many individual single fruit (technically, berries), which fuse together around the core.
Cultivation. Pineapples are easy to grow. They need very little water to thrive, and take full sun, shade, semi-shade. For faster production, fertilize with SUNSHINE boosters Ananas - Pineapple and Bromeliad Booster. Perfect container plant, Pineapple can be grown indoors as a houseplant. Many superior varieties are available in selection.
Learn more: The most luscious Hospitality Fruit - Pineapple.
Date: 21 Jun 2024
Healthy breakfast, lunch or snack: Avocado toast
Avocado
Healthy breakfast, lunch or snack: Avocado toast
Avocado toast is creamy, crisp and so satisfying. It’s a delicious and simple breakfast, snack or light meal!
Ingredients (makes 1 toast):
◾️ 1 slice of bread (thick-sliced whole-grain or rye bread is the best)
◾️ ½ ripe avocado
◾️ Pinch of salt and black pepper
📝 Instructions
◾️ Toast your slice of bread until golden and firm.
◾️ Remove the pit from your avocado. Use a big spoon to scoop out the flesh.
◾️ Spread avocado on top of your toast.
◾️ Sprinkle with a pinch of salt and pepper.
🍿 Enjoy!
🛒 Grow your own Avocado and Pepper plants
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Date: 21 Jun 2024
Why is it called Clock Vine?
Thunbergia mysorensis - Clock Vine
Thunbergia mysorensis - Clock Vine
🕰 Thunbergia mysorensis - Clock Vine - is a stunning vine originating from India.
🕰 Vibrant yellow flowers with a dark mauve border, of a unique, eye-catching shape.
🕰 Supposedly, it is called the Clock Vine because the flowers hang down in a regular, clock-like pattern around the vine. This consistent and orderly arrangement of the blooms resembles the numbers on a clock face, giving the plant its charming and unique name. Do you see it in the flower?
🕰 The blooms hang in cascading clusters, creating a spectacular display that can beautifully drape over a trellis or pagoda.
🕰 Attaracts butterflies and hummingbirds.
🕰 Though it's one of the most popular species among garden enthusiasts, its rarity adds an element of exclusivity to any garden lucky enough to host it.
🛒 Shop flowering vines
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