Garden Blog - Top Tropicals

Gardeners finally found a perfect everblooming hedge for shade!

⚡️ Gardeners finally found a perfect everblooming hedge for shade!

💜 Kings Mantle - Thunbergia erecta - is a perfect flowering bush or hedge for the shady garden.
💜 Ever-blooming: Perfect for a continuously blooming hedge.
💜 Dense shrub: Bushy, fast-growing, and ideal for mixed beds or medium-to-low hedges.
💜 Beautiful flowers: flowers resemble morning glories, with common varieties having rich purple petals and yellow throats.
💜 Attractive foliage: Small, dark green leaves.
💜 Climber relatives: Unlike many Thunbergia species, this one is a sprawling shrub.
💜 Pruning responsive: Can be shaped into a dense hedge, pruning promotes flowering.
💜 Sun or shade: Prefers bright light and well-drained soil, but will also bloom in partial shade.
💜 Colors: comes in dark blue, white, and the unique, vigorous variegated variety - 'Lavender Ice'.

Kings Mantle - Thunbergia erecta

Kings Mantle - Thunbergia erecta purple

Kings Mantle - Thunbergia erecta Lavender Lace Variegated

Kings Mantle - Thunbergia erecta White

⚡️ Gardeners finally found a perfect everblooming hedge for shade!

💜 Kings Mantle - Thunbergia erecta - is a perfect flowering bush or hedge for the shady garden.
💜 Ever-blooming: Perfect for a continuously blooming hedge.
💜 Dense shrub: Bushy, fast-growing, and ideal for mixed beds or medium-to-low hedges.
💜 Beautiful flowers: flowers resemble morning glories, with common varieties having rich purple petals and yellow throats.
💜 Attractive foliage: Small, dark green leaves.
💜 Climber relatives: Unlike many Thunbergia species, this one is a sprawling shrub.
💜 Pruning responsive: Can be shaped into a dense hedge, pruning promotes flowering.
💜 Sun or shade: Prefers bright light and well-drained soil, but will also bloom in partial shade.
💜 Colors: comes in dark blue, white, and the unique, vigorous variegated variety - 'Lavender Ice'.

Thunbergia mysorensis - Clock Vine

👁 Why is it called Clock Vine? It will cover a Pagoda in NO TIME!

🕰 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.

Vallaris glabra - Bread Flower

🍞 Breaking news: flower smells of freshly baked bread! It smells so good, you want to eat it!

🍔 Vallaris glabra - Bread Flower - is one of the most impressive tropical vines that is very popular in Thailand and other South-East Asia countries.
🍔 Moderate growth woody climber with clusters of freshly-baked-bread fragrant white flowers.
🍔 Easy to care and tolerates wide range of conditions. It can be trained as a compact bush and is good for container culture.
🍔 Attracts butterflies and hummingbirds.
🍔 Relatively cold hardy, mild frost doesn't do any damage to it, even large tropical leaves stay glossy, green and healthy.
🍔 It is very vigorous grower that can create nice privacy hedge or cover a large fence.