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Date: 7 Jul 2024

How to grow Popcorn with pretty flowers

Cassia didymobotrya (Popcorn Cassia)

Cassia didymobotrya (Popcorn Cassia)

Cassia didymobotrya (Popcorn Cassia)

Cassia didymobotrya (Popcorn Cassia)

Cassia didymobotrya (Popcorn Cassia)

Cassia didymobotrya (Popcorn Cassia)

Cassia didymobotrya (Popcorn Cassia)

Cassia didymobotrya (Popcorn Cassia)

🍿 How to grow Popcorn with pretty flowers

  • 🌽 Cassia didymobotrya (Popcorn Cassia) is a fun plant! When rubbed, its leaves emit a scent similar to buttered popcorn, hence its name.
  • 🌽 It blooms with beautiful large clusters of sunny yellow flowers.
  • 🌽 Perfect fast growing flowering shrub - ideal for places where you want to see a showy, pretty plant quickly
  • 🌽 Butterfly magnet - one of the favorite flowers for all kinds of butterflies! Everyone who is working on a butterfly garden, plants Popcorn Cassia


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Date: 6 Jul 2024

Why red flowers are so attractive?

Why red flowers are so attractive? ❤️

💋 If red is your favorite color for flowers, this is your plant!👇

  • ❤️ Bauhinia galpinii (punctata) - Pride of De Kaap or Nasturtium Bauhinia - belongs to Orchid trees that we mentioned earlier. But this one has very unusual color of flowers for Bauhinias: bright red or scarlet!

  • ❤️ Native to South Africa, this is a woody, vining shrub that also can be trained into a small tree, reaching 6-10 ft in height.

  • ❤️ As a all orchid trees it has deep green, bilobed leaves are resembling butterfly wings.

  • ❤️ Blooms almost year around, from Summer through late Fall, with vibrant orange-red, resembling those of nasturtiums, coming in clusters. Well-known for its stunning floral display.

  • ❤️ Hardy, low-maintenance, drought-tolerant once established. Prefers full sun but can tolerate partial shade.

  • ❤️ Attracts butterflies and bees


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Date: 6 Jul 2024

Why red flowers are so attractive?

Bauhinia galpinii (punctata) - Pride of De Kaap, Nasturtium Bauhinia

Why red flowers are so attractive? ❤️

💋 If red is your favorite color for flowers, this is your plant!👇
  • ❤️ Bauhinia galpinii (punctata) - Pride of De Kaap or Nasturtium Bauhinia - belongs to Orchid trees that we mentioned earlier. But this one has very unusual color of flowers for Bauhinias: bright red or scarlet!
  • ❤️ Native to South Africa, this is a woody, vining shrub that also can be trained into a small tree, reaching 6-10 ft in height.
  • ❤️ As a all orchid trees it has deep green, bilobed leaves are resembling butterfly wings.
  • ❤️ Blooms almost year around, from Summer through late Fall, with vibrant orange-red, resembling those of nasturtiums, coming in clusters. Well-known for its stunning floral display.
  • ❤️ Hardy, low-maintenance, drought-tolerant once established. Prefers full sun but can tolerate partial shade.
  • ❤️ Attracts butterflies and bees


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Date: 3 Jul 2024

What is the best showy shrub to plant under a shade tree?

Tabernaemontana divaricata - Pinwheel Jasmine, Crape Jasmine

What is the best showy shrub to plant under a shade tree?

  • 💮 Tabernaemontana divaricata, also known as Pinwheel Jasmine or Crape Jasmine, is a true garden gem, blooming year-round to bring constant beauty to your outdoor space.
  • 💮 This cute bush can be also shaped into a small tree.
  • 💮 It looks beautiful beneath palms or trees.
  • 💮 Blooms year-round with pretty, white, pinwheel-shaped flowers.
  • 💮 Needs bright light for profuse blooming, but can tolerate shade conditions.
  • 💮 Makes your garden look stunning all year around.


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Date: 1 Jul 2024

What is Nescafe Coffee made from?

Mucuna pruriens - Nescafe, Purple Jade Vine

☕️ What is Nescafe Coffee made from? Purple Jade.

💜 Earlier we mentioned Green Jade Vine and Yellow Jade Vine. This one is purple!
  • Mucuna pruriens - Nescafe, Purple Jade Vine has unusual royal purple flowers. The dark violet blooms appear closely pushed together in grape like clusters, up to 1 ft long and 6"in diameter.
  • The seeds known as mucuna beans or Nescafe and used as a coffee substitute.
  • It has been used for generations in India as a medicinal plant.
  • Very vigorous woody tree creeper - during warmer weather this vine can grow 2 feet a day!
  • Related to red Jade vine (Mucuna bennettii).


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