Garden Blog - Top Tropicals
Is Magnolia edible? Vanilla Magnolia: its for cooking!
Florida Sweet Bay - Vanilla Magnolia (Magnolia virginiana)
Florida Sweet Bay - Vanilla Magnolia (Magnolia virginiana)
Florida Sweet Bay - Vanilla Magnolia (Magnolia virginiana)
❔ Is Magnolia edible? Vanilla Magnolia: it's for cooking!
💮 Florida Sweet Bay, or Vanilla Magnolia (Magnolia virginiana) has beautiful flowers with strong vanilla fragrance, while the leaves offer unique culinary uses.
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💮 Florida Sweet Bay, or Vanilla Magnolia (Magnolia virginiana) has beautiful flowers with strong vanilla fragrance, while the leaves offer unique culinary uses.
- 🔹 Strong vanilla scent: fragrance can be noticed hundreds of yards away.
- 🔹 White, delicate blooms.
- 🔹 Unique leaf flavor: fresh leaves have a distinct taste, fun for cooking. Sweet Bay offers unique cooking flavors.
- 🔹 Prefers moist, acidic soil conditions, tolerates flooding, ideal for wet spots in your yard.
- 🔹 Pest-free: no bugs or other pests.
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Gardeners finally found a perfect everblooming hedge for shade!
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!
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- 💜 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'.
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Thumbs up the most fragrant ginger ever!
👍 Thumbs up the most fragrant ginger ever!
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White Butterfly Ginger (Hedychium coronarium) is a must for every Southern garden.
Famous for its intense, sweet scent.
Symbol of Hawaiian Paradise along with Plumeria and Jasmine we mentioned earlier.
Lei and hair decoration: popular in Hawaii and the Pacific Islands for leis and hair adornments.
Butterfly-like flowers: bears fragrant, butterfly-resembling flowers in summer.
Great cut flower: long lasting cut flowers, ideal for scenting the home.
Can survive light freezes, with tops regrowing in the spring. Takes sun or shade.
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Thumbs up the most fragrant ginger ever!
White Butterfly Ginger (Hedychium coronarium)
White Butterfly Ginger (Hedychium coronarium)
White Butterfly Ginger (Hedychium coronarium)
👍 Thumbs up the most fragrant ginger ever!
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- White Butterfly Ginger (Hedychium coronarium) is a must for every Southern garden.
- Famous for its intense, sweet scent.
- Symbol of Hawaiian Paradise along with Plumeria and Jasmine we mentioned earlier.
- Lei and hair decoration: popular in Hawaii and the Pacific Islands for leis and hair adornments.
- Butterfly-like flowers: bears fragrant, butterfly-resembling flowers in summer.
- Great cut flower: long lasting cut flowers, ideal for scenting the home.
- Can survive light freezes, with tops regrowing in the spring. Takes sun or shade.
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Fragrant Fried Eggs for bees and butterflies
Oncoba spinosa - Fried egg tree
🍳 Fragrant Fried Eggs for bees and butterflies 🐝
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- 🟡 Oncoba spinosa - Fried egg tree - is a conversation piece in your garden.
- 🟡 A medium shrub or small tree.
- 🟡 Beautiful white and yellow camellia-like flowers look like 'fried eggs' when they drop off and fall on the ground with their yellow stamens facing upwards.
- 🟡 Flowers are honey-sweet fragrant and attract butterflies and bees.
- 🟡 The fruits have a sour, edible pulp.
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