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What is the best Jasmine bush for an easy landscaping? A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

What is the best Jasmine bush for an easy landscaping?

Jasminum multiflorum (pubescens) - Angel Hair Jasmine

🔤 What is the best Jasmine bush for an easy landscaping?
  • 🌸 Jasminum multiflorum (pubescens) - Angel Hair Jasmine - is a fragrant, fast-growing charmer for Southern landscape.
  • 🌸 Bloom beauty: Sweet-scented, starry white flowers bloom almost year-round.
  • 🌸 Wildlife friendly: Attracts butterflies and hummingbirds.
  • 🌸 Growth: Fast-growing, bushy, and dense - a perfect hedge option! Grows 5–6 ft with soft, velvety leaves.
  • 🌸 Care: Loves well-drained soil, handles sun to semi-shade, and even tolerates seaside conditions.
  • 🌸 Zones: Thrives in USDA Zones 9–11 or as a potted indoor beauty in colder areas.


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What color is garlic vine flower? A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

What color is garlic vine flower?

Garlic vine (Mansoa alliacea)

What color is garlic vine flower? Three-color!
  • 😈 Garlic vine (Mansoa alliacea) is in full bloom again this time of the year. What a spectacular view! Deep lavender flowers with white throat fading to a paler lavender within a few days, and you can see all three colors on the plant at the same time.
  • 😈 Crushed leaves smell just like crushed garlic!
  • 😈 Garlic vine has moderate growth rate and can stay compact in a pot as a specimen, and even can be grown as a house plant.


📚 Learn from previous post:
How to get rid of a bad luck with the Garlic Vine?

📱 Video: Garlic vine keeps away the vampires.

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When Butterfly Bush is in bloom. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

When Butterfly Bush is in bloom

Butterfly Bush - Odontonema

When Butterfly Bush is in bloom
  • Butterfly Bush - Odontonema is in full bloom again this time of the year! Spectacular Winter bloomer and butterfly attractor.
  • Takes both sun and shade, and tolerates light frost. Very easy plant!


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Baby-pink fluffy flower for butterflies. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Baby-pink fluffy flower for butterflies

Calliandra selloi (brevipes) - Pink Powderpuff, Pink Lilian

Baby-pink fluffy flower for butterflies
  • 🐾 Calliandra selloi (brevipes) - The Pink Powderpuff, also known as Pink Lilian, is a spectacular bloomer that adds charm and grace to your butterfly garden.
  • 🐾 Native to southeastern Brazil, Uruguay, and northern Argentina, this shrub stands out with its finely divided leaves with teeny-tiny leaflets and dazzling clusters of baby pink, silky, powder-puff flowers.
  • 🐾 This medium-to-large shrub has a graceful growth habit, making it a stunning centerpiece or a lush addition to garden borders.
  • 🐾 Its delicate flowers bloom during the summer, looking like nature's fireworks and attracting pollinators with their fluffy appeal.


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What plant can bloom profusely in full shade in Winter. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

What plant can bloom profusely in full shade in Winter

⭐️ What plant can bloom profusely in full shade in Winter

  • 🍬 Philippine violet (Barleria cristata) - is a blooming star for a shade garden! It is a cheerful, fuss-free shrub that can brighten up shady spots with its trumpet-shaped flowers.

  • 🍬 Standing about 3-4 feet tall, it fits perfectly as a hedge or can be trimmed into neat shapes for a tidy look.

  • 🍬 Its flowers, in lovely shades of lilac purple, mauve, white, or even striped, burst into clusters from November to mid-December, adding a pop of color when many plants take a rest.

  • 🍬 Each flower lasts a couple of days, only to be replaced by fresh blooms from its many buds. The fallen petals create a gorgeous purple blanket around the plant, making it a visual treat even on the ground.

  • 🍬 This plant thrives in both sun and full shade! It doesn't ask for much - just a little pruning now and then to keep it bushy and happy.

  • 🍬 Add this eye candy to your shade garden, and let these Winter flowers steal the show!

  • 🍬 Philippine violet is also a perfect exotic plant for container culture or even an indoor collection.


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What plant can bloom profusely in full shade in Winter. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

What plant can bloom profusely in full shade in Winter

Philippine violet (Barleria cristata)

⭐️ What plant can bloom profusely in full shade in Winter
  • 🍬 Philippine violet (Barleria cristata) - is a blooming star for a shade garden! It is a cheerful, fuss-free shrub that can brighten up shady spots with its trumpet-shaped flowers.
  • 🍬 Standing about 3-4 feet tall, it fits perfectly as a hedge or can be trimmed into neat shapes for a tidy look.
  • 🍬 Its flowers, in lovely shades of lilac purple, mauve, white, or even striped, burst into clusters from November to mid-December, adding a pop of color when many plants take a rest.
  • 🍬 Each flower lasts a couple of days, only to be replaced by fresh blooms from its many buds. The fallen petals create a gorgeous purple blanket around the plant, making it a visual treat even on the ground.
  • 🍬 This plant thrives in both sun and full shade! It doesn't ask for much - just a little pruning now and then to keep it bushy and happy.
  • 🍬 Add this eye candy to your shade garden, and let these Winter flowers steal the show!
  • 🍬 Philippine violet is also a perfect exotic plant for container culture or even an indoor collection.


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Fragrant Butter Cup of Gold with Coconut fragrance. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Fragrant Butter Cup of Gold with Coconut fragrance

Cup-of-Gold, Butter Cup or Chalice Vine (Solandra)

Fragrant Butter Cup of Gold with Coconut fragrance

🏆 Butter Cup is again in full bloom and aroma!

🎥 Cup-of-Gold, Butter Cup or Chalice Vine (Solandra) - is a large, stunning, vigorous vine with huge fragrant flowers shaped like chalices.

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How to cover a fence quickly with a large impressive vine?

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What Pinwheel flower is fragrant? A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

What Pinwheel flower is fragrant?

Tabernaemontana australis, Australian Pinwheel

Tabernaemontana australis, Australian Pinwheel

Tabernaemontana australis, Australian Pinwheel

Tabernaemontana australis, Australian Pinwheel

Tabernaemontana australis, Australian Pinwheel

Tabernaemontana australis, Australian Pinwheel

💌 What Pinwheel flower is fragrant?
  • 🌸 Tabernaemontana australis, or Australian Pinwheel, is a stunning plant that makes an exceptional addition to any rare fragrant plant collection.
  • 🌸 With beautifully shaped, white pinwheel-like flowers and strikingly dark, glossy leaves that are elongated and pointed, this plant is a feast for the eyes and a treat for the senses.
  • 🌸 Ideal for adding interest to landscape understories, Australian Pinwheel is a slow-growing, low shrub that can be maintained at a manageable 3-4 feet, or allowed to reach up to 5-6 feet, forming a dense, bushy specimen. This versatility makes it an excellent choice as an accent plant, specimen, or container plant.
  • 🌸 Though it shares similarities with other species like Tabernaemontana divaricata (Pinwheel Jasmine) and T. orientalis (Banana Bush), this Australian native has its own unique character. Its blooms resemble those of T. africana but are smaller, at about 1 inch in diameter.
  • 🌸 If you're looking to add an exotic, fragrant, and eye-catching plant to your collection, the Australian Pinwheel brings elegance and distinction, standing out with its lush foliage and starry, white blossoms!


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How to establish Tabernaemontana and get more fragrant blooms

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Have you seen a yellow jasmine? A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Have you seen a yellow jasmine?

Jasminum mesnyi, Japanese Jasmine, Primrose Jasmine.

Jasminum mesnyi, Japanese Jasmine, Primrose Jasmine.

Jasminum mesnyi, Japanese Jasmine, Primrose Jasmine.

Jasminum mesnyi, Japanese Jasmine, Primrose Jasmine.

Jasminum mesnyi, Japanese Jasmine, Primrose Jasmine.

Jasminum mesnyi, Japanese Jasmine, Primrose Jasmine.

Jasminum mesnyi, Japanese Jasmine, Primrose Jasmine.

Jasminum mesnyi, Japanese Jasmine, Primrose Jasmine.

Jasminum mesnyi, Japanese Jasmine, Primrose Jasmine.

Jasminum mesnyi, Japanese Jasmine, Primrose Jasmine.

☀️ Have you seen a yellow jasmine?
  • 💟 One of the few jasmines with yellow flowers is Jasminum mesnyi, or Japanese Jasmine, also known as Primrose Jasmine.
  • 💟 Rare and beautiful. This unusual jasmine features large, vibrant yellow flowers that stand out beautifully against its dark green foliage.
  • 💟 Fast growing and vigorous. It's a valuable plant in landscaping for its fast growth, dense foliage, and ability to form a lush, bright cover.
  • 💟 Easy to grow. Japanese Jasmine is incredibly versatile - it grows wonderfully in mass plantings, can be pruned to create a small hedge, or allowed to trail over fences and walls.
  • 💟 Trim it more! The more you trim it, the bushier it becomes, forming a dense "cloud" of greenery with cheerful yellow flowers scattered throughout.
  • 💟 Whether you're looking to add color, create a natural screen, or cover up an unsightly area, Japanese Jasmine is a fantastic choice that brings both beauty and utility to any garden!


👍 What other yellow jasmines do you know? Share in comments⬇️

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What is an easy growing butterfly bush for a low maintenance landscape? A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

What is an easy growing butterfly bush for a low maintenance landscape?

What is an easy growing butterfly bush for a low maintenance landscape?
🏖 What is an easy growing butterfly bush for a low maintenance landscape?

  • ☀️ Cassia bahamensis (Senna mexicana) - Bahama Senna is a fantastic addition to low-maintenance landscapes, especially in Southern gardens.

  • ☀️ This hardy, compact shrub is beloved for its dense, lush green foliage and abundant clusters of vibrant golden-yellow flowers that bloom from fall to early spring.

  • ☀️ The blooms are not only visually striking but also serve as an essential nectar source for butterflies, particularly the Cloudless Sulphur butterfly, making it a pollinator magnet.

  • ☀️ What makes Bahama Senna a landscaper's favorite is its remarkable resilience. It's highly drought-tolerant, thrives in full sun, and requires little water once established - perfect for areas with water restrictions or hot climates.

  • ☀️ Its low-growing, compact habit (typically under 5 feet) makes it ideal for small gardens, borders, or containers, where it adds a splash of color without overwhelming other plants.

  • ☀️ Additionally, its evergreen foliage provides year-round interest, and it requires minimal pruning to maintain its shape, making it truly low-maintenance.

  • ☀️ For those looking for a beautiful, easy-care shrub that attracts pollinators and brightens the garden with golden hues, Bahama Senna is an outstanding choice.


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