Garden Blog - Top Tropicals

Date: 11 Mar 2025

Have you ever seen a pink gardenia?

Kopsia fruticosa - Pink Gardenia

Have you ever seen a pink gardenia?

  • 🌸 Kopsia fruticosa also called "Pink Gardenia", is one of nature's most exquisite and elusive treasures. Technically not a Gardenia, this beauty is a close relative of Plumeria and Adenium as well as Tabernaemontana (also often confused with Gardenia). All these beauties belong to the esteemed plant family Apocynaceae.
  • 🌸 This bush has been in bloom for us for many months, since Fall, through Winter, and and is still flowering!


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Learn more about this elusive treasure:
What is pink gardenia? Does it exist?

🛍 Get your own Pink Gardenia

#Nature_Wonders #Container_Garden

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Date: 7 Mar 2025

What is the most fragrant Brunfelsia?

💐 What is the most fragrant Brunfelsia?



*️⃣The most fragrant Brunfelsias, often referred to as Lady of the Night, are the creamy-white varieties. These flowers begin to release their sweet, captivating aroma at sunset and continue to fill the air with fragrance throughout the night.

*️⃣Brunfelsias are wonderful shade-loving, compact flowering shrubs, making them perfect for adding beauty to shaded areas or for growing in containers.

*️⃣The most popular white Brunfelsias are: B, americana, B. nitida, B. lactea, B. manaca, B. densifolia, B. gigantea.

📚 Learn more about Brunfelsias:


Brunfelsia americana - Lady of the night
Brunfelsia isola
Lavender Marble Perfume
Brunfelsias
Yesterday-Today-Tomorrow, Brunfelsia from Brazil

🛍Shop Brunfelsias

#Perfume_Plants #Hedges_with_benefits #Container_Garden #Shade_Garden

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Date: 7 Mar 2025

What is the most fragrant Brunfelsia?

Brunfelsias, often referred to as Lady of the Night

💐 What is the most fragrant Brunfelsia?



*The most fragrant Brunfelsias, often referred to as Lady of the Night, are the creamy-white varieties. These flowers begin to release their sweet, captivating aroma at sunset and continue to fill the air with fragrance throughout the night.

*Brunfelsias are wonderful shade-loving, compact flowering shrubs, making them perfect for adding beauty to shaded areas or for growing in containers.

*The most popular white Brunfelsias are: B, americana, B. nitida, B. lactea, B. manaca, B. densifolia, B. gigantea.

📚 Learn more about Brunfelsias:


Brunfelsia americana - Lady of the night
Brunfelsia isola
Lavender Marble Perfume
Brunfelsias
Yesterday-Today-Tomorrow, Brunfelsia from Brazil

🛍Shop Brunfelsias

#Perfume_Plants #Hedges_with_benefits #Container_Garden #Shade_Garden

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Date: 6 Mar 2025

How easy to grow is Pigeon Pea

Cajanus cajan - Pigeon Pea

How easy to grow is Pigeon Pea

  • 🍿 Cajanus cajan - Pigeon Pea - is a bushy perennial shrub with pretty yellow flowers and abundant production of beans!
  • 🍿 It is very fast growing, free branching, easy to grow and very low maintenance plant. Cold hardy to light frost. The plant tolerates poor soils, drought tolerant, improves soil quality like many other beans. Can be grown in container
  • 🍿 Provides flavorful, nutritious, and healthy super-food. The beans used in rice dishes, soups, stews, tempeh, tofu. Unripe pods eaten in curries, leaves and young shoots cooked as a vegetable. Rich source of fiber, protein, vitamins (B, C, E, K), and minerals (calcium, iron, magnesium, manganese, phosphorus, potassium, zinc). It has many medicinal uses.


📚 Learn more from previous posts:
What was discovered in the Pyramids
Pigeon Pea - an Ancient Superfood


🛍 Grow your own Pigeon Pea Superfood

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Date: 3 Mar 2025

Why this Magnolia flower smells like banana?

Magnolia figo, Banana Magnolia

🍌 Why this flower smells like banana?
  • Magnolia figo, or Banana Magnolia that we mentioned earlier, is currently in full bloom and filling the air with its unbelievably delightful fragrance! The sweet, fruity aroma of its perfume-like flowers carries a hint of banana, making it a truly irresistible addition to your garden.
  • Looking for a little perfume tree for a small garden or container? Compact and evergreen, reaching only5-6 ft in container, this small tree or shrub adds sophistication to any landscape. Glossy, deep green foliage enhances its visual charm.
  • Cold tolerant and heat tolerant. Takes sun and shade.


🛍 Plant Banana Magnolia

#Perfume_Plants #Container_Garden #Trees

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