Garden Blog - Top Tropicals

Date: 10 May 2025

How to deal with chocolate cravings? Chocolate with zero calories

Portlandia - glorious flower of Cuba

🍪 How to deal with chocolate cravings? Chocolate with zero calories



🍪 Do you have to deal with chocolate temptation all the time? Portlandia, the glorious flower of Cuba, smells like creamy chocolate and blooms in stunning bells. Rare, fragrant, and tough - even thrives in alkaline soil!

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What flower smells like warm chocolate?

🛒 No calories, just fragrance - bring home Portlandia!

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Date: 5 May 2025

How to get a large, lush and fragrant bush in no time

Clerodendrum bungei - Glory Bower, Cashmere bouquet

💐 How to get a large, lush and fragrant bush in no time
  • 💐 Looking for a fragrant, fast-growing shrub that adds beauty and privacy to your garden? Clerodendrum bungei - Glory Bower, Cashmere bouquet - is an excellent choice.​

  • Key Benefits:
  • 💐 Fragrant Blooms: Enjoy clusters of sweetly scented, pink flowers that attract butterflies and other pollinators. They open in terminal panicles up to six inches across.
  • 💐 Versatile Growth: Dark green leaves often tinged purple are up to 8 inches long. This plant can be grown as a compact shrub or allowed to spread. This plant is incredibly vigorous and fast-growing, spreading quickly through root suckers. If you don’t want it to take over your yard in just one season, make sure to plant it in a contained corner or a container.
  • 💐 Hardy and Resilient: Cashmere Bouquet is hardy to USDA Zones 8-10 and can tolerate light freezes, rejuvenating each spring. ​
  • 💐 Low Maintenance: It thrives in full sun to part shade and is drought-tolerant once established. ​Keep the soil moist during the growing season. ​Regular pruning helps maintain its shape and encourages more blooms. ​


🛒 Buy Clerodendrum bungei – Cashmere Bouquet

📚 More about Clerodendrums in previous posts:
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Date: 28 Apr 2025

Smell the Little Gem

Magnolia grandiflora - Southern Magnolia

Magnolia grandiflora - Southern Magnolia

💎 Smell the Little Gem



🕊 Get up close with the Magnolia grandiflora - Southern Magnolia - its huge, creamy white petals look like sculpted wax, and the scent is fresh, lemony, and unforgettable!

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🛒 Plant the Iconic Southern Magnolia

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Date: 27 Apr 2025

New Plumerias just landed! Heres how to make them bloom

Plumeria flowers slide show

🌸 New Plumerias just landed! Here's how to make them bloom
  • 🌸 We've got stunning new Plumeria varieties in stock - but quantities are limited, so don’t wait! Choose your favorite colors and bring home the fragrance of the tropics!
  • 🌸 These tropical beauties are famous for their rich colors and incredible fragrance. With just a few simple steps, you can grow your own blooming Plumeria tree and enjoy flowers just like in the pictures.
  • 🌸 How to Grow a Blooming Plumeria?


    Give your Plumeria the right soil, the right pot, and plenty of sun. Let it rest in winter, and feed it with the right fertilizer - and it will reward you with nonstop blooms! Use Sunshine Abundance Soil Mix for healthy roots and Sunshine Megaflor Bloom Booster to fuel abundant flowering.


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📚 Learn more from previous posts:


What is the most unusual Plumeria?
Why Perfumed Plumeria is tricky
How to grow a fragrant Plumeria
What is the most celebrated fragrant flower?

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Date: 24 Apr 2025

This Jasmine Blooms 365 Days a Year - And It Smells Divine!

Jasminum dichotomum - Rose Bud Jasmine, Everblooming Jasmine

🗓 This Jasmine Blooms 365 Days a Year - And It Smells Divine!

  • 🌹 Looking for a jasmine that blooms nonstop and smells absolutely divine? Jasminum dichotomum, the rare Rose Bud Jasmine, also known as Everblooming Jasmine - has the fragrance that never quits!
  • 🌹 Dark rose-pink buds open into pure white, perfumed flowers - year-round!
  • 🌹 Glossy ornamental foliage creates the perfect contrast.
  • 🌹 Covers fences, trellises, or arches in one season!
  • 🌹 Cold-tolerant, fast-growing, and ridiculously easy to grow.
  • 🌹 This isn’t just another jasmine - it's a rare collector’s favorite that delivers nonstop fragrance.
  • 🌹 Who wouldn't want a jasmine that smells like heaven and flowers every day?


🛒 Snag Your Rose Bud Jasmine Now – Before It Sells Out!

📚 Lean more from previous posts:


What jasmine blooms year around?
Perfumed Rose Bud, but not a Rose?

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