Garden Blog - Top Tropicals

Date: 20 Aug 2025

What is your favorite variety of Jasmine Sambac?

Jasminum Sambac varieties

💮 What is your favorite variety of Jasmine Sambac?

  • 💮 Jasminum Sambac is hands-down the queen of fragrant flowers. The scent is heavenly - so much so that it's the key to jasmine perfume and the secret behind authentic jasmine tea.
  • 💮 Jasmine sambac comes in all shapes and sizes - from neat little shrubs to big, vigorous bushes and even climbing vines. Every variety shows off a different flower form. It’s happy in sun or shade, perfect for pots, and loved as an indoor plant.
  • 💮 At TopTropicals we love them all, but these three are our favorites:
- Belle of India - with elegant long petals
- Arabian Nights - vigorous yet compact, always covered in blooms
- Little Duke - same big carnation-like flowers as Grand Duke, but in a smaller, tidy package
  • 👉 At Top Tropicals, we grow every known variety of Jasminum sambac in cultivation:



Which one would you choose for your garden?
  • ✔️ Arabian Nights - compact slow growing shrub with small delicate flowers
  • ✔️ Belle of India - compact vine with long elegant petals, shade lover
  • ✔️ Grand Duke of Tuscany - the most popular, vigorous bush with carnation-like flowers
  • ✔️ Grand Duke Supreme - bigger, more vigorous version of Grand Duke with larger flowers
  • ✔️ Gundu Malli - new hybrid between Arabian Nights and Grand Duke
  • ✔️ Little Duke - more compact version of the Grand Duke
  • ✔️ Maid of Orleans - vigorous full sun climber, great for hedges and fences
  • ✔️ Mali Chat - very delicate, rare variety, with miniature 3-tier flowers, not easy to establish, shade lover
  • ✔️ Mysore Mulli - vigorous vining shrub for sunny or semi-shade locations

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Date: 5 Aug 2025

Blue lips smell like violets - Mazabuka, Sclerochiton harveyanus

Sclerochiton harveyanus - Mazabuka, Blue Lips

👄 Blue lips smell like violets
  • 💙 Sclerochiton harveyanus - Mazabuka, or Blue Lips blooms with quirky blue-to-purple flowers that really do look like lips. And in the tropical plant world, blue flowers are rare. And they are lightly violet-lavender-fragrant!
  • 💙 Even better? It's a total shade lover. No need for blazing sun - this beauty is happy to bloom in the cool, leafy spots of your garden.
  • 💙 Loved by bees and birds, and just the right mix of weird and wonderful.


🛒 Add Blue Lips to your shade garden

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Date: 26 Jul 2025

More than white: rare Butterfly Gingers

Hedychium - Butterfly Ginger

More than white: rare Butterfly Gingers

Looks like the classic white, but with soft yellow blooms and the same rich fragrance. Long, slightly fuzzy green leaves and flower spikes that light up late summer with scent and color. This variety grow fast and much bigger than plant also much bigger and vigorous than classic white Butterfly ginger.

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Date: 25 Jul 2025

Perfume in a pot: exotic Dwarf Chanel No 5 Tree

Cananga fruticosa - Dwarf Ylang-Ylang Tree, Chanel No 5 Tree

✨ Perfume in a pot: exotic Dwarf Chanel No 5 Tree

  • ⭐️ The Chanel No. 5 tree in a pot? Yep.
  • Cananga fruticosa - Dwarf Ylang-Ylang Tree, is the compact cousin of the famous perfume tree. It has the same elegant, drooping flowers that smell like the original Ylang-Ylang - the scent behind Chanel No. 5 - just in a smaller, easy-to-grow version.
  • ⭐️ It stays nicely shaped like a little tree, blooms year-round in warm weather, and does great in a container. Just give it bright light, and if the air is humid, you'll get that dreamy fragrance in full force.
  • ⭐️ A perfect plant for anyone who wants their space to smell amazing - naturally.


🛒 Grow your own Chanel No. 5

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Date: 21 Jul 2025

Five best fragrant plants for summer plantings

Brunfelsia isola - Lavender Lady of the Night

☀️ Five best fragrant plants for summer plantings

  • ☀️ Summer heat? No problem. These fragrant plants thrive in it - and will make your garden smell like vacation every day.
  • ☀️ Brunfelsia - Lady of the Night - releases its sweet scent after sunset, filling warm evenings with a dreamy, tropical perfume.
  • ☀️ Gardenia - Queen of Scent - classic creamy blooms with a rich, unmistakable fragrance that perfumes the air even in peak summer.
  • ☀️ Jasminum sambac - the most popular and the most fragrant Jasmine for both indoor or outdoor culture. Varieties: Arabian Nights, Belle of India, Mangalore Malli, Grand Duke, Grand Duke Supreme, Gundu Malli, Maid of Orleans, Mali Chat, Mysore Mulli, Little Duke Supreme - Baby Duke.
  • ☀️ Nyctanthes arbor-tristis - Parijat. Small tree or shrub from India with highly perfumed flowers, one of the most desired fragrant plants. Mythology says the plant came to earth with God Krishna, shedding flowers like tears before dawn.
  • ☀️ Plumeria - tropical icon known for its heavenly scent and stunning flowers - blooms all summer and keeps your garden smelling like vacation!


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🎥 Brunfelsia isola, or Lavender Lady of the Night, are a "marble" twist of cream and purple, changing hue unpredictably. They are deliciously fragrant at night.

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