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What's inside the Napoleons Hat? A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Whats inside the Napoleons Hat?

Napoleon's Hat - Napoleonaea imperialis

🎩 What's inside the Napoleons Hat? False Kola experience!
  • 🎩 Napoleon's Hat (Napoleonaea imperialis), lives up to its name with large, saucer-shaped flowers that bloom straight from the leaf axils or even directly from the trunk!
  • 🎩 The hat-shaped, brightly colored flowers smell like butterscotch!
  • 🎩 The reddish seeds resemble kola nuts and even have a similar taste, giving you a fun, "false kola" experience.
  • 🎩 An instant conversation starter, Napoleon's Hat is a quirky, fragrant addition to your garden - perfect for those looking for something a little different.


🛒 Experience Napoleon's Hat - the most bizarre flower with benefits!

📚 Learn more:
A French Emperor's Hat Blooming in Your Garden
Napoleons Hat - Endangered species from the outgone era of the Napoleon's War

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Instant rainforest for your yard - tropical vibes made easy! A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Instant rainforest for your yard - tropical vibes made easy!

Cyathea cooperi - Australian tree fern

🌴 Instant rainforest for your yard - tropical vibes made easy!
  • 🌴 How to create your own jungle retreat quickly? Bring a touch of the tropics to your yard with the Australian tree fern!
  • 🌴 Cyathea cooperi - Australian tree fern - grows fast and looks like it came straight from a Hawaiian rainforest.
  • 🌴 Its giant, lacy fronds can reach up to 8 feet long.
  • 🌴 It takes bright shade or sun, as long as it stays moist.
  • 🌴 The baby fronds of the Australian tree fern unfurl like little furry scrolls, each one slowly unrolling like a curious creature’s tail coming to life. They look almost animated!
  • 🌴 Even in windy spots, this fern holds its own and adds instant jungle vibes. Create your own jungle retreat!


🛒 Yes, I want tropical vibes! Add to my paradise

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Napoleons Plume - Orchid Tree that blooms in a pot. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Napoleons Plume - Orchid Tree that blooms in a pot

Bauhinia monandra - Napoleons Plume Orchid Tree in bloom

🌸 Napoleons Plume - Orchid Tree that blooms in a pot
  • Bauhinia monandra - Napoleons Plume Orchid Tree - is a breathtaking tropical tree with flowers that truly resemble delicate orchids, and leaves folding like butterfly wings. It is one of he most impressive varieties of orchid trees.
  • Each blossom starts off pale yellow and transforms to soft pink by the next day, with the center petal beautifully streaked in magenta - a unique color shift that makes the tree look like it's blooming in multiple shades at once. When in bloom, it's covered in these showy flowers, creating a dazzling display.
  • Despite its exotic look, this tree is surprisingly well-suited for containers. It can be easily kept trimmed and compact, with seedlings often blooming when just 2 feet tall. While it's sensitive to cold, growing it in a container makes it easy to move indoors during chilly weather. This makes Bauhinia monandra the perfect choice for gardeners who want a tropical tree that delivers nonstop visual impact in a manageable size.
  • How to enjoy the orchid flowers and butterfly foliage of Bauhinia right on your patio or balcony? Choose the right variety. More bauhinia species suitable for containers: B. galpinii, B. madagascariensis, B. monandra, B. alba (candida), B. acuminata, B. bidentata, B. blakeana, B. grandidieri and many others.


🛒 Shop Orchid Trees

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Plumeria pudica: the evergreen plumeria that never stops blooming. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Plumeria pudica: the evergreen plumeria that never stops blooming

Plumeria pudica

💐 Plumeria pudica: the evergreen plumeria that never stops blooming
  • 🌸 Also known as Bridal Bouquet, Plumeria pudica stands out from the rest with its lush, fiddle-shaped leaves that stay green year-round. Unlike typical plumerias that go bare in winter, this variety keeps its tropical charm in every season.
  • 🌸 It produces constant clusters of crisp white flowers with yellow centers - each about 3 inches across - giving the look of a fresh bouquet right on the plant. Whether in bloom or not, it's always ornamental.
  • 🌸 Its growth habit is just as versatile. Plumeria pudica can be shaped into a small tree or kept as a dense, clumping bush - ideal for patios, tight spaces, or tropical accents in the landscape.
  • 🌸 And the best part? It's low-maintenance. Fast-growing, drought-tolerant, and naturally resistant to pests and disease, this plumeria asks for very little and gives back a lot.
  • 🌸 We have in our collection very interesting variety of Plumeria pudica from Thailand. It has variegated leaves! Plumeria pudica variegata - Snow Bridal Bouquet, or White Arrow Leaf - has variegated leaf margins. Like regular Plumeria pudica, it is evergreen, never drops leaves, and grows into a beautiful, dense multi-stem bush. Great for container culture.


🛒 Add nonstop blooms and evergreen beauty to your garden

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Have you ever seen a Bridal Bouquet Plumeria this size?

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Have you seen a rare Golden Tulip Tree? A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Have you seen a rare Golden Tulip Tree?

Have you seen a rare Golden Tulip Tree? Have you seen a rare Golden Tulip Tree? Have you seen a rare Golden Tulip Tree? Have you seen a rare Golden Tulip Tree?
🌷Have you seen a rare Golden Tulip Tree?

📸 More photos of Spathodea campanulata - African Tulip Tree - for the previous post.

🛒 Grow your tulips on a tree

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Have you seen a rare Golden Tulip Tree? A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Have you seen a rare Golden Tulip Tree?

Golden Tulip Tree

Golden Tulip Tree

Golden Tulip Tree

Golden Tulip Tree

Red Tulip Tree

Red Tulip Tree

Red Tulip Tree

Red Tulip Tree

🌷Have you seen a rare Golden Tulip Tree?

📸 More photos of Spathodea campanulata - African Tulip Tree - for the previous post.

🛒 Grow your tulips on a tree

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Tulips growing on a tree! A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Tulips growing on a tree!

🌷Tulips growing on a tree!

🌷 Spathodea campanulata - African Tulip Tree - is in bloom at Top Tropicals Garden several times a year. We have both red and yellow varieties. Yellow is very rare! See more photos of Yellow Tulip Tree on our website and in the next post.

📚 Learn more:
Why everyone loves these tulips growing on a tree

🛒 Grow your tulips on a tree

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Tulips growing on a tree! A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Tulips growing on a tree!

African Tulip Tree blooming

🌷Tulips growing on a tree!

🌷 Spathodea campanulata - African Tulip Tree - is in bloom at Top Tropicals Garden several times a year. We have both red and yellow varieties. Yellow is very rare! See more photos of Yellow Tulip Tree on our website and in the next post.

📚 Learn more:
Why everyone loves these tulips growing on a tree

🛒 Grow your tulips on a tree

Spathodea campanulata - African Tulip Tree, yellow flower #Nature_Wonders #Trees

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This sacred perfume tree is perfect for small spaces: Parijat blooms with heartbreak and heaven. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

This sacred perfume tree is perfect for small spaces: Parijat blooms with heartbreak and heaven

This sacred perfume tree is perfect for small spaces: Parijat blooms with heartbreak and heaven
🕊This sacred perfume tree is perfect for small spaces: Parijat blooms with heartbreak and heaven

  • Nyctanthes arbor-tristis, known as Parijat, Night Jasmine, or the Sad Tree, is more than a fragrant flowering shrub - it's a story wrapped in petals. This small tree from India with highly perfumed flowers is one of the most desired fragrant plants.

  • Parijat blooms at night and drops its white-and-orange flowers by dawn, like scattered tears on the ground. In Hindu mythology, it was brought to Earth by Krishna, sparking divine jealousy. Another legend says it rose from the ashes of a heartbroken princess, blooming in sorrow each night.

  • Parijat grows 5-10 feet tall and thrives in sun or partial shade with moderate water. Its heavenly scent draws butterflies and hearts alike, and its ghostly, glowing flowers are used in Buddhist temples and traditional medicine - stems for headaches, leaves for liver ailments, and blossoms for fevers and faintness.

  • Parijat is a tree of romance, ritual, and resilience. Cold-tolerant to the 30s F, it can be container-grown in cooler zones. Just give it well-draining soil and a bit of fertilizer each month, and let the magic unfold!


🛒 Add a piece of mythology to your garden with Parijat

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One look and you're hooked: Macaranga! A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

One look and youre hooked: Macaranga!

Macaranga grandifolia - Elephant Ear Tree

One look and you're hooked: Macaranga! 🐸
  • 🐘 These leaves are bigger than your head!

    • Macaranga grandifolia – the Elephant Ear Tree - came from Hawaii. It has leaves so huge, they look like elephant ears or jungle umbrellas! Each one can grow over a foot wide, with a glossy, rounded shape that's pure eye candy.
  • 🐘 Macaranga is easy to grow - perfect for a frost-free garden or in a big pot.
  • 🐘 Macaranga is a real conversation starter. It looks like something straight out of a rainforest dream. Big, bold, and totally tropical! Fast-growing, it brings that lush, exotic vibe instantly to your garden.
  • 🐘 Hard to find, super cool, and ridiculously showy - you’ll want this beauty front and center. Once you see it, you have to have it!


🛒 Get your giant leaves - Elephant Ear from Hawaii

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