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Have you ever seen a 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

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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

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How easy to grow is 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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Why Azaleas are so popular

❤️ Why Azaleas are so popular

  • 🔠 Everyone loves Azalea flowers. What is so special about them? Azalea flowers are cherished for their breathtaking clusters of vibrant blooms, their ability to transform landscapes with a burst of color, and their adaptability to gardens, hedges, and containers.
  • 🔠 The Vivid Red Cherry Miniature Azalea is a stunning, cold-hardy evergreen that blooms with vibrant cherry-red flowers in spring and fall. Very compact and easy to care for, it thrives in shady spots and offers year-round beauty with its glossy, dark green leaves. Whether used as a hedge, accent, or screen, this semi-dwarf variety adds a pop of color to any garden or home.


🛍 Plant miniature Azalea

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Why Azaleas are so popular

Azalea flowering

❤️ Why Azaleas are so popular
  • 🔠 Everyone loves Azalea flowers. What is so special about them? Azalea flowers are cherished for their breathtaking clusters of vibrant blooms, their ability to transform landscapes with a burst of color, and their adaptability to gardens, hedges, and containers.
  • 🔠 The Vivid Red Cherry Miniature Azalea is a stunning, cold-hardy evergreen that blooms with vibrant cherry-red flowers in spring and fall. Very compact and easy to care for, it thrives in shady spots and offers year-round beauty with its glossy, dark green leaves. Whether used as a hedge, accent, or screen, this semi-dwarf variety adds a pop of color to any garden or home.


🛍 Plant miniature Azalea
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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.


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Why Adeniums are the most popular container plants

Varieties of Desert roses - Adeniums - chart

Varieties of Desert roses - Adeniums - chart

🌸 Why Adeniums are the most popular container plants
  • 🌸 Desert roses - Adeniums - are among the most popular container plants. Why? Because they are:

· Easy to grow and can thrive in both sun and shade, indoors, and in low humidity.
  • · Drought-tolerant, requiring minimal water and able to go long periods without it.
  • · Not fussy about soil pH.
  • · Stunning bloomers with showy flowers.
  • · Unique and eye-catching, with a curious caudex that forms unusual shapes.

  • 🌸 How many varieties and colors of desert roses out there?

· At Top Tropicals, we offer over 200 varieties of Adeniums, with more than 100 available in stock at any time.
  • · With so many colors of hybrids available in cultivation, you want to collect them all!
  • · Double flowers, red, purple, yellow, striped, dotted, rainbow, and even black flowers!


🌸 The secret to creating a large, swollen caudex:
Raise the plant slightly every time you repot it, exposing the upper part of the roots. This encourages the plant to form more roots that grow downward.
Unlike most tropical and houseplants, Adeniums prefer neutral to hard water. They have very low water needs and can grow in full sun or shade.

📸 In the photo: Selected Adenium hybrids currently available from TopTropicals

📚 More about Adeniums:
How to grow a happy Adenium
What is the easiest container plant with beautiful flowers
Multi-grafted Adenium with different colors of flowers on the same plant
What you need for successful growing Adeniums

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Over 100 new Adenium varieties just arrived!

Potted Desert roses - Adeniums

💯 Over 100 new Adenium varieties just arrived!

🆕 We received a THOUSAND NEW ADENIUMS from Thailand - beautiful, well-developed plants with big caudexes, ready to bloom!
They are finally available for those on the waiting list for specific colors.

🔥 But hurry! Each variety is available in limited quantities (under 10 plants), and they will go fast - first come, first served!

✔️ Check out our online store to see the available colors, and don’t miss our next post for pictures of selected varieties! ⬇️

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What is the brightest indoor flower

💄 What is the brightest indoor flower

  • 🌷 Amaryllis Minerva - Hippeastrum sp. - is an excellent choice for a houseplant due to its stunning and vibrant appearance, which adds a splash of color.

  • 🌷 It has large, striking red flowers, adorned with a white star at the center and a lime green throat. These beautiful blooms provide a festive touch and are large enough to be a centerpiece in any room.

  • 🌷 Amaryllis is easy to care for; it thrives indoors with minimal maintenance, requiring only regular watering and bright, indirect light. This makes it not only a decorative asset but also a convenient option for those who appreciate plants that do not require extensive care.


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What is the brightest indoor flower

Amaryllis Minerva - Hippeastrum sp.

💄 What is the brightest indoor flower
  • 🌷 Amaryllis Minerva - Hippeastrum sp. - is an excellent choice for a houseplant due to its stunning and vibrant appearance, which adds a splash of color.
  • 🌷 It has large, striking red flowers, adorned with a white star at the center and a lime green throat. These beautiful blooms provide a festive touch and are large enough to be a centerpiece in any room.
  • 🌷 Amaryllis is easy to care for; it thrives indoors with minimal maintenance, requiring only regular watering and bright, indirect light. This makes it not only a decorative asset but also a convenient option for those who appreciate plants that do not require extensive care.


🛍 Order Amaryllis Minerva

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