🦚 Can you eat bird-looking flowers? You can eat the whole tree!

🐧 Sesbania grandiflora - Hummingbird Tree - is named for its flowers resembling little birds.

🐧 It produces a mass of large, 3-4", curved flowers from November to June. Flowers can be coral red or white.

🐧 The fun part is - the flowers are edible! As well as the rest of the plant: tender leaves, green fruit (bean pods), and flowers, used in curries, salads, or fried in batter.

🐧 Medicinal uses: bark, leaves, gums, and flowers have medicinal properties.

🐧 Lower branches form a beautiful floral canopy. It is a fast growing, but a small tree that will fit any yard. Great everblooming tree for container culture.

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❓How to grow a happy Adenium.

What you need for successful growing Adeniums:

1️⃣ A small pot with excellent drainage, size of root system.

2️⃣ Adenium soil mix. Use only well-drained soil. We suggest this Adenium mix.

3️⃣ Lots of light for heavy flowering. However, in super hot climates, they look healthier in filtered bright light.

4️⃣ Little water. Adeniums like a neutral to hard water. Acidic water tends to sour the soil too fast and may cause root rot.
Water plants preferably in the early morning, and allow them to drink up throughout the day.
Do not water again until soil dries on surface. Never allow your plants to sit in a saucer of water, but don't let them to dry out too often - this causes adeniums to go into early dormancy. Adeniums do not like both over-watering or drying-out.

5️⃣ Fertilizer. To make your plant develop a large swollen base/trunk, you'll need a good quality fertilizer. Sunshine Megaflor provides all the nutrients responsible for both Caudex growth and profuse flowering.

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🍒 What can be better than a Cherry? Cherry juice!

🍷 We discovered that Barbados Cherry (Malpighia glabra) we introduced earlier makes an excellent fresh-squeezed juice!

🍷 Barbados Cherry is a vigorous grower that starts producing right away, and by the second year you have so much fruit that you don't know what to do with it - you can eat only so much fruit out of hand!

🍷 Here is our Top Tropicals Signature Recipe -

🍒🥤Barbados Cherry Juice:

1. Collect berries and rinse them with cold water
2. In a bowl, press the fruit with a potato musher, spoon or cup, and drain the fresh juice into a cup - put the juice aside.
3. Add a few spoons of sugar to the mush (optional), push-mush some more to extract more juice.
4. Add to the remaining mushed pulp some hot boiled water, stir, and let sit for a couple of hours.
5. Drain the liquid through a colander (you may add a little extra water in the process of extracting more tasty pulp out) and add to the fresh juice you made earlier. 6. Refrigerate for an hour, then serve in a clear glass to enjoy the color.

🎀 The Barbados Cherry juice made this way tastes very similar to Guava juice. It is very aromatic and tasty, and has a beautiful Baby-pink color!

❤️ Enjoy and stay healthy!

🍊 Remember Barbados Cherry fruit contains 65 times more of vitamin C than an orange!

📚 Learn more about Barbados Cherry

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🍳 Would you like some Scrambled Eggs? Scrambled Egg Bush is a burst of sunshine, this splash of gold blooms on and on...

🌞 Senna surattensis (Cassia glauca) - Scrambled Egg Bush - produces vibrant, sunny yellow flowers that resemble scrambled eggs, adding a cheerful touch to your garden.

🌞 Long blooming season: flowers profusely throughout much of the year.

🌞 Compact: grows into a manageable, medium-sized shrub, perfect for smaller gardens or as a stunning focal point.

🌞 Low maintenance: easy to care for and requires minimal attention, making it ideal for busy gardeners.

🌞 Drought tolerant: thrives in dry conditions once established, reducing the need for frequent watering.

🌞 Attracts Pollinators: draws bees, butterflies, and other beneficial insects, enhancing garden biodiversity.

🌞 Versatile: can be used as a standalone specimen, hedge, or in mixed borders for added interest.

🌞 Soil Improvement: enhances soil quality through nitrogen fixation, benefiting nearby plants.

🌞 Hardy and resilient: adapts well to cool winter, heat and poor soil.

🌞 Evergreen: retains its green leaves all year round, providing constant coverage and aesthetic appeal.

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🍋 Tired of an ugly hedge? Replace it with Aglaia - Chinese Rice Flower, and enjoy Lemony Fragrance year around!

🟡 Aglaia odorata is also known as Chinese Perfume Plant, Chinese Rice Flower, or Mock Lemon.

🟡 The plant has an outstanding fragrance from tiny, rice-sized yellow flowers.

🟡 Aglaia grows into a dense bush without pruning. It is relatively slow-growing; so large plants are rare and hard to find.

🟡 Easy to grow bush, it is perfect for a cold tolerant tropical hedge.

🟡 Aglaia has many medicinal uses; contains odorine and odorinol, which have cancer chemopreventive activity.

🛒 Get a few bushes of Aglaia for lemony-fragrant hedge

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🪸 Attention grabber: swollen trunk, giant leaves, and flowers just like corals! A must for bonsai collection.

♥️ Jatropha podagrica: commonly known as the Gout Plant, this plant is a true attention grabber and a must-have in any container garden, as well as in succulent or bonsai plant collection.

♥️ Features a distinctive bottle-like caudex and surprisingly large tropical leaves up to 10-12 inches in diameter. Just like you saw in Adeniums.

♥️ Thrives in the shade, where its leaves grow even larger.

♥️ Perfect for natural bonsai and makes an excellent potted plant or conversation piece in a small garden.

♥️ Grows only 2-3 feet high, with a knobby, swollen stem and eye-catching, coral-like red flowers in large terminal clusters.

♥️ Prefers partial sun and well-drained soil, and is very drought-tolerant.

♥️ Easy to care for, adding exotic flair and intrigue to any plant collection.

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