👻 Spooky! Bat Head - Devil Flower here...

🦇 Bat Head Lily, Bat Flower, Devil Flower - or Tacca Lily - is one of the most exotic and bizarre flowers along with Amorphophallus, Sausage Tree and Clitoria.

🦇 Curious, bat-like inflorescence both in shape and color, with wide spreading, wing-like bracts of rich maroon-black, accompanied by long trailing filaments or "whiskers".

🦇 Perfect container plant for a greenhouse. Needs filtered light, prefers high humidity.

🦇 Comes in different species and colors: Black, White, Green:
Tacca nivea - White Tacca
Tacca chantrieri - Black Tacca
Tacca leontopetaloides - Green Tacca

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🫚 Would you like to spice Up Your Garden with Variegated Ginger?

🌿 Alpinia Zerumbet Variegata is a clumping ginger valued for its beautiful variegated foliage. With its colorful foliage and beautiful flowers, variegated ginger is a stunning ornamental.

🌿 Striking Foliage: Glossy green leaves with white striping add a pop of color and interest to your garden.

🌿 Unique Flowers: Unlike other gingers, its beautiful, fragrant, shell-like flowers droop from leafy stems, adding summer charm.

🌿 Perfect Size: This small shrub grows 2-4 feet tall and can be pruned for size control.

🌿 Moisture Lover: Keep the soil moist for happy, thriving plants.

🌿 Ideal Conditions: Thrives in shaded garden corners with organically rich, well-drained soil. Mulch for best results.

🌿 Low Maintenance: No serious insect or disease problems, making it an easy addition to your garden.

🌿 Indoor Option: Can be grown as a houseplant with bright light and humid conditions, reaching 3-4 feet indoors.

🌿 Edibe: Like every ginger, this ornamental beauty also has edible rhizomes.

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☕️ Where does the tea come from? Tea Leaf Plant!

🍃 Camellia sinensis - Tea Leaf. Yes, tea comes from a camellia!

🍃 Tea Leaf is a small evergreen tree, usually pruned back to shrubs in cultivation.

🍃 In the fall and winter, the plant will produce small white flowers with a lovely fragrance.

🍃 Tea is the second most commonly drank liquid on earth after water. It has numerous medicinal benefits mainly due to its antibacterial and antioxidant properties.

🍃 To grow Tea Leaf Plant, make sure to pick an area of your landscape where it does not flood or remain wet during our rainy season. Camellia sinensis do not like wet feet at all. They prefer well-drained, sandy and slightly acidic soil.

📚 Learn more: Tea Leaf Plant and Tea Harvesting Recipes

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🌳 What is the best shade tree that is fast growing and beautiful?

🌸 Orchid trees that we mentioned earlier are one of the most popular shade trees in Southern gardens.

🌸 Bauhinia blakeana - Hong Kong Orchid Tree - is the most beautiful of all orchid trees.

🌸 It has the largest flowers, brightly colored.

🌸 Winter bloomer.

🌸 Starts flowering in very small size, when only 2-3 ft tall.

🌸 Very fast growing.

📚 Learn more: Bauhinias - trees with Orchid Flowers and Butterfly Wings
🎥 YouTube Video: Hong Kong Orchid Tree

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❓ How to make plants green? Give them some Superfood!

🍀 Pale or yellow leaves? Green veins on yellow leaves? How to improve that look? Any special fertilizer?

✅ Leaf chlorosis or in other words "iron deficiency", especially during wet rainy weather - may be not harmful to the plant but bad for the looks.

✅ This deficiency can be corrected with microelement applications - Sunshine Superfood.

✅ Use Sunshine Superfood once a week to correct the iron deficiency that usually goes away within a month.

✅ Then maintain plants health with monthly applications.

✅ It is beneficial to use microelements in combination with regular applications of health boosting fertilizer such as Sunshine Robusta.

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