☕️ 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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🪴 How to grow Noni tree for fruit?

💊 The medicinal Noni tree (see our earlier post) is one of the most suitable fruit trees for potting culture. A 1-3 gallon size plant will flower and fruit for you within a year.

Noni's special features:

✅ flowers and fruits at young age, nearly year around.

✅ tolerates shade and grows large ornamental leaves in filtered light.

✅ suitable for indoor culture
- easy in cultivation, drought and water tolerant, not susceptible to insects.

✅ medicinal properties are endless and cannot be under-appreciated.

✅ This plant can be grown in any climate indoors, and will produce fruit for you under minimal care. Just provide warm frost-free conditions, as this tropical tree is very cold sensitive.

📚 Learn more: Morinda citrifolia - Noni. Life Sustaining Plant

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