👁 Why is it called Clock Vine? It will cover a Pagoda in NO TIME!

🕰 Thunbergia mysorensis - Clock Vine - is a stunning vine originating from India.

🕰 Vibrant yellow flowers with a dark mauve border, of a unique, eye-catching shape.

🕰 Supposedly, it is called the Clock Vine because the flowers hang down in a regular, clock-like pattern around the vine. This consistent and orderly arrangement of the blooms resembles the numbers on a clock face, giving the plant its charming and unique name. Do you see it in the flower?

🕰 The blooms hang in cascading clusters, creating a spectacular display that can beautifully drape over a trellis or pagoda.

🕰 Attaracts butterflies and hummingbirds.

🕰 Though it's one of the most popular species among garden enthusiasts, its rarity adds an element of exclusivity to any garden lucky enough to host it.

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🪻 Why this blue tropical flower has a violet fragrance?

You already saw one unusual blue flower of Tropics - Lead Flower. This one is even more interesting!

👄 Mazabuka, or Blue Lips (Sclerochiton harveyanus) has mauve-blue, unusually lipped flowers that are lightly violet-lavender-fragrant!

💙 Blue Lips create a pretty floral display on this shade-loving shrub with its attractive glossy green foliage.

💙 Flowers are mauve-blue to purple and the lower petals are ribbed, giving the impression of lips, hence the common name.

💙 Five fringed lobes, equal in size, short and rounded, are the flowers distinguishing feature.

💙 Shade lover. Will happily bloom in the shade!

🐝🐦 The numerous flowers produced in summer are attractive to pollinating insects which encourage insect-feeding birds into the garden.

📚 Learn more: Surprising Violet fragrance of the Blue Lips

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🍿 How to grow Popcorn with pretty flowers

🌽 Cassia didymobotrya (Popcorn Cassia) is a fun plant! When rubbed, its leaves emit a scent similar to buttered popcorn, hence its name.

🌽 It blooms with beautiful large clusters of sunny yellow flowers.

🌽 Perfect fast growing flowering shrub - ideal for places where you want to see a showy, pretty plant quickly

🌽 Butterfly magnet - one of the favorite flowers for all kinds of butterflies! Everyone who is working on a butterfly garden, plants Popcorn Cassia🦋

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💐 What is the best flowering shrub for a shady spot?

🚩 Aphelandra is hands down one of the best solutions for a shade garden where you want to see more colors. It is a great addition to a collectible tropical butterfly garden, can grow into 4-5" tall bushy specimen. Tolerates both sun and shade.

🚩Aphelandras have beautiful lush foliage and showy, long terminal inflorescences throughout the warm season.

🚩These flowers are loved by hummingbirds.

🚩Aphelandra hartwegiana - Yellow Aphelandra. Yellow flowers emerge out of long orange stalks in the fall time. Pretty and unusual!

🚩Aphelandra squarrosa Dania (Snow White) - White Zebra Plant. It is also one of the best house plants, not only pretty because of its white-veined "Zebra" foliage, but also for the apical inflorescence with its beautiful yellow bracts.

🚩Aphelandra sinclairiana - Panama Queen, has extremely tropical look and fragrant flowers of unusual color combination: orange and pink.

🚩Aphelandra x panamensis - Scarlet Candle - a rare hybrid with bright red flowers

📚 Learn more from previous posts:
Panama Queen
How to grow Zebra in container?

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