If pollinated the flowers can mature into deliciously edible fruit. Large spidery pink flowers are borne in late spring and early summer on this tropical cactus. Hybrid Orchid Cactus typically open at night but often last well through the next day.
Sure to be a conversation piece! Unusual icy bluish-green tubular Crossandra-like flowers emerge from a cone-like spike nearly throughout the year on this rare and unusual tropical.
Tropical Hibiscus are sun and heat loving, medium to large, tropical shrubs with excellent flower power and even some salt tolerance making them popular choices for warm inland as well as coastal climates.
Grows To: 4-6'H x 3-4'W
Deer Resistance: Sometimes Bothered - Occasionally Severely
Clumps may be divided in late winter and early spring if desired. Royal Scepter Ginger produces large tropical, nearly banana-like foliage and is a dense clump forming to slowly spreading perennial that may flower from late spring to fall.
Doctorbush is an excellent nectar source for larger butterflies and is a caterpillar host to the Cassius Blue butterfly. Doctorbush is happiest where it gets shade during the hottest portion of the day although it will tolerate more sun the foliage color...
Soil & Moisture: Average moist, well-drained soils. Moderately drought resistant once well-established.
Outdoor Light: Part sun, Part shade, Light shade, *Full sun
USDA Cold Hardiness Zones: 9,10,11,(8B?)
Indoor Light: Direct sunlight, High
Grows To: 1-2'H x 3-4'W, up to 3'H in mild winter climates
Also known as Devil's Trumpet, due to the poisonous properties of this member of the Nightshade family. 8-10" long double or triple purple and white trumpets are borne throughout the warmest months.
Container Size: 4.5 inch / 20 fl.oz. / 591 ml
Grows To: 3-5'H x 3-5'W
USDA Cold Hardiness Zones: 9B,10,(9? with protection)
The Blue Sky Vine makes an easy and rewarding container plant where not hardy. The Blue Sky Vine is a vigorous and hardy tropical vine that can be grown as a tuberous rooted, summer flowering perennial into zone 8B.
Soil & Moisture: Well-draining, moderately fertile to rich, average moist soils. Do not keep overly wet or soggy.
An easily grown and enjoyable indoor plant. A popular heirloom indoor plant with large dark green tropical foliage that is full of holes like Swiss Cheese. Swiss Cheese Plant is also known as the Swiss Cheese Philodendron but it is actually a species...
After flowering is finished the mature plant produces a multitude of pups and then dies making way for the young plants which should flower in their 2nd or 3rd year. The Chinese Yellow Banana was at one time considered to be nearly extinct in its native...
Tropical Hibiscus flower on new growth and so need to have ample nutrients, regular moisture, as well as moderate amounts of sunlight available to maintain adequate growth and flower production.
Outdoor Light: Full sun, Part sun
Deer Resistance: Sometimes Bothered - Occasionally Severely
Deer resistant and moderately salt tolerant. Considered reliably cold hardy into zone 5, this easy to grow perennial produces medium green strap-like foliage with the flowers towering above on sturdy stems.
Soil & Moisture: Average moist well-drained soils.
Outdoor Light: AM sun, Part sun, Part shade, Light shade, **Full sun
Giraffe Amaryllis makes an easy container plant and will slowly multiply and is a reliable winter flowering Amaryllis often producing two flower stalks per large bulb. An unusual hybrid Amaryllis, Giraffe produces 5" wide greenish to yellowish flowers...
Deer Resistance: Not Normally Bothered
USDA Cold Hardiness Zones: 10,11
Soil & Moisture: Average moisture with good drainage. Does not tolerate overly wet soils.
This is a slow growing vine-like philodendron which can be trained to a support or allowed to trail. The black to deep burgundy, glossy, heart-shaped tropical foliage is splashed and flecked with white and pink.
A heat and sun loving tropical which is great as a pool-side container plant or in mixed plantings for the dark foliage contrast. Deep burgundy foliage is borne on an upright to spreading shrub.
The larger growing varieties are easily trained into tree standards or can be grown as large shrubs or shaped into hedges. Note:If an otherwise seemingly healthy Hibiscus isn't flowering, is dropping yellow immature buds and lower yellow leaves it may...
Container Size: 3.5 inch / 16 fl.oz. / 473 ml
pH Range: Acidic, Mildly Acidic, Neutral
Indoor Light: Direct sunlight, High
Native To / Origin: US Gardens - Florida possibly
Outdoor Light: Full sun, Mostly sunny
Deer Resistance: Sometimes Bothered - Occasionally Severely
Tropical Hibiscus are sun and heat loving, usually medium to large, tropical shrubs with excellent flower power and even some salt tolerance making them popular choices for warm inland as well as coastal climates.
Well-established plants act like herbaceous perennials and if provided with an appropriate winter mulch can tolerate temperatures near 15oF for short periods. The Variegated Blue Sky Vine is a vigorous twining tropical vine that revels in the warmth of...
It doesn't care for temperatures much below 40 o F but otherwise is an easy to enjoy tropical that should bring you many years of enjoyment. For an excellent article on growing gingers as container plants from LSU Agcenter produced by Maria del Pilar...
pH Range: Acidic, Mildly Acidic
Container Size: 3.5 inch / 16 fl.oz. / 473 ml
Deer Resistance: Not Likely to be Bothered
Outdoor Light: Morning sun, Light shade, Part shade
The flowers are pure white with light pink pistils that accent the loose open form. They are quite vigorous, have an upright habit and do best in a full sun exposure. They carry a light fragrance and although they are known to flower throughout the year...
The leaves are deeply three- to five-lobed, 8–15 cm (3–6 in) long, arranged alternately on the stems. * The roselle ( Hibiscus sabdariffa ) is a species of Hibiscus native to the Old World tropics, used for the production of bast fibre and as an infusion...
* The species is also planted as an ornamental, particularly the varieties with bright pink pods. * Not only was the dye used anciently to color food, but also to dye cloth and paint the skin (which is still done today).
The Ganges Primrose is a naturally evergreen (in frost-free climates), groundcover-like, mounding and spreading, shrub-like perennial. Lavender trumpets with white throats may be produced throughout the growing season, or nearly year round in mild winter...
Grows To: 8-12"H x 24-36"W
Native To / Origin: India
Soil & Moisture: Average moist, well-drained, moderately fertile soils. Somewhat resistant to periodic drought once well-established.
The flowers are similar to calla lilies, or even chinese evergreen. Many colorful varieties can be found today as a result, including: red, orange, white, green, purple, black and bicolor.
An easy to grow tropical adaptable to sun or light shade.This is the taller, more spreading, and darker version, as compared to Breynia nivosa or Hawaiian Snowbush. The green and burgundy foliage is spotted with white, giving the plant the appearance...
Indoor Light: High
USDA Cold Hardiness Zones: 9B,10,11
Outdoor Light: Full sun, Part sun, Part shade, Light shade
Periodic selective pruning may be needed to keep these plants in the 4' range as they can get larger with age, time, and warm winters. Oleanders are extremely durable and reliable evergreen shrubs for mild winter climates and are especially well adapted...
It lends itself well to pot culture with a compact stature. Gardenia ‘Four Seasons' (Gardenia jasminoides) The name tells it all: this is an everblooming gardenia. As new growth emerges, buds appear and then unfold into pristine white flowers that have...
Allow the soil to become slightly dry between waterings approximately to a depth of between 1/2" deep for small containers to 1" deep for large containers. Note:If an otherwise seemingly healthy Hibiscus isn't flowering, is dropping yellow immature buds...
Grows To: 4-6'H x 2-4'W
Native To / Origin: US - Curt Sinclair, ca. 2002, Florida