Large aromatic heart-shaped tropical foliage with a rootbeer like fragrance when crushed. The real oaxacan cooking ingredient. Can be used fresh or dried to flavor soups, eggs, drinks and is an essential ingredient in Mole Verde.
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...
Deer Resistance: Sometimes Bothered - Occasionally Severely
**In hot summer climates Agapanthus seem to do best where they receive midday shade but in cooler summer climates they tolerate full sun quite well. *Summer Skies Agapanthus is considered hardy into zone 5 with proper siting, such as the south side of...
Container Size: 3.5 inch / 16 fl.oz. / 473 ml
Native To / Origin: US Gardens - Beyond Green LLC, Canby, Oregon
Outdoor Light: AM sun, Part sun, Part shade, Light shade, **Full sun
Hybrid Orchid Cactus typically open at night but often last well through the next day. Large spidery pink flowers are borne in late spring and early summer on this tropical cactus.
Harvest the fruit when the calyxes when they near full size and before they start to become woody, the epicalyxes will be about 1 to 1-1/4" in length, but generally while you can still snap the entire pedicel, or old flower stem, from the plant easily.
Indoor Light: Direct sunlight
Soil & Moisture: Average moisture, moist, to wet and are even reported to tolerate soils with standing water. Well drained sandy loams, rich in organic matter seem to be optimum.
Native To / Origin: India to Malaysia but widely distributed elsewhere
Cream to yellow colored star-like blooms stand boldly against the ruffled red velvet-like bracts. The combination of bracts and flowers can easily reach 7 inches across. This is a member of the Rubiaceae or Gardenia/Madder/Coffee family and will enjoy...
Like many other plants with large foliage this is naturally an understory plant and it will prefer filtered sunlight with little direct sun especially during the hottest portion of the day.
3-4" high fuzzy yellow spikes of tubular flowers are borne throughout the year on this easily grown tropical. Golden Plume is very similar to most Justicias in form and habit. The wide dark green foliage makes a nice foil for the spikes of yellow flowers.
Like many other plants with large foliage this is naturally an understory plant and it will prefer filtered sunlight with little direct sun especially during the hottest portion of the day.
An easy to grow and easy to enjoy addition to tropical settings. Cool morning sunlight and bright indirect light bring out the most intense colors. The striped foliage of Zoe boasts colors that range from cream, thru pinks, and into rosy reds.
Native To / Origin: Central and South America
Indoor Light: High, Cool direct sunlight (early morning or late evening)
The India Rubber Vine or Purple Allamanda produces 3" lavender trumpet-shaped flowers during the warmer months of the year. Please plant responsibly as well as consider removing and disposing of the large seed pods.
Like many root hardy tropical plants, the Blue Sky Vine is best planted in the ground as early in the season as possible (well after the danger of frost has past and soil temperatures have begun to warm up) to allow them to develop a strong root system...
The plant may experience edge burn during the winter months. Each pod contains 20-40 seeds. The pink and white flowers grow straight out of the tree trunk and main branches, followed by the cocoa pods.
We often have oranges hanging on our tree well into summer that still keep good eating quality. Blood Orange ‘Sanguinelli' (Citrus sinensis) This unique orange has flesh that is purple rather than orange.
Avoid using a saucer or empty any excess water from it 30-40 minutes after watering. They are commonly successfully used as landscape shrubs in the warmer parts of zone 9 and throughout much of zone 10.Remember that these are truly tropical plants and...
The more intense light it receives the deeper the colors become. The wide foliage of this easy to grow Bromeliad is edged in broad streaks of creamy white to rich pink. Eoz can be grown in soil or on wood or cork and it is sure to multiply readily creating...
Container Size: 4.5 inch / 20 fl.oz. / 591 ml
Outdoor Light: Cool AM sun, Part shade, Light shade, Filtered shade
Grows To: 6-8''H and spreads,trails
Indoor Light: High, Cool direct sunlight (early morning or late evening)
* Mexican White Pine ( Pinus ayacahuite ), the common name in Spanish is ayacahuite ; family Pinaceae ) is a species of pine native to the mountains of southern Mexico and western Central America , in the Sierra Madre del Sur and the eastern end of the...
Large splashes of bright pink adorn the leaves of this colorful Joseph's Coat. Party Time Alternanthera makes a statement spilling from containers, baskets, and in the garden where its color will show off until frost.
Note:If an otherwise seemingly healthy Hibiscus isn't flowering, is dropping yellow immature buds and lower yellow leaves it may be getting too dry between waterings. A vigorous growing Tropical Hibiscus.
The huge tropical velvety foliage is very unique and is topped by spikes of royal purple flowers in summer. Grow it as a specimen or in the back of a border as a perennial in mild winter areas.
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...
Grows To: 8'H x 5'W
Deer Resistance: Sometimes Bothered - Occasionally Severely
They can handle some bright, indirect light too, but too much light will cause browning and their variegation to fade. Snake Plant is native to western Africa, and belongs to the asparagus family.
Deep burgundy foliage is borne on an upright to spreading shrub. In summer, small yellow blooms create a bright contrast with the dark foliage. A heat and sun loving tropical which is great as a pool-side container plant or in mixed plantings for the...
Indoor Light: Direct sunlight, High
Outdoor Light: Full sun, Part sun, Part shade
Grows To: 4'H x 3'W and larger, prune to control size
These plants like a happy medium between too dry and too wet; they like to stay evenly moist. Anthurium White Heart does well with bright, indirect light and high humidity. They consist of a spadix (vertical red part) surrounded by a bright modified leaf...
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...
The Sandpaper Vine is considered to be somewhat drought resistant once well-established but will have the best foliage and likely produce the most flowers under average moisture conditions.
Above zone 9B, King's Mantle can act like a die-back perennial if provided with good winter protection, it is often slow to recover from winter kill but will often be back to flowering by mid summer under good conditions.
