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Lonicera japonica - Japanese Honeysuckle

🍯 Plant This and Let the Sweetness Take Over - Honeysuckle Magic Awaits!
  • 🐝 Lonicera japonica - Japanese Honeysuckle - is the vine that steals hearts!
  • 🐝 Its sweet, nostalgic fragrance fills the air and turns any garden into a tranquil escape.
  • 🐝 These fragrant, tubular blooms not only smell amazing - they also invite bees 🐝, butterflies🦋, and ladybugs🐞 to join the party.
  • 🐝 Fast-growing and ideal for trellises, fences, or arbors, this vine adds beauty, aroma, and privacy.
  • 🐝 Cold hardy and tough, it's a garden classic!


🛒 Get Sweet Honeysuckle for your garden today and let the scent do the talking!

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What does a mature Champaka Tree look like? Practical Growing Guide

Joy Perfume tree (Magnolia champaca)

☀️ What does a mature Champaka Tree look like? Practical Growing Guide.
  • 🏵 Champaka, or Joy Perfume tree (Magnolia champaca) is the most desirable perfume tree for Southern landscapes - and a Signature Plant of Top Tropicals! You can see several of these beautiful trees around our B-Farm in Sebring, including the one right by the office front door.
  • 🏵 The flowers are used to make the world's most expensive perfume, Joy - and they smell like fruity bubble gum… you won't be able to stop sticking your nose in this flower! The Joy Perfume Tree blooms on and off year-round.
  • 🏵 The Champaka tree has a striking columnar shape and becomes very bushy and full when established - whether in a pot (with a proper fertilizer program) or in the ground.
  • 🏵 The lemon-lime, light green leaves are lush, soft, and tropical-looking, with a unique and beautiful color!
  • 🏵 Champaka trees begin flowering within 2-3 years from seed.
  • 🏵 Singing birds love this tree and in Spring make their nests in its bushy crown.
  • 🏵 The tree is relatively cold hardy and can withstand light freeze for a short time once established. Make sure to provide regular watering for Champaka tree.
  • 🏵 We have beautiful Champaka trees in all sizes:

3 gal pot: 3-4 ft tall - ready to bloom within a year, can be shipped
7 gal pot: 5-6 ft tall - ready to bloom, can be shipped
15 gal pot: 7-8 ft tall - have already bloomed, pick up or delivery*
25 gal pot: 10 ft tall - have already bloomed, pick up or delivery*
* Free delivery for qualified orders

🎥 These Champaka trees in the video are 5 years old (3 years in the ground) and already bloomed for the last 3 years!

🛒 Claim Your Joy Today – Own Your Perfume Champaka!

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Fragrance, color, and hummingbirds - all in one tree

Lilac Tree (Lonchocarpus violaceus) flowers

Lilac Tree (Lonchocarpus violaceus) flowers

Lilac Tree (Lonchocarpus violaceus) flowers on a branch

Lilac Tree (Lonchocarpus violaceus) flowers on a branch

Lilac Tree (Lonchocarpus violaceus)

Lilac Tree (Lonchocarpus violaceus)

🌳 Fragrance, color, and hummingbirds - all in one tree
  • 💜 Looking for a fast-growing, elegant tree with year-round beauty and seasonal magic? Lilac Tree (Lonchocarpus violaceus) is a fragrant fountain of color!
  • 💜 The Lilac Treeis a stunning evergreen native to Africa. Reaching 25 feet tall, it forms a graceful, fountain-like shape with lush, architectural foliage.
  • 💜 In late summer and fall, this tree bursts into fragrant lavender to purple-blue blooms that fill the air with a scent reminiscent of lilac.
  • 💜 Butterflies and hummingbirds flock to the flowers, bringing your garden to life. Long, slender seed pods follow, adding unique texture.
  • 💜 Cold hardy to the 30s F for short periods, it's perfect for USDA Zones 9–11. Whether you're after fast growth, tropical charm, or simply a breathtaking flowering tree, the Lilac Tree checks all the boxes - graceful, fragrant, and irresistible.


🛒 Add Lilac Magic to Your Garden

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Why settle for ordinary when you can have this?

👍 Why settle for ordinary when you can have this?

  • 🌸 Transform your garden with the Chinaberry Tree (Melia azedarach) - a fast-growing, fragrant beauty that doubles in size in just one season!

  • 🌸 Its lilac flowers and sweet vanilla-like scent will fill your garden with elegance, while its hardy nature ensures it thrives even in colder climates.

  • 🌸 Enjoy lush, green foliage and a lovely shade canopy, all with minimal care. Plus, it's low-maintenance, pest-resistant, and has medicinal benefits!


Ready to add this aromatic gem to your landscape? Don't wait bring home the Chinaberry Tree today!

📚 Learn more about Chinaberry Tree

🛒 Order Chinaberry Tree and breathe in the Vanilla Fragrance

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What small plant can bring both beauty and aroma in your garden

Datura metel - Horn-of-Plenty

😈 What small plant can bring both beauty and aroma in your garden 🌸
  • ⭕️ A true showstopper, Datura metel - also known as Horn-of-Plenty - is a close relative of Angel Trumpet bush, but much more compact plant.
  • ⭕️ It boasts huge, double trumpet-shaped flowers that spiral outward like a horn, often in a unique mottled purple shade. These blooms are not only spectacular in appearance but also richly fragrant, filling the air from spring through fall.
  • ⭕️ Growing to 2–3 feet in containers, this fast-growing plant blooms repeatedly in spring, summer, and fall, adding a bold, tropical flair to gardens and patios.
  • ⭕️ Datura has a long history of medicinal uses.
  • ⭕️ With its exotic flowers, intoxicating scent, and lush foliage, Datura metel brings a mystical, surreal beauty to your garden like no other.


📚 More about Angel Trumpets:
Flower of Angels

Angel Trumpet in bloom

🛒 Plant Datura or Angel Trumpet for fragrant atmosphere 👍

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What is the easiest Gardenia

Gardenia (Kailarsenia) vietnamensis - Vietnamese Gardenia

🌸 What is the easiest Gardenia
  • 🥰 Gardenia (Kailarsenia) vietnamensis - Vietnamese Gardenia - is one of the easiest and hardiest Gardenias in our collection is the Vietnamese Gardenia. This plant is much easier to grow than many other Gardenias. It can handle overly moist soils much better, is quite drought tolerant once established and has a high resistance to the typical Gardenia woes.
  • 🥰 Fragrant & Beautiful: Creamy white, 3-inch flowers with an unforgettable fragrance. Flowers are very unusual shape, work of art!
  • 🥰 Hardy & Easy to Grow: More resistant to typical Gardenia issues like root rot, mildew, and bud drop. Tolerates moist soil and is drought-tolerant once established.
  • 🥰 Cold-Hardy: The most cold-hardy of all tropical Gardenias, perfect for various climates.
  • 🥰 Perfect for Containers: A compact, bushy shrub that thrives in pots or the ground.
  • 🥰 Low Maintenance: Prefers well-drained, acidic soil and some afternoon shade. Prune after flowering for best shape.
  • 🥰 Evergreen Beauty: Blooming year-round. Ideal for beginners who want a reliable and fragrant plant!


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What is the most fragrant Brunfelsia?

Brunfelsias, often referred to as Lady of the Night

💐 What is the most fragrant Brunfelsia?

*The most fragrant Brunfelsias, often referred to as Lady of the Night, are the creamy-white varieties. These flowers begin to release their sweet, captivating aroma at sunset and continue to fill the air with fragrance throughout the night.

*Brunfelsias are wonderful shade-loving, compact flowering shrubs, making them perfect for adding beauty to shaded areas or for growing in containers.

*The most popular white Brunfelsias are: B, americana, B. nitida, B. lactea, B. manaca, B. densifolia, B. gigantea.

📚 Learn more about Brunfelsias:
Brunfelsia americana - Lady of the night
Brunfelsia isola
Lavender Marble Perfume
Brunfelsias
Yesterday-Today-Tomorrow, Brunfelsia from Brazil

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Why this Magnolia flower smells like banana?

Magnolia figo, Banana Magnolia

🍌 Why this flower smells like banana?
  • 🤌 Magnolia figo, or Banana Magnolia that we mentioned earlier, is currently in full bloom and filling the air with its unbelievably delightful fragrance! The sweet, fruity aroma of its perfume-like flowers carries a hint of banana, making it a truly irresistible addition to your garden.
  • 🤌 Looking for a little perfume tree for a small garden or container? Compact and evergreen, reaching only5-6 ft in container, this small tree or shrub adds sophistication to any landscape. Glossy, deep green foliage enhances its visual charm.
  • 🤌 Cold tolerant and heat tolerant. Takes sun and shade.


🛍 Plant Banana Magnolia

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When Angel Trumpet is in bloom

🌛 When Angel Trumpet is in bloom

🌈 Brugmansia suaveolens - Angel Trumpet - one of the most popular favorites for Southern gardens. Small tree or bush with trumpet-like fragrant flowers that change color from white (bud) through yellow to pink (mature). Fast growing and easy to grow.

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When Angel Trumpet is in bloom

Brugmansia suaveolens - Angel Trumpet

🌛 When Angel Trumpet is in bloom

🌈 Brugmansia suaveolens - Angel Trumpet - one of the most popular favorites for Southern gardens. Small tree or bush with trumpet-like fragrant flowers that change color from white (bud) through yellow to pink (mature). Fast growing and easy to grow.

🛒 Shop Angel Trumpets

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