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If you’ve got a planter
or container in a sunny – hot - baking location that you just can’t seem to
get anything to grow, all you need to do is think “tropical”.
“Tropical” as in
tropical plants! Let me show you what I mean.
Euryops, or ‘Golden
Shrub Daisy’…grown as a shrub or small tree form, this tropical plant has
great fern like foliage with outstanding yellow daisy like flowers all
summer long.
Star jasmine, it’s
actually a tropical evergreen vine with wonderful glossy green foliage, but
no doubt it’s the fragrant white star shaped flowers that sets this plant
apart from the others…love that smell!
Pink Bower Vine…another
evergreen vine that loves the sun, and will produce these lightly fragrant
funnel shaped white to pink flowers, again all summer long.
Bougainvillea…who
doesn’t know this plant? Again actually an evergreen climber, this popular
tropical has a great show of flowers all summer ranging in a wide array of
colors, including the popular reds and purple.
Tibouchina or Princess
Flower…even if it didn’t flower, this fuzzy foliage is a winner. But this
large tropical shrub will flower all summer, and again, are available in a
wide array of colors.
Mandevilla…another great
tropical vine that grows like a weed, loves the sun, and will flower for you
all summer long. This is one of my favorites for easy to grow summer
colors. Give this tropical vine room to grow and it’ll vine colors in your
sunny containers non stop.
And here is Tropical
Hibiscus…I’ve always felt these and the mandevilla are the two best bangs
for your buck when it comes to flowering tropical plants. Glossy green
foliage, single and double flowers, wide array of colors, tropical hibiscus
just keeps on flowering all summer long…in the sun and in the heat.
Now although these
tropicals do well in the hot sun, they still need regular watering. To help
keep moisture around these plants roots, and to help cut down on your
watering schedule, be sure to add ‘Soil Moist’ to your potting soils.
Tropical flowering plants…perfect for those containers in a hot sunny
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