Tropical Plants

The mandevilla plant is quite popular among gardeners. It comes in a wide variety of colors - pink is the most popular. The flowers are clustered against the green foliage of the rest of your plants as well as the green leathery vines of leaves. This exotic plant will climb on practically anything you put for it to climb sometimes reaching 10 feet n height.

Because the plant blooms practically all summer, it is a preferred plant for many gardens as well as potted plants.The best flowering is when the plant gets at least 6 or 8 hours of sunlight a day.

It can survive short dry spells but it needs to have enough moisture and does not like to sit in water. Drainage is very important.

Hibiscus is a fabulous blooming shrub that is related to the cotton plant. Its pretty flowers come in many different colors. It is beautiful in containers and can be planted in the ground if kept moist with good drainage. It can grow very large and even comes trained as a topiary.

The hibiscus is an attractive indoor shrub also with glossy, maple-like leaves and short-lived, holly-hocklike flowers in shades of red, pink, yellow, orange, and white that are over six inches in diameter. Varieties with variegated leaves and double/ruffled flowers also are available.

The Bougainvillea is an immensely showy, floriferous and hardy plant. Virtually pest-free and disease resistant, it rewards its owner with an abundance of color and vitality when it is well looked after. It can be coaxed into a small manageable pot plant or a sizeable tree, to spread itself vertically on a wall, or climb up a trellis and form a luscious crown or burst forth into graceful arches. It makes one of the best hedges, bushes, and curb-liners. And as for bonsai or topiary purposes, it has few equals, lending its complex branching to the pruning shears, which promote even more unique and graceful forms.

 

Widely cultivated for its flowers, jasmine is enjoyed in the garden, as a house plant, and as cut flowers. Some species have a delicious fragrance and are widely used in weddings.