Osmanthus fragrans, sweet olive or fragrant olive, is an asian native shrub. It’s famous for it’s sweet scent reminicent of ripe apricots or peaches. There are two main groups of […]
How to grow passion flowers in a cold climate?
Passion flowers, or passiflora are tropical flowers from South America. To me it’s pretty impressive that most of them can deal with temperatures below freezing. Truly cold hardy passion flowerThe […]
Sowing passion flowers
Sowing passion flowers or passiflora from seed is very rewarding. Some seeds geminate more easily than other varieties. There are many different ways of sowing seeds. In general when I […]
Sowing Plumeria
Growing Plumeria from seedsPlumeria propagation is relatively easy. They can be grown from cuttings quite easily. But sowing has the advantage of being able to aquire more different species, since […]
Sowing Adenium Obesum
Growing Adenium Obesum from seed is relatively easy. There are a lot of guides and video’s on the internet, personally I like to do the folowing; Care It’s quite easy […]
Cestrum Nocturnum flowering cuttings
October 2022 was a sweet month. My original cestrum nocturnum bloomed for 3 weeks straight! I saw the first side branches appear somewhere in september. In the beginning of october […]
Flowering houseplants in November
I didn’t take any good pictures but decided to write this post anyway. Mostly as a reminder to myself that forgetting something isn’t the end of the world and as […]
Fragrant flowers in september
It’s the beginning of September and the meteorological autum has started. Most of the true summer flowers are finished for this year even though it is still exeptionally hot. True […]
The Passion Flower Family
Passion Flowers; I love the fingerd leaves, the climbing habit, the tasy fruit, and the spectacular blooms. The blooms smell fruity just like the fruit itself, be it a bit […]
Hoya love…
Most members of the hoya family have fragrant blooms. Some are nice chocolaty to floral but some stink like old socks. Or so I have been told. The problem is […]