(Angels' Trumpet, Variegated Angels' Trumpet)

Vigorous and lovely, 'Charles Grimaldi is best known for its huge dreamscicle orange flowers. This angel's trumpet is a highly attractive tropical evergreen shrub to small tree. Throughout the season it produces pendulous, creamy orange, trumpet-shaped blooms that have wide open mouths that curve back. These are particularly fragrant, attract moths and contrast nicely with its large medium green leaves.

Heat and sun-loving, angel’s trumpet grows best in rich soil with good drainage and requires...

(Lady-of-the-night)

Producing hundreds of creamy white to beige flowers in the warm months, lady-of-the-night's floral fragrance is among the most delicious evening scents of the tropics. A slow growing, tall evergreen shrub, it is native to the eastern islands of the West Indies.

The glossy green to dark green leaves cover the brown branches of this upright large shrub, which can attain a somewhat spreading canopy with great time. Blooming anytime when warm, but mainly when nighttime temperatures are comfortably...

(Paraguay Jasmine, Yesterday Today and Tomorrow)

The charming flowers of this broadleaf evergreen shrub provide color and fragrance over a long season. Native to southern Brazil, northern Argentina, and Paraguay, it bears violet-blue, white-eyed blossoms in few-flowered clusters from early spring into fall. The sweetly scented blooms last several days, fading to lavender and white as they age. Spherical, brownish-green, berry-like fruits sometimes follow the flowers. The lush, dark green, oval leaves are normally evergreen but may drop after frost....

(Yesterday Today and Tomorrow)

(Dwarf Yesterday Today and Tomorrow, Raintree, Yesterday Today and Tomorrow)

(Large-flowered Yesterday Today and Tomorrow)

With a grandiose winter floral display of purple, lavender and white, the large-flowered yesterday-today-and-tomorrow becomes a large shrub in the subtropical and tropical garden. A rounded but spreading-canopied evergreen, it is from the eastern slopes of the Andes Mountains from Colombia to Bolivia. The dark green leaves are quite long and oval and will turn yellow in very alkaline soils. In the cool season, clusters of impatiens-like blossom are revealed on the branch twigs, particularly fragrant...

(Raintree, Yesterday Today and Tomorrow)

This shrub is commonly called yesterday-today-and-tomorrow because its blooms open purple, fade to lavender and finally to white with all three colors occurring on the shrub. Its flat, pansy-like flowers are borne in clusters from spring into fall.

Though it tolerates full sun, this plant is native to the woodlands of Brazil and does best with dappled shade. Raintree needs moist, humusy soils that are slightly acidic. In neutral to alkaline soils or if planted near concrete, nutrient deficiencies...

(Dwarf Yesterday Today and Tomorrow, Raintree, Yesterday Today and Tomorrow)

This shrub is commonly called yesterday-today-and-tomorrow because its blooms open purple, fade to lavender and finally to white with all three colors occurring on the shrub. 'Floribunda Compacta' is a freely blooming smaller shrub. Its flat, pansy-like flowers are borne in clusters from spring into fall.

Though it tolerates full sun, this plant is native to the woodlands of Brazil and does best with dappled shade. Raintree needs moist, humusy soils that are slightly acidic. In neutral to alkaline...

(Raintree, Today and Tomorrow, Yesterday)

This shrub is commonly called yesterday-today-and-tomorrow because its blooms open purple, fade to lavender and finally to white with all three colors occurring on the shrub. 'Floribunda' is a very free-flowering selection with a open growth habit. Its flat, pansy-like flowers are borne in clusters from spring into fall.

Though it tolerates full sun, this plant is native to the woodlands of Brazil and does best with dappled shade. Raintree needs moist, humusy soils that are slightly acidic. In...

(Bulbophyllum, Orchid)

Despite the malodorous nature of the greenish brown cap-like flowers of Burford's bulbophyllum, this fall-blooming orchid is a reliable performer and conversation piece. A tropical epiphyte from the hot and humid forests of New Guinea and eastern Indonesia, it dots upper tree branches and produces slightly stinky flowers that attract flies as pollinators.

The slender, bright green leaves of this orchid are thick and leathery. The plants are comprised of many pseudobulbs, each carrying only one...