Easy Care with Modern Tropics Garden
Modern tropics garden is applying two different garden elements, it can be the combination of tropics plants, and modern hard-scape element. These two concepts will create a simple, but beautiful and easy caring garden.
Tropics plants like Heliconia, bamboo or orchid for example will look very dynamic if being managed in hard-scape designs, like geometric pool and a cylinder artificial water fountain.
The modern touch can also be created by adding a lighting effect, that will expose the burst in the middle of the fountain. To minimize the using of grass, we can put some wooden shelf/board which can also widen the terrace space.
Hibiscus for herbs, beauty, and medication
- White Hibiscus
Hibiscus, or rosemallow, is a large genus of about 200–220 species of flowering plants that is in native to warm temperate, subtropical and tropical regions throughout the world. Many species are grown for their showy flowers or used as landscape shrubs.
Hibiscus is also a primary ingredient in many herbal teas and medication.
Not only that, Hibiscus has been so close to ancient cultures and society.
- One species of Hibiscus, known as Kenaf (Hibiscus cannabinus), is extensively used in paper making.
- Roselle (Hibiscus sabdariffa) is used as a vegetable and to make herbal teas and jams (especially in the Caribbean). In Latin America, the drink is known as Jamaica and is quite popular. It is made from calyces of the roselle plant. In Egypt and Sudan, Roselle petals make a tea named after the plant, karkade.
- In Polynesia these fibers (fau, purau) are used for making grass skirts. They have also been known to be used to make wigs.
- In India, the Hibiscus is used as an offering to Goddess Kali and Lord Ganesha in Hindu worship.
