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  <title>Tropics @Home — tropical house plants blog</title>
  <link>https://tropicsathome.pages.dev/blog/</link>
  <description>Growing iconic tropical plants indoors, plus greenhouse tours and tropical travel guides.</description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Three Years Later: The Bathroom Jungle Is Still Growing]]></title>
    <link>https://tropicsathome.pages.dev/blog/bathroom-jungle-3-years/</link>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Three years ago, I started turning our small bathroom into our own tropical escape – very much in the spirit of bringing a bit more Aloha feeling into everyday life. Here is how it begun in June 2023. The idea was simple: tropical plants, warm humid air, some extra light, and a s]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[My Hoya imperialis Red first flowering]]></title>
    <link>https://tropicsathome.pages.dev/blog/hoya-imperialis-red-flowering/</link>
    <guid>https://tropicsathome.pages.dev/blog/hoya-imperialis-red-flowering/</guid>
    <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I was really eager to see this plant blooming, and I’m happy to share this update. It exceeded my expectations! I got this Hoya imperialis Red first toward the end of my time in Vietnam. When it was time to go, it was among the plants I just had to bring with me back to […]]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Hibiscus: A Journey to Paradise]]></title>
    <link>https://tropicsathome.pages.dev/blog/hibiscus-a-journey-to-paradise/</link>
    <guid>https://tropicsathome.pages.dev/blog/hibiscus-a-journey-to-paradise/</guid>
    <pubDate>Sun, 30 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Imagine stepping onto a sun-drenched beach with the gentle lapping of waves in the background. The vibrant splash of color catching your eye is likely a stunning hibiscus flower, its petals unfurled like nature’s own cocktail umbrella. These iconic blooms intertwine so closely wi]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Monthly Giveaway at Tropicsathome Store]]></title>
    <link>https://tropicsathome.pages.dev/blog/monthly-giveaway-at-tropicsathome-store/</link>
    <guid>https://tropicsathome.pages.dev/blog/monthly-giveaway-at-tropicsathome-store/</guid>
    <pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Exciting Monthly Giveaway at Tropicsathome! We’re thrilled to announce our new Monthly Giveaway, where you have the chance to win amazing prizes just by sharing your favorite plants with your friends and family! At Tropicsathome, we believe in spreading the love for rare and beau]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Witches’ Brews for Blooms: Deciphering Mythical Recipes of DIY Plant Food Potions]]></title>
    <link>https://tropicsathome.pages.dev/blog/diy-plant-food-potions/</link>
    <guid>https://tropicsathome.pages.dev/blog/diy-plant-food-potions/</guid>
    <pubDate>Thu, 29 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I’ve been seeing a lot of those videos and posts floating around about whipping up the perfect plant food right from our kitchen scraps. Everything from banana peels to onion skins and coffee grounds is being touted as the best kept secret in plant nutrition. And I’ll be honest, ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Making Plant Care Easy with a Touch of AI – BotanBot]]></title>
    <link>https://tropicsathome.pages.dev/blog/making-plant-care-easy-with-a-touch-of-ai-botanbot/</link>
    <guid>https://tropicsathome.pages.dev/blog/making-plant-care-easy-with-a-touch-of-ai-botanbot/</guid>
    <pubDate>Thu, 26 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[AI is popping up everywhere these days, isn’t it? From our phones to our fridges, and now… in our plant life and addiction! Meet BotanBot, your new go-to for all things green. Forget the “Introvert, but ready to talk plants” T-shirt; with BotanBot, you can dive deep into plant ta]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Turn Your Bathroom into a Mini Jungle: Easy Project for Plant Lovers!]]></title>
    <link>https://tropicsathome.pages.dev/blog/turn-your-bathroom-into-a-mini-jungle-easy-project-for-plant-lovers/</link>
    <guid>https://tropicsathome.pages.dev/blog/turn-your-bathroom-into-a-mini-jungle-easy-project-for-plant-lovers/</guid>
    <pubDate>Thu, 24 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Ever looked at your bathroom and thought, “Could I add some green in here?” Well, you’re in the right place! If you’ve been scrolling through social media wondering which plants would love your bathroom, I’ve got some cool ideas for you. Setting Up Your Green Corner Starting with]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Mystery Unraveled: How to Keep Your Alocasia Thriving]]></title>
    <link>https://tropicsathome.pages.dev/blog/alocasia-care-mystery-unraveled/</link>
    <guid>https://tropicsathome.pages.dev/blog/alocasia-care-mystery-unraveled/</guid>
    <pubDate>Thu, 18 May 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Alocasias, with their stunning foliage and tropical allure, they have captivated plant enthusiasts around the world. But let’s admit it, they can be a bit mysterious when it comes to their care requirements. Many plant lovers have struggled to keep their Alocasias healthy and thr]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Universal plants care guide for green fingers]]></title>
    <link>https://tropicsathome.pages.dev/blog/universal-plants-care-guide-for-green-fingers/</link>
    <guid>https://tropicsathome.pages.dev/blog/universal-plants-care-guide-for-green-fingers/</guid>
    <pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Hey there, green thumbs! Are your fingers green enough? Or are you one of the people posting questions like “Why are my plants not doing well?” or “What am I doing wrong?” Keep reading and you’ll find out not only what’s wrong with those questions, but also what you can do to ask]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Plant light setup, budget-friendly and easy]]></title>
    <link>https://tropicsathome.pages.dev/blog/plant-light-setup-budget-friendly-and-easy/</link>
    <guid>https://tropicsathome.pages.dev/blog/plant-light-setup-budget-friendly-and-easy/</guid>
    <pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The winter is coming! Here in Stockholm, Sweden, on our Alaskan altitude it’s going to be long and dark as every winter here. However, this winter looks like we are going to deal with unusually high electricity prices. What does it mean for us, crazy tropical plants growers? Do w]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Hoya plants: info, care, shopping, species… all you wanted to know]]></title>
    <link>https://tropicsathome.pages.dev/blog/hoya-plants-info-care-shopping-species-all-you-wanted-to-know/</link>
    <guid>https://tropicsathome.pages.dev/blog/hoya-plants-info-care-shopping-species-all-you-wanted-to-know/</guid>
    <pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[What is the first house plant you remember from your childhood? Mine is Hoya. The plant grown all over our living room’s window looked huge to little me. It was quite regularly in bloom and I loved to climb on the window sill and lick the sweet drops of nectar from the mesmerizin]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Dreams come true – my life on a tropical island]]></title>
    <link>https://tropicsathome.pages.dev/blog/dreams-come-true-my-life-on-a-tropical-island/</link>
    <guid>https://tropicsathome.pages.dev/blog/dreams-come-true-my-life-on-a-tropical-island/</guid>
    <pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Have you ever played with a thought of quitting your 8-to-5 day job and moving to tropics? You feel fed up sometimes with winter, snow, cold and darkness during a considerable part of the year? Half a year here in Stockholm, Sweden actually…]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[360 VR garden and greenhouses tours]]></title>
    <link>https://tropicsathome.pages.dev/blog/360-vr-garden-greenhouses-tours/</link>
    <guid>https://tropicsathome.pages.dev/blog/360-vr-garden-greenhouses-tours/</guid>
    <pubDate>Tue, 14 Nov 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Whenever I travel to a new place I always try to visit local botanical garden and to do a blog post about it. So far I’ve been only taking photos and sharing my impressions in written. From now on I’m really excited to do even Virtual Reality, 3]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Another pineapple movie… or how to grow your own pineapples at home]]></title>
    <link>https://tropicsathome.pages.dev/blog/grow-pineapple-home/</link>
    <guid>https://tropicsathome.pages.dev/blog/grow-pineapple-home/</guid>
    <pubDate>Mon, 23 Oct 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Pineapple is probably the optimal exotic fruit anyone can grow indoors anywhere. Easy to plant, easy to grow and will produce a juicy, sweet pineapple within about 3 years.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[My tropical urban jungle… counted and classified]]></title>
    <link>https://tropicsathome.pages.dev/blog/tropical-urban-jungle/</link>
    <guid>https://tropicsathome.pages.dev/blog/tropical-urban-jungle/</guid>
    <pubDate>Sat, 23 Sep 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Jungles is another word for “many tropical plants in one place” so urban jungle is the right description of our apartment. But how many are many in my case? I didn’t know the exact answer until now.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[How to avoid fungus gnats in your newly potted plants]]></title>
    <link>https://tropicsathome.pages.dev/blog/avoid-flies-newly-potted-plants/</link>
    <guid>https://tropicsathome.pages.dev/blog/avoid-flies-newly-potted-plants/</guid>
    <pubDate>Wed, 02 Aug 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Whenever you are using organically rich soil for potting or repotting, in most cases just a few days later you will see myriads of small flies crawling in your pots and flying around. Those are fungus gnuts and are very easy way to avoid.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Lankester Botanical Garden, Costa Rica]]></title>
    <link>https://tropicsathome.pages.dev/blog/lankester-botanical-garden-costa-rica/</link>
    <guid>https://tropicsathome.pages.dev/blog/lankester-botanical-garden-costa-rica/</guid>
    <pubDate>Fri, 07 Jul 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Our last day of Costa Rica trip definitely wasn’t a lazy one. We woke up early to meet our new local friend Erick Matamoros – a great freelancing photographer and kindly our guide for a car trip to Irazú volcano, followed by a visit to the Lankester Botanical Garden and then a di]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[A stroll in home jungles]]></title>
    <link>https://tropicsathome.pages.dev/blog/stroll-home-jungles/</link>
    <guid>https://tropicsathome.pages.dev/blog/stroll-home-jungles/</guid>
    <pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Follow me on a short 8min video stroll through our home-grown jungles, our tropics at home on a couple of square meters. This is my entire, well almost, “collection” of tropical plants I grow indoors in our flat in Stockholm, Sweden. With plant ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Greenhouses of the world: Nice, France, “The Green Diamond”]]></title>
    <link>https://tropicsathome.pages.dev/blog/tropical-greenhouse-nice-france/</link>
    <guid>https://tropicsathome.pages.dev/blog/tropical-greenhouse-nice-france/</guid>
    <pubDate>Wed, 26 Apr 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Having a stopover in the third busiest airport in France, Nice Côte d’Azur Airport? Or spending your vacation on French Riviera? Plan a couple of hours before or between your flights to visit Parc Phoenix.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Greenhouses of the world: Copenhagen Palm House]]></title>
    <link>https://tropicsathome.pages.dev/blog/copenhagen-palm-house/</link>
    <guid>https://tropicsathome.pages.dev/blog/copenhagen-palm-house/</guid>
    <pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[When in Copenhagen, Denmark, you can easily enhance your city stroll with a quick trip to a tropical rain forest. You will find it in The Palm House in Botanical Garden of Copenhagen University.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Taking plant time-lapse]]></title>
    <link>https://tropicsathome.pages.dev/blog/plant-time-lapse/</link>
    <guid>https://tropicsathome.pages.dev/blog/plant-time-lapse/</guid>
    <pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Taking time-lapse of your home plants is a way of bringing their hasteless time scale into our own, human one. We know they are moving. We notice them growing and changing. By taking photos with time intervals, we can make it as clear as seeing our own movements.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Best Tropical Garden Hotels – Hotel Bougainvillea, San José, Costa Rica]]></title>
    <link>https://tropicsathome.pages.dev/blog/best-tropical-garden-hotels-bougainvillea/</link>
    <guid>https://tropicsathome.pages.dev/blog/best-tropical-garden-hotels-bougainvillea/</guid>
    <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[4-stars hotel with 41.000 sqm (10 acres) of sustainable tropical garden to explore in San José, Costa Rica. More than 1000 tropical plant species.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Germination of tropical seeds from Costa Rica]]></title>
    <link>https://tropicsathome.pages.dev/blog/germination-tropical-seeds/</link>
    <guid>https://tropicsathome.pages.dev/blog/germination-tropical-seeds/</guid>
    <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Just a short update on what’s up here in our Swedish tropics in the middle of the winter. It has been a month since we returned from a truly amazing trip to wonderful Costa Rica. Sure thing I couldn’t restrain myself (and had no intention to) from collecting some seeds.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Let it be light! Led grow lights for plants.]]></title>
    <link>https://tropicsathome.pages.dev/blog/led-grow-lights/</link>
    <guid>https://tropicsathome.pages.dev/blog/led-grow-lights/</guid>
    <pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[LED lamp with regular E27 lamp holder. On the eBay page use drop-downs to select: style: Non-Dimmable color: Cool White size: PAR38-36W-60 Degree Sold by external vendor on eBay. Ships from China (not Sweden).]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Costa Rica botanical travel guide for plant lovers]]></title>
    <link>https://tropicsathome.pages.dev/blog/costa-rica-botanical-travel-guide/</link>
    <guid>https://tropicsathome.pages.dev/blog/costa-rica-botanical-travel-guide/</guid>
    <pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Knowing where and when to go in Costa Rica can make all the difference to your vacation there. Wet, or as they call it green and dry seasons are an obvious consideration for a traveller to this Central American country. However, if you think that this is all you need to know, you]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Growing Caladium indoors in pots]]></title>
    <link>https://tropicsathome.pages.dev/blog/growing-caladium-indoors-pots/</link>
    <guid>https://tropicsathome.pages.dev/blog/growing-caladium-indoors-pots/</guid>
    <pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Caladiums as house plants, when growing indoors in pots are a stunning addition to any room’s design and feeling. So this is an enigma to me how is it still almost unknown not only to an average home grower, but even to professional home plants’]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Solving Plumeria problems when growing indoors. (part 5/5)]]></title>
    <link>https://tropicsathome.pages.dev/blog/solving-plumeria-problems/</link>
    <guid>https://tropicsathome.pages.dev/blog/solving-plumeria-problems/</guid>
    <pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Sooner or later you might run into problems and this last chapter in the series I hope will help you to solve most of them. Plumeria problems anyway.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Plumeria (Frangipani) care and flowering indoors. (part 4/5)]]></title>
    <link>https://tropicsathome.pages.dev/blog/flowering-plumeria-frangipani-indoors/</link>
    <guid>https://tropicsathome.pages.dev/blog/flowering-plumeria-frangipani-indoors/</guid>
    <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Do you need green fingers for flowering Plumeria indoors? Well, everyone can have green fingers. The secret is in understanding your plants’ needs and giving them what they want. There are only two reasons why your potted friends are not thrivi]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[How to start Plumeria (Frangipani) indoors. (part 3/5)]]></title>
    <link>https://tropicsathome.pages.dev/blog/start-plumeria-indoors-containers/</link>
    <guid>https://tropicsathome.pages.dev/blog/start-plumeria-indoors-containers/</guid>
    <pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[If I did my job right in the previous posts in this series, and you are now eager to start growing your own Plumeria, this wonderful piece of tropics, in your home, then you have to make a decision: do you want sprout it from seeds or to plant a cutting. Certainly you can even pu]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[How to grow Plumeria (Frangipani) indoors in containers. Closer look. Cultivars. True or fake on eBay? (part 2/5)]]></title>
    <link>https://tropicsathome.pages.dev/blog/plumeria-frangipani-cultivars/</link>
    <guid>https://tropicsathome.pages.dev/blog/plumeria-frangipani-cultivars/</guid>
    <pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Plumeria is described as a small 6-25 ft (1,5-8 m) tree. Comparing to many other trees it is indeed can be considered small. However if we are talking about growing them indoors it is much larger than your average house plant. Luckily it has an ability, which will help us to fit ]]></description>
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