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Why buy Mango from the store? Plant the trees today to enjoy your own fruit tomorrow! A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Why buy Mango from the store? Plant the trees today to enjoy your own fruit tomorrow!

Why buy Mango from the store? Plant the trees today to enjoy your own fruit tomorrow!
Why buy Mango from the store? Plant the trees today to enjoy your own fruit tomorrow!

🛒 Shop Mango trees

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How to make a Mango tree fruit? A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

How to make a Mango tree fruit?

How to make a Mango tree fruit?
How to make a Mango tree fruit?

We use SUNSHINE Mango Tango - Mango Tree Booster, for healthy mango trees and profuse fruit production.

📚 Learn how to make a Mango tree fruit

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How to water a newly planted Mango tree? A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

How to water a newly planted Mango tree?

How to water a newly planted Mango tree?
How to water a newly planted Mango tree?

Never rely solely on your sprinkler system when planting a new tree, especially during the first week or even several weeks if you have no rain. By rain, we mean a nice downpour. Here in Florida, we usually have a hot and dry spring, and while springtime is great for starting new trees, additional hose-watering becomes essential for establishing them during the first months.

📚 Learn how to water your mango tree

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Cat Philemon is eating Avocado! A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Cat Philemon is eating Avocado!

Cat Philemon is eating Avocado!

Avocado is good for you. It's one of the Superfoods. Even cats know this fact.

Did you know that Avocado comes in hundreds of varieties, not just green and black?

📚 Check out Avocado Varieties Guide

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📸 😺 👇 Share your cats in comments!

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New Complete Guide to Avocado Varieties. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

New Complete Guide to Avocado Varieties

New Complete Guide to Avocado Varieties New Complete Guide to Avocado Varieties
New Complete Guide to Avocado Varieties. How to choose the right type of Avocado.
How many varieties of Avocado are there in cultivation? Did you know that there are hundreds of them? You probably thought there were only 2 kinds - black and green?

You may not realize is that this basic (but practical!) classification doesn't encompass all the wonderful qualities avocados have to offer.

There are numerous hybrids in cultivation, and once you plant your first tree and taste the REAL fruit (not from the grocery store), you'll be eager to explore other varieties. It's a guarantee! While it's true that avocado fruit can vary in "butter" content, most superior varieties are equally delicious.

This Avocado Variety Guide helps to choose the right variety for you. With its interactive tool, you can sort cultivars by fruit shape and quality, cold hardiness, origin, crop season, flower type A or B, tree habit and more.

🛒 Shop Avocado Varieties

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Who thinks this is an Eggplant? Do you? What is it? A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Who thinks this is an Eggplant? Do you? What is it?

🍆 Who thinks this is an Eggplant? Do you? What is it?

Correct answer: Avocado Red Russel.

🛒 Shop Avocado Varieties

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Cat of the Day - Mr B. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Cat of the Day - Mr B

🐈 Cat of the Day - Mr B.

Did you know that Lemon Grass freshens your pet's breath? Mr B knows. He is the fan. He doesn't brush his teeth before going to bed, but claims he has a lemon-fresh breath. Good night!🌜

📸 😺 👇 Share your cats in comments!

🛒 And get some Lemon Grass - a versatile performer in the kitchen where it can be used in teas, beverages, herbal medicines, Eastern inspired soups and other dishes.

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What does a dragon taste like? Does Dragon Fruit come from a monster cactus? Learn why you need to grow your own. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

What does a dragon taste like? Does Dragon Fruit come from a monster cactus? Learn why you need to grow your own

Hylocereus and Selenicereus Dragon Fruit or Pitaya

Hylocereus and Selenicereus Dragon Fruit or Pitaya

Hylocereus and Selenicereus Dragon Fruit or Pitaya trees on trellis

Hylocereus and Selenicereus Dragon Fruit or Pitaya trees on trellis

Hylocereus and Selenicereus Dragon Fruit or Pitaya on trellis

Hylocereus and Selenicereus Dragon Fruit or Pitaya on trellis

Hylocereus and Selenicereus Dragon Fruit or Pitaya red fruit

Hylocereus and Selenicereus Dragon Fruit or Pitaya red fruit

Hylocereus and Selenicereus Dragon Fruit or Pitaya purple fruit

Hylocereus and Selenicereus Dragon Fruit or Pitaya purple fruit

Hylocereus and Selenicereus Dragon Fruit or Pitaya Yellow Parlora

Hylocereus and Selenicereus Dragon Fruit or Pitaya Yellow Parlora

Hylocereus and Selenicereus Dragon Fruit or Pitaya flower

Hylocereus and Selenicereus Dragon Fruit or Pitaya flower

🐲 What does a dragon taste like? Does Dragon Fruit come from a monster cactus? Learn why you need to grow your own. 🌵
  • 🔴 You may have tried a Dragon fruit from the store l, but do you know how it grows? On a cactus tree!
  • 🔴 Names: varieties of Hylocereus and Selenicereus - these fruit bearing cactus plants are also called Dragon Fruit or Pitaya.
  • 🔴 Commercially grown fruit sold in a grocery store may be tasteless. You need to grow your own good variety to have tasty, sweet, flavorful fruit!
  • 🔴 Dragon fruit comes in many varieties. Colors of flesh differ: white, pink, dark red and even purple. The outside of the fruit can be red/pink or yellow.
  • 🔴 In commercial groves, Pitayas grow like cactus trees, over a strong support - big "umbrella frames" ☂️
  • 🔴 It is an easy plant, with low water needs, takes both sun and semi-shade.
  • 🔴 Our favorite variety is Yellow Dragon Fruit Palora, (Selenicereus megalanthus). It is the sweetest and has the most flavor of all. We shared some recipes earlier.
  • 🔴 Can be grown in container with a wooden trellis. And the flower is beautiful, too!


📚 Learn more about Dragon Fruit
🍹 Recipe: What to do with a Dragon fruit?

🛒Grow your own Tasty Dragon Fruits

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Why nuts? We are not nuts! But we taste like peanut butter. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Why nuts? We are not nuts! But we taste like peanut butter

Bunchosia argentea, Peanut Butter Tree

Bunchosia argentea, Peanut Butter Tree

Bunchosia argentea, Peanut Butter Tree

Bunchosia argentea, Peanut Butter Tree

Bunchosia argentea, Peanut Butter Tree

Bunchosia argentea, Peanut Butter Tree

Bunchosia argentea, Peanut Butter Tree

Bunchosia argentea, Peanut Butter Tree

Bunchosia argentea, Peanut Butter Tree

Bunchosia argentea, Peanut Butter Tree

Bunchosia argentea, Peanut Butter Tree

Bunchosia argentea, Peanut Butter Tree

Why nuts? We are not nuts! But we taste like peanut butter... Craving a Nutty Surprise? Meet the Delectable Peanut Butter Tree!
  • 🔴 Bunchosia argentea, commonly known as the Peanut Butter Tree, earns its name from its fleshy fruits that boast a delightful peanut butter flavor - how cool is that?
  • 🔴 This attractive small tree dazzles with clusters of yellow flowers, followed by an abundance of dark red fruit with rich, sweet flesh reminiscent of peanut butter.
  • 🔴 Loved by both kids and adults, this exotic fruit is as fascinating as the Miracle fruit, making it a rare gem in cultivation.
  • 🔴 Compact in size, small tree reaching only 10-15 ft or kept as a bush, it's a perfect choice for limited spaces.
  • 🔴 Can thrive indoors, starting to fruit within just 2-3 years from seed.


🛒 Get your own Peanut Butter Tree

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How Blue Jaboticaba is different from regular Jaboticaba? A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

How Blue Jaboticaba is different from regular Jaboticaba?

Blue Jaboticaba tree, Myrciaria vexator

Blue Jaboticaba tree, Myrciaria vexator

Blue Jaboticaba tree, Myrciaria vexator

Blue Jaboticaba tree, Myrciaria vexator

Blue Jaboticaba tree, Myrciaria vexator

Blue Jaboticaba tree, Myrciaria vexator

Blue Jaboticaba tree, Myrciaria vexator

Blue Jaboticaba tree, Myrciaria vexator

Blue Jaboticaba tree, Myrciaria vexator

🍇 How Blue Jaboticaba is different from regular Jaboticaba?

In fact, they are very much alike! Just different species of Myrciaria that has somewhat smaller growth habit, which makes it an excellent container fruit tree! It also is much more productive.
  • 🔵 Blue Jaboticaba tree, Myrciaria vexator is a beautiful slow growing tree or shrub. It bears dark purple, almost bluish fruits, with thin, sweet flesh that taste somewhat like sweet grapes.
  • 🔵 Fruits are borne in late Spring or early Fall and usually eaten fresh or used in drinks.
  • 🔵 The plant is little known in cultivation, yet the fruits are of equal or superior quality to regular Jaboticaba that we mentioned earlier. A single bush may produce several thousand fruits!
  • 🔵 Blue Jaboticaba can tolerate light frost when established.


🛒 Order Blue Jaboticaba

#Food_Forest #Container_Garden

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