Gardening for the Soul:
why your garden is healing...
"The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart
with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just the body, but the
soul." - Alfred Austin
...Healing gardens are good for your soul and morale. They can improve
your mood and help with depression, and they have even been proven to increase
our physical wellbeing.
...Gardening offers therapeutic benefits by providing a calming
connection to nature, which reduces stress and anxiety.
...The physical activity involved improves overall health, promoting
better cardiovascular function and increased strength.
...And last but not least, the act of nurturing plants fosters a sense
of purpose and accomplishment, which can alleviate symptoms of depression.
Spending time outdoors and in sunlight also boosts mood by increasing serotonin
levels.
🟠 Madame Fransis - dark orange pulp, slightly fibrous, robust, meaty like a steak, good with cognac. A little pulpy but unique flavor.
🟠 Diamond - bright yellow, fiberless, sugary, juicy, no pulp at all, classic mango taste, good with ice cream, "wow" taste!
🟠 Pickering - zesty, waterfall: all the flavors come at once, eat with White wine and/or a cake. Oval fruit somewhat flat, very large for a dwarf tree!
🟠 Baptiste - hint of citrus, melts in your mouth, dark orange flesh, crisp, eat with Red wine and cheese.
🟠 Florigon - creamy, buttery, spicy. Eat with Ice cream!
🟠 Tommy Atkins - has a bit zing to it, perfect consistency, perfect taste. Super colorful, crimson red to purple skin!
What is hotter that hot pepper? A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.
What is hotter that hot pepper?
Capsicum annuum x chinense - Biquinho Pepper
Capsicum annuum x chinense - Biquinho Pepper
Capsicum frutescens - Wiri Wiri Papper
🔥 What is hotter that hot pepper? Wiri Wiri Pepper!- it's about how to live long and have a great skin.
🌶 These two peppers are a must for spice lovers - intense fruity habanero flavor packs quite a bang! 💥
Extremely showy, these ornamental peppers have culinary benefits and are great for container garden.
❤️ Capsicum annuum x chinense - ❤️-shaped Biquinho Pepper that you saw in earlier post. An exceptionally distinct pepper, an ancient hybrid of Capsicum annuum (bird pepper) and Capsicum chinense (habanero group). While of small size (1"), these heart-shaped red fruits are prolifically produced along the branches of compact plants.
🔴 Capsicum frutescens - Wiri Wiri Pepper from Guyana is the illustrious gem; hard sought and rarely found. This plant produces good yields of small 1/2" berry shaped hot peppers. Peppers grow upright, are very hot, and turn from green, to orange, to red when mature. Guyanese dinners will only take one of those meals for you to never forget! The secret of their food is the flavor, and one of the cornerstone ingredients in many of their dishes is the Wiri pepper. The Guyanese population claim that it is not just a key ingredient to their diet, but also to why they are so good looking, live so long, and have such great skin.
❗️ What makes these peppers so much different than any other hot peppers?
Hot? Yes, it is important that hot peppers are, but the people who really know, know that it is not just about heat, it is about flavor! And that is exactly what makes these little red gems so special.
What is the biggest mango fruit? A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.
What is the biggest mango fruit?
Mango Kiew Yai
What is the biggest mango fruit?
🔍 We discovered one of the biggest Mango fruit after we planted this new variety - Kiew Yai.
Right now the fruit is almost a foot long!
⏳ The tree was planted in April - only 3 months ago.
😋 Looking forward to tasting it soon and sharing our taste impressions with you. Stay with us!
⬆️ Reminder:In order to have good quality fruit, your Mango tree must be grafted. Grafted varieties start fruiting right away, while seedlings may take from 7 to 10 years to fruit and the taste of the seedling's fruit will always be a surprise, they may be small in size and very fibrous.
What is a good exotic looking flowering plant for a shade garden? A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.
What is a good exotic looking flowering plant for a shade garden?
Chrysothemis pulchella - Copper Leaf, Black Flamingo
🔥 What is a good exotic looking flowering plant for a shade garden?
🏀 One of the most unusual looking plants in or shade garden collection is Chrysothemis pulchella - Copper Leaf, Black Flamingo.
🏀 It is a spectacular tropical perennial that can be grown as a houseplant or in a greenhouse.
🏀 From summer to late fall it is covered with showy orange-red flowers, may bloom sporadically several times a year.
🏀 Forms a dense mountain of flowers and foliage.
🏀 The plant forms tubers at the base of the stem. By the end of fall the leaves may die back, the plant goes dormant till spring. Then it re-sprouts in Spring again.
