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How to grow ground orchids. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

💮 How to grow ground orchids

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To one person you may be the world. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

To one person you may be the world
🐱 To one person you may be the world

"To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world." - Dr. Seuss

🐈📸 Cats Timo and Matilda are brother and sister and best buddies at TopTropicals PeopleCats.Garden 

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Ballistic buttons shooting from the mattress like popcorn! A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Dorstenia bahiensis - Mattress Button Plant

🚀 Ballistic buttons shooting from the mattress like popcorn!
  • 🔘Dorstenia bahiensis - Mattress Button Plant is a shade-loving oddball. Its glossy green leaves are topped with flat, wavy discs that really do look like old-fashioned upholstery buttons scattered across the garden floor. But these button heads aren't just for show - on their surface are tiny clusters of male and female blooms, all crammed together like a mini city of flowers.
  • 🔘The real fun begins when those button heads ripen. Instead of quietly dropping seeds like most plants, Dorstenia goes full popcorn mode. With a little "pop!" the seeds are catapulted yards away, just like squeezing a watermelon seed between your fingers. One moment it's calm, the next it's launching its offspring across the yard!
  • 🔘At only 6-12 inches tall, this little understory dweller doesn't take up much space, but it makes up for it with personality. Content in the shade, thriving in any soil, and ready to surprise you with its seed-shooting tricks. Grow it in a pot, use it as quirky groundcover, or just keep it around as a party fun.


🛒 Get your own Mattress Button Plant

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Lalot beef wraps: quick n fun exotic recipes. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Lalot beef wraps

Lalot beef wraps

🍴 Lalot beef wraps: quick n fun exotic recipes
  • 🔵Mix ground beef with garlic, shallots, and fish sauce.
  • 🔵Wrap spoonfuls in Lalot leaves (Piper sarmentosum - Vietnamese pepper)
  • 🔵Pan-sear or grill, until the leaves are crisp
  • 🔵Serve with rice or noodles


🛒 Grow Lalot Papper for tasty, peppery recipes

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Politeness. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Cat Wesley

Cat Wesley

❤️ Politeness

"Nothing costs so little and is valued so highly as politeness." - Miguel de Cervantes

🐈📸 In loving memory of Cat Wesley - a lover boy at TopTropicals PeopleCats.Garden 

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What's inside the Devils Tongue that smells like trouble? A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Amorphophallus paeoniifolius (campanulatus) - Voodoo lily

👅 What's inside the Devils Tongue that smells like trouble?
  • 👹 Amorphophallus plants - the Voodoo Lilies - are also known as Devil's tongue, Snake Palm, or Elephant Foot Yam, Corpse flower. This plant has a reputation as wicked as its name!
  • 👹 Amorphophallus is the largest flower in the world and one of the most exotic bizarre flowers. Amorphophallus titanum is known for its massive size, its flower can reach heights of over 10 feet and blooms only once every few years.
  • 👹 Why Corpse flower? Because of the smell that the flower omits, but for only a few hours - just long enough to summon its pollinators, the flies 🐱

    • After that, the air clears, leaving only the memory of the spectacle.
  • 👹 The titan of the group, Amorphophallus titanum, can soar over 10 feet tall. But its cousin in this video, Amorphophallus paeoniifolius, is just as fascinating. It rises from a giant underground corm (which is actually edible in Asia), then sends up either one surreal flower or one umbrella-like leaf as big as a small tree.
  • 👹 Season after season, it alternates between leaf and bloom, keeping its mysterious cycle alive. Hardy enough to rest through winter dormancy, it can even be grown in a pot at home.


🎥 Amorphophallus paeoniifolius (campanulatus) - Voodoo lily

🛒 Discover more of Amorphophallus - rare and enigmatic plants

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👍 Who was your grandpa?

Macaron: "My grandpa was a Snow Leopard!"
Jim II: "My grandpa was a Teddy Bear..."

🐈📸 Cats Macaron and Jim II bragging about their family history at TopTropicals PeopleCats.Garden 

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Zero Sugar fruit: forget lemonade - new perfect summer drink discovered! A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Costa Rican Guava, Cas Guava - Psidium friedrichsthalianum

Zero Sugar fruit: forget lemonade - new perfect summer drink discovered!
  • 🍋 Costa Rican Guava, or Cas Guava (Psidium friedrichsthalianum) is the boldest fruit you can grow for refreshing drinks. Its flavor is sharp, tangy, and unforgettable - perfect for anyone who loves acidic fruit. Cas Guava has sugar at all, unless you decide to add some.
  • 🍋 The trees are super prolific - even young ones fruit heavily, and we make gallons of juice at Top Tropicals.
  • 🍋 The best part? You can freeze the fruit or boil it into a concentrate with a bit of sugar. That drink lasts in the fridge for months without going bad, thanks to Cas Guava’s natural antibacterial punch.
  • 🍋 Cas Guava juice is Costa Rica’s traditional Agua de Cas - tart, refreshing, and perfect for summer heat. And if you save enough, you’ll still be sipping it through the winter.


♨️ Agua de Cas Quick Recipe
We boiled this fruit and the drink lasted for months!
  • ▫️Boil halved fruits in water with sugar to taste
  • ▫️Simmer 5-10 minutes, let sit, then mash the softened fruit to release all the flavor
  • ▫️Strain through a colander, bottle, and refrigerate - just dilute with water when serving


✔️ Why choose Cas Guava?
  • • Packed with vitamin C - four times more than lemons - for a powerful immune boost.
  • • Rich in antioxidants to combat stress and inflammation.
  • • Hardy and low-maintenance, thriving in poor soils and resisting pests.


🛒 Grow your own Cas Guava

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