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Summer Plant Market Extravaganza:
Event Mementos!

Plant Market Extravaganza Event Mementos

The event was fantastic! Thank you all for joining us at our Plant Market Extravaganza yesterday. We loved meeting new garden enthusiasts and reconnecting with old friends. Everyone found plants they adored, adding joy to their gardens. Many visitors enjoyed the garden tours led by Top Tropicals PeopleCats. Check out the event photos and our - you might spot yourself or your friends! Share these treasured moments, and we'll see you at the next event.

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Happy Father's Day - June 16! A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Happy Fathers Day - June 16!

Happy Fathers Day - June 16!
Happy Father's Day - June 16!

❤️ Have a perfect day with dear friends, loving family, and healthy meals.

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The truth about Papaya: A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

The truth about Papaya:

Papaya fruit

Papaya fruit

Papaya tree with fruit

Papaya tree with fruit

Papaya fruit

Papaya fruit

Papaya trees

🍊 The truth about Papaya:
1) it is grass, and
2) it can go transgender!
The secret facts of Papaya's private life.
  • 📌 Did you know that Papaya technically is not a tree? It is a large herbaceous plant, usually with a single, straight trunk that can reach 30 feet!
  • 📌 Many dwarf varieties available in selection, reaching only 6-8 ft tall, but producing large crops of full size fruit - they are easy to harvest.
  • 📌 Papaya trees have very complex gender mechanism, but the bottom line is - the tree can chance its sex based on conditions! Many varieties are self-fertile, but it always recommended to plant a few trees for cross-pollination and better yield.
  • 📌 The sweetest Papaya is from so called "Solo" cultivars: the fruit is usually round or oval, on a smaller side, but super sweet.
  • 📌 Fruit from Solo cultivars are not susceptible to fruit flies.
  • 📌 Being officially a tropical plant, Papaya is pretty cold resistant and can withstand light freeze without significant damage.
  • 📌 Surprisingly, Papayas are also hurricane-resistant plants and can take strong winds without damage. They still stand when other trees are down!
  • 📌 Papaya is one of the Super-Foods thanks to papain - a natural enzyme containing in this fruit. Papaya fruit offers the best digestive aid! Eat some papaya after each meal to maintain healthy digestion.
  • 📌 Try papaya leaf wraps for cooking meats - you won't need a meat tenderizer!
  • 📌 Easy to grow trees, Papayas don't take any space in the garden, but bring so much goodness into your life!


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Do you want an unusual flowering plant for a shady spot? Panama Queen is the winner! A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Do you want an unusual flowering plant for a shady spot? Panama Queen is the winner!

Aphelandra sinclairiana - Panama Queen

👑 Do you want an unusual flowering plant for a shady spot? Panama Queen is the winner! 🏆

❓ What is your favorite shade plant? Share in comments👇

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Stop! Don't touch! Just smell that magic fragrance. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Stop! Dont touch! Just smell that magic fragrance

Easter Lily Cactus (Echinopsis sp)

🌵 Stop! Don't touch! Just smell that magic fragrance... 😭
  • 💠 Easter Lily Cactus (Echinopsis sp) is native to Brazil and Argentina. It is a globular cactus that produces splendid night-blooming, white fragrant flowers up to 10" long!
  • 💠 Big, white or pink, fragrant blooms.
  • 💠 Flowers open at night or early morning, creating a magical experience.
  • 💠 Blooms last only a day or two, making each one special.
  • 💠 Cool shapes: unique, spiny, ribbed bodies come in different forms and sizes.
  • 💠 Easy Care: low-maintenance, very little water, lots of sunlight, and well-draining soil. Adapted to survive in harsh, dry environments, it can take both drought (obviously - cactus) and rainy seasons (like we have in Florida).
  • 💠 Great for water-saving gardens and container culture.
  • 💠 Many species and hybrids to collect, with a range of colors and forms.


❓ What other cactus species with fragrant flowers do you know? Share in comments👇

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Top 5 recommended vigorous Mango tree varieties, reliable producers. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Top 5 recommended vigorous Mango tree varieties, reliable producers

Mango Glenn

Mango Glenn

Mango Pim Seng Mun

Mango Pim Seng Mun

Mango Sweet Tart

Mango Sweet Tart

Mango Fruit Punch

Mango Fruit Punch

Mango Orange Sherbet

Mango Orange Sherbet

Top 5 recommended vigorous Mango tree varieties, reliable producers.
  • 🟠 1. Glenn - Excellent eating quality, consistent production, and effortless to grow.
  • 🟠 2. Pim Seng Mun - extremely productive mango.
  • 🟠 3. Sweet Tart - New patented variety - exclusive offer.
  • 🟠 4. Fruit Punch - Multi fruit flavor, delicious!
  • 🟠 5. Orange Sherbet - One of the best new varieties for backyard growing. Flavor is sweet citrus-orange and less lemony than Lemon Meringue mango. The tree is moderately vigorous.


❓What is your favorite Mango variety? Share in comments 👇

📝 See also earlier posts:
5 most Favorite Mango Varieties
Top 10 Dwarf "Condo" Mango

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This is not a Photoshop! It is a true color of Plumeria. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

This is not a Photoshop! It is a true color of Plumeria

Rainbow Plumeria

🌈 This is not a Photoshop! It is a true color of Plumeria. Such multi-color varieties are called Rainbow Plumeria.

The season started and we have lots of fragrant and colorful blooms on our Plumerias that we introduced earlier.

Some of the colors are just beyond description!

Plumeria, or Frangipani - is a symbol of Hawaiian Tropics and the most favorite perfume flower.

🛒 Choose from fantastic colors of Plumeria

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2 most favorite flowering trees for small yards. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

2 most favorite flowering trees for small yards

2 most favorite flowering trees for small yards 2 most favorite flowering trees for small yards 2 most favorite flowering trees for small yards 2 most favorite flowering trees for small yards
🌸 2 most favorite flowering trees for small yards

❓ What tree to plant when you have a limited space? Two winners under 20 ft will fit any garden setting:

💛 Tabebuia chrysotricha - Dwarf Golden Tabebuia

💗 Tabebuia impetiginosa - Dwarf Pink Tabebuia

  • ✔️ These two small trees are spectacular bloomers in late winter to spring. The leafless trees are covered with bright flowers - yellow and pink. The flowers cover these trees completely, before new leaves appear.

  • ✔️ They both are great or container culture. Perfect for small yard or patio.

  • ✔️ Hardy and easy to grow.


🎥 Video of spectacular Tabebuia bloom in earlier post

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2 most favorite flowering trees for small yards. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

2 most favorite flowering trees for small yards

Tabebuia chrysotricha - Dwarf Golden Tabebuia tree

Tabebuia chrysotricha - Dwarf Golden Tabebuia tree

Tabebuia chrysotricha - Dwarf Golden Tabebuia flowers

Tabebuia chrysotricha - Dwarf Golden Tabebuia flowers

Tabebuia impetiginosa - Dwarf Pink Tabebuia tree

Tabebuia impetiginosa - Dwarf Pink Tabebuia tree

Tabebuia impetiginosa - Dwarf Pink Tabebuia flowers

Tabebuia impetiginosa - Dwarf Pink Tabebuia flowers

🌸 2 most favorite flowering trees for small yards

❓ What tree to plant when you have a limited space? Two winners under 20 ft will fit any garden setting:

💛 Tabebuia chrysotricha - Dwarf Golden Tabebuia

💗 Tabebuia impetiginosa - Dwarf Pink Tabebuia
  • ✔️ These two small trees are spectacular bloomers in late winter to spring. The leafless trees are covered with bright flowers - yellow and pink. The flowers cover these trees completely, before new leaves appear.
  • ✔️ They both are great or container culture. Perfect for small yard or patio.
  • ✔️ Hardy and easy to grow.


🎥 Video of spectacular Tabebuia bloom in earlier post

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The truth about Ladybugs in your garden life. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

The truth about Ladybugs in your garden life

The truth about Ladybugs in your garden life The truth about Ladybugs in your garden life The truth about Ladybugs in your garden life
🐞 The truth about Ladybugs in your garden life

❓ Q: I have Ladybugs in my garden, I wonder if they are eating my plants? Do I need to get rid of them?

  • 🐞 Ladybug (Harmonia axyridis) is, in fact, one of the best insects you can find in your garden, it is a natural predator that takes care of many bad bugs, including aphids

  • 🐞 Keep Ladybugs happy and bring them to your garden!

  • 🐞 Ladybugs actually are cultivated as natural pest control, and you can even buy them for your yard, instead of chemicals!


📸
1. Love life of Ladybugs
2. Ladybug larvae eating aphids.
3. One of our #PeopleCats, "innocent" Ladybug (a.k.a. Bug) is wondering who else she can bug next...

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