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Ricki and Bob - always on top. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Ricki and Bob - always on top

Ricki and Bob the cats

⬆️ Ricki and Bob - always on top

"When you get to the top of the mountain, you can see the whole world." - Hodja Nasreddin

🐈📸 Ricki and Bob are on top of computer work at TopTropicals

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Bright, bold, and edible: Variegated Chaya. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Bright, bold, and edible: Variegated Chaya

Leaves of Variegated Maya Spinach Tree

Leaves of Variegated Maya Spinach Tree

Variegated Maya Spinach Tree growing in pot

Variegated Maya Spinach Tree growing in pot

🌱 Bright, bold, and edible: Variegated Chaya
  • 🌿 Cnidoscolus aconitifolius variegatus, known as Chaya "Jatropha" or Variegated Maya Spinach Tree, is a rare gem for gardeners who crave both beauty and function. On top of health benefits of regular Chaya we mentioned earlier, this one is also a rare spectacular ornamental!
  • 🌿 With its striking, creamy-splashed fan-shaped leaves and sculptural form, this plant brings dramatic texture to sunny landscapes or large containers. And as a bonus, it sends up charming clusters of white flowers!
  • 🌿 More than just a looker, it's a productive perennial too - its leaves, once cooked, are a nutritious green similar to spinach. Just don't eat them raw.
  • 🌿 This drought-tolerant shrub thrives in sun, asks for little more than space to grow, and rewards you with year-round color and character. Whether you grow it for food, flair, or both, the Variegated Chaya is an unforgettable addition to your garden.


🛒 Add rare beauty and purpose to your garden

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Chaya's health benefits: a must-have tropical leafy vegetable for sustainable gardening

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Get the Red Jade look without the fuss: cold-hardy Dwarf Red Jade Vine. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Get the Red Jade look without the fuss: cold-hardy Dwarf Red Jade Vine

Dwarf Red Jade Vine blooming

Dwarf Red Jade Vine blooming

Dwarf Red Jade Vine blooming

Dwarf Red Jade Vine blooming

💃 Get the Red Jade look without the fuss: cold-hardy Dwarf Red Jade Vine
  • 🔥 Love the stunning, fiery blooms of the famous Red Jade Vine (Mucuna benettii) but live outside the tropics?

    • Its cousin - Dwarf Red Jade Vine - is tougher, easier to grow, and just as jaw-dropping, and delivers the same dazzling display of blazing red flower chains - without the high-maintenance, ultra-tropical demands.
  • 🔥 Camptosema grandiflora - Dwarf Red Jade Vine, Cuitelo, or Rooster's Crest - this Brazilian superstar brings cascading chains of bright red blooms that look like flames frozen in mid-air.
  • 🔥 Unlike the ultra-tropical and finicky Mucuna benettii, this cousin is tougher, easier to grow, and just as jaw-dropping. It thrives in full to partial sun, forgives a little drought, and even shrugs off light frost. Blooming in fall and winter, it gives your garden a fiery finale when everything else starts to fade.
  • 🔥 Got a pergola or arbor? Perfect. The hanging flower clusters will light up the space like a botanical chandelier. Just prune it hard in spring and feed it well, and it will thank you with a blooming spectacle year after year.
  • 🔥 If you've been dreaming of the iconic Red Jade Vine but thought it was out of reach - this is your sign.


🛒 Get all the wow of Red Jade Vine - without the worry

📚 Learn more:
Camptosema grandiflora, Dwarf Red Jade Vine - my favorite plant

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Bob is keeping the balance. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Bob is keeping the balance

Bob the cat

😰 Bob is keeping the balance

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving." - Albert Einstein

🐈📸 Bob is always prepared! Even in his sleep at PeopleCats.Garden 

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This is what we discovered inside Jackedak - the biggest fruit on earth! A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

This is what we discovered inside Jackedak - the biggest fruit on earth!

Cheena - Jackfruit x Chempedak (Artocarpus x integer)

🍈 This is what we discovered inside Jackedak - the biggest fruit on earth!
  • 🍐Meet Jackedak - the superstar of the jackfruit world!
  • 🍐Originally grown from a seedling of Cheena (Jackfruit x Chempedak, Artocarpus x integer), this TopTropicals hybrid fruited in just 3 years and blew us away with its flavor.
  • 🍐Each massive fruit (20-25 inches!) is super sweet, crunchy, and rich, with hardly any latex - making it easy to prep and impossible to resist.
  • 🍐 Jackedak is also a garden hero: it fruits low on the trunk, so you can keep it short and tidy, and it's survived both light frost and 48 hours under 3 feet of floodwater during hurricane Irma in 2017, without breaking a sweat.
  • 🍐 If you want the best-tasting jackfruit hybrid we've ever tried, Jackedak is the one!


📚 Learn more from previous posts:

🛒 Buy Jackedak Cheena Tree - Delivered to Your Door

#Food_Forest #Jackfruit

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Have you seen a rare Golden Tulip Tree? A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Have you seen a rare Golden Tulip Tree?

Have you seen a rare Golden Tulip Tree? Have you seen a rare Golden Tulip Tree? Have you seen a rare Golden Tulip Tree? Have you seen a rare Golden Tulip Tree?
🌷Have you seen a rare Golden Tulip Tree?

📸 More photos of Spathodea campanulata - African Tulip Tree - for the previous post.

🛒 Grow your tulips on a tree

#Nature_Wonders #Trees

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Have you seen a rare Golden Tulip Tree? A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Have you seen a rare Golden Tulip Tree?

Golden Tulip Tree

Golden Tulip Tree

Golden Tulip Tree

Golden Tulip Tree

Red Tulip Tree

Red Tulip Tree

Red Tulip Tree

Red Tulip Tree

🌷Have you seen a rare Golden Tulip Tree?

📸 More photos of Spathodea campanulata - African Tulip Tree - for the previous post.

🛒 Grow your tulips on a tree

#Nature_Wonders #Trees

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Tulips growing on a tree! A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Tulips growing on a tree!

🌷Tulips growing on a tree!

🌷 Spathodea campanulata - African Tulip Tree - is in bloom at Top Tropicals Garden several times a year. We have both red and yellow varieties. Yellow is very rare! See more photos of Yellow Tulip Tree on our website and in the next post.

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Why everyone loves these tulips growing on a tree

🛒 Grow your tulips on a tree

#Nature_Wonders #Trees

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Tulips growing on a tree! A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Tulips growing on a tree!

African Tulip Tree blooming

🌷Tulips growing on a tree!

🌷 Spathodea campanulata - African Tulip Tree - is in bloom at Top Tropicals Garden several times a year. We have both red and yellow varieties. Yellow is very rare! See more photos of Yellow Tulip Tree on our website and in the next post.

📚 Learn more:
Why everyone loves these tulips growing on a tree

🛒 Grow your tulips on a tree

Spathodea campanulata - African Tulip Tree, yellow flower #Nature_Wonders #Trees

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It's not where you live, it's who you live with! A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Its not where you live, its who you live with!

Cats Bob and Cash

⬆️ It's not where you live, it's who you live with!

"Love at can make even the darkest places bearable." - Hedy Lamarr

🐈📸 Bob and Cash hanging out in a cage, out of all places at PeopleCats.Garden!

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