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Guava: The Healthiest Fruit You Can Grow

Collage of guava varieties: pink, white, Cas, red Cattley, and golden 
Cattley guavas, shown as whole fruits, cut sections, and clusters on the 
tree.

Guava varieties: Pink flesh (upper left quarter), White flesh and Cas (upper right quarter), Red Cattley Guava (bottom left quarter) and Golden Cattley (bottom right quarter).

Let’s talk Guava. Few fruits check as many boxes: flavor, productivity, health, and adaptability. We’ve grown guava trees at Top Tropicals for years here in Florida, and it never fails to surprise people with how easy it is — and how quickly it rewards you.

🌿 Health Benefits

We know the first question: "Why guava in addition to all the other fruit trees I could plant?" Because guava is one of the healthiest tropical fruits you can eat and grow — and it produces faster than almost anything else.

  • Vitamin C powerhouse — guava has four times more vitamin C than oranges. One fruit covers your daily needs and then some.
  • Potassium and fiber — good for balancing blood pressure and keeping your heart strong.
  • Antioxidants like lycopene and vitamin C — these keep your skin glowing and help protect your cells from damage.
  • Dietary fiber — aids digestion and helps keep blood sugar steady.
  • Guava is a true "food as medicine" tree you can plant right in your backyard or in pot.

♥️ Our Favorite Varieties are Available Now

We currently have a DOZEN excellent guava varieties in stock selected by our plant expert Tatiana Anderson — something special for every garden. Our top picks are:

Pink Guavas

  • Barbie Pink – Yellow pear-shaped fruit with thick pink flesh, sweet and juicy. Cold hardy for a tropical fruit. The best seller.
  • Hong Kong – Large, round, smooth pink fruit. Sweet flavor, very few seeds, and very productive.
  • Tikal – Our top pick. Fast-growing, disease-resistant, and produces the sweetest pink guavas with very few seeds.

White Guavas

  • Indonesian White – Aromatic, classic white-fleshed guava with an excellent tropical flavor.
  • Kilo White – Giant fruit up to 2 lbs (1 kilo) each! Few seeds, creamy white flesh, and fruits even in containers.

Compact/Dwarf

Dwarf Guava Hawaiian Rainbow tree with dense green foliage, inset 
showing pink-fleshed guava fruit with 
seeds.

Dwarf Guava Hawaiian Rainbow

Specialty Varieties

Cas Guava fruits on tree, with ripe yellow and unripe green fruit, one 
cut open to show pale flesh. Traditional Costa Rican Agua de Cas 
fruit.

Cas Guava with zero sugar for Costa Rican Agua de Cas drink

  • Cas Guava – Bold, tangy, almost zero sugar. The traditional Costa Rican Agua de Cas drink comes from this fruit. Cold hardy.
  • Hawaiian Gold, Yellow Strawberry Guava – The sweetest Strawberry Guava, golden fruit, great for fresh eating and drinks.
  • Brazilian Araca Pera – Rare hybrid used for Guava Wine in Brazil. Tart, concentrated juice makes excellent wine, sorbet, or jelly. Learn more...
  • Pineapple Guava, Guavasteen – Feijoa sellowiana. Strongly perfumed fruit, best enjoyed when the pulp is mixed with sugar – like forest strawberries. Cold-hardy, tolerates freeze, and doubles as a great windbreak. Learn more...

Pineapple Guava (Feijoa sellowiana) fruit and flowers. Green oval fruit
 with soft aromatic flesh, and white-red blossoms with long 
stamens

Pineapple Guava, Guavasteen – Feijoa sellowiana

Every one of these thrives here in Florida or in warm climate. Some are better in pots, some as landscape trees, but all produce generously.

🎥 Watch short videos about Guava:

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Just be my friend. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Just be my friend

Cats Cash and Bob

Cats Cash and Bob

🐈 Just be my friend

"Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead. Walk beside me… just be my friend."
- Albert Camus

🐈📸 Cats Cash and Bob are buddies at TopTropicals PeopleCats.Garden.

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How do we ship plants? Part 2: packing in the box. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

How do we ship plants? Part 2: packing in the box

How do we ship plants? Part 2: packing in the box.

🚚 How do we ship plants? Part 2: packing in the box.
  • 📦 In the previous video (Part 1: prepare the plant), we showed you how to prepare a plant for shipping.

  • Now comes the most important step - boxing it up!
  • 📦 We’ll show you how to place the plant in the box, keep it snug and secure, and make sure i'’s ready for a safe trip from our nursery to your door.
  • 📦 Watch out for shipping confirmation email to avoid your package sitting on a hot porch or freezing doorstep.


🎥 Part 2 shows you how to pack a plant.

❗️Stay tuned - the final step is coming in Part 3!

🛒 Shop plants online

📚 Learn more:
Shipping information page

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Don't judge -wait till you see her purr-sonal space. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Dont judge -wait till you see her purr-sonal space

Cat Scooby

🙄Don't judge… wait till you see her purr-sonal space

Don't judge. It's called purr-sonal space!

🐈📸 Cat Scooby sits where she fits at Top Tropicals PeopleCats.Garden

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Tequila Sunrise Hibiscus breaks the rules. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Tequila Sunrise Hibiscus breaks the rules

Hibiscus El Capitolio Tequila Sunrise

Hibiscus El Capitolio Tequila Sunrise

Tuxedo cat Smoky and Orange Cat Sunshine enjoying Tequila Sunrise

Tuxedo cat Smoky and Orange Cat Sunshine enjoying Tequila Sunrise

🍸 Tequila Sunrise Hibiscus breaks the rules
  • 🌅 Hibiscus El Capitolio Tequila Sunrise is a cousin of Hibiscus El Capitolio Bloody Mary we introduced earlier. El Capitolio is an unusual type of Hibiscus with a graceful, fountain-like growth habit and unique pendant, double-skirted blooms
  • 🌅 Tequila Sunrise has warm peach-orange tones, often with soft pink highlights. The pom-pom-like flowers stand out against glossy green foliage, adding a bright, exotic touch to the garden.
  • 🌅 Blooming from summer through fall, this hardy hibiscus thrives in full sun to partial shade, tolerates heat, drought, salt, and even wet soils. A fast grower reaching 5-10 ft, it's perfect as a showy specimen, hedge, or container plant in USDA zones 9-11.


🛒 Shop Hibiscus plants

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Appearances. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Appearances

Appearances
👍Appearances

"Appearances are often deceiving." - Aesop

🐈📸 Cat Shaka's new fashion outfit. Top Tropicals PeopleCats.Garden

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How do we ship plants? Part 1: prepare the plant. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

How do we ship plants? Part 1: prepare the plant

How do we ship plants? Part 1: prepare the plant.

🚚 How do we ship plants? Part 1: prepare the plant.
  • 📦 We hear it all the time: "You guys ship plants? Wow! How do you ship a plant? It's... live!"
  • 📦 Well, we've been doing it for almost 25 years now - that's a quarter of a century! Top Tropicals was one of the first nurseries to figure out plant shipping, long before Amazon and all the big online platforms where today you can order just about anything.
  • 📦 After so many years, our Team worked it to perfection. Want to see how it's done?
  • 📦 Like they say, it's better to see once than hear a hundred times. In this video, we'll show you the tricks that keep plants safe on their journey from our nursery to your doorstep.


🎥 Part 1 covers how we prepare the plant before it goes into the box.

❗️Stay tuned for the next step in our upcoming video!

🛒 Shop plants online

📚 Learn more:
Shipping information page

#How_to

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Your own little world. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Your own little world

Cat Bob

Cat Bob

🐱 Your own little world

"Everyone ought to have their own little world to protect them from the larger world."
- Erich Maria Remarque

🐈📸 Cat Bob found his little safe spot at TopTropicals PeopleCats.Garden.

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Green Magic effect: before and after. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Green Magic effect: before and after

Green Magic effect: before and after Green Magic effect: before and after Green Magic effect: before and after
🌳 Green Magic effect: before and after

Green Magic test results: before and after application.
Are you still thinking? Try it out! (Sample here)

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The SECRET growers never tell you: simple trick how to bring plants back to life and keep green. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

The SECRET growers never tell you: simple trick how to bring plants back to life and keep green

Green Magic Fetilizer makes plants green

🌳 The SECRET growers never tell you: simple trick how to bring plants back to life and keep green
  • 💚 Green Magic is plant food that really works. It keeps your plants green, strong, and growing steady.
  • 💚 We call it Magic - because it even brought back plants we thought were gone! So thу Green Magic can bring dead to live!
  • 💚 The secret is slow release. Most dry fertilizers dump everything at once, burn the roots, then disappear. Green Magic feeds little by little for six months straight. No burn, no guesswork, just steady food that plants love.
  • 💚 It's perfect for potted fruit trees, ornamentals, and houseplants. One handful is all it takes, and your plants stay fed for half a year.

  • ✔️How to use:

  • Mix in 1 teaspoon per gallon of soil when potting, or sprinkle on top once every six months. That's it!
  • ✔️ Why it works:

  • ▫️Feeds slowly and evenly for six months
  • ▫️Keeps leaves green and plants healthy
  • ▫️Strong growth, even for weak or struggling plants
  • ▫️Works in any climate, indoors or out
  • ▫️Great for containers, trees, and ornamentals
  • ▫️This isn’t a flower booster. It’s a growth booster. The kind of steady food that builds strong plants for life.

  • 👉 Watch your plants come back to life and thrive with this professional-grade, controlled-release fertilizer - Green Magic. Even struggling plants can turn lush and green again.

  • Give it a try - your plants will thank you!


🛒 Buy once, feed for 6 months!

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