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🌸 Fun Facts About the Guava Flower

• 🌸 Frilly and Fabulous - Guava flowers may be small, but they're packed with fluffy white stamens that give them a soft, powder-puff look.
• 🌸 Pollinator Magnet - Bees and butterflies love guava blooms, making them a great addition to a pollinator-friendly garden.
• 🌸 Scent-sational - The flowers have a light, pleasant fragrance that adds a touch of sweetness before the fruit even arrives.
• 🌸 Bloom to Fruit - Each flower can turn into a delicious guava fruit, making them both beautiful and productive.
• 🌸 Part of the Showy Family - Guava (Psidium) belongs to the Myrtaceae family, which also includes eye-catching bloomers like Eucalyptus, Bottlebrush (Callistemon), and the stunning Rose Apple (Syzygium).

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🍓 What does the Strawberry Tree look like?

• 🔴 Strawberry Tree, (Muntingia calabura) also known as Cotton Candy Fruit, is a super fast-growing tree with a beautiful, dense, umbrella-like canopy.
• 🔴 Despite the name, its fruit doesn't taste like strawberries - but rather like cotton candy! Sweet, melt-in-your-mouth flavor with no acidity, making it a favorite among both kids and adults.
• 🔴 The tree gets its name from its pretty white flowers, which resemble those of a strawberry plant.

📚 Lean more from previous posts:
What is better - Strawberry or Strawberry Tree Fruit?
Why Strawberry Tree is called Cotton Candy
What fruit tree will produce right away?

🛒 Grow Sweetness – Plant the Tree Kids Love!

#Food_Forest #Discover

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🍴 That's my Tamarind!

Bob is thinking of a Tamarind recipe after harvesting in previous post⤴️

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Don't miss out: Rare Sweet Tamarind - Seeds Planted!

• 🌱 We just harvested fruit from our young Vietnamese Pink Sweet Tamarind tree that we planted less than a year ago (see earlier post), and seeds are already planted!
• 🌱 Expect young trees of this rare, sweet variety (item#3497) in a few months.
• 🌱 Want one? Add it to your Wish List now!

You'll get an instant email alert when it's back in stock, along with current inventory and number of requests.
• 🌱 First come, first served – don't miss your chance! More info on wishlist here.

📚 Learn more from previous posts:
How long does it take for Tamarind fruit to ripen?
Top 10 fruit you'll ever need for your health benefits: #7 Tamarind
Tamarind Chutney Recipe
How productive is Tamarind
Tamarind's pretty flowers

🛒Grow your own Tamarind Tree

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🗓 This Jasmine Blooms 365 Days a Year - And It Smells Divine!

• 🌹 Looking for a jasmine that blooms nonstop and smells absolutely divine? Jasminum dichotomum, the rare Rose Bud Jasmine, also known as Everblooming Jasmine - has the fragrance that never quits!
• 🌹 Dark rose-pink buds open into pure white, perfumed flowers - year-round!
• 🌹 Glossy ornamental foliage creates the perfect contrast.
• 🌹 Covers fences, trellises, or arches in one season!
• 🌹 Cold-tolerant, fast-growing, and ridiculously easy to grow.
• 🌹 This isn’t just another jasmine - it's a rare collector’s favorite that delivers nonstop fragrance.
• 🌹 Who wouldn't want a jasmine that smells like heaven and flowers every day?

🛒 Snag Your Rose Bud Jasmine Now – Before It Sells Out!

📚 Lean more from previous posts:
What jasmine blooms year around?
Perfumed Rose Bud, but not a Rose?

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⭕️ Why PeopleCats?

"One cat just leads to another..." - Ernest Hemingway

Most PlantPeople are also PetPeople, and many of them are CatPeople - people who have PeopleCats!

Here @TopTropicals, we find that combination both fun and incredibly productive in the garden! Currently, we have over 30 cats across our two locations - each one rescued, with many of them coming from uncertain beginnings, lucky to have found their sweet home with us.

At TopTropicals Garden Center, we're proud to be a cat-friendly plant facility. Our cats play an integral role in our daily routine, showering us with love and even making us better people. Our team takes great care of them, with cat care being part of their daily tasks.

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Come visit us in purr-son and make friends with our #PeopleCats!

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🚩 Top 3 Fastest-Growing Red-Leaf Bananas – Add Bold Color to Your Garden!

💅 Looking for instant tropical flair? These red-leaf bananas are among the fastest-growing and most eye-catching ornamentals you can grow. Perfect for pots, patios, or planting in the ground - they grow fast, look exotic, and bring bold color to your space. Best of all, they're low maintenance and cold-tolerant!

• 🔥 Banana Red Leaf, Musa x sumatrana - Stunning maroon undersides and variegated green-and-red leaves. Compact in containers (3–5 ft) or dramatic in the ground (up to 8 ft). A true showpiece.
• 🔥 Blood Leaf, Musa x sumatrana Zebrina Rojo - Rich burgundy splashes across green foliage, with small red fruit. Loves containers and adapts well to cooler zones.
• 🔥 Bordelon, Red Striped - Hardy and tall (10–15 ft!), with striking red-striped foliage. A Louisiana native that flowers and fruits if protected in winter.

📚 More about ornamental Bananas:

• 💋Top Ornamental Banana Varieties - Which One Belongs in Your Garden?
• 💋Musa Zebrina Rojo - Blood Leaf Banana

🛒 Grow fast, grow bold – these sell out quickly!

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