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

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🍸 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.


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Appearances. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Appearances
👍Appearances

"Appearances are often deceiving." - Aesop

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

#Quotes #PeopleCats

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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.
  • 📦 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!

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Shipping information page

#How_to

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

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.

#Quotes #PeopleCats

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

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🌳 Green Magic effect: before and after

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

#Fertilizers #How_to
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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.

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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#Fertilizers #How_to
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Chat GPT first edition 20 years ago. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

GPT first edition 2005

GPT first edition 2005

💻Chat GPT first edition 20 years ago

We didn't know all truth until discovered this in old photo archives

🐈📸 2005 photo from TopTropicals PeopleCats.Garden archives.

#PeopleCats

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8 best flowering trees that will bloom for you in Winter. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Royal poinciana - Flamboyant tree, Delonix regia (top) Tabebuia impetiginosa - Dwarf Pink Tabebuia (left) Tabebuia chrysotricha - Dwarf Golden Tabebuia (right) Bauhinia variegata - Pink Butterfly Orchid Tree (center top left) Koelreuteria paniculata

Royal poinciana - Flamboyant tree, Delonix regia (top) Tabebuia impetiginosa - Dwarf Pink Tabebuia (left) Tabebuia chrysotricha - Dwarf Golden Tabebuia (right) Bauhinia variegata - Pink Butterfly Orchid Tree (center top left) Koelreuteria paniculata - Golden Rain Tree (center top right) Callistemon citrinus - Weeping Red Bottlebrush (center bottom left) Bauhinia blakeana - Hong Kong Orchid Tree (center bottom right) Jacaranda mimosifolia (acutifolia) (bottom)

💐 8 best flowering trees that will bloom for you in Winter

📸 Pictures for the previous post:

Royal poinciana - Flamboyant tree, Delonix regia (top)
Tabebuia impetiginosa - Dwarf Pink Tabebuia (left)
Tabebuia chrysotricha - Dwarf Golden Tabebuia (right)
Bauhinia variegata - Pink Butterfly Orchid Tree (center top left)
Koelreuteria paniculata - Golden Rain Tree (center top right)
Callistemon citrinus - Weeping Red Bottlebrush (center bottom left)
Bauhinia blakeana - Hong Kong Orchid Tree (center bottom right)
Jacaranda mimosifolia (acutifolia) (bottom)

🛒 Plant a tree now for winter flowers

#Trees #Discover

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Eight most spectacular winter blooming trees. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Eight most spectacular winter blooming trees

💐 Eight most spectacular winter blooming trees

🍁 Fall is the right time to get winter bloomers in the ground. Plant them now, and by the time the cool season settles in, you’ll have flowers to enjoy. We get a lot of snowbirds asking us what to plant when they’re here for just the season, and the answer is simple: pick trees and shrubs that show off in winter!

🏆 8 best flowering trees that will bloom for you in Winter
  • 💐1. Royal poinciana - Flamboyant tree, Delonix regia

    • Known for fiery red-orange blooms, the flamboyant tree creates a spectacular canopy. Even in the cooler season, mature specimens may flower heavily in warm climates.

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  • 💐2. Tabebuia chrysotricha - Dwarf Golden Tabebuia

    • One of the brightest winter bloomers, this small tree bursts into golden-yellow flowers on bare branches, turning the whole crown into a glowing dome.

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  • 💐3. Tabebuia impetiginosa - Dwarf Pink Tabebuia

    • A smaller tabebuia with trumpet-shaped pink to lavender blooms. Its leafless winter display is striking and well-suited for compact gardens.

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  • 💐4. Jacaranda mimosifolia (acutifolia)

    • Famous for its lavender-blue clouds of trumpet flowers, Jacaranda puts on a dramatic show even when most trees are bare. Perfect for lining streets or as a specimen tree.

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  • 💐5. Koelreuteria paniculata (bipinnata) - Golden Rain Tree

    • This tree stands out in winter with clusters of golden flowers followed by papery lantern-like seed pods. It’s ornamental in every stage, even when not in full bloom.

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  • 💐6. Callistemon citrinus - Weeping Red Bottlebrush

    • Its crimson brush-like flowers appear in flushes during the cooler months. This tree is tough, drought-tolerant, and attracts pollinators while keeping color in the winter garden.

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  • 💐7. Bauhinia variegata - Pink Butterfly Orchid Tree

    • Soft pink to lavender blooms open on leafless branches in the cool season. The butterfly-shaped petals make this tree both graceful and eye-catching.

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💐8. Bauhinia blakeana - Hong Kong Orchid Tree
A sterile hybrid that doesn’t produce seed, this tree is prized for its huge magenta flowers that cover bare branches in winter. Rare and highly ornamental, it’s a true collector’s tree.

🛒 Plant a tree now for winter flowers

#Trees #Discover

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Dragon fruit coconut parfait: quick-n-fun exotic recipes. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Dragon fruit coconut parfait

Dragon fruit coconut parfait

🍴 Dragon fruit coconut parfait: quick-n-fun exotic recipes
  • 🔵Layer Dragon Fruit cubes with coconut cream and toasted granola.
  • 🔵A tropical breakfast that looks neon and tastes fresh!


🛒 Explore Dragon Fruit varieties

#Food_Forest #Recipes

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