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Banana skillet fritters: quick-n-fun exotic recipes. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Banana skillet fritters: quick-n-fun exotic recipes

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🍴 Banana skillet fritters: quick-n-fun exotic recipes

  • 🟡Mash a ripe banana with a spoon of flour.
  • 🟡Pan-sear little spoonfuls until crisp outside and caramelized.


🛒 Explore Banana Varieties

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📱 Why every garden needs a banana tree

#Food_Forest #Recipes #Bananas

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🎄 Holiday Plant Market:
Saturday, Dec 13, 2025, 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM 🎉

Smokey the tuxedo cat and Sunshine the ginger cat sitting at a table, studying a Holiday Plant Market flyer with a notepad, coffee cup, and donut.

Smokey: We invited people, so we need to be prepared for the crowd.
Sunshine: I am prepared. I saw yummy donuts on the flyer.
Smokey: Of course you did, genius. You are responsible for donuts and coffee.

It is almost here. Our big end-of-season Plant Day. All year we grow the rare and unusual plants that will be featured at this event, and Saturday is the day they finally meet their new homes. The garden turns into a small holiday escape: fresh air, bright colors, music, snacks, and the PeopleCats greeting everyone like they have known you for years.

Meet PeopleCats crew in charge

TopTropicals CatPeople: cat King
King
TopTropicals CatPeople: cat King
Sushi
TopTropicals CatPeople: cat Snitch
Snitch
TopTropicals CatPeople: cat Paisley
Paisley
TopTropicals CatPeople: cat Persephone
Persephone
TopTropicals CatPeople: cat Loki
Loki

Why you should come

It is December in Florida - warm breeze, sunshine, and perfect planting weather. While the rest of the country is scraping frost off windshields, you're choosing which banana tree to take home. Come enjoy a colorful Saturday surrounded by plants, music, snacks, and friendly PeopleCats. This is your holiday escape, your plant-hunting adventure, and your chance to bring home something amazing before the season ends.

Not Local?

Not everyone is lucky enough to live close by. For our online customers, here is 20% for online orders:

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Valid for online orders only. Minimum order $120 (excluding shipping and handling). Cannot be combined with any other discounts, coupon codes, automatic promotions, or special offers. Not valid on previous purchases. One use per customer. Code must be entered at checkout. Offer valid through the end of Sunday, 12/14/2025

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Achieving the impossible. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Achieving the impossible

😆 Achieving the impossible

"Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible." - Miguel de Unamuno

🐈📸 Cat Pelmen - is an incredible achiever, a friend of TopTropicals PeopleCats.Garden.

#PeopleCats #Quotes

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December 13, 2025 - Holiday Plant Market! A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

December 13, 2025 - Holiday Plant Market!

🎉December 13, 2025 - Holiday Plant Market!

  • 🎄 It is almost here! Holiday Plant Market, proudly hosted by the #PeopleCats of TopTropicals.

    • Our big end-of-season Plant Day. All year we grow the rare and unusual plants that will be featured at this event, and Saturday is the day they finally meet their new homes. The garden turns into a small holiday escape: fresh air, bright colors, music, snacks, and the PeopleCats greeting everyone like they have known you for years.

  • 🎄 Why you should come

    • It is December in Florida - warm breeze, sunshine, and perfect planting weather. While the rest of the country is scraping frost off windshields, you're choosing which banana tree to take home. Come enjoy a colorful Saturday surrounded by plants, music, snacks, and friendly #PeopleCats. This is your holiday escape, your plant-hunting adventure, and your chance to bring home something amazing before the season ends.

  • 🎄 Holiday extras

- 30% OFF online prices
- FREE plant with purchase
- $5-10 specials
- Mini donuts and holiday treats
- Cold drinks, iced tea, citrus-infused water
- Tropical Christmas music playing all day
- Cat-guided tours from our PeopleCats (they know the garden better than we do) - Subject to Purrrson's schedule/availability
- Exciting Raffle prizes

  • 📱 Event discounts and specials valid at both locations:

✦ Ft Myers Garden Center: 13890 Orange River, Ft Myers, FL
✦ Sebring Farm: 9100 McRoy Rd, Sebring, FL

🎁 Learn more about this Event, Holiday deals and extras

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Meet Onika's. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Meet Onikas

Meet Onikas Meet Onikas
🕺 Meet Onika'scats: Fred

🐈📸 Meet Onika's cats from TopTropicals PeopleCats.Garden:
This is Fred - the most inquisitive and smartest of all her tuxedo cats! Fred is super smart. Very tough on the outside, but sweeter than a mango on the inside.

#PeopleCats

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The secret New Deal Franklin Roosevelt never told you about. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

The secret New Deal Franklin Roosevelt never told you about

🌸 The secret New Deal Franklin Roosevelt never told you about

  • 🌸 Schlumbergera x New Dealis not your regular Christmas cactus. Big blooms, long history. This heirloom flowers from Thanksgiving to Easter and descends from a plant first sold on the very day Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected.

    • This variety actually vanished from the trade for decades. Its first known appearance was at a rare plant sale at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden on November 8, 1932 - the exact day Franklin Roosevelt won the presidency and launched the famous New Deal. The name stuck, and so did the legend!

  • 🌸 What makes New Deal so special? The blooms are huge - about an inch larger than standard holiday cactus flowers - and come in brilliant violet-pink and white. And the timing is even better. It sends up a full flush around Thanksgiving and Christmas, then wakes up again with a second wave closer to Easter. That’s why some people call it a Thanksgiving cactus, others call it a Christmas cactus, and many insist it’s an Easter cactus. The truth? It’s all three.

  • 🌸 Despite its pedigree, New Deal is surprisingly easy to grow. It thrives in normal houseplant conditions, stays compact, and rewards even casual care with heavy, reliable blooming.

  • 🌸 The plants available today come from true descendant cuttings of an original 1932 specimen that is still alive. This makes New Deal one of the rarest, most authentic holiday cactus cultivars you can own - a living slice of history and one of the most generous bloomers of the entire holiday season.


🛒 Get the New Deal: the Thanksgiving-to-Easter bloomer

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#Container_Garden #Shade_Garden #Nature_Wonders

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Katuk coconut soup: quick-n-fun exotic recipes. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Katuk coconut soup: quick-n-fun exotic recipes

Katuk coconut soup: quick-n-fun exotic recipes Katuk coconut soup: quick-n-fun exotic recipes
🍴 Katuk coconut soup: quick-n-fun exotic recipes

  • 🟢Simmer chopped Katuk leaves (Sauropus androgynus, Tropical Asparagus) in coconut milk with garlic and salt.
  • 🟢Rich, green, and packed with nutrients.


🛒 Add Katuk Superfood to your Food Forest

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#Food_Forest #Recipes

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When will the war end? A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

When will the war end?

Cat fight

🔥 When will the war end?
Sound on 🎤

Find out exactly when the war will end - at the end of this video!

🐈📸 Starring:
Orange Cat Zhyrdyay (Cherkassy, Ukraine)
'Paper' Tiger Cat (intruder from occupied Luhansk, trying to take Zhyrdyay's land)

🎥 Filmed by:Vasiliy Sarana, Wildlife Explorer and Film Director, Ukraine.
🔛 Subscribe to Vasiliy's YouTube Channel: Wildlife Adventures Ukraine

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What blooms for you in December: Calliandra tweedii "With Love" A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

What blooms for you in December: Calliandra tweedii With Love

Calliandra tweedii "With Love" in a pot

Calliandra tweedii "With Love" in a pot

Calliandra tweedii "With Love" plant in the ground

Calliandra tweedii "With Love" plant in the ground

Calliandra tweedii "With Love" flowers

Calliandra tweedii "With Love" flowers

Calliandra tweedii "With Love" flower close up

Calliandra tweedii "With Love" flower close up

💥 What blooms for you in December: Calliandra tweedii "With Love"
  • 💥 December just started and so did Calliandra tweedii "With Love" - right by TopTropicals Bfarm office. This plant always knows how to kick off winter around here. First week of December… boom, the red tassels pop open, and then it keeps going all the way through winter and into spring.
  • 💥 Calliandras are famous for being spectacular winter bloomers, but in our garden they seem to ignore the calendar and flower pretty much year-round. "With Love" grows as a many-stemmed dense shrub, kind of like a small fountain. Branches rise right from the ground, covered in tiny leaflets that gently fold at night or when you touch them.
  • 💥 And the flowers - that’s the whole show! Fine, feathery, glowing-red tassels that look almost electric in the morning sun. The bush by the office is covered in them right now - bright scarlet puffs against fresh green foliage. Most calliandras lean more pink, but this one stays true red. It makes a fantastic hedge, a bold specimen shrub, and honestly a great bonsai because of the branching structure.
  • 💥 If you want something cheerful, easy, and blooming exactly when most gardens look quiet, With Love delivers every single year.


🛒 Plant Calliandra tweedii "With Love" - Red Tassel Flower
Shop Calliandras - Powderpuffs

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#Hedges_with_benefits #Butterfly_Plants

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Greetings from outside of Tropics: Masyanya. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Greetings from outside of Tropics: Masyanya

Cat Masyanya

Cat Masyanya

Cat Masyanya

Cat Masyanya

Cat Masyanya

Cat Masyanya

Cat Masyanya

Cat Masyanya

Cat Masyanya

Cat Masyanya

🏳️ Greetings from outside of Tropics: Masyanya

🐈📸 Cat Masyanya, a friend of PeopleCats.Garden.
Masyanya lives in a snowy village by Vladimir city, Russia.
Her message to us: "You guys are lucky to live in the Tropics in Peace, and have TopTropicals by your side who can send you tropical plants! And here... some day the Spring will come, and the Happiness will overcome. Be grateful for what you got - Happy Holidays! Love and Peace" 💕 🕊️

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