Plant Horoscope and Lucky Zodiac Plants

by Alex Butova, the Witch of Herbs and Cats

Since early in the history, humans observed the cyclicity that plants have when they grow according to their seasons, while astrology and botany with their cyclicism have similar nature. The myths surrounding the plants, their medicinal properties given from Mother Nature, unseen cycles that connect many different factors in our world gave ideas to some astrology concepts such as: Druid Horoscope, Celtic Tree Calendar, Indian Vedic Systems Jyotish Shastra (Vastu Shastra), Ayurvedic studies, and many others...
It is common knowledge that there are people with "green thumbs," who, as they say, have a stick grows in the ground, but there are such that they can grow nothing, even if they really want. What's the matter? It is acting of the Zodiac again. The most fortunate "green thumbs" are...

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Easy Sunday Morning Deals: Fried Egg Tree and Giant Mafafa

Saving on your favorite plants is Easy.
Easy like Sunday Morning...

It's time for our favorite day and another Easy stroll through Top Tropicals Garden with savings of

up to 50% and MORE!

Fried Egg Tree and Giant Mafafa

How do you like your eggs for Sunday breakfast, sunny side up or over easy? We have an amazing Sunny flower for you that is Easy to get today - with Easy Sunday Morning Deals. And yet another plant that is not only amusing, but also edible and nutritious...

Fried Egg Tree

- Oncoba spinosa -

Oncoba spinosa - Fried Egg Tree, has beautiful white and yellow camellia-like flowers look like 'fried eggs'! Flowers are honey-sweet fragrant and attract butterflies and bees. The fruits have a sour, edible pulp.

Taro Root, Mafafa

- Colocasia Thailand Giant -

This Taro has the biggest leaf on planet, it is a conversation piece in every garden. Grown as a root vegetable for its edible starchy corm, and as a leaf vegetable. The corms are roasted, baked or boiled, and the natural sugars give a sweet nutty flavor. The starch is easily digestible, and since the grains are fine and small it is often used for baby food. The leaves are a good source of vitamins A and C and contain more protein than the corms.

Both plants are large and developed, grown in 2-3 gal pots, regularly $42.95 each,
on Easy Sunday sale for only $21.95!

Combine the two and save even more!

2 plants total price: Reg. $85.95 - Easy Sunday Deal: $39.95

Remember, the Easy Sunday Deal expires on Monday February 7th.

5 most rewarding tropical fruit trees

Top Tropicals @ Garden America Radio Show

...The most popular garden radio show Garden America is featuring Top Tropicals topic "5 most practical and rewarding fruit trees for subtropical areas".

1) Jackfruit Orange Crush (Artocarpus heterophyllus)
...We recently obtained this variety and it is hands down the best Jackfruit we ever tasted. It is crunchy, sweet, aromatic, with bright orange pulp...

2) Dwarf Guava Hawaiian Rainbow (Psidium nana)
- A very small version of the favorite aromatic Guava.
- Grows only up to 5-6 ft tall with a short trunk and branching, bushy habit.

3) Yellow Pitaya, Dragon Fruit (Selenicereus megalanthus)
- This particular species of Dragon fruit is the sweetest and has great flavor unlike most pitayas
- doesn't mind regular water and rains but is also drought-tolerant

4) Loquat (Eriobotrya japonica)
- Can be kept as a very compact tree, and fruits in a pot.
- Flowers and fruits right away. The plants are covered with flowers now and setting fruit.
- Very cold hardy to upper 20's, drought tolerant, fast growing

5) Macadamia Nut (Macadamia integrifolia x tetraphylla)
- The most delicious and popular sweet nuts that are usually so expensive, can be produced in your garden!
- Cold hardy, fast growing, and very productive.

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Happy New Year 2022:
Year of Tiger!

Year of Tiger starts: February 1, 2022

by Alex Butova, the Witch of Herbs and Cats

According to Chinese astrology, 2022 will be the Year of the Blue Water Tiger. In the following story we will unveil the secrets of Tiger's personality, what drives him, what are Tiger's favorite colors and of course - what are his favorite plants that will make him happy, kind, and cooperative...
...As the Tiger Year starts, per our readers suggestions, we will continue everyone's favorite column Astrology of Plants and will be updating you on your Zodiac Lucky Plants every month! Look out for our upcoming publications for the first two Zodiac signs of this year and their lucky plants...

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Don't miss this one:
PodCast Premiere!

Episode 1
How to Protect Tropical plants in Winter: Q & A

Featuring Horticulturist Mark Hooten

...We are introducing our new Series: Top Tropicals Podcast. Growing tropicals and pushing the limits. Watch the first episode:

How to Protect Tropical plants in Winter

...Who doesn't like tropical beauty? Everyone wants tropical plants. But not everyone lives in a warm climate. Is it possible to grow tropicals outside of Tropics?
Top Tropicals horticulturist Mark Hooten, who is well known to many gardeners as the Garden Doc with his Saturday Plant Clinic, is answering gardeners' questions about how to prepare and protect tropical plants during winter...

Premiere scheduled:
Thursday, January 27, 8:00 AM

More about cold hardiness and cold protection:

Cold hardy tropical fruit trees
Growing Stephanotis and cold protection
Cold protection of tropical container plants
Plumeria cold protection
Ghost Cold Protection
Seven rules of cold protection for tropicals
Improving cold hardiness before winter: fertilizer and micro-elements
3D garden ideas and winter cold protection
Cold protection - winter action for your plant collection
About Cold Protection

Easy Sunday Morning Deals: The biggest fruit in the world

Saving on your favorite plants is Easy.
Easy like Sunday Morning...

It's time for our favorite day and another Easy stroll through Top Tropicals Garden with savings of

up to 50% and MORE!

The biggest fruit in the world...

Do you want something exceptional for your plant collection? It can be affordable: on Easy Sunday!

Jackfruit great features:
- easy to grow, likes to be watered
- relatively cold-hardy, established trees can take light frost
- can be maintained in a pot, as you can trim the tree at 6-7 ft, since the fruit is born at the base of the trunk
- starts producing within just a couple of years from planting.

Jackfruit Orange Crush

- The best variety we ever tasted -

Jackfruit Orange Crush has a dark orange, extra crunchy flesh, with a nice clean green skin, and low latex. Typically weighs about 20 lbs. We recently obtained this variety and it is hands down the best Jackfruit we ever tasted. It is crunchy, sweet, aromatic, with bright orange pulp.

Jackfruit Super Thai

- The most popular variety -

Super Thai Jackfruit is crispy, sweet, fruit is very large, over 35-50 lb on average. Thai favorite!

Both Jackfruits are large 3 gal size plants, regularly $72.95,
on Easy Sunday sale for only $43.77 each!

Combine the two and get 2 FREE plants!

Showy ornamental Ardisia elliptica - FREE!

Spectacular flowering, easy Kalanchoe daigremontiana - Mother of Thousands - FREE!

(Regularly priced at $17.95 each)

2 Jackfruit + 2 plants Collection price: Reg. $172.95 - Sale: $87.95

Remember, the Easy Sunday Deal expires on Monday January 24th.

Easy Sunday Morning Deals: Dwarf Guava Hawaiian Rainbow

Saving on your favorite plants is Easy.
Easy like Sunday Morning...

..."A ' ohe loa i ka hana a ke aloha.
Distance is ignored by love..."
- Toni Polancy -

It's time for our favorite day and another Easy stroll through Top Tropicals Garden with savings of

50% and MORE!

Put a little Aloha in your garden....
Two Exotics from Paradise

It may be cold where you are, so take a trip with us to the Hawaiian Islands. Tropical breezes, soothing ocean waves and an unbeatable selection of tropical plant treasures...
This week we bring the Aloha to you. A guava that will bring a taste of the Islands and a spectacular variety of Majestic Taro.

Dwarf Guava Hawaiian Rainbow

- Ready to fruit this year! -

This is a very small version of the favorite aromatic Guava - Hawaiian Rainbow Nana. It grows only up to 5-6 ft tall, perfect for limited space. It can be grown in a pot and fruits heavily almost year around. The flesh is sweet, aromatic, and varies from white to yellow to pink.

Colocasia Diamond Head

- Large Developed plants! -

Diamond Head is a spectacular variety of Taro is named after the volcanic cone on the Hawaiian island of Oahu - both the cone and plant are black and lustrous! Mature plants form a well-behaved clump and reach 3 to 4 feet tall, with leaves up to 2 feet wide! A must for black plant fanatics. Grows more compact that other Colocasias and no two leaves are the same!

Colocasia Diamond Head, regularly $42.95,
is on Easy Sunday sale for only $21.48

Dwarf Guava Hawaiian Rainbow, regularly $52.95,
is on Easy Sunday Sale for only $26.48.

Combine the two for maximum Aloha and save even more:

only $42.95 for both - one plant comes FREE!

Remember, the Easy Sunday Deal expires on Monday January 17th.

Easy Sunday Morning Deals: It's all about figs

Saving on your favorite plants is Easy.
Easy like Sunday Morning...

Photo above: Duck Dobi can't believe this deal!

It's time for our favorite day and another Easy stroll through Top Tropicals Garden with savings of 50% and MORE!

We are not figging!

Get our two most popular fig trees for only $19 each or $34 for both!

This week it's all about figs. Delicious fruit; make a great indoor or patio plant; cold hardy, and grow with little attention. The fig was one of the first plants ever to be cultivated by humans!

Top health benefits of figs

(from webmd.com):
Reduce high blood pressure;
Improve digestion;
Increase bone density;
Satisfy your sweet cravings...

Add them to your garden and you can taste the fruit of your labor!
Learn more about Fig trees >>

For this Easy Sunday we have priced these large plants in 3 gal pots at incredible savings:

Fig Brown Turkey, regularly $39, is on Easy Sunday sale for only $19
Fig Black Mission, regularly $39, is on Easy Sunday Sale for only $19.

Combine the two for your own delicious pair of Figs and save even more:

only $34 for both!

Picture of the actual plants
in 3 gal pots

- Ready to fruit this year! -

Remember, the Easy Sunday Deal expires on Monday January 10th.

Easy Sunday Morning Deals: Five Tropical Garden favorites for 2022

Saving on your favorite plants is Easy. Easy like Sunday Morning...

"...The ticking of the hands of your watch are telling you how time is passing away, never to return. Listen to it..."
Ryan Holiday, Daily Stoic

As we welcome the New Year, we bring you our special Happy New Year edition of Easy Sunday Savings. For this weekend only, you can save -

$2 off every item!

You choose the items you like and you save on every one of them. Easy as that!

All orders over $75 (excluding S&H) are eligible for $2 off every item, use Coupon Code at checkout:

HAPPYNEWYEAR

Min. order $75. Exp. 1-2-22

Tropical Colors for the New Year

This New Year, resolve to add color into your garden and into your life.

Today we feature five Tropical Garden favorites for 2022.

1. Bolivian Sunset

Gloxinia sylvatica - Bolivian Sunset. Low growing perennial that will always surprise you with a sudden burst of scarlet blooms in Fall-Winter.

2. Dwarf Tibouchina

Tibouchina lepidota - Jules Dwarf. So much purple for such a small compact plant! Relatively cold tolerant.

3. Tropical Hydrangea

Dombeya seminole - Tropical Rose Hydrangea. All time favorite that blooms for several months from Fall through Winter.

4. Cranberry Hibiscus

Hibiscus acetosella - African Cranberry Hibiscus. Super fast growing colorful shrub with beautiful flowers and edible leaves.

5. Burgundy Thread

Alternanthera dentata - Red Thread Burgundy. Ultimate fast growing groundcover for sun or shade, any soil and any water, any size of garden, cold- and heat-tolerant.

The Easy New Year Deal expires at midnight Sunday, January 2nd, 2022.
Enjoy your Hot Deal!

Magenta Freckles of Shooting Stars

A Nerve Flower for a natural stress relieve

by Alex Butova, the Witch of Herbs and Cats

...A compact grower, this happy plant takes both sun and shade, and thrives nearly in any conditions and soils... From afar, we see its smiling, sunny, happy flower faces dotted with magenta-purple freckles, reverberating in the showering sunlight... The low growing bushes cheer you with a cascade of their star-flower fireworks. And the bonus part is - striking leaves: papery, narrow, metallic-green with bright mauve underneath in attractive trailing clumps. The combination of pinkish flowers with splashes of purple and these unusual leaves make this plant quite unique. Australians say that presence of these plants in the garden removes anxiety and calms your nerves...

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