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The truth about Ladybugs in your garden life

The truth about Ladybugs in your garden life The truth about Ladybugs in your garden life The truth about Ladybugs in your garden life
🐞 The truth about Ladybugs in your garden life

❓ Q: I have Ladybugs in my garden, I wonder if they are eating my plants? Do I need to get rid of them?

  • 🐞 Ladybug (Harmonia axyridis) is, in fact, one of the best insects you can find in your garden, it is a natural predator that takes care of many bad bugs, including aphids

  • 🐞 Keep Ladybugs happy and bring them to your garden!

  • 🐞 Ladybugs actually are cultivated as natural pest control, and you can even buy them for your yard, instead of chemicals!


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  1. Love life of Ladybugs
  2. Ladybug larvae eating aphids.
  3. One of our #PeopleCats, "innocent" Ladybug (a.k.a. Bug) is wondering who else she can bug next...


    4. #How_to

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Manx - The Tailless Cats:
Timo and Matilda

Manx Cats

Q: I saw your tailless cats. Why they don't have tails?

A: We decided to write a special story about these special cats. They are rescues who came to us on January 31 this year. The pictures in the article feature our adorable Manx siblings: Timo (long-haired) and his sister Matilda (short-haired). They are very different in personality and looks, but they have at least 2 things in common: lack of tail and beautiful orange eyes. Timo is a big boy who likes to play with everybody. Matilda is a shy miniature girl, but she likes to eat a lot... so she is a bit chubby! She looks almost as big as her big-bone and fluffy brother.
Manx cats are a charming breed known for their lack of tails. Originating from the Isle of Man, they have a rich history and delightful personalities.

Learn about Manx Cats

Manx tailless Cat

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June 15: join us for our
Summer Plant Market Extravaganza!

June 15, 2024 - SATURDAY - Summer Plant Market

Saturday, June 15, 9 am - 4 pm

Hi there! Rain or shine, we're ready to make it a day to remember with fantastic deals just for you:

30% OFF online prices, one day only! (excluding those in 15 gallon sizes or larger).
Gift bags - arrive early! The first 25 customers will receive a special gift bag!
Secret Garden: Super savings area 50-70% off
$5 and $10: Discover many plants available at just $5 and $10.
Free plant with any purchase as a token of our appreciation

Reminder: Father's Day June 16

Bring your Father with you and load up with presents of garden goodness!

Event discounts valid at both locations:

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

Don’t miss out on this opportunity to transform your garden and stay cool this summer. We can’t wait to see you there!

Kristi @ Top Tropicals

to confirm attendance
RSVP on Facebook!

Learn more

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To plant a seed is to believe in tomorrow

To plant a seed is to believe in tomorrow
🐈 "To plant a seed is to believe in tomorrow. Be patient and tend to it with care; in time, it will sprout and flourish." -  Audrey Hepburn 🐈

Good night🌜

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How to grow Noni tree for fruit?

Morinda citrifolia - Noni fruit

Morinda citrifolia - Noni fruit

Morinda citrifolia - Noni fruit tree

Morinda citrifolia - Noni fruit tree

Morinda citrifolia - Noni tree

Morinda citrifolia - Noni tree

Morinda citrifolia - Noni fruit

Morinda citrifolia - Noni fruit

How to grow Noni tree for fruit?

💊 The medicinal Noni tree (see our earlier post) is one of the most suitable fruit trees for potting culture. A 1-3 gallon size plant will flower and fruit for you within a year.

Noni's special features:
  • ✅ flowers and fruits at young age, nearly year around.
  • ✅ tolerates shade and grows large ornamental leaves in filtered light.
  • ✅ suitable for indoor culture

    • - easy in cultivation, drought and water tolerant, not susceptible to insects.
  • ✅ medicinal properties are endless and cannot be under-appreciated.
  • ✅ This plant can be grown in any climate indoors, and will produce fruit for you under minimal care. Just provide warm frost-free conditions, as this tropical tree is very cold sensitive.


📚 Learn more: Morinda citrifolia - Noni. Life Sustaining Plant

🛒 Order Noni Tree

#Food_Forest #Remedies #How_to

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This cant be real! But it is

Strongylodon macrobotrys - Jade vine

👀 This can't be real! But it is.

🎥 Strongylodon macrobotrys - Jade vine, the flower you need to see to appreciate! Its beautiful seagreen/turquoise color is beyond description and is the rarest in the world of flowers.
Discover more breathtaking flowers, unusual plants and rare fruit - in TopTropicals channel.

🔴 Subscribe to see all the nature's wonders!

🛒 Shop Jade Vines

#Nature_Wonders

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What is the most lovable flowering shrub?

Clerodendrum paniculatum - Pagoda Flower

❤️ What is the most lovable flowering shrub?

Clerodendrums are one of the most favorite and rewarding flowering shrubs and vines for Southern landscape or indoor culture.
  • ❤️ Free flowering, bloom year around
  • ❤️ Undemanding and fast growing
  • ❤️ Take sun or shade
  • ❤️ Many species are fragrant
  • ❤️ Attract butterflies and birds
  • ❤️ Perfect for container culture, compact and manageable plants
  • ❤️ Cold tolerant, quickly recover from cold damage, respond well to pruning.


📚 Clerodendrums mentioned earlier: Seaside Clerodendrum, Red Bleeding Heart, Bleeding Heart Vine, Musical Note, Glory Bower.

🎥 Clerodendrum paniculatum - Pagoda Flower

🛒 Shop Clerodendrums

#Butterfly_Plants #Hedges_with_benefits

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How to make plants green?

How to make plants green? How to make plants green? How to make plants green?
❓ How to make plants green? Give them some Superfood!

🍀 Pale or yellow leaves? Green veins on yellow leaves? How to improve that look? Any special fertilizer?

  • ✅ Leaf chlorosis or in other words "iron deficiency", especially during wet rainy weather - may be not harmful to the plant but bad for the looks.

  • ✅ This deficiency can be corrected with microelement applications - Sunshine Superfood.

  • ✅ Use Sunshine Superfood once a week to correct the iron deficiency that usually goes away within a month.

  • ✅ Then maintain plants health with monthly applications.

  • ✅ It is beneficial to use microelements in combination with regular applications of health boosting fertilizer such as Sunshine Robusta.


🛒 Shop Sunshine Superfood

#Fertilizers #How_to

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Flamingo pink with a fruity fragrance, yet another variety

Quisqualis Indica - Rangoon Creeper

🦩 Flamingo pink with a fruity fragrance, yet another variety...
  • 💕 This is a single-flower variety of Quisqualis we mentioned earlier.
  • 💕 Quisqualis Indica - Rangoon Creeper - is an extremely beautiful plant.
  • 💕 Shrubby vine with pale-pink to deep crimson star shaped flowers, covering the entire plant when in full bloom.
  • 💕 It's scent is unforgettable, fruity and intoxicating...
  • 💕 The flowers are born in clusters and each flower has many variations of color, depending on how old the flower is.
  • 💕 The flower starts out white and or pink striped and turn solid pink and finally dark pink on maturity.
  • 💕 Can grow into large woody vine covering a fence or big trellis.


🛒 Get your own Quisqualis vine

#Butterfly_Plants #Perfume_Plants #Hedges_with_benefits

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When you grew up, but your favorite bed didnt

🐈🐈🐈 "When you grew up, but your favorite bed didn't..."

Good night🌜

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