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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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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

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This cant be real! But it is

👀 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.

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#Nature_Wonders

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What is the most lovable flowering shrub?

❤️ 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

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#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.


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#Fertilizers #How_to

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Would you like to spice Up Your Garden with Variegated Ginger?

Would you like to spice Up Your Garden with Variegated Ginger?
🫚 Would you like to spice Up Your Garden with Variegated Ginger?

  • 🌿 Alpinia Zerumbet Variegata is a clumping ginger valued for its beautiful variegated foliage. With its colorful foliage and beautiful flowers, variegated ginger is a stunning ornamental.

  • 🌿 Striking Foliage: Glossy green leaves with white striping add a pop of color and interest to your garden.

  • 🌿 Unique Flowers: Unlike other gingers, its beautiful, fragrant, shell-like flowers droop from leafy stems, adding summer charm.

  • 🌿 Perfect Size: This small shrub grows 2-4 feet tall and can be pruned for size control.

  • 🌿 Moisture Lover: Keep the soil moist for happy, thriving plants.

  • 🌿 Ideal Conditions: Thrives in shaded garden corners with organically rich, well-drained soil. Mulch for best results.

  • 🌿 Low Maintenance: No serious insect or disease problems, making it an easy addition to your garden.

  • 🌿 Indoor Option: Can be grown as a houseplant with bright light and humid conditions, reaching 3-4 feet indoors.

  • 🌿 Edibe: Like every ginger, this ornamental beauty also has edible rhizomes.


🛒 Shop Variegated Ginger

#Shade_Garden #Container_Garden #Food_Forest

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Would you like to spice Up Your Garden with Variegated Ginger?

Would you like to spice Up Your Garden with Variegated Ginger? Would you like to spice Up Your Garden with Variegated Ginger? Would you like to spice Up Your Garden with Variegated Ginger? Would you like to spice Up Your Garden with Variegated Ginger? Would you like to spice Up Your Garden with Variegated Ginger?
🫚 Would you like to spice Up Your Garden with Variegated Ginger?

  • 🌿 Alpinia Zerumbet Variegata is a clumping ginger valued for its beautiful variegated foliage. With its colorful foliage and beautiful flowers, variegated ginger is a stunning ornamental.

  • 🌿 Striking Foliage: Glossy green leaves with white striping add a pop of color and interest to your garden.

  • 🌿 Unique Flowers: Unlike other gingers, its beautiful, fragrant, shell-like flowers droop from leafy stems, adding summer charm.

  • 🌿 Perfect Size: This small shrub grows 2-4 feet tall and can be pruned for size control.

  • 🌿 Moisture Lover: Keep the soil moist for happy, thriving plants.

  • 🌿 Ideal Conditions: Thrives in shaded garden corners with organically rich, well-drained soil. Mulch for best results.

  • 🌿 Low Maintenance: No serious insect or disease problems, making it an easy addition to your garden.

  • 🌿 Indoor Option: Can be grown as a houseplant with bright light and humid conditions, reaching 3-4 feet indoors.

  • 🌿 Edibe: Like every ginger, this ornamental beauty also has edible rhizomes.


🛒 Shop Vriegated Ginger

#Shade_Garden #Container_Garden #Food_Forest

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The Drama you want in your garden: dazzling Medinilla!

The Drama you want in your garden: dazzling Medinilla! The Drama you want in your garden: dazzling Medinilla! The Drama you want in your garden: dazzling Medinilla! The Drama you want in your garden: dazzling Medinilla!
🌺 The Drama you want in your garden: dazzling Medinilla!

  • 🎀 Show-Stopping Blooms: The Medinilla plant is known for its spectacular, dramatic clusters of pink, pendulous flowers that cascade like floral chandeliers - perfect for turning heads!

  • 🎀 Tropical Flair: With its lush, leathery leaves and exotic appearance, the medinilla adds a touch of the tropics to any indoor or outdoor space.

  • 🎀 Conversation Starter: Its unique and eye-catching flowers make the Medinilla a true centerpiece, sparking admiration and conversation among garden visitors.

  • 🎀 Low Maintenance: Despite its luxurious look, the Medinilla is surprisingly easy to care for, thriving in indirect light (loves shade!) and only moderate watering.

  • 🎀 Pollinator's Delight: The vibrant blooms attract a variety of pollinators, making your garden not only more beautiful but also more buzzing with life 🐞🦋🐝

  • 🎀 Year-Round Beauty: Unlike many plants that only shine for a season, the Medinilla can bloom multiple times a year.


🛒 Shop Medinilla plants

#Butterfly_Plants #Shade_Garden #Container_Garden

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Horny plant hanging in the air

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🦌 Horny plant hanging in the air...

  • 👀 Staghorn fern (Platycerium) is one of those #Nature_Wonders... Everyone who sees it, wants to have one!

  • 👀 Showy, tropical looking epiphyte that can be grown on a tree or in a large hanging basket.

  • 👀 It is able to grow high in the trees of the rainforest, often grows in large masses.

  • 👀 Long, pendulous, much bifurcated fertile fronds produce spores on special cup-shaped appendages. Basal fronds form a crown-shaped basket.


🛒 Order online - we have a few X-large plants

#Nature_Wonders #Shade_Garden #Container_Garden

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This is not AI

👽 This is not AI...
It's a real plant, called Wood Chip Flower - Strophanthus bovinii - blooming now in our garden.

@TopTropicals you will discover exotic plants you've never seen before:
🏵 Breathtaking flowers and perfume plants
🥭 Rare fruit trees from around the world
🌿 Ethnomedical herbs

✅ All you need to know about rare tropical plants, how to grow and use them, where to get them - in one TopTropicals channel.
We have them all.

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