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Why everyone wants the Sugar Apple? A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Why everyone wants the Sugar Apple?

Why everyone wants the Sugar Apple? Why everyone wants the Sugar Apple?
🍏 Why everyone wants the Sugar Apple?

Annona squamosa - Sugar apple - is considered by many as the most delicious tropical fruit. We introduced the Annona trees earlier.

  • ✳️ Very small, compact tree, perfect for container or small yard, see photos from our Tropical Fruit Tree contest Winner.

  • ✳️ Starts fruiting within 3 year from seed!

  • ✳️ Easy to grow and undemanding

  • ✳️ The fruit is sheer deliciousness, pulp resembling custard.


🛒 Order Sugar Apple

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Why everyone wants the Sugar Apple? A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Why everyone wants the Sugar Apple?

Annona squamosa - Sugar apple, Red fruit Kampong Mauve

Annona squamosa - Sugar apple, Red fruit Kampong Mauve

Annona squamosa - Sugar apple, Green fruit Thai Lessard

Annona squamosa - Sugar apple, Green fruit Thai Lessard

🍏 Why everyone wants the Sugar Apple?

Annona squamosa - Sugar apple - is considered by many as the most delicious tropical fruit. We introduced the Annona trees earlier.
  • ✳️ Very small, compact tree, perfect for container or small yard, see photos from our Tropical Fruit Tree contest Winner.
  • ✳️ Starts fruiting within 3 year from seed!
  • ✳️ Easy to grow and undemanding
  • ✳️ The fruit is sheer deliciousness, pulp resembling custard.


🛒 Order Sugar Apple

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What is the best showy shrub to plant under a shade tree? A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

What is the best showy shrub to plant under a shade tree?

Tabernaemontana divaricata - Pinwheel Jasmine, Crape Jasmine

What is the best showy shrub to plant under a shade tree?
  • 💮 Tabernaemontana divaricata, also known as Pinwheel Jasmine or Crape Jasmine, is a true garden gem, blooming year-round to bring constant beauty to your outdoor space.
  • 💮 This cute bush can be also shaped into a small tree.
  • 💮 It looks beautiful beneath palms or trees.
  • 💮 Blooms year-round with pretty, white, pinwheel-shaped flowers.
  • 💮 Needs bright light for profuse blooming, but can tolerate shade conditions.
  • 💮 Makes your garden look stunning all year around.


🛒Get Pinwheel Jasmine

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Say Cheese! Bob is eating his favorite shredded cheese and purring - sound on! A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Say Cheese! Bob is eating his favorite shredded cheese and purring - sound on!

🍿 Say Cheese! Bob is eating his favorite shredded cheese and purring - sound on! 🎤

He has extended healthy diet beyond his Corn and Philemon's Avocado.

🕯 Good night...

What special treats do your cats like? Share your cats in comments!
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What is the most useful tree in the world? A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

What is the most useful tree in the world?

Moringa oleifera - Bridal veil, Horseradish tree, Drumstick Tree, Ben Oil Tree

Moringa oleifera - Bridal veil, Horseradish tree, Drumstick Tree, Ben Oil Tree

Moringa oleifera - Bridal veil, Horseradish tree, Drumstick Tree, Ben Oil Tree

Moringa oleifera - Bridal veil, Horseradish tree, Drumstick Tree, Ben Oil Tree

Moringa oleifera - Bridal veil, Horseradish tree, Drumstick Tree, Ben Oil Tree

Moringa oleifera - Bridal veil, Horseradish tree, Drumstick Tree, Ben Oil Tree

🌐 What is the most useful tree in the world?
  • 💚 One of the most versatile and valuable trees known to humanity is Moringa oleifera, also called: Horseradish tree, Bridal veil, Horseradish tree, Drumstick Tree, Ben Oil Tree. It is indeed considered one of the most useful trees in the world. This reputation stems from its wide range of nutritional, medicinal, and practical applications.
  • 💚 Moringa is a beautiful flowering tree with fragrant white flowers. It produces long green pods (looking like drumsticks!) and the seeds have been compared to a cross between peanuts and asparagus.
  • 💚 Moringa leaves are rich in vitamins (A, B, C, E), minerals (calcium, potassium, iron), and amino acids, and have strong antioxidant properties. they are used in traditional medicine to treat inflammation. Moringa can help lower blood sugar and cholesterol levels.
  • 💚 Almost every part of the tree is edible, including the leaves, pods, seeds, and flowers. Each part has its unique nutritional profile and culinary uses. Used in teas and cooking.
  • 💚 The roots are used as a substitute for horseradish and the edible leaves make a highly nutritious vegetable. The roots have also been used in many folk remedies.
  • 💚 Many Moringa products produced commercially: leaves, powder, oil. Moringa oil, extracted from the seeds, is used in cosmetics, skincare products. Seeds can be used to purify water, making it safer to drink.
  • 💚 The plant can be used as a natural fertilizer and pesticide. Leaves are used as a nutritious feed for livestock.


📚 Learn more: How to grow a happy Moringa Tree

🛒 Plant your own Moringa Tree and save the Planet

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Money-making plant for your windowsil. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Money-making plant for your windowsil

Pilea peperomioides - Chinese Money Plant

Pilea peperomioides - Chinese Money Plant

💰 Money-making plant for your windowsil
  • Pilea peperomioides - Chinese Money Plant - is a perfect indoor plant that is famous for its lore of attracting money into your life! It is a small version of a money-making machine, in addition to the Good Luck Plant - Malabar Peanut we mentioned earlier.
  • It is a highly sought-after houseplant and also known as the missionary plant, pancake plant, UFO plant.
  • Known for its charming beauty and dwarf size, it is a perfect addition to the windowsill garden.
  • The round, shiny, peltate leaves become mounded as the plant matures and give the appearance of large, green coins stacked on top of one another.
  • Its adaptation to low light and succulent leaf structure make it an easy-care plant.


🛒 Get your own Money Plant

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What is Nescafe Coffee made from? A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

What is Nescafe Coffee made from?

Mucuna pruriens - Nescafe, Purple Jade Vine

☕️ What is Nescafe Coffee made from? Purple Jade.

💜 Earlier we mentioned Green Jade Vine and Yellow Jade Vine. This one is purple!
  • Mucuna pruriens - Nescafe, Purple Jade Vine has unusual royal purple flowers. The dark violet blooms appear closely pushed together in grape like clusters, up to 1 ft long and 6" in diameter.
  • The seeds known as mucuna beans or Nescafe and used as a coffee substitute.
  • It has been used for generations in India as a medicinal plant.
  • Very vigorous woody tree creeper - during warmer weather this vine can grow 2 feet a day!
  • Related to red Jade vine (Mucuna bennettii).


🛒 Order Nescafe Vine

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What happens when a gardener gets a Swiss Cheese? A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

What happens when a gardener gets a Swiss Cheese?

Monstera x adansonii - Baby Swiss Cheese Plant

Monstera x adansonii - Baby Swiss Cheese Plant

Monstera x adansonii - Baby Swiss Cheese Plant

Monstera x adansonii - Baby Swiss Cheese Plant

What happens when a gardener gets a Swiss Cheese? Swiss Cheese Plant!
  • 🌿 Monstera x adansonii - Baby Swiss Cheese Plant - is an unusual form of Monstera with leaves that have many holes, much bigger than those in Swiss Cheese!
  • 🌿 Makes an interesting indoor specimen, an eye stopper.
  • 🌿 Shade lover, but can take some semi-shade too.
  • 🌿 Can be grown outdoors in warmer climates and climbs trees or walls wherever you need a green wall.
  • 🌿 Grows fast, very undemanding plant. Perfect when you need to fill space with greenery quickly.


🛒 Order Swiss Chees Plant

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What is your cat's Zodiac sign? A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

What is your cats Zodiac sign?

What is your cats Zodiac sign? What is your cats Zodiac sign? What is your cats Zodiac sign?
♋️ 😸 What is your cat's Zodiac sign?
Cat Horoscope: Cancer Zodiac Cats 06/22-07/22

❓ How to know the astrological sign of your cat? It can be determined by either their date of birth or adoption, as adoption is often considered a second birth for cats.

  • ✨ You can discover the astrological traits that describe the cat, such as their independence, diva-like tendencies, sense of humor, intelligence, and more.

  • ✨ It's also important to consider the astrological relationship between cats and plants...


♋️ Cancer Zodiac Cats are:
  • ▪️faithful, loving, and protective
  • ▪️affectionate and enjoy cuddling
  • ▪️excellent communicators
  • ▪️can be quite jealous, viewing their family members as their personal property
  • ▪️feel lonely when left alone
  • ▪️love being in the spotlight and are often the stars of social media platforms


🌟 Learn more about Cancer Zodiac Cats and their lucky plants

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What's for lunch? A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Whats for lunch?

Malpighia - Barbados Cherry Tree, fruit

🍒 What's for lunch?

Our Barbados cherry has been fruiting on and on for months! We make juice every day.

📚 See earlier posts:
How to make Barbados Cherry drink
65 times more of vitamin C

🛒 Order Barbados Cherry Tree

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