🍬 It's never too many powderpuffs!

💖 One more Powderpuff beauty - Calliandra surinamensis - is a large vigorous shrub that can be trained into a cute little standard tree.

📚 More Calliandras from previous posts:

• · Baby-pink fluffy flower for butterflies - Lilian
• · Flowering bush that everyone loves
• · Tree Calliandra
• · How to get a big flowering bush quickly? Calliandra - Powderpuff for blocking the unwanted view

🛒 Shop Calliandras - Powderpuffs

#Hedges_with_benefits #Butterfly_Plants

🔴 Join 👉 TopTropicals

🍴 Love is sharing... or it is not?

💕 "Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others." – Brian Tracy

Share your cats in comments!
📸 🐈🐈🐈👇

🔠 More #PeopleCats in our Garden:
PeopleCats.Garden 

#Quotes

🔴 Join 👉 TopTropicals

🍌 What to do when you have too many bananas: make Grilled Banana Boats recipe 🚣‍♂️

😘 Ingredients:

• 
  · 2 ripe bananas
• · 2 tablespoons dark chocolate chips
• · 2 tablespoons shredded coconut
• · 2 tablespoons chopped nuts (e.g., pecans or almonds)
• · Aluminum foil

🏄‍♂️ Instructions:

• 
  · Slice each banana lengthwise down the middle, but don’t cut all the way through - leave the peel intact to form a "boat."
• · Gently open the banana and stuff with chocolate chips, shredded coconut, and nuts.
• · Wrap each banana in aluminum foil.
• · Grill over medium heat (or bake in the oven at 375°F) for 10–12 minutes, until the banana is soft and the chocolate is melted.
• · Carefully unwrap and serve warm, optionally with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

👌 This fun dessert is easy to make and highlights banana's natural sweetness!

🛒 Shop Banana Trees

#Food_Forest #Recipes

🔴 Join 👉 TopTropicals

🔤 Yet another fragrant Jasmine hedge!

• ☀️ Jasminum volubile - Wax Jasmine is one more excellent choice of fragrant Jasmine bush for your landscaping needs, besides Angel Hair Jasmine we mentioned earlier.
• ☀️ Lovely blooms: Fragrant, pinwheel-shaped white flowers from April to September.
• ☀️ Versatile growth: Quick-growing vine for trellises, ground covers, or containers.
• ☀️ Foliage: Glossy, dark green leaves add a lush touch.
• ☀️ Perfect Hedge: Works beautifully as a hedge plant.

🛒 Order Wax Jasmine

#Hedges_with_benefits #Perfume_Plants

🔴 Join 👉 TopTropicals

Matilda got the greatest toy of the century!

"You can chase a butterfly, but you can't make it land on your hand." – Nathaniel Hawthorne

Share your cats in comments!
📸 🐈🐈🐈👇

🔠 More #PeopleCats in our Garden:
PeopleCats.Garden 

#Quotes

🔴 Join 👉 TopTropicals

🍉 What is your favorite Guava variety?

Our top pick? Tikal Guava!

Okay, we'll admit it - the tree growth habit can be pretty weird: branches grow at some interesting 90-degree angles, giving it a bit of a wild, chaotic vibe. Think Barbados Cherry bush - if you've seen that unruly spectacle! 😰

But let's focus on what really matters: the fruit. Tikal produces the best pink guava, no contest! It is disease-resistant, fast-growing, super sweet, and boasts very few seeds - huge bonus! Plus, Tikal is a reliable producer, making it perfect for beginners or anyone eager for quick, delicious results. 🌟

• 
  🛒 Order Tikal Guava

📚 More about Guavas from previous posts:

• 💋 What Guava variety is the best for Guava Wine
• 💋 How to grow guava tree for Juice
• 💋 The most wanted collectible Honey Moon Guava
• 💋 Top 10 fast-fruiting trees: #2. Guava
• 💋 Top 10 fruit you'll ever need for your health benefits: #1. Guava
• 💋 Costa Rican Cas Guava
• 💋 Guava for Drinking
• 💋 Guava for Juicing
• 💋 Pineapple Guava

🛒 Shop more Guava varieties

#Food_Forest #Guava

🔴 Join 👉 TopTropicals

💅 Her Highness Niki is getting ready to take a bath

👠"Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat." – Mark Twain

Share your cats in comments!
📸 🐈🐈🐈👇

🔠 More #PeopleCats in our Garden:
PeopleCats.Garden 

#Quotes

🔴 Join 👉 TopTropicals

🍍 We ate all pineapples from that ugly corner!

All the Pineapples that we mentioned in our earlier post, have ripened and we already ate them all!
Note that this amazing fruit grows in the most neglected corner of the yard, with NO irrigation, and in pretty hot sunny spot - by the water treatment tank. Yet look how happy the plants are!

📚 Learn more about pineapple plants from previous posts:
The most luscious Hospitality Fruit: Pineapple
Three must-have fruit for every tropical garden

🛒 Select Pineapple varieties

#Food_Forest

🔴 Join 👉 TopTropicals

🔤 What is the best Jasmine bush for an easy landscaping?

• 🌸 Jasminum multiflorum (pubescens) - Angel Hair Jasmine - is a fragrant, fast-growing charmer for Southern landscape.
• 🌸 Bloom beauty: Sweet-scented, starry white flowers bloom almost year-round.
• 🌸 Wildlife friendly: Attracts butterflies and hummingbirds.
• 🌸 Growth: Fast-growing, bushy, and dense - a perfect hedge option! Grows 5–6 ft with soft, velvety leaves.
• 🌸 Care: Loves well-drained soil, handles sun to semi-shade, and even tolerates seaside conditions.
• 🌸 Zones: Thrives in USDA Zones 9–11 or as a potted indoor beauty in colder areas.

🛒 Order Angel Hair Jasmine

#Hedges_with_benefits #Perfume_Plants

🔴 Join 👉 TopTropicals

Are you a vegetarian?

"I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants." - Mark Twain

Share your cats in comments!
📸 🐈🐈🐈👇

🔠 More #PeopleCats in our Garden:
PeopleCats.Garden 

#Quotes

🔴 Join 👉 TopTropicals

🏕 Are you tired of boring office plants?

• 💤 Tired of boring office plants? Try the ZZ Plant! This ancient beauty, nicknamed the Aroid Palm, is anything but ordinary. Its thick glossy leaves make it a bold statement piece, miles ahead of a common Ficus or Dieffenbachia.
• 💤 The ZZ Plant (Zamioculcas zamiifolia) isn't just stylish - it's tough. This drought-tolerant wonder thrives on negleform new plants all on their own, a quirky trick unique to this ancient relic. And its very shade-tolerant, so you can place it in pretty much any spot except a closet...
• 💤 Easy care, jaw-dropping looks, and an air of mystery - the ZZ Plant is the ultimate pick to upgrade your workspace vibe!

📚 Check out the black leaf variety Zamioculcas x Black Dragon - Black ZZ Plant that we mentioned earlier:
Black-black-black plant! It's totally black, that's right!

🛒 Shop ZZplants

#Shade_Garden #Container_Garden

🔴 Join 👉 TopTropicals

🌹 Reminder: smell the roses!

😏 "Stop and smell the roses." - Walter Hagen

Share your cats in comments!
📸 🐈🐈🐈👇

🔠 More #PeopleCats in our Garden:
PeopleCats.Garden 

#Quotes

🔴 Join 👉 TopTropicals

🍨How to harvest and eat Monstera Ice Cream

• 🍀 Monstera deliciosa - Swiss Cheese Plant - is a stunning jungle climber from Mexico and Guatemala celebrated for its dramatic, perforated leaves and delectable tropical fruit.
• 🍀 Known for its large, fenestrated leaves with oblong or oval perforations, giving it the nickname "Swiss Cheese Plant."
• 🍀 In its natural habitat, seedlings grow toward darkness until they locate a tree, then climb toward the light.
• 🍀 Fruits begin appearing about three years after planting. The 9-inch, green, cone-like fruit ripens over a year, its scales separating to reveal sweet, creamy white pulp.
• 🍀 Tastes like a mix of pineapple, sugar apple and ice cream with a strong tropical aroma.
• 🍀 The fruit must be ripe to eat, as unripe pulp contains oxalic acid, which irritates the mouth and throat. To ripen, pick when the base wrinkles slightly, then wrap in a bag. When the scales loosen, it’s ready to eat. Rinse off black specks before eating.
• 🍀 Spectacular variety Thai Constellation is a stunning variegated form with cream-and-green marbled leaves, has become a collector's dream. Specimens can sell for thousands of dollars, making it one of the most sought-after houseplants.

🛒 Shop Monstera plants

#Food_Forest #Container_Garden #Shade_Garden

🔴 Join 👉 TopTropicals

🌴 How to get an unusual showy foliage plant for tropical look

• 🍀 Osmoxylon lineare, or variegated Miagos bush (Golden Feather), is a small, ornamental shrub native to Southeast Asia and the Philippines.
• 🍀 This rare variegated variety from Thailand has beautiful unusual foliage: dark green variegated with gold.
• 🍀 Growing to about 2-4 feet tall, it features striking foliage with an exotic, bamboo-like appearance, making it an eye-catching addition to a Southern garden or indoor space.
• 🍀 This hardy plant requires little care but thrives with regular moisture and warmth. It tolerates a range of light conditions from full sun to semi-shade and prefers frost-free temperatures. Although frost may cause some damage, it can tolerate brief exposures to temperatures in the 30s F.

🛒 Order Osmoxylon

#Container_Garden #Shade_Garden

🔴 Join 👉 TopTropicals