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🌱 Bigger Trees, Bigger Benefits

Fruiting Mango and Avocado Tree Installed

Why Choose a 15 or 25-Gal Tree?

These are not starter trees — they’re mature, fruiting specimens that give you a head start in your garden or orchard. You’ll enjoy faster harvests, fuller canopies, and a more immediate impact on your landscape.

Top Reasons to Choose a Bigger Tree:

  • Already fruiting – enjoy your own mangos or avocados right away
  • Pre-trained and shaped for strong structure and balanced growth
  • Instant results in the yard – no years of waiting
  • Thicker trunks and stronger roots make transplanting easier

We make it easy for Florida gardeners:

  • Pickup available at two South Florida locations
  • Local delivery and installation services offered – just ask!
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Did you know that cannonballs grow on a tree? The Marvelous Cannonball Tree. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Did you know that cannonballs grow on a tree? The Marvelous Cannonball Tree

Did you know that cannonballs grow on a tree? The Marvelous Cannonball Tree.

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#Nature_Wonders #Trees

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All for one and one for all. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

All for one and one for all

Gutalin (a.k.a. Google the Cat), Jacques and Klaksa at TopTropicals

🐈 All for one and one for all

"All for one and one for all!" - Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

🐈📸 Gutalin (a.k.a. Google the Cat), Jacques and Klaksa at TopTropicals

#PeopleCats #Quotes

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The fastest vine to cover a fence - everyone asks about it. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

The fastest vine to cover a fence - everyone asks about it

Thunbergia laurifolia - Blue Sky vine

💙 The fastest vine to cover a fence - everyone asks about it
  • 🔵 If you need a beautiful vine to cover your fence quickly - plant Thunbergia laurifolia, Thunbergia grandiflora - Blue Sky vine, Blue Trumpet Vine, Scrambling sky flower.
  • 🔵 This vigorous tropical climber explodes with 3-inch trumpet-shaped blossoms in a shade of blue so vivid, it looks unreal. In just one season, it can cover a fence, trellis, or arbor with lush green foliage and long cascading chains of flowers.
  • 🔵 Once established, it blooms heavily from fall through spring, creating a waterfall of sky blue that feels cool and soothing even in the heat. It's not just a pretty face either - its fast growth makes it ideal for quickly creating privacy, shade, or a living screen.
  • 🔵 Thrives in heat and humidity, low-maintenance once established
  • 🔵 Dramatic focal point, pollinator magnet, and conversation piece! And if blue isn't your color, the rare white version, Thunbergia grandiflora Alba, offers the same performance in pure ivory tones.


🛒 Get the vine everyone asks about

📚 Learn more:
▫️How to have the Blue Sky in just one season and forever

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Put it into practice. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Put it into practice

James Coconuts the Cat

James Coconuts the Cat

😰 Put it into practice

"Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice." - Anton Chekhov

🐈📸 James Coconuts the Cat is at his practice, at TopTropicals.

#PeopleCats #Quotes

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What is better - Lychee or Longan? A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

What is better - Lychee or Longan?

Longan - Euphoria longana - tastes a lot like Lychee

🍊What is better - Lychee or Longan?
  • 🟠 What is more productive than a lychee tree and just as delicious? The Longan tree - Euphoria longana.
  • 🟠 This fast-growing beauty is a breeze to care for and starts fruiting early. Longan produces clusters of sweet, juicy fruit with crisp skin and fragrant white flesh that tastes a lot like lychee - some even say better!
  • 🟠 It's tougher too: more wind-resistant, less fussy about soil and water, and fruits more regularly than its famous cousin. You can keep it compact with pruning or grow it in a container.
  • 🟠 If you want a tropical fruit tree thats reliable, prolific, and packed with flavor, Longan is the one to grow!


🛒 Add a Longan tree to my garden!

📚 Learn more:
The most prolific and as good as Lychee

#Food_Forest

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PeopleCats.Garden Official Cat Feeding Policy. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

PeopleCats.Garden Official Cat Feeding Policy

PeopleCats.Garden Official Cat Feeding Policy

PeopleCats.Garden Official Cat Feeding Policy

⬆️ PeopleCats.Garden Official Cat Feeding Policy

Updated whenever the cats decide it's outdated.
  • 🐾 1. Feeding schedule

  • ▫️Cats are to be fed when hungry, which, according to them, is always.
  • ▫️If a cat claims to be starving five minutes after eating - believe them. You're late.

  • 🐾 2. Approved food items

  • ▫️Gourmet kibble that costs more than your lunch
  • ▫️Wet food served at room temperature, on a ceramic dish
  • ▫️Treats (because they did a thing)
  • ▫️That expensive tuna you bought for yourself - it's theirs now

  • 🐾 3. Prohibited food items

  • ▫️Anything labeled "vet-approved"
  • ▫️Leftovers (unless you're trying to insult them)
  • ▫️Generic brand food (how dare you)

  • 🐾 4. Feeding etiquette

  • ▫️Do not make eye contact while they eat. You'll break the spell.
  • ▫️Food must be served with a verbal offering: "Here you go, dinner is served, Your Majesty."
  • ▫️If multiple cats are present, they all want what the other one got. Rotate plates. Begin again. Forever.

  • 🐾 5. Midnight snacks

  • ▫️Yes.
  • ▫️Don't ask.

  • 🐾 6. The "empty bowl" rule
  • ▫️If a bowl is 70% full, it's 100% empty.
  • ▫️Refill immediately. Apologize for the oversight.


🐾 7. Human consequences

Failure to follow these guidelines may result in:
  • ▫️Judgmental stares
  • ▫️Paw-swat to the face at 3 a.m.
  • ▫️Strategic hairball placement
  • ▫️Passive-aggressive purring near guests who like dogs


❗️Note: All policies are subject to change without notice, based on the whims of the feline board of directors.

🐈 PeopleCats.Garden  #PeopleCats

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Avocado that laughs at frost: Mexicola Grande for cooler climates. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Avocado that laughs at frost: Mexicola Grande for cooler climates

Avocado Mexicola Grande

Avocado that laughs at frost: Mexicola Grande for cooler climates
  • 🟢Avocado Mexicola Grande is one of the best cold-hardy avocados you can grow. It can tolerate temperatures down to the low 20sF, making it ideal for gardeners in zones 8b-10 who want a dependable avocado.
  • 🟢Medium-sized tree, grows to about 15-20 feet tall, but you can keep it smaller with pruning.
  • 🟢Glossy black fruit, thin-skinned, smooth, and shiny black when ripe - easy to peel and eat fresh.
  • 🟢Anise-scented leaves: its foliage has a mild anise aroma when crushed, which is unique to Mexican-type avocados.
  • 🟢Creamy and rich: the fruit has a high oil content and a buttery flavor, excellent for guacamole or toast.
  • 🟢Early producer: often fruits earlier in the season compared to other varieties.
  • 🟢 A great addition if you're looking for a productive, flavorful avocado that can handle cooler temps!


🛒  Shop Cold Hardy Avocados

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#Food_Forest #Avocado

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What's inside the Napoleons Hat? A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Whats inside the Napoleons Hat?

Napoleon's Hat - Napoleonaea imperialis

🎩 What's inside the Napoleons Hat? False Kola experience!
  • 🎩 Napoleon's Hat (Napoleonaea imperialis), lives up to its name with large, saucer-shaped flowers that bloom straight from the leaf axils or even directly from the trunk!
  • 🎩 The hat-shaped, brightly colored flowers smell like butterscotch!
  • 🎩 The reddish seeds resemble kola nuts and even have a similar taste, giving you a fun, "false kola" experience.
  • 🎩 An instant conversation starter, Napoleon's Hat is a quirky, fragrant addition to your garden - perfect for those looking for something a little different.


🛒 Experience Napoleon's Hat - the most bizarre flower with benefits!

📚 Learn more:
A French Emperor's Hat Blooming in Your Garden
Napoleons Hat - Endangered species from the outgone era of the Napoleon's War

#Fun_facts #Trees #Nature_Wonders

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