What is the best pineapple to grow at home. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.
What is the best pineapple to grow at home
White Jade Pineapple - Eleuthera
🍍What is the best pineapple to grow at home
🍍 Pineapple plants (Ananas comosus) are easy to grow, virtually carefree plants. You you plant a few - you will always have the benefit of fresh and delicious fruit on the table, full of health benefits.
🍍 White Jade Pineapple, also known as Eleuthera, is one of the most prized pineapple varieties you can grow at home - and for good reason. If you're only growing one pineapple, make it this one. And here is why:
✔️ Six reasons why you want to grow White Jade Pineapple
🟡Super sweet and low acid: White Jade has tender white flesh that's ultra-sweet with almost no acidity. The flavor is smooth and rich, far better than anything you'll find in a grocery store.
🟡Edible core: The core is soft, juicy, and 100% edible - no waste and no tough center.
🟡Spineless leaves: Unlike most pineapples, White Jade has soft, spineless leaves, making it much easier and safer to handle.
🟡Compact and container-friendly: It stays small, perfect for pots, patios, or tight garden spaces.
🟡Backyard hero, not for shipping: This variety bruises easily, so it's rarely seen in stores - but perfect for home gardeners who want top-tier taste.
🟡Tropical beauty + fast fruiting: With its blue-green foliage and striking fruit, it's ornamental as well as productive. Expect fruit in as little as 18-24 months with good care.
🍍 Although often mistaken as a Hawaiian variety, White Jade actually originated in Eleuthera, Bahamas. It thrives in warm climates and rewards gardeners with a sweet, low-acid treat unlike any commercial pineapple. It is grown in Hawaii now, especially by backyard gardeners and small farms, because it does so well there.
🍍 Make sure to feed your pineapple plants what they crave - sunshine and nutrients! Boost their growth with - SUNSHINE Ananas - Pineapple and Bromeliad Booster. This special formula gives your plants the energy they need to thrive and produce tons of sweet, juicy fruit just for you!
Noni isn't just ornamental - it earns its place. This small tropical
tree is packed with potential, from fruiting fast to delivering real, time-tested benefits.
Begins fruiting within a year
Flowers and fruits nearly non-stop if grown in proper conditions
Grows well in containers, indoors or out
Used to support immunity, joints, digestion, and more
Leaves and fruit are both used in traditional remedies
How to Grow Noni Tree
In Zone 10 and warmer, Noni grows beautifully outdoors in full to part
sun. It thrives in poor soil, tolerates salt, and bounces back from drought.
Just keep it warm and lightly fertilized for year-round flowering and
fruiting.
For indoor growers, Noni adapts well to containers. Place it near a
bright window or under grow lights. It can tolerate lower light, though fruiting
may slow. Keep soil moist but not soggy. Leaves may drop if it gets too cold
or too dry - warmth is key. In deep shade, the foliage becomes lush, dark, and
ornamental.
Pro tip: Start with a 3 gal or larger plant for faster fruit production.
💖 What if your next houseplant could make medicine?
Meet Noni, Morinda citrifolia, a tropical tree with deep roots in Polynesian
healing. For over 2000 years, it's been used to support health from the inside
out: pain relief, immune strength, digestion, skin, joints, energy, and more. And now, you can grow it yourself.
This isn't some fussy rainforest diva. Noni is one of the easiest fruit
trees to grow, especially in a pot. It flowers and fruits year-round, even in
a 3-gallon container. Indoors, it thrives in bright light and tolerates dry
air and skipped waterings. Outdoors in Zone 10+, it's practically unstoppable - fast, forgiving, and constantly flowering and fruiting.
It's also a conversation piece. The glossy leaves can grow over a foot
long. The fruit looks like something from another planet! And every part of
the plant - fruit, leaves, seeds, even roots - has been used in traditional medicine.
Grow it
for health. Grow it for curiosity. Grow it because your ficus never made you juice.
Undocumented use of a hairbrush. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.
Undocumented use of a hairbrush
Niki the cat
💳 Undocumented use of a hairbrush
"You can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life." - Coco Chanel (and here is her Chanel No5 Tree, by the way)
🐈📸 Niki is making herself beautiful for a date at PeopleCats.Garden.
Cocoplum: secret fruit in your hedge. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.
Cocoplum: secret fruit in your hedge
Bahamas Cocoplum - Chrysobalanus icaco
🍒 Cocoplum: secret fruit in your hedge
🍒 Most people think Cocoplum is just a boring hedge plant: Bahamas Cocoplum (Chrysobalanus icaco). Thick, green, easy to trim - great for privacy. But hidden in all that greenery? Super-sweet plum-like fruit that are edible and very tasty! They look like small plums and come in pink, purple, or white when ripe.
🍒 Cocoplum is native to Florida and has been quietly feeding people for generations, long before it became a landscaping go-to. The fruit is mild, a little sweet, and great for snacking or making into jam.
🍒 Cocoplum isn't just a tasty surprise - it comes with some health perks too:
▫️Rich in antioxidants - especially anthocyanins, which give the purple fruit its color and help fight free radicals in the body.
▫️Good source of fiber - helps with digestion and keeping you full.
▫️Contains vitamin C - supports your immune system and skin health.
▫️Low in calories - great for snacking without guilt.
▫️So when you bite into a Cocoplum, you're not just tasting Florida - you're getting a little wellness boost too.
🍯 Quick Cocoplum Jam:
🔸2 cups ripe Cocoplums
🔸1 cup sugar
🔸1 cup water*
🔸1 tbsp lemon juice
🔸Mash it all up, cook on low 20-30 minutes until thick. Cool and enjoy!
*To make a delicious summer drink, add 10 cups of water and just get to boil. Let sit 2 hrs, mash up, drain fruit and cool to enjoy.
So next time you walk by a Cocoplum hedge, check for fruit. There might be a free snack waiting for you!
Crunchy Pate??? Sound ON! A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.
Crunchy Pate??? Sound ON!
Marco the cat is eating crunchy pate
Crunchy Pate??? Sound ON! 📢
"I'm so hungry I could eat a horse. And chase the rider." - Dorothy Parker
⚠️ WARNING: sound effects 18+!
Marco at PeopleCats.Garden is eating his pate with a side of sound effects. Apparently, he ordered pate "extra crispy". Volume up for maximum crunch!
More than white: rare Butterfly Gingers. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.
More than white: rare Butterfly Gingers
Hedychium - Butterfly Ginger
More than white: rare Butterfly Gingers
If you’re a fan of that sweet, heady scent of the classic White Butterfly Ginger (Hedychium coronarium) - a symbol of Hawaiian paradise - you’ll be happy to know it has some beautiful, fragrant relatives!
This is the one everyone knows and loves. Big, white, butterfly-shaped blooms with an intense perfume. Grows in sun or shade, survives light freezes, and fills the summer air with scent. A must for Southern gardens and anyone who wants a piece of island paradise.
A showstopper with variegated leaves splashed in creamy white, and peachy-orange fragrant flowers in late summer. This hybrid from Dr. Moy of the San Antonio Botanical Garden brings both bold foliage and beautiful scent. A real garden standout.
Looks like the classic white, but with soft yellow blooms and the same rich fragrance. Long, slightly fuzzy green leaves and flower spikes that light up late summer with scent and color. This variety grow fast and much bigger than plant also much bigger and vigorous than classic white Butterfly ginger.
Perfume in a pot: exotic Dwarf Chanel No 5 Tree. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.
Perfume in a pot: exotic Dwarf Chanel No 5 Tree
Cananga fruticosa - Dwarf Ylang-Ylang Tree, Chanel No 5 Tree
✨ Perfume in a pot: exotic Dwarf Chanel No 5 Tree
⭐️ The Chanel No. 5 tree in a pot? Yep.
Cananga fruticosa - Dwarf Ylang-Ylang Tree, is the compact cousin of the famous perfume tree. It has the same elegant, drooping flowers that smell like the original Ylang-Ylang - the scent behind Chanel No. 5 - just in a smaller, easy-to-grow version.
⭐️ It stays nicely shaped like a little tree, blooms year-round in warm weather, and does great in a container. Just give it bright light, and if the air is humid, you'll get that dreamy fragrance in full force.
⭐️ A perfect plant for anyone who wants their space to smell amazing - naturally.
