Garden Blog - Top Tropicals

🍴 Be happy with what you have: this might be all you've got!

"Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have." - Rabbi Hyman Schachtel

🐈📸 Jim II is snacking on pepper seedlings - sweet and spicy! At PeopleCats.Garden. 

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🔥 A banana with no bananas? Scarlet red flowers of Musa coccinea.

• 💃 Musa coccinea, Scarlet Banana, is a small tropical plant from China and Vietnam that grows like a banana but doesn’t bother with fruit you can eat. Instead, it puts out tall, upright spikes of red bracts with yellow flowers tucked inside - like a torch made of petals.
• 💃 Each stem flowers once and then fades, but new shoots keep popping up from the base, so the plant just keeps going. The leaves are classic banana style: big, dark green, and glossy.
• 💃 You’ll see the flowers in summer, and they last a long time - bright, strange, and impossible to ignore. The plant stays compact, does well in pots, and even the fruit (small and orange) adds a weird touch. It's one of those plants that doesn't try to fit in.

🛒 For fans of strange plants

📚 Learn more:

• 💋About #Bananas
• 💋Top 3 Fastest-Growing Red-Leaf Bananas
• 💋Top Ornamental Banana Varieties - Which One Belongs in Your Garden?
• 💋Musa Zebrina Rojo - Blood Leaf Banana

#Nature_Wonders #Container_Garden #Bananas

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How to catch a cat (the fast and easy way)

Step 1: Put down a box.
That's it. You've already won.

Step 2: Remove the first cat from the box.
It resets automatically. No assembly required.

Step 3: Wait 0.5 seconds.
Next cat enters trap willingly.

Step 4: Repeat as needed.
Box works on all models.

Final step: All cats are now removed from the kitchen.
You can finally eat in peace.
Much easier than crawling under the table like a maniac.

🐈📸 Top Tropicals cats: Jacques, Macaron and Klaksa at PeopleCats.Garden. 

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👄 Blue lips smell like violets

• 💙 Sclerochiton harveyanus - Mazabuka, or Blue Lips blooms with quirky blue-to-purple flowers that really do look like lips. And in the tropical plant world, blue flowers are rare. And they are lightly violet-lavender-fragrant!
• 💙 Even better? It's a total shade lover. No need for blazing sun - this beauty is happy to bloom in the cool, leafy spots of your garden.
• 💙 Loved by bees and birds, and just the right mix of weird and wonderful.

🛒 Add Blue Lips to your shade garden

📚 Learn more:

• ▫️Why this blue tropical flower has a violet fragrance?
• ▫️Surprising Violet fragrance of the Blue Lips

#Perfume_Plants #Shade_Garden #Butterfly_Plants

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😮 Kitty saved his life!

"Where there’s a will, there's a way" - Thomas Heywood, The Proverb, 1608.

🐈📸 Philemon the cat finding his ways at TopTropicals PeopleCats.Garden. 

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Late season mango Kent: Florida's delight.
Mango Rainbow🌈

• 🟡Kent is Florida's late-season superstar that never disappoints!
• 🟡These big, oval mangoes turn yellow-green with a ruby-red blush and emit the most tropical, peachy aroma. Slice inside and you’ll find dense, fiberless orange flesh that melts in your mouth with a sweet-tangy burst and warm spice notes. It's juicy, succulent, and perfect fresh or in smoothies - and they keep coming from July through early fall.
• 🟡This tree is a heavy bearer, disease resistant, and a must-have in any mango collection!

🛒 Shop Mango varieties

📚 Previous posts: #Mango_Rainbow - varieties you should try

#Food_Forest #Mango #Mango_Rainbow

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❤️ Today's peace

"Worry does not remove tomorrow's troubles, it takes away today's peace." - Corrie ten Boom, a Dutch Christian watchmaker and Holocaust survivor.

🐈📸 Ricki has no worries about tomorrow at Top Tropicals PeopleCats.Garden. 

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🌺 Caught on camera: found this on the Flower of Caipora.

• 🍁 Ruellia affinis, the Flower of Caipora - is a rare tropical gem from the forests of Brazil, with tropical red blooms when you need them most!
• 🍁 This isn't your typical Ruellia. It's a climbing, vining shrub that puts out blazing red flowers in winter when most plants are taking a nap especially during Fall-Winter holidays.
• 🍁 You can let it vine up a trellis or pinch it back to make a bushy, compact shape. Either way, those scarlet blooms will pop once the older stems mature.
• 🍁 Just give it light shade, warmth, and moisture - and it'll reward your patience with color when you least expect it!

🛒 Limited! Get Flower of Caipora, hard-to-find tropical bloomer

📸 What's on the plant? Anyone knows the name of this Moth?

#Shade_Garden #Container_Garden

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