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Why every garden needs a banana tree (or three!) A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Bananas

🍌 Why every garden needs a banana tree (or three!)
  • 🍌 Peel this: Banana secrets revealed.

    • The truth about bananas is - Bananas are everyone's favorite snack. Sweet, nutritious, and loaded with potassium. They're great for muscle cramps, post-workout recovery, and quick energy. But did you know you can grow your own bananas, even in a small backyard or container?
  • 🍌Banana Trees (Musa x acuminata) are:

  • 🟡Super easy to grow
  • 🟡Fast-growing and low maintenance
  • 🟡Clumping and self-reproducing
  • 🟡Beautiful and tropical-looking with their big, tropical leaves and showy, exotic flowers

  • 🍌Dwarf varieties fit in tight spaces, and rare types like Red Bananas or the creamy Banana Ice Cream bring flavors you’ll never find at the grocery store. Plus, your own bananas are organic, fresh, and way tastier.
  • 🍌 Start your banana patch today - and enjoy your own homegrown fruit all year long!


🛒 Explore Banana Varieties

📚 Learn more about Banana varieties:

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"> Two people in blue shirts cutting open a large 37-pound Jackedak Jackfruit on an outdoor table, revealing bright yellow fruit inside.

🍈 We Cut Open a 37 lb Jackfruit - You Won't Believe What's Inside!

🍈 Cutting into a 37-pound Jackedak Jackfruit with Chiane and Ashley!

🍈 Join us at Top Tropicals as we explore one of the largest fruits on Earth - the mighty Jackfruit. From golden, juicy bulbs bursting with tropical sweetness to edible seeds and the soft “rag” with hints of bubblegum, pineapple, and custard, this giant fruit has more surprises than expected.

  • ✔️Learn how to cut and clean a jackfruit
  • ✔️See which parts are edible (you might be surprised!)
  • ✔️Why it's a favorite for exotic fruit lovers
  • ✔️Hear our taste-test reactions: bubblegum, custard, pineapple?

🍈 Whether you're into exotic fruits, cooking, or growing your own tropical trees, this is one tasty experience you don't want to miss.

🍈 Want to grow your own Jackfruit? We've got you covered!

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Lilys fresh start: from bullied to beloved! A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Cat Lily (Lilimon)

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Anthurium with leaves longer than you! A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Anthurium vittarifolium - Long Leaf Anthurium

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Bohemian Catsody (Rescue Edition) A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

James Coconuts, Cash, Scooby and Timo - rescued cats

🎭 Bohemian Catsody (Rescue Edition)

🎶 Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?
😵‍� Caught in a catnipslide - no escape from herbal reality.
👀 Open your eyes, look up to the skies… and see James, Cash, Scooby and Timo floating through shroomy bliss... 🌿

🎉 Happy International Cat Day!

🐈📸 James Coconuts, Cash, Scooby and Timo - all are rescued cats, now living their best lives at TopTropicals PeopleCats.Garden

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Why your gut is begging for papaya. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Why your gut is begging for papaya

Papaya fruit and trees (Carica papaya)

🍊Why your gut is begging for papaya
  • 🌴Papaya (Carica papaya) is more than just a tasty tropical fruit - it's a natural remedy for your gut. Thanks to an enzyme called papain, it helps with digestion, bloating, and even supports immune health with high levels of vitamin C and A.
  • 🌴But here's what makes papaya a must-have in every garden: it's fast, space-saving, and super productive. Many trees start fruiting within a year!
  • 🌴Dwarf varieties only reach 6-8 feet but still give you full-sized fruit that's easy to harvest.
  • 🌴Grow it in the ground or in a container - it thrives in sun, handles light freezes, and even stands strong in high winds.
  • 🌴Low effort, high reward. Sweet fruit, strong plant. What more do you need?


📚 Learn more from previous posts:

🛒 Your gut will thank you - plant Papaya

#Food_Forest #Papaya
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August 8 - International Cat Day: cats taking over? A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

August 8 - International Cat Day: cats taking over?
🐈 August 8 - International Cat Day: cats taking over?

Let's be honest - cats kind of rule the world right now. There are nearly 700 million of them, and they're not just lounging on your couch anymore. They've taken over the internet, inspired museum exhibits, popped up in luxury ads, and even have their own global holidays (yes, more than one). They are so much more than just pets - they're pop culture royalty 👑
  • 🐾 There are about 700 million cats in the world. That's one for every ten people... and some of us are definitely over our quota.

  • 🐾 People literally buy movie tickets to watch cat videos. Last summer in New York, a full hour of nothing but cat clips played in theaters - 73 minutes straight of cat clips at the cinema - and people loved it!

  • 🐾 Cats are ad superstars. They show up in everything from luxury fashion to car commercials. They star in memes, viral videos, and major luxury brand and car campaigns. Apparently, if you want people to care, just add a cat.

  • 🐾 Cats have three international holidays. Not one, not two - three! February 20, August 8, and October 29. Meanwhile, world peace only gets one. Priorities.

  • 🐾 A cat exhibit in Poland broke records. A cat-themed show in Krakow's Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology drew the highest visitor numbers in 30 years - 57,186 attendees.

  • 🐾One chubby cat in Athens is a Google Maps tourist attraction. Titan, an orange-and-white street cat near the Acropolis, is so famous he's on Google Maps. Yes, right next to the Parthenon.

  • 🐾Cats have been hanging around humans for over 10,000 years. It started when our trash attracted mice - and the cats came for the buffet.

  • 🐾Ancient Egyptians elevated cats. They didn't just keep them around - they gave them fancy burials, turned them into art, and even made them into gods.


🐈📸 TopTropicals cats Google and Shortstuff ruling at Top Tropicals PeopleCats.Garden. 

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Black n White. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Black n White Black n White

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What is the best purple flowering bush? Glory bush! A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Tibouchina multiflora (grandifolia) - Glory bush, Quaresmeira

💜 What is the best purple flowering bush? Glory bush!
  • 🟣 Why everyone in Florida wants this fuzzy-leaf Tibouchina? Tibouchina multiflora (grandifolia), Glory bush, Quaresmeira

    • is one of those plants that stops people in their tracks.
  • 🟣 The leaves are huge, soft, and fuzzy - up to 10 inches wide, sometimes 12 in shade. They're as fun to touch as they are to look at!
  • 🟣 And when it blooms? You get bold spikes of purple flowers from August through winter, turning your garden into a purple paradise.
  • 🟣 But here's the twist: the older leaves can surprise you by turning shades of orange and red - a rare bonus of fall color in the tropics.
  • 🟣 It thrives in sun or shade, grows fast, and handles Florida’s winters without a fuss.


This isn’t just a flowering shrub. It’s a statement.

🛒 Make your garden pop with purple: explore Tibouchina plants

📚 Learn more:
Why this Tibouchina is so popular

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