Garden Blog - Top Tropicals

💜 Why every garden has this one Purple Spray Tree

• 🟪 Tibouchina granulosa - Glory Tree or Purple Spray Tree - is the one you'll see in every Florida garden!
• 🟪 If you love purple flowers, this one's a no-brainer. From late summer through winter, it's covered in velvety purple blooms that form giant flower sprays. The whole tree lights up with color, and it's impossible to ignore!
• 🟪 In Highlands County, Florida (where Top Tropicals farm is), you'll see this tree in garden after garden - and everyone says the same thing: You've gotta have one!
• 🟪 It's tropical, eye-catching, and makes any landscape feel lush and vibrant. A true gem for southern gardens.

📚 Learn more:
💋How this addictive purple took over yards in Central Florida

🛒 Everyone has one - get yours today!

#Hedges_with_benefits #Trees

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❤️ We are what we do

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle

🐈📸 Our cat Lily, even when she was a kitten, always had excellent habits at Top Tropicals PeopleCats.Garden. 

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🍌 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:

• ▫️The best varieties of edible Banana to plant
• ▫️What banana fits anywhere - Banana Truly Tiny
• ▫️How to double your banana crop without extra space - Banana Double Mahoi
• ▫️Which Banana has red fruit and leaves - Banana Bordelon
• ▫️Why everyone wants Banana Lakatan - Banana Lakatan
• ▫️Is Blue Java Banana really blue? - Banana Blue Java Banana (Ice Cream)
• ▫️More about #Bananas

📱Red Leaves, Red Fruit, Real Wow Banana

#Food_Forest #Bananas

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➕ Lily’s fresh start: from bullied to beloved!

Remember Josephine's adorable kittens? You've met her famous son - dashing Philemon, now say hello to his sister, Lily - Lilimon!

Lily spent three happy years at our Ft Myers Garden Center, living the good life... until one day her siblings, brother Loki (aka Charlie Jr) and sister Sushi, decided to form a "no Lily allowed" club and started picking on her. Can you believe it? Sweet, gentle Lily - bullied!

But Lily’s no pushover. She packed her paws, waved her tail goodbye, and set off for our TopTropicals Bfarm in Sebring. And guess what? She's already mingling with the other #PeopleCats and making new friends. Now she’s settling in, and proving that fresh starts can come with purrs and sunshine.

Stay tuned - this story is just getting interesting!

🐈📸 Cat Lilimon at her new home at Top Tropicals Bfarm. 

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🍃 Anthurium with leaves longer than you!

• 🌿 Ever seen an Anthurium with leaves longer than you are tall? Anthurium vittarifolium - Long Leaf Anthurium - is a true rainforest treasure from South America. Its strap-like leaves can reach an incredible 6 feet in length but stay only about 2 inches wide, creating elegant green ribbons that drape down like a waterfall.
• 🌿 Grow it in a hanging basket and you’ll get a cascading curtain of foliage that instantly turns any space into a jungle hideaway.
• 🌿 As if the leaves weren’t enough, this rare beauty produces clusters of bright pink berries that pop against the deep green leaves, adding an unexpected splash of color!
• 🌿 It's rare, it's dramatic, and it's the kind of plant that makes people stop and ask, “What on earth is THAT?”

🛒 Grow the 6-foot leaf Anthurium

📚 Learn more:

• ▫️What is the longest Anthurium?
• ▫️Long Leaf Anthurium

#Nature_Wonders #Container_Garden #Shade_Garden

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🎭 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

• 🌴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:

• 🟡more about #Papaya
• 🟡 How to grow tons of fruit in limited space - it's incredible!
• 🟡 How to have fresh Papaya fruit year around
• 🟡 Top 3 most wanted Papaya varieties
• 🟡 Carefree Garden: practical Guide to Growing Papaya.

🛒 Your gut will thank you - plant Papaya

#Food_Forest #Papaya

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🐈 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 👑

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  🐈‍⬛ Cat #Fun_Facts:

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