Garden Blog - Top Tropicals
Tropical Guava - Psidium guajava
- 🍉 Everyone loves guava! Sweet, fragrant, and packed with flavor. At TopTropicals, we have a whole guava forest, with varieties for every space and taste: Tropical Guava - Psidium guajava.
- 🍉 Why we love Guava?
💋Fast-growing and sun-loving
- 💋Thrives with plenty of water but handle short droughts
- 💋Starts producing right away - no years of waiting
- 💋Abundant fruit harvests
- 💋Perfect for containers or small gardens
- 🍉 What are the best Guava varieties? Our favorites are:
💋Dwarf Guava - stays under 6 feet but produces full-sized fruit.
- 💋Honeymoon Variegated - leaves and fruit have variegated patterns, turning golden when ripe.
- 💋Barbie Pink - pear-shaped yellow fruit with thick pink flesh, low in pectin, perfect for fresh eating or juice. Larger than Ruby Supreme and cold-hardy for a tropical fruit.
- 💋Hong Kong (Hawaiian) - large, round fruit with smooth pink skin, sweet flavor, and few seeds. Very productive, with a spreading growth habit.
- 💋Kilo White - huge fruit (up to 1 kilo = 2 lbs) with soft white flesh and few seeds. Great container plant, fruits even when small.
- 💋Tikal - compact tree with yellow-skinned, pink-fleshed fruit. Fruits year-round and starts young. Great for beginners.
- 🍉 Health boost in every bite:
- 🍉 Whether you’ve got space for a tree in the yard or just a container on the patio, a guava will reward you with beauty, fragrance, and sweet fruit in no time.
Guava is one of the richest sources of vitamin C – even more than oranges. It’s loaded with antioxidants, fiber, potassium, and lycopene, which support immunity, heart health, and digestion.
🛒 Pick your guava variety
📚 Learn more:
- ▫️How to grow a Guava Tree: Practical Guide to Growing Guava
- ▫️More about #Guava
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Tibouchina granulosa - Glory Tree or 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!
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Bananas
- 🍌 Peel this: Banana secrets revealed.
- 🍌Banana Trees (Musa x acuminata) are:
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?
- 🟡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
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🍈 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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