Garden Blog - Top Tropicals

🍒 One bite, your whole day of vitamin C: Barbados Cherry that outdoes oranges!

• 🍒 Malpighia glabra - Barbados Cherry, or Acerola has 65 times more vitamin C than an orange! Just a single berry-sized fruit can provide your entire daily vitamin C needs, along with vitamins A, B1, B2, B3, carotenoids, and bioflavonoids. In short, this little cherry is one of the most powerful antioxidant fruits in the world.
• 🍒 But it isn’t just about nutrition. Barbados Cherry is a compact, fast-growing shrub or small tree that starts fruiting young, often within its first year. It produces crops several times a year, and the bright red cherries are as beautiful as they are useful. The fruit is tangy-sweet and makes excellent juices, smoothies, jams, and jellies. It also freezes well without losing its vitamin content.
• 🍒 Gardeners love this plant not only for its fruit but also for how easy it is to grow. Unlike many tropicals, it tolerates alkaline soils, is drought-resistant once established, and can handle light freezes. That makes it a surprisingly tough choice for a tropical fruit tree. Birds enjoy the fruit too, so planting one is also a gift to your local wildlife.
• 🍒 It's also a beauty in the garden, covered in pretty pink flowers and bright red fruit, often both at the same time.
• 🍒 If you are short on space, the dwarf variety Nana is a perfect choice. With tiny leaves, compact growth, and smaller fruit, it works well in containers, borders, or even as a bonsai. It's both ornamental and productive.
• 🍒 Whether you want a reliable vitamin boost, a wildlife-friendly garden addition, or just a cheerful little tree with bright red fruit, Barbados Cherry has you covered.

📚 Learn more from previous posts:

• ▫️Top 10 fast-fruiting trees: #4. Barbados Cherry
• ▫️10 best fruit trees to grow in Florida and Southern landscapes
• ▫️Another crop of Barbados cherry
• ▫️How to make Barbados Cherry Juice
• ▫️Barbados Cherry Mini Version.
• ▫️65 times more of vitamin C than an orange: Barbados Cherry
• ▫️Learn more about Barbados Cherry

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💮 What is your favorite variety of Jasmine Sambac?

• 💮 Jasminum Sambac is hands-down the queen of fragrant flowers. The scent is heavenly - so much so that it's the key to jasmine perfume and the secret behind authentic jasmine tea.
• 💮 Jasmine sambac comes in all shapes and sizes - from neat little shrubs to big, vigorous bushes and even climbing vines. Every variety shows off a different flower form. It’s happy in sun or shade, perfect for pots, and loved as an indoor plant.
• 💮 At TopTropicals we love them all, but these three are our favorites:

- Belle of India - with elegant long petals
- Arabian Nights - vigorous yet compact, always covered in blooms
- Little Duke - same big carnation-like flowers as Grand Duke, but in a smaller, tidy package

• 👉 At Top Tropicals, we grow every known variety of Jasminum sambac in cultivation:

❓ Which one would you choose for your garden?

• ✔️ Arabian Nights - compact slow growing shrub with small delicate flowers
• ✔️ Belle of India - compact vine with long elegant petals, shade lover
• ✔️ Grand Duke of Tuscany - the most popular, vigorous bush with carnation-like flowers
• ✔️ Grand Duke Supreme - bigger, more vigorous version of Grand Duke with larger flowers
• ✔️ Gundu Malli - new hybrid between Arabian Nights and Grand Duke
• ✔️ Little Duke - more compact version of the Grand Duke
• ✔️ Maid of Orleans - vigorous full sun climber, great for hedges and fences
• ✔️ Mali Chat - very delicate, rare variety, with miniature 3-tier flowers, not easy to establish, shade lover
• ✔️ Mysore Mulli - vigorous vining shrub for sunny or semi-shade locations

• 👉 To get more flowers, just use Sunshine Pikake plant booster and enjoy the perfume all day long!

🛒 Smell the Difference – collect Sambac varieties

• 📚 Learn more:

▫️The most wanted fragrant plant

• ▫️How to tell the difference between Jasmine Sambac Varieties
• ▫️ Jasmine Sambac in bloom

📚 Jasminum Sambac Absolute Flower - book download

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• 📱 Jasminum Sambac Page

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👻 The mystery of the White Bat Lily - the plant with wings and whiskers

• Here's a cool shot of the White Bat Head Lily (Tacca nivea) - its dramatic white bracts that flare like wings and those wild, trailing whiskers are impossible to ignore. And it is in full bloom again at Top Tropicals - in the middle of August.
• This plant that pulls off gothic elegance with two crisp, wing‑like white bracts hovering over a cluster of deep maroon‑black "bat‑face" flowers, complete with long, draping whiskers. Beneath it all lie crinkled, olive‑green leaves that only add to its moody charm.
• This tropical understory native thrives in humid, shaded spaces - whether that's a greenhouse or a mossy, misty corner indoors. It's an evergreen perennial, endlessly intriguing. When it does bloom, the dark little flowers eventually yield heavy berries - just one more twist in its curious tale.
• Looking to grow one? You'll need:

✔️High humidity, indirect light, and good air circulation

• ✔️Rich, orchid‑style soil (think adding bark, peat, perlite to your potting mix)
• ✔️Consistently moist - but not waterlogged - conditions
• ✔️And to be patient: flowering often requires a couple of leaves before it even sets stems

• It's not just a plant - it's a conversation starter, a living gothic sculpture that grows. Maybe a bit finicky? Sure. Totally worth it? Absolutely!

🛒 Add White Bat Head Lily to your collection

Tacca colors: Black, White, Green:
Tacca nivea - White Tacca - the rarest and the most wanted
Tacca chantrieri - Black Tacca
Tacca leontopetaloides - Green Tacca

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▫️Spooky Bat Head Devil Flower

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