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👍 Who was your grandpa?

Macaron: "My grandpa was a Snow Leopard!"
Jim II: "My grandpa was a Teddy Bear..."

🐈📸 Cats Macaron and Jim II bragging about their family history at TopTropicals PeopleCats.Garden 

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Zero Sugar fruit: forget lemonade - new perfect summer drink discovered! A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Costa Rican Guava, Cas Guava - Psidium friedrichsthalianum

Zero Sugar fruit: forget lemonade - new perfect summer drink discovered!
  • 🍋 Costa Rican Guava, or Cas Guava (Psidium friedrichsthalianum) is the boldest fruit you can grow for refreshing drinks. Its flavor is sharp, tangy, and unforgettable - perfect for anyone who loves acidic fruit. Cas Guava has sugar at all, unless you decide to add some.
  • 🍋 The trees are super prolific - even young ones fruit heavily, and we make gallons of juice at Top Tropicals.
  • 🍋 The best part? You can freeze the fruit or boil it into a concentrate with a bit of sugar. That drink lasts in the fridge for months without going bad, thanks to Cas Guava’s natural antibacterial punch.
  • 🍋 Cas Guava juice is Costa Rica’s traditional Agua de Cas - tart, refreshing, and perfect for summer heat. And if you save enough, you’ll still be sipping it through the winter.


♨️ Agua de Cas Quick Recipe
We boiled this fruit and the drink lasted for months!
  • ▫️Boil halved fruits in water with sugar to taste
  • ▫️Simmer 5-10 minutes, let sit, then mash the softened fruit to release all the flavor
  • ▫️Strain through a colander, bottle, and refrigerate - just dilute with water when serving


✔️ Why choose Cas Guava?
  • • Packed with vitamin C - four times more than lemons - for a powerful immune boost.
  • • Rich in antioxidants to combat stress and inflammation.
  • • Hardy and low-maintenance, thriving in poor soils and resisting pests.


🛒 Grow your own Cas Guava

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PeopleCats watching Cat TV: Bob, Riki, Scooby, Matilda.

PeopleCats watching Cat TV: Bob, Riki, Scooby, Matilda.

😠 The life we have planned

"We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us." - Joseph Campbell

🐈📸 PeopleCats at TopTropicals watching Cat TV: Bob, Riki, Scooby, Matilda.

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Rare Orchid Tree you may never find again and everyone wants. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Bauhinia madagascariensis - Red Butterfly Orchid Tree

🌺 Rare Orchid Tree you may never find again and everyone wants
  • 🌺 Bauhinia madagascariensis, the Red Butterfly Orchid Tree, is one of the most dazzling flowering trees you can grow.
  • 🌺 Its scarlet blooms open like bright butterflies, each petal painted with a golden stripe at the base. When in full bloom, the tree looks alive with fluttering wings.
  • 🌺 It's fast-growing, can be kept as a small tree or a large bush, and thrives in full sun. A rare orchid tree species and a true collector’s prize. Grow it in a pot or in the ground.


🛒 The butterfly tree of Madagascar will bloom 365 days a year for you

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Guava grilled cheese: quick and fun exotic. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Guava grilled cheese

Guava grilled cheese

🍴 Guava grilled cheese: quick and fun exotic recipes
  • 🔴Spread fresh mashed guava (or guava paste) between slices of bread with cheese
  • 🔴Grill until golden.
  • 🔴Sweet and savory twist on a classic sandwich!


🛒 Explore Guava varieties

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A true friend. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Cats Philemon and James Coconuts

Cats Philemon and James Coconuts

👏 A true friend

"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you." - Elbert Hubbard

🐈📸 Cats Philemon and James Coconuts - partners in crime at TopTropicals PeopleCats.Garden 

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Don't plant cherries until you see this one! A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Cherry of the Rio Grande - Eugenia aggregata

🍒 Don't plant cherries until you see this one!
  • 🍒 Cherry of the Rio Grande (Eugenia aggregata) is one of those tropical fruits you don't forget once you taste it. The fruit looks like a dark ruby jewel and ripens to almost black, with a sweet, full cherry-like flavor.
  • 🍒 Unlike the temperate cherries, this one thrives in warm climates and starts flowering as early as March, keeping the harvest going well into summer.
  • 🍒 This little fruit tree that fits anywhere! It's slender, branching, fits neatly in limited spaces or even in a pot, yet still produces plenty of fruit.
  • 🍒 Can a tropical cherry really handle freezing temps? Once mature, Cherry of the Rio Grande can handle surprising cold snaps down into the 20s. A tough little tree that gives you a taste of the tropics right in your own backyard!


🛒 From Rio Grande to your garden

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Wine is bottled poetry. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Cash the Cat with a glass of wine

Cash the Cat with a glass of wine

🍷 Wine is bottled poetry

"Wine is bottled poetry." - Robert Louis Stevenson

🐈📸 Cash the Cat is trying some poetry at TopTropicals PeopleCats.Garden 

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