Date: 12 Dec 2025
🎄 Holiday Plant Market:
Saturday, Dec 13, 2025, 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM 🎉
Smokey: We invited people, so we need to be prepared for the crowd.
Sunshine: I am prepared. I saw yummy donuts on the flyer.
Smokey: Of course you did, genius. You are responsible for donuts
and coffee.
It is almost here. Our big end-of-season Plant Day. All year we grow the rare and unusual plants that will be featured at this event, and Saturday is the day they finally meet their new homes. The garden turns into a small holiday escape: fresh air, bright colors, music, snacks, and the PeopleCats greeting everyone like they have known you for years.
Meet PeopleCats crew in charge
Why you should come
It is December in Florida - warm breeze, sunshine, and perfect planting weather. While the rest of the country is scraping frost off windshields, you're choosing which banana tree to take home. Come enjoy a colorful Saturday surrounded by plants, music, snacks, and friendly PeopleCats. This is your holiday escape, your plant-hunting adventure, and your chance to bring home something amazing before the season ends.
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Date: 11 Mar 2026
📅 Do Not Miss: March 21 - Spring Equinox Plant Market
🍩 Saturday, March 21, 2026: 9 am - 4 pm
Smokey: You'd be perfect for a Gulf beach cafe. But gardeners don't come here for donuts.
Sunshine: Really? Then why do they come?
Smokey: Some gardeners lost plants to the freeze. Others want trees that will handle winter better. Cold-hardy avocados. Macadamia. Grumichama. And some just come for fun - to see the PeopleCats.
Sunshine: And my charm... and my donuts will make it more fun.
Read more about Smokey & Sunshine
Ft Myers Garden Center: 13890 Orange River, Ft Myers,
FL
Sebring B-Farm
: 9100 McRoy Rd, Sebring, FL
More Spring Equinox Plant Market details
🌞 Welcome to our Spring Equinox Plant Market, proudly hosted by the PeopleCats of Top Tropicals.
This one feels different.
After Florida’s record freeze, many gardens are brown, trimmed back, or missing a few old friends. We felt it too. And now - we rebuild.
The equinox marks equal day and night. More light ahead. New growth beginning.
And the PeopleCats are ready🐾.
- 🐱King is back on gate duty - inspecting every vehicle for proper plant-hauling capacity.
- 😺Paisley is rearranging freeze survivors and new arrivals like a design consultant.
- 😼Snitch is supervising recovery efforts from a comfortable chair.
- 😸Persephone is checking under tables for "hidden spring energy."
- 😻Sushi and Loki are preparing for guided garden tours - recovery edition.
This is not just a plant market. This is the spring reset.
👍 Why You Should Come
It is finally warm in Florida. After several nights of hard freeze, some plants survived - and some didn’t. This event is your chance to see real freeze champions in person.
If you lost plants, you are not alone. If you are ready to plant smarter, this is your moment.
Walk the gardens. See proven winter survivors. Discover cold-hardy fruit trees and resilient ornamentals. Get practical advice about replanting after freeze. This is rebuilding - Florida style.
♥️ What Makes This Event Special
We are featuring:
- Verified freeze survivors
- Cold-hardy fruit trees
- Tough flowering trees and shrubs
- Replacement plants for damaged landscapes
- Smart layering ideas for frost-resilient gardens
- You will see which species handled 25F with wind and multiple nights of freeze - with no protection.
Real-world test. Real results.
Cold hardy fruit favorites include:
- Cold-hardy Avocado varieties, including varieties, which are cold hardy to 15-20°F: Joey, Fantastic, Mexicola, Poncho, Brogdon and more.
- Macadamia Nut Trees
- Eugenia Cherries, including Rio Grande and Grumichama
- Gin Berry and Jaboticaba
- Loquat and Cattley Guava
- Peaches and Pomegranates
🌸 Cold hardy subtropical flowering trees including:
- Bauhinias and Tabebuias
- Mexican Bird of Paradise - Caesalpinia mexicana
- Jacaranda and Magnolia
🎉Event Highlights
- 30% OFF online prices
- FREE plants with purchase
- $5-10 specials
- Exciting raffle prizes
🌳Don't just mow - grow!
Start your food forest, beat rising prices, and plant a future your family will thank you for.
Date: 17 Jun 2024
A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime
🌳 "A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime." - Mark Twain
And Loki says: "Climbing a tree is the easy part; it's the descent that requires finesse."
Good night 🕯
Share your cats in comments!
📸 🐈🐈🐈👇
🐾 More #PeopleCats in our Garden:
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🏵 TopTropicals
Date: 9 Aug 2025
Lilys fresh start: from bullied to beloved!
Cat Lily (Lilimon)
➕ 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.
#PeopleCats
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Date: 6 Sep 2023
Event Mementos (September 2)
Thank you all for making this happen!
We would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to each and every one of you for making our garden event in celebration of our manager Kristi's birthday such a resounding success!
To our wonderful guests, thank you for joining us on that beautiful Saturday and making the day special for Kristi and all of us at Top Tropicals. We hope you enjoyed reconnecting with nature and finding the perfect plants to adorn your gardens. Your presence and the efforts of our amazing Team combined to create a memorable day filled with tropical beauty and inspiration for all.
A heartfelt shout-out goes to our exceptional Top Tropicals Team, the
true heroes behind the scenes. Our dedicated People and PeopleCats
, who generously shared their knowledge and passion, guided you through the
nursery, and helped you select the perfect plants. They are the ones who work
tirelessly to ensure every plant thrives, nurturing our garden with love and
care. Their unwavering dedication was particularly evident in the incredible
recovery of our garden after Hurricane Ian last year. Today, you witness its
beauty once again, renewed and flourishing, thanks to their hard work and
commitment.
These People are: Kristi, Jamie, Onika, Tony, Chiane, Mark H, Mark
M, Ed, Beatriz, Aurelio, Mick... (see Our Team).
The PeopleCats are: King, Snitch, Sushi, Loki, Paisley, Josephine...
(+10 more at Garden Center and 9 more at B-Farm! See all PeopleCats)
Here are a few pictures from the past event, and please visit Event Mementos page to see all of them!
