🥭 How India grows most of the mangoes in the world.

📍 India grows 45% of all the mangoes in the world. However, exports account for only 1% of international trade - almost all the mangoes are consumed locally by the residents.

📍 Mango import in the US limited by only easy-to-ship, fibrous varieties such as Tommy Atkins.

📍 To enjoy the full palette of mango varieties, you need to grow your own tree or buy fruit from local growers in southern areas.

📝 Earlier posts on Mango:

🔸 Mango rainbow: What's the taste of that mango variety?
🔸 5 most Favorite Mango Varieties
🔸 Top 10 Dwarf "Condo" Mango
🔸 Top 5 vigorous growers and reliable producers
🔸 Top 5 exotic Mango varieties for rare fruit collection
🔸 How to grow a mango tree
🔸 How to protect mango fruit from rodents

🛒 Plant your own Mango Tree

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🐾 How many buttons in this ballistic mattress???

🔘 Dorstenia bahiensis - Mattress Button Plant: this plant is a real Nature's Wonder! The fun part is the "mattress" where the seed "buttons" grow.

🚀 The plant has strange looking receptacles. At maturity, seeds shoot ballistically from the mature flower/fruit heads, and they germinate readily whenever the land on soil or other moist substrate.

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😪“You cannot look at a sleeping cat and feel tense.” - Jane Pauley

Share your cats in comments!
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🐾 More #PeopleCats in our Garden:
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🍹 How to make tasty Carambola Banana Whip

✔️ 1 ripe Carambola
✔️ 3 ripe Bananas
✔️ 1 tbsp Honey
✔️ 1/2 tsp Cocoa (optional)

Blend ingredients until smooth. Scoop into frosted mugs. Garnish with Carambola and Banana slices.

🍷 Enjoy while cold ❄️

📚 From previous posts:
• Why Bananas? They are good for you and are fun to grow!
• How to grow your own Carambola

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🎀 What is better - Blue or Pink? You need both!

These two varieties of Clerodendrum must go together - Blue Butterfly and Pink Butterfly - perfect combination! The flowers and butterfly-like shape attract butterflies and other pollinators to the garden. So these plants are all about butterflies!

Blue Butterfly Bush that we mentioned earlier, is a popular fast growing showy shrub with bright blue butterfly-like flowers

🎀 Pink Butterfly Bush is very rare new plant in cultivation, is very similar to more common Blue variety but has pink flowers.

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