Garden Blog - Top Tropicals
The morning glory that sleeps in? Alamo Vine - the noon-blooming mystery
Ipomoea sinuata - Alamo Vine
- 💮 Ipomoea sinuata - Alamo Vine or Woodrose isn't your average morning glory.
- 💮It's a fast-growing, very fine vine with feathery, soft-textured leaves that look like they belong in a fairytale.
- 💮 And its white pretty blooms? They're a little rebellious! Opening around noon instead of morning, then closing again before sunset.
- 💮 Perfect for trellises, fences, or even a container if you want a vine with personality. Attracts butterflies and bees.
- 💮 It's fast, it's different, and it's ready to cover a small fence or trellis.
🛒 Add this noontime bloomer to your garden
#Hedges_with_benefits #Butterfly_Plants
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Big energy for small spaces
Cats Scooby, Timo, James Coconuts and Matilda
"May your home always be too small to hold all your friends." - Irish blessing
🐈📸 Scooby, Timo, James Coconuts and Matilda showing off at Top Tropicals Bfarm (PeopleCats.Garden)
#PeopleCats #Quotes
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Why tipping mango trees makes them fruiting machines (DIY Garden Tip)
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🌳 Want more mangoes from your backyard tree?
In this step-by-step guide, Ed from Top Tropicals in Fort Myers, Florida, shows how to tip mango trees to boost branching, improve structure, and increase fruit production. Whether you're growing Valencia Pride, Orange Sherbet, or Glen mangoes - this method works!
✔️ You'll learn:
▫️When and how to tip branches- ▫️ What tools to use (and how to clean them)
- ▫️Real before-and-after results from trees in our Florida garden
- ▫️Tips for shaping young trees for long-term success
🛒 Get your own mango trees
🌱 More garden tips and tropical fruit care
#Food_Forest #Mango #Mango_Rainbow
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Do pet repellers work? Here is your answer
Bob, James Coconuts, Scooby and Philemon the cats
Product marketing line:
"Keep your pets off furniture painlessly with our pet repeller mat, deterring them with sound and texture, protecting your belongings."
Right.
🐈📸 Bob, James Coconuts, Scooby and Philemon testing new TopTropicals protective gear at PeopleCats.Garden.
#PeopleCats
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Strawberry Guava for best Margaritas - the easiest fruit tree youll ever grow!
Strawberry Guava, Cattley Guava - Psidium littorale
- 🍓 If you're looking for a cold-hardy tropical fruit tree that thrives on neglect, you’ve found it: Strawberry Guava, or Cattley Guava (Psidium littorale). It's our favorite Guava at Top Tropicals!
- 🍓 This fast-growing, evergreen small tree or dense bush doesn’t mind poor soil, limestone, or salt. It’s hardy to the low 20s F, drought-tolerant once established, and can even handle short-term flooding. Great as a hedge, windbreak, or container specimen, it also adds beauty year-round with glossy green leaves, peeling reddish bark, and soft red new growth.
- 🍓 You’ll get round, tangy-sweet fruit from spring through fall - perfect for snacking, jams, or jellies, juices, and adding to all kinds of drinks, especially Margaritas and Mojitos! 🍸
- 🍓 The red and yellow types are both tasty, with the yellow often a bit larger and sweeter. The sweetest and the most flavorful Cattley Guava variety is Hawaiian Gold - Psidium littorale var. Lucidum. This one is our favorite for eating out of hand!
- 🍓 Cattley Guava is productive, low-maintenance, and ornamental - one of the easiest tropical fruit trees to grow in poor or alkaline soils.
🛒 Add a sweet guava hedge to your yard
📚 Learn more:
- ▫️Favorite Guava fruit for eating fresh
- ▫️Top 10 fast-fruiting trees: #2. Cattley and Tropical guava
- ▫️How to always have lots of Guava Juice
#Food_Forest #Guava
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