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Date: 10 Dec 2025

Meet Onikas cats - Fred

Fred - the most inquisitive and smartest of all her tuxedo cats!

Fred - the most inquisitive and smartest of all her tuxedo cats!

Cat Fred

Cat Fred

🕺 Meet Onika's cats: Fred

🐈📸 Meet Onika's cats from TopTropicals PeopleCats.Garden:
This is Fred - the most inquisitive and smartest of all her tuxedo cats! Fred is super smart. Very tough on the outside, but sweeter than a mango on the inside.

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Date: 10 Dec 2025

The secret New Deal Franklin Roosevelt never told you about

Schlumbergera x New Deal - Thanksgiving-to-Easter blooming Cactus

🌸 The secret New Deal Franklin Roosevelt never told you about
  • 🌸 Schlumbergera x New Deal is not your regular Christmas cactus. Big blooms, long history. This heirloom flowers from Thanksgiving to Easter and descends from a plant first sold on the very day Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected.

    • This variety actually vanished from the trade for decades. Its first known appearance was at a rare plant sale at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden on November 8, 1932 - the exact day Franklin Roosevelt won the presidency and launched the famous New Deal. The name stuck, and so did the legend!
  • 🌸 What makes New Deal so special? The blooms are huge - about an inch larger than standard holiday cactus flowers - and come in brilliant violet-pink and white. And the timing is even better. It sends up a full flush around Thanksgiving and Christmas, then wakes up again with a second wave closer to Easter. That’s why some people call it a Thanksgiving cactus, others call it a Christmas cactus, and many insist it’s an Easter cactus. The truth? It’s all three.
  • 🌸 Despite its pedigree, New Deal is surprisingly easy to grow. It thrives in normal houseplant conditions, stays compact, and rewards even casual care with heavy, reliable blooming.
  • 🌸 The plants available today come from true descendant cuttings of an original 1932 specimen that is still alive. This makes New Deal one of the rarest, most authentic holiday cactus cultivars you can own - a living slice of history and one of the most generous bloomers of the entire holiday season.


🛒 Get the New Deal: the Thanksgiving-to-Easter bloomer

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Date: 10 Dec 2025

Katuk coconut soup: quick-n-fun exotic recipes

Katuk coconut soup

Katuk coconut soup

Katuk leaves - Sauropus androgynus, Tropical Asparagus

Katuk leaves - Sauropus androgynus, Tropical Asparagus

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Date: 9 Dec 2025

When will the war end?

Cat fight

🔥 When will the war end?
Sound on 🎤

Find out exactly when the war will end - at the end of this video!

🐈📸 Starring:
Orange Cat Zhyrdyay (Cherkassy, Ukraine)
'Paper' Tiger Cat (intruder from occupied Luhansk, trying to take Zhyrdyay's land)

🎥 Filmed by:Vasiliy Sarana, Wildlife Explorer and Film Director, Ukraine.
🔛 Subscribe to Vasiliy's YouTube Channel: Wildlife Adventures Ukraine

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Date: 9 Dec 2025

What blooms for you in December: Calliandra tweedii With Love

Calliandra tweedii "With Love" in a pot

Calliandra tweedii "With Love" in a pot

Calliandra tweedii "With Love" plant in the ground

Calliandra tweedii "With Love" plant in the ground

Calliandra tweedii "With Love" flowers

Calliandra tweedii "With Love" flowers

Calliandra tweedii "With Love" flower close up

Calliandra tweedii "With Love" flower close up