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Date: 22 Dec 2025

Chaya Nutritious Omelet: quick-n-fun exotic recipes

Chaya Nutritious Omelet

Chaya Nutritious Omelet

Cnidoscolus aconitifolius (Chaya, Maya Spinach Tree)

Cnidoscolus aconitifolius (Chaya, Maya Spinach Tree)

🍴 Chaya Nutritious Omelet: quick-n-fun exotic recipes

Ingredients

  • Chaya leaves - about 2 cups packed, stems removed
  • Onion - 1 small, sliced
  • Eggs - 2
  • Cooking oil - 1 tablespoon
  • Salt - to taste

Instructions

  1. Boil chaya leaves in plenty of water for 10 to 15 minutes to remove natural toxins. Drain well and chop.
  2. Heat oil in a pan and saute the onion until soft and lightly golden.
  3. Add eggs and scramble gently.
  4. Fold in the cooked chaya and stir for 1 to 2 minutes until well combined.
  5. Serve warm. Flavor is similar to spinach with a firmer texture.

🛒 Add Chaya to your tropical Veggie Garden

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Date: 21 Dec 2025

Lilys conspiracy on her first Christmas at B-Farm

Lilimon the cat

🔔 Lily's conspiracy on her first Christmas at B-Farm

"Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love." - Hamilton Wright Mabie

🐈📸 Lilimon the cat has her cozy spots at TopTropicals. This year she is going to have her first Holiday Season at Bfarm PeopleCats.Garden

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Date: 21 Dec 2025

Everyone wants Red Jade vine - this is the one that lives! How to grow Red Jade outside the Tropics

Camptosema grandiflorum - Dwarf Red Jade Vine, Cuitelo, or Rooster's Crest

❤️‍ Everyone wants Red Jade vine - this is the one that lives! How to grow Red Jade outside the Tropics.
  • 🔥 Camptosema grandiflorum (grandiflora) - Dwarf Red Jade Vine, Cuitelo, or Rooster's Crest - this Brazilian superstar brings cascading chains of bright red blooms.
  • 🔥 Love the stunning, fiery blooms of the famous Red Jade Vine (Mucuna benettii) but live outside the tropics? Its cousin - Dwarf Red Jade Vine - delivers the same jaw-dropping, flame-red flower chains as the famous tropical Red Jade vines - but without the extreme fuss.
  • 🔥 This vine is native to Brazil, where it grows at higher elevations. That is the secret. It is noticeably more cold tolerant than Mucuna benettii and can handle short dips to around 28F with little or no damage. It is also more forgiving with watering and can tolerate brief dry spells once established.
  • 🔥 Bloom time is late fall through winter, exactly when most gardens slow down. The flowers are long, heavy, and hang best from a pergola, arbor, or fence where they can cascade freely. Butterflies, bees, and hummingbirds find it fast.
  • 🔥 Despite the word "dwarf," this is a vigorous vine. It grows quickly, needs strong support, and rewards good care with a massive display. Give it sun to light shade, water when the soil feels slightly dry, avoid soggy roots, and prune after flowering. Mulch helps keep roots cool.
  • 🔥 It can even be grown in a large container with solid support.
  • 🔥 If you have ever wanted the iconic Red Jade look but live in a place with real winters or surprise cold nights - this is the smarter choice.


🛒 Plant the Red Jade Vine that grows outside the Tropics

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Date: 20 Dec 2025

☃️ Winter is choosing season

Smokey the tuxedo cat plans spring planting on a laptop plant encyclopedia while Sunshine the ginger cat relaxes by a fireplace in a cozy Christmas living room with tropical plants.

Smokey: "December is for planning, not planting."
Sunshine: "Gift card now. Perfect plants later."
Smokey: "You surprise me sometimes. Must be the donuts."

This time of year always feels special to us. The days are shorter, the garden slows down, and we finally have a moment to pause, look at our wish lists, and dream a little about spring.

As gardeners, we know winter is not really planting season. It is choosing season.

It is when ideas take shape. When we think about what we want to grow next, what we want to add, and what we want to do differently when warm days return. That is why, in winter, the best plant gift is not a plant itself. It is the promise of one.

Cold weather and holiday shipping can make winter plant deliveries stressful, especially for tropical plants traveling north. A gift card lets plants wait for the right moment, and lets the gardener enjoy the fun part now: planning, choosing, and imagining.

It also solves something we all know too well. Every gardener is wonderfully different. Some dream of fruit trees, others of flowers, rare collectors, or easy growers. Some plant in containers, some in the ground. Guessing is hard. A gift card lets them choose exactly what fits their garden and their vision.

🎁 Holiday Gift Card Bonus

To make the season a little brighter, we are offering a holiday gift card bonus through 12/31/2025.

When you purchase a gift card, we add 15% extra value. Just add Christmas greeting in gift card message field. For example, a $100 gift card becomes $115 to spend.

The bonus value is not valid with other promotions or discounts. Gift cards cannot be used to purchase other gift cards. Bonus value is added at the time of purchase.

🎁 Get a gift card

Date: 20 Dec 2025

🎄 From our home and garden to yours!

Christmas yard decoration showing a festive holiday train with Santa, a snowman, and gift-filled cars displayed on a front lawn in a warm-climate neighborhood.

Hello friends,

From our home and garden to yours, we wish you a warm and peaceful holiday season. Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, as it comes to a close, Kwanzaa, Feliz Navidad, the New Year, or all of the above, we hope your days are filled with light and the promise of what is growing ahead.

Gardening connects us across seasons, cultures, and traditions, and we are grateful to share this journey with you.

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