🐈 Cat of the day: Macaron

• 🐾 Meet Macaron, our desert drifter from Nevada who now claims a corner of TopTropicals Arizona office.
• 🐾 Unlike your average snuggly cat, Macaron refuses the luxury of a bed - he prefers the cold hard floor or a tangle of electronic wires (maybe he's solar-powered?)
• 🐾 Macaron doesn’t hang out with the other cats, doesn’t play, doesn’t cuddle. He’s a true lone ranger. Some say he's antisocial... we say he's just mysterious!

📸 Macaron the Cat @TopTropicals PeopleCats.Garden 
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🍓 Pineapple Guava: fragrant fruit, beautiful blooms, and real health benefits

• Feijoa sellowiana, also known as Pineapple Guava or Guavasteen, is an evergreen shrub or small tree that brings together beauty, fragrance, and edible rewards.
• With its soft pink, edible flowers blooming in late spring and strongly scented fruit ripening in late summer to fall, it offers interest across multiple seasons.
• The fruit is especially unique. When fresh fruit blended with a little sugar, many describe the flavor as forest strawberries with hints of mint or pineapple - some even say it reminds them of Juicy Fruit gum. The texture is smooth and slightly gritty, similar to a pear.
• Nutritionally, Feijoa fruit is low in calories, high in fiber, and an excellent source of Vitamin C and antioxidants. You don’t need to guess when it's ready - the ripe fruit drops to the ground.
• Pineapple Guava is easy to grow and adaptable. It tolerates drought, thrives in full sun or partial shade, and withstands heat as well as cold down to 10F. Whether planted in the ground or grown in a large patio container, it needs minimal care - just occasional watering and light feeding.
• It also serves multiple purposes in the landscape: a dense, evergreen hedge for wind protection, a privacy screen, or a standalone ornamental that attracts birds and butterflies. It can be shaped into a small tree or kept compact depending on your space.
• A beautiful, edible, and low-maintenance addition to the garden that earns its place year after year.

🛒Taste the fragrant forest-strawberry flavor - grow Pineapple Guava

📚 Learn more:

• Why is it called Pineapple Guava? It tastes just like strawberries!
• Flavor of Feijoa Superfood

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🌸 Napoleons Plume - Orchid Tree that blooms in a pot

• Bauhinia monandra - Napoleons Plume Orchid Tree - is a breathtaking tropical tree with flowers that truly resemble delicate orchids, and leaves folding like butterfly wings. It is one of he most impressive varieties of orchid trees.
• Each blossom starts off pale yellow and transforms to soft pink by the next day, with the center petal beautifully streaked in magenta - a unique color shift that makes the tree look like it's blooming in multiple shades at once. When in bloom, it's covered in these showy flowers, creating a dazzling display.
• Despite its exotic look, this tree is surprisingly well-suited for containers. It can be easily kept trimmed and compact, with seedlings often blooming when just 2 feet tall. While it's sensitive to cold, growing it in a container makes it easy to move indoors during chilly weather. This makes Bauhinia monandra the perfect choice for gardeners who want a tropical tree that delivers nonstop visual impact in a manageable size.
• How to enjoy the orchid flowers and butterfly foliage of Bauhinia right on your patio or balcony? Choose the right variety. More bauhinia species suitable for containers: B. galpinii, B. madagascariensis, B. monandra, B. alba (candida), B. acuminata, B. bidentata, B. blakeana, B. grandidieri and many others.

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📚 Learn more about Orchid trees:

• How to grow Orchid Trees in pots
• Bauhinias: trees with Orchid Flowers and Butterfly Wings
• Why Bauhinias are called Orchid Trees: orchid flowers with butterfly wings...
• Bauhinia blakeana - Hong Kong Orchid Tree
• Bauhinia galpinii (punctata) - Pride of De Kaap or Nasturtium Bauhinia

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Blooming Lobster Claw Show at TopTropicals

• 🔻 Heliconia rostrata - Lobster Claw or Parrot's Beak - is one of the most iconic tropical plants, and for good reason. Its vivid, dangling blooms look like parrot feathers or lobster claws and last for weeks, making them perfect for garden displays or cut flower arrangements.
• 🔻This bold beauty grows up to 7 feet tall, thriving in tropical climates or large pots in cooler zones. Surprisingly cold-tolerant, it can handle temps in the high 20s and still put on a spectacular show.

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📚 Learn more:

• Lobster Claw - Simply Spectacular
• How to grow Lobster Claw

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🕊 This sacred perfume tree is perfect for small spaces: Parijat blooms with heartbreak and heaven

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  Nyctanthes arbor-tristis, known as Parijat, Night Jasmine, or the Sad Tree, is more than a fragrant flowering shrub - it's a story wrapped in petals. This small tree from India with highly perfumed flowers is one of the most desired fragrant plants.
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  Parijat blooms at night and drops its white-and-orange flowers by dawn, like scattered tears on the ground. In Hindu mythology, it was brought to Earth by Krishna, sparking divine jealousy. Another legend says it rose from the ashes of a heartbroken princess, blooming in sorrow each night.
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  Parijat grows 5-10 feet tall and thrives in sun or partial shade with moderate water. Its heavenly scent draws butterflies and hearts alike, and its ghostly, glowing flowers are used in Buddhist temples and traditional medicine - stems for headaches, leaves for liver ailments, and blossoms for fevers and faintness.
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  Parijat is a tree of romance, ritual, and resilience. Cold-tolerant to the 30s F, it can be container-grown in cooler zones. Just give it well-draining soil and a bit of fertilizer each month, and let the magic unfold!

🛒 Add a piece of mythology to your garden with Parijat

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