Garden Blog - Top Tropicals

Date: 14 Jun 2026

Tamarind Agua Fresca:

Tamarind Agua Fresca: Tamarind Agua Fresca:

🍴 Tamarind Agua Fresca: quick-n-fun exotic recipes



🟡Soak tamarind pulp in warm water, mash and strain.
🟡Add sugar to taste and serve over ice.
🟡Refreshing and bold.

🌿 About the plant:


In Mexico, tamarind drinks are incredibly popular. The pulp dissolves easily in water, creating a naturally tangy beverage without needing citrus.

🏡 In the garden:


Tamarind (Tamarindus indica) prefers full sun and good drainage. It is relatively low maintenance once established and rarely troubled by pests.

🛒 Plant a Tamarind tree for summers drinks

📚 Learn more:

Tamarind Plant Facts

Botanical name: Tamarindus indica
Also known as: Tamarind, Sampalok
USDA Zone: 9 - 11
Highligths Large tree taller than 20 ftFull sunWatering: Moderate. Water when top soil feels dryEdible plantSubtropical plant. Mature plant cold hardy at least to 30s F for a short timeFlood tolerant plantSeaside, salt tolerant plant
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Date: 18 Jun 2026

Smokey,  Sunshine,  and  their  mini-me  kittens  arrive  at  the  Top  Tropicals
    Father's  Day  Plant  Market.
Smokey: The best Father's Day gift is a plant.
Sunshine: Because it grows?
Smokey: Because every garden is a promise to the future.
Sunshine: Then we'd better choose carefully. We brought our future with us.

Father's Day Belongs in the Garden

Some gifts are forgotten by next month.

A plant is different.

A fruit tree planted today may provide fruit for decades. A flowering tree may bloom every spring long after the holiday is over. The best gardens aren't built in a single afternoon - they're built one season at a time, one generation at a time.

This Father's Day weekend, come spend the day the way it was meant to be spent: outdoors, unhurried, surrounded by growing things.

Top Tropicals is hosting our Summer Solstice Plant Market, and this is one of the best times of the year to visit the nursery. The longest days of summer bring out the flowers, the fragrance, and the fruit. Thousands of plants at their peak, in the kind of Florida light that makes everything look like it belongs on a postcard.

📅 Saturday, June 20, 2026
⏰ 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
📍 13890 Orange River Blvd, Ft Myers, FL 33905
Phone: 239-689-5745, 866-897-7957
📍 9100 McRoy Rd, Sebring, FL 33875
Phone: 863-401-4004, 866-897-7957

You'll find rare fruit trees, flowering trees, fragrant plants, and collector varieties rarely available elsewhere. There will be event specials, raffle prizes, free plants with qualifying purchases, tropical music, and cold drinks. And somewhere in the shade, King, Snitch, and the rest of the PeopleCats will be doing what they always do - making themselves at home and pretending to supervise.

But the real reason to come isn't the event. It's the reminder.

Whether you're planting your first fruit tree or adding one more chapter to a garden that's been growing for years, Father's Day is a good day to remember what we're really building. Not just a yard. Something that keeps giving long after the I love you, Dad card is forgotten.

Plant something today.

Every garden is a promise to the future.

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