One fruit on this tray always stumps people

• 🍉 Another day, another fruit tray from the garden! Even at the end of November, something is always ripening here in Florida. This tray turned out especially fun - a mix of familiar fruits and a couple that always make people guess twice!
• 🍉 Today’s harvest includes: sweet Persimmons, Star fruit, a few different dragon fruits: yellow Palora and white with red skin - this is Seoul Kitchen. There's also Cocoplum, which makes great drinks. And - ta-da! - the little showstopper of the day: Curly Locks Orchid Cactus fruit (Epiphyllum guatemalense Monstrosa). It looks wild, but it's edible and tastes like a tiny dragon fruit.
• 🍉 If you live in Florida or any warm climate, growing your own fruit is one of the best gifts you can give yourself. Tropical fruit trees are generous plants - they don’t wait for a season, they give you something month after month. Some days it’s a handful, some days it’s a whole tray, but there’s always a fresh treat waiting. Once you start growing your own food, you realize how easy and rewarding it is to fill your garden with flavor.
• 🍉 Every tray has a new surprise. Come along and see what the garden gives us next!

🛒 Explore rare tropical fruit

📚 Learn more:

• Can you name all the fruits on this tray?
• Weird cactus looks like pasta with Dragon Fruit
• Cocoplum: secret fruit in your hedge
• Pitaya vs Dragon fruit - what is the difference and how to grow it?
• How soon will Persimmon tree fruit?
• 10 best fruit trees to grow in Florida and Southern landscapes
• Top 10 fast-fruiting trees

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🐈 Meet PeopleCats of TopTropicals

🐈📸 Cat Charlie - she climbs fence poles, supervises the garden center, and wins hearts from above at TopTropicals PeopleCats.Garden

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🎄 Holiday Plant Market Event Mementos

• Thank you to everyone who came out for our Holiday Plant Market!
It was a joy watching the garden fill up with familiar friends and first-time visitors all exploring, chatting, and discovering new favorites.
• Our PeopleCats took their jobs very seriously, trotting ahead of guests, inspecting carts, and making sure no one left without the perfect plant. The whole place buzzed with good moods, warm weather, and that fun holiday energy only a tropical garden can create.
• If you see yourself or your friends on the photos, save or forward to share the memories!
If you spot yourself or someone you know in the photos, go ahead and save them or pass them along. We hope your new plants settle in beautifully, and we look forward to seeing you back in the garden soon. Happy holidays and happy growing!
• Check out more pictures of the Event

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Stop planting shade plants until you see this one!

• 🚩Megaskepasma erythrochlamys - Brazilian plume or Red Cloak is one of my favorite winter colors in the garden. It comes from a plant most people overlook.
It keeps pushing bold red flower spikes when many plants slow down.
• 🚩It handles sun or shade, attracts butterflies and hummingbirds, and even surprises people with light cold tolerance. Big leaves, strong structure, and steady color make it a solid choice for beds, fences, or large containers.
• 🚩If your garden needs color that does not quit when the season changes, this one earns its space.

🛒 Get the winter bloomer most gardens are missing

📚 Learn more:

✦ Megaskepasma_erythrochlamys in Plant Encyclopedia

✦ Turn up the color in your garden with the bold everblooming Brazilian plume

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🐈 Always on duty

"Are you guys still opening your Christmas presents?
Time to plant some trees!"

🐈📸 Cat Snitch is already on duty in his Garden Center office at TopTropicals PeopleCats.Garden

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