🕺 Updates from Mittens

• 🐾 Mittens is growing up fast and turning into a beautiful young lady! She still follows Chiane to work every single day and hasn’t missed a shift yet. Talk about dedication! Sometimes you just get lucky and find the perfect team member - and we sure did!
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  🐾 At TopTropicals, we’re truly blessed with a crew of hardworking, happy people and equally devoted #PeopleCats.
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  🐾 When you visit our Garden Center in Ft Myers, don’t forget to say a few kind words to our team - they work tirelessly to care for the plants and make sure each one is shipped safely to your home.

🐈📸 Mittens the Cat relaxing after hard work at TopTropicals PeopleCats.Garden

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How to bring butterflies in your garden with Ditchmans Pipe

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  🐙 Aristolochia trilobata - Birthwort Dutchman's Pipe, is one of the most striking butterfly plants. The brown-and-green, pitcher-shaped flowers with long striped tails look like something from another world, and the glossy lobed leaves give the vine a bold, tropical look.
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  🐙 What makes this plant truly special is how butterflies respond to it. They are drawn to the scent of the flowers and use the vine as a host plant, laying their eggs on the leaves. If you want butterflies, this is one of the easiest ways to bring them in and support their full life cycle.
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  🐙 This vine is tough and adaptable. It grows well in subtropical climates, handles low light, and can even be kept indoors. Give it a trellis or a fence and it quickly turns into a showpiece.
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  🐙 Beautiful, unusual, and a butterfly favorite - Dutchmans Pipe is a natural magnet for life in your garden.

🛒 Bring butterflies to your garden!

📚 Learn more:

• Dutchman's Pipe - the best butterfly attracting vine
• Giant Pelican Flower
• Giant, coolest looking flower

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How to bring butterflies in your garden with Ditchmans Pipe

• 🐙 Aristolochia trilobata - Birthwort Dutchman's Pipe, is one of the most striking butterfly plants. The brown-and-green, pitcher-shaped flowers with long striped tails look like something from another world, and the glossy lobed leaves give the vine a bold, tropical look.
• 🐙 What makes this plant truly special is how butterflies respond to it. They are drawn to the scent of the flowers and use the vine as a host plant, laying their eggs on the leaves. If you want butterflies, this is one of the easiest ways to bring them in and support their full life cycle.
• 🐙 This vine is tough and adaptable. It grows well in subtropical climates, handles low light, and can even be kept indoors. Give it a trellis or a fence and it quickly turns into a showpiece.
• 🐙 Beautiful, unusual, and a butterfly favorite - Dutchmans Pipe is a natural magnet for life in your garden.

🛒 Bring butterflies to your garden!

📚 Learn more:

• Dutchman's Pipe - the best butterfly attracting vine
• Giant Pelican Flower
• Giant, coolest looking flower

#Butterfly_Plants #Hedges_with_benefits #How_to

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🍴 Tropical almond brittle: quick-n-fun exotic recipes

• 🟢Caramelize sugar, stir in roasted tropical almonds (Terminalia catappa), spread thin.
• 🟢Let cool, harden, and break into crunchy, nutty shards.

Tropical Almond Brittle

Ingredients

• 2 cups roasted tropical almonds (Terminalia catappa)
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 1/2 cup water
• 1 tbsp butter
• Pinch of salt

Instructions

1. Combine sugar, water, and salt in a saucepan.
2. Cook over medium heat until sugar caramelizes to a golden amber color.
3. Remove from heat and quickly stir in roasted tropical almonds.
4. Pour onto parchment paper and spread into a thin layer.
5. Let cool completely, then break into brittle shards.

🛒 Grow your own almonds

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Where do almonds come from?

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☂️ Hurricane season is not over! Here is the safest place

"Shelter yourself from the storm on the inside. Others can only hold the umbrella." - Mahatma Gandhi

🐈📸 Cat Timo on a rainy day at TopTropicals PeopleCats.Garden

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