Date: 29 Jan 2020
Meet People of TopTropicals. Pea Cock of the Day: the Orchid Guard
Recently we started to reveal the secret about who works behind the
scenes on TopTropicals project; you have already met our editors and their
assistants: Marina with Tilda, and Alex with Sonya. Today's story is about a Magic Peacock who works in orchid greenhouse of Eleanor
Wilks - our photographer and tropical plant journalist in New Zealand and
Australia. The watermark EleNZ you see on pictures of Australian flora - is
Eleanor's!
Today Eleanor is sharing with us pictures of this amazing bird that helps
her around her Orchidarium.
This young Pea Cock showed up one day in her backyard from nowhere and set
up his living quarters in a tree. She asked around: no one was missing a
peacock... so she took the Pea in and now he is in charge of her orchid
collection. After a day of a hard work, Pea comes home to the back porch, waiting for
Eleanor to sing him a good-night lullaby. Pea won't go to sleep until everyone in the house is ready for bed and the lights turned off. What a responsible house guard!
Check out and more Cat of the Day stories.
Date: 29 Dec 2019
Meet People of TopTropicals. Duck of the Day: Dobi says Good-Bye!
Our Duck Dobi finally decided to join her whistling duck community and said good bye to us...
Everyone who visited Top Tropicals Garden Center met Dobi - the all-time greeter! She has been raised by Kristi from a little fluffy duckling and ruled TopTropicals Cat Community and Plant Nursery for almost 2 years! Now that she finally feels strong and confident, she said she feels good about getting her Duck Freedom. She promised to come back in Spring, like all ducks do - they come to their Home Pond where they have been raised.
Bon Voyage Dobi, enjoy your duck friends, and we will be waiting for you!
Check out and more Cat of the Day stories.
Date: 23 Oct 2019
Meet PeopleCats of TopTropicals. Office Snitch
Snitch is an office employee. He is Kristi's personal assistance and he owns half of her desk (well, the middle half). He is helping answering customer calls and messages.
When you visit our Garden Center, be careful when you open the office door and step in - Snitch might be playing a Doormat!
Snitch dozed off after his office hard work
Inspecting the Grounds and Above with Dobi Duck
Date: 14 Oct 2019
Meet PeopleCats of TopTropicals. Cat of the Day: Ricki
The Smallest Cat
Ricki is a tiny little cat. He is already 3 y.o. but still feels shy because he always has been the smallest one... He arrived to TopTropicals as a little kitten, along with his 3 sisters, Charlie, Purry, and LadyBug, in a box. Ricki was the last kitten in the littler and almost half the size of other kittens! But his ears were the biggest. So he became a very Wise Puuurson who knows how to Listen.
Not only Ricki was the smallest, but he also was pretty sick when we first got him at the age of 4 weeks. He had a bad infection in both eyes and could hardly see anything... His 2 sisters got adopted by employees, but no one wanted to adopt poor Ricki... so he stayed at TopTropicals. Almost 2 weeks of therapy finally helped him to get all better. Now he is one of the cutest Little People!
Ricki has his own spot at the corner of a dinner table. He is not interested in stealing any food (unlike Wesley), he just wants to be involved in a dinner conversation...
Ricki likes treats and remains very shy, staying indoors. If you visit our Garden Center, you may bring him a small treat - his favorite "Temptations".
Wesley and Ricki at Dinner conversation
Date: 7 Oct 2019
Meet PeopleCats of TopTropicals. Cat of the Day: James Coconuts
Winning a Lucky Ticket for a Croissant
Many of you have already met James Coconuts who has been in charge of
our Customer Service Team for a long time. After many years of hard work,
Coconuts is now finally retired in a comfortable home but still does some
consulting for Anna Banana and other office team members. So you will hear from him
again in our Blog, helping with planting, and organizing holiday events.
Originally, Coconuts came from the Middle-of-Nowhere (what a surprise).
Tenants from our old property in Punta Gorda left him behind when they moved
out... So Coconuts lived in woods for a month and, considering being deaf
(but not dumb!) from birth, living in the wild was quite a challenge for him.
When he saw our car, he jumped right into the open trunk and never regretted
that decision. We left us no choice but to take him into our big CatFamily. He
had starved so much that he ate a whole croissant... as we had nothing else
to offer at the moment... Since then, Coconuts went through lots of troubles
including a minor stroke, being run over by a truck, lost in woods again for
a month, and surviving a wild animal fight followed by a life-threatening
abscess. Finally, he decided to stay away from trouble and happily landed on his
couch with Margaritas and Nachos, getting chubby, singing his favorite opera
songs, and writing poetry.
