🍷 To the new beginnings!

"Celebrate endings - for they precede new beginnings." - Jonathan Lockwood Huie

🐈📸 Philemon discovering a new beginnings shenanigans at TopTropicals Rescued PeopleCats.Garden

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🍅 Why everyone's falling for the Hog Plum - the tropical fruit tree that does it all!

♦️The Hog Plum tree (Spondias purpurea), that you saw blooming in March, set the fruit by May and now in July - it's finally ripening at TopTropicals garden, and wow, what a crop!

♦️Also known as Jocote, Spanish Plum, or Purple Mombin, this fast-growing tropical tree is a superstar in the garden. It explodes with bright flowers right on bare branches in spring, then follows up with juicy, plum-like fruits that smell amazing and taste even better.

♦️The fruits are super versatile - eat them fresh, cook them down with sugar, pickle them green, or even make a spread like apple butter. You can even cook the young leaves for a tangy side dish.

♦️It grows fast, fruits early, and does great in all kinds of soil. Want a living fence that feeds you? This is it.

♦️And it's not just tasty - Hog Plum is packed with vitamin C, fiber, and antioxidants. It’s refreshing, great for digestion, and may even help with blood pressure and blood sugar.

♦️ If mango is king, Hog Plum is definitely next in line!

🛒 Sweet fruit, right this way!

📚 Learn more:

Hog Plum health benefits
This is how the flowers of a Hog Plum look like
The Hog Plum tree fruit
What fruit tree is full of fruit year around

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🎤 All you need is cat

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All you need is cat...
All you need is cat...
All you need is cat, cat...
Cat is all you need.

No need for Mars or progress plans,
Just paws that march across your hands.
A garden patch, a sunbeam spot -
The world makes sense when cat is what you've got.

All you need is cat...
All you need is cat...
All you need is cat, cat...
Cat is all you need.
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🐈📸 Percephone, one of our rescued cats, has quickly become a star of our Blog and PeopleCats.Garden 

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✨ Royal Cat’s Daily Schedule

5:00 am - 5:15 am - Wake the servants. With authority. Use claws if ignored.
6:00 am - 6:15 am - Morning grooming. A monarch must sparkle.
6:15 am - 7:30 am - Vigorous athletic training: zoomies, ambush drills, and hallway races.
7:30 am - Light royal snack. Not what was offered - something better.
7:30 am - 1:00 pm - Refreshing slumber in a sunbeam. Royal snoring allowed.
1:00 pm - 1:15 pm - Afternoon snack. Preferably something the servants just opened for themselves.
1:15 pm - 1:16 pm - Optional stretch. One paw is enough.
1:16 pm - 5:30 pm - Do not wake. The royal being is not to be trifled with.
5:30 pm - Servants return from wherever they’ve been. Deliver loud complaints. Make it personal.
5:35 pm - 6:00 pm - Festive banquet. Fit for feline royalty.
6:00 pm - 6:05 pm - Digestive pause. Stare into the void.
6:05 pm - 6:30 pm - Additional nap. Important things can wait.
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm - Allow audience with the servants. Bonus points if they offer tummy rubs. Caution: traps may be set.
8:00 pm - 11:00 pm - Evening nap to prepare for major operations.
11:00 pm - 2:00 am - Advanced night training: furniture parkour, the Wild Mustang routine, and expert-level feng shui via object relocation.
2:00 am - 5:00 am - Cuddle enforcement: close contact with a sleeping servant, accompanied by motivational purring.
5:00 am - What do you mean you're still sleeping?!

📚 See also:

PeopleCats.Garden Official Cat Feeding Policy

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More than white: rare Butterfly Gingers

If you’re a fan of that sweet, heady scent of the classic White Butterfly Ginger (Hedychium coronarium) - a symbol of Hawaiian paradise - you’ll be happy to know it has some beautiful, fragrant relatives!

Hedychium coronarium - White Butterfly Ginger
This is the one everyone knows and loves. Big, white, butterfly-shaped blooms with an intense perfume. Grows in sun or shade, survives light freezes, and fills the summer air with scent. A must for Southern gardens and anyone who wants a piece of island paradise.

Hedychium flavum x coccineum cv. Dr. Moy, Variegated Hardy Ginger Lily
A showstopper with variegated leaves splashed in creamy white, and peachy-orange fragrant flowers in late summer. This hybrid from Dr. Moy of the San Antonio Botanical Garden brings both bold foliage and beautiful scent. A real garden standout.

Hedychium flavum x coronarium, Yellow Butterfly Ginger, Nardo Ginger Lily
Looks like the classic white, but with soft yellow blooms and the same rich fragrance. Long, slightly fuzzy green leaves and flower spikes that light up late summer with scent and color. This variety grow fast and much bigger than plant also much bigger and vigorous than classic white Butterfly ginger.

🛒 Smell the difference - get your ginger trio

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