Zero Sugar fruit: forget lemonade - new perfect summer drink discovered!

• 🍋 Costa Rican Guava, or Cas Guava (Psidium friedrichsthalianum) is the boldest fruit you can grow for refreshing drinks. Its flavor is sharp, tangy, and unforgettable - perfect for anyone who loves acidic fruit. Cas Guava has sugar at all, unless you decide to add some.
• 🍋 The trees are super prolific - even young ones fruit heavily, and we make gallons of juice at Top Tropicals.
• 🍋 The best part? You can freeze the fruit or boil it into a concentrate with a bit of sugar. That drink lasts in the fridge for months without going bad, thanks to Cas Guava’s natural antibacterial punch.
• 🍋 Cas Guava juice is Costa Rica’s traditional Agua de Cas - tart, refreshing, and perfect for summer heat. And if you save enough, you’ll still be sipping it through the winter.

♨️ Agua de Cas Quick Recipe

We boiled this fruit and the drink lasted for months!

• Boil halved fruits in water with sugar to taste
• Simmer 5-10 minutes, let sit, then mash the softened fruit to release all the flavor
• Strain through a colander, bottle, and refrigerate - just dilute with water when serving

✔️ Why choose Cas Guava?

• • Packed with vitamin C - four times more than lemons - for a powerful immune boost.
• • Rich in antioxidants to combat stress and inflammation.
• • Hardy and low-maintenance, thriving in poor soils and resisting pests.

🛒 Grow your own Cas Guava

📚 Learn more:

• • What is the best fruit for summer drinks and wine?
• •  What fruit is more sour and has more vitamin C than a lemon
• •  What fruit can you drink? Costa Rican Cas is the Guava for Drinking
• •  Costa Rican Guava

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💔 Night jasmine that disappears with sunrise: Parijat

• 💔 Nyctanthes arbor-tristis, Parijat, Night Jasmine, Sad Tree or Tree of Sorrow... What secret is hidden in this flower?
• 💔 Parijat is a small tree or shrub from South Asia known for its intensely perfumed white flowers with bright orange centers that open at dusk and fall by dawn.
• 💔 What is Parijat famous for?
Mostly for its scent and stories - but locals also use it in traditional remedies. The flowers are beloved in temple garlands and perfumery. Leaves, flowers, bark, and seeds are used in Ayurveda for treating fevers, sciatica, arthritis, and more. Extracts also show anti-inflammatory and liver-protective effects in modern studies.
• 💔 Why do people plant Parijat?
It’s both fragrant and spiritual. Parijat is sacred in Hindu myth - some say Krishna brought it from heaven, others that it sprang from a grieving princess’s ashes. People plant it near temples or in small gardens not just for the scent, but for its cultural symbolism and graceful beauty.
• 💔 Is Parijat easy to grow?

Yes - if your climate cooperates. Parijat grows up to 10 feet tall, handles full sun or light shade, and thrives in well-drained soil with regular, moderate watering. It blooms best with monthly fertilizer and tolerates light cold (into the 30s F). In cooler areas, grow it in a container. Regular pruning helps it stay compact and flower more.

🛒 Plant Parijat - the tree smell like heartbreak and heaven

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• Sacred perfume tree for small spaces: Parijat blooms with heartbreak and heaven
• Six most desired perfume plants
• Five best fragrant plants for summer plantings

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✍️ The secret to abundant dragon fruit harvests

🔴 Dragon fruit (Pitaya) thrives when it's fed regularly. For the best results, use Sunshine C-Cibus, a complete liquid fertilizer made for fruit trees. It is gentle enough to apply with every watering, all year long, and it gives your plants the steady nutrition they need to set more flowers and produce bigger harvests.

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🔥 How to get a mini flamboyant look in a small yard

• 🔥 Caesalpinia pulcherrima - Dwarf Poinciana, Bird of Paradise, Pride of Barbados, Peacock Flower, or Flower Fence - is the national flower of Barbados, and for good reason!

🔥 Why everyone is planting this butterfly magnet

• 🔥 It puts on a show of fiery red, orange, yellow, or pink blossoms that look like miniature flamboyant trees.
• 🔥 Flowers appear almost year-round, making it one of the longest-blooming shrubs.
• 🔥 A true butterfly magnet - your garden will be full of wings!
• 🔥 Compact, heat- and drought-tolerant, and low-maintenance.
• 🔥 Available in different colors - red-orange, yellow, pink - so you can choose your favorite splash.

🛒 Get your own Dwarf Poinciana

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• Everyone wants this showy Butterfly Attractor: Dwarf Poinciana
• The most spectacular flowering shrub

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