Garden Blog - Top Tropicals

Date: 22 Sep 2025

Ackee breakfast scramble: quick-n-fun exotic recipes

Ackee breakfast scramble

Ackee breakfast scramble

🍴 Ackee breakfast scramble: quick-n-fun exotic recipes

Ackee breakfast scramble recipes

Ingredients

  • 2 cups boiled Ackee (Blighia sapida)
  • 1 onion, chopped
  • 2 tomatoes, diced
  • 1-2 hot peppers (Scotch Bonnet, Wiri Wiri, or Biquinho), sliced
  • 1 tbsp oil or butter
  • Salt to taste

Instructions

  1. Heat oil in a skillet. Saute onion until soft.
  2. Add tomatoes and sliced hot peppers, cook for 2 minutes.
  3. Gently fold in the boiled ackee, stir carefully to avoid breaking it up.
  4. Season with salt, cook until heated through, then serve warm.

🛒 Grow your own Akee fruit (banned for import) and hot peppers

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Date: 28 Sep 2025

Moringa omelet: quick-n-fun exotic recipes

Moringa omelet

Moringa omelet

🍴 Moringa omelet: quick-n-fun exotic recipes

  • 🟡Whisk eggs with chopped Moringa leaves, garlic, and a dash of soy sauce.
  • 🟡Pour into a hot pan with some cooking oil and cook for a minute or two until fluffy and golden.
  • 🟡A green power-packed breakfast!

Moringa Omelet

Ingredients

  • 2 eggs
  • 1/2 cup fresh Moringa leaves (chopped)
  • 1 small onion (chopped)
  • 1 tomato (diced)
  • 1 clove garlic (minced)
  • Salt and pepper to taste
  • 1 tsp oil or butter

Instructions

  1. Beat the eggs in a bowl and season with salt and pepper.
  2. Heat oil in a pan, sauté onion, garlic, and tomato until soft.
  3. Add the chopped Moringa leaves and cook for 1 minute.
  4. Pour in the beaten eggs and cook until set, flipping once.
  5. Serve hot with rice or bread.

🛒 Plant Moringa tree and harvest superfood year around

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Date: 30 Sep 2025

Loquat salsa: quick-n-fun exotic recipes

Loquat salsa: quick-n-fun exotic recipes

🍴 Loquat salsa: quick-n-fun exotic recipes


  • 🔴Dice Loquat fruit with tomato, onion, and jalapeno.
  • 🔴Great spooned over grilled fish or eaten with chips.

Loquat Salsa Recipe

Ingredients

  • 2 cups fresh loquats, peeled, pitted, and diced
  • 2 medium tomatoes, diced
  • 1/2 medium red onion, finely chopped
  • 1 jalapeno, finely diced
  • 1/4 cup fresh cilantro, chopped
  • Juice of 1 lime
  • Salt to taste

Instructions

  1. Peel and pit the loquats, then dice them into small cubes.
  2. Dice tomatoes and onion, finely chop the jalapeno.
  3. In a bowl, combine loquats, tomato, onion, jalapeno, and cilantro.
  4. Add lime juice and salt to taste, stir gently to mix.
  5. Chill for 15 minutes before serving.

Serving Suggestions

  • Serve with tortilla chips.
  • Spoon over grilled fish, chicken, or shrimp.
  • Use as a topping for tacos or salads.

🛒 Plant your Loquat tree

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Date: 22 Jan 2023

1-22-2023: New Lunar Year

Happy  New  Lunar  2023  Year  Cat  Rabbit

Customer message: Happy new year! My family is Chinese and we celebrate the lunar new year this weekend… the year of the rabbit. Wasn't sure if this email was sent in error (maybe your founder is Vietnamese? I think they celebrate the year of the cat...

Answer: You are right, it is a Year of the Rabbit in Chinese calendar, and it is also a Year of the Cat in Vietnamese, both starting from January 22nd, 2023. While in Chinese culture it is called a Year of the Rabbit, the Cat was seen as more relevant to the daily lives of Vietnamese farmers, who valued the cat's ability to protect their crops from rats, squirrels... Here at Top Tropicals we have a multi-national team, and although we don't have a Vietnamese person yet, but we have lots of cats - all kinds!

Happy New Year of the two furry friends:
RABBIT and CAT!

Cat,  Rabbit  and  Flowers

Flowers in the photo above: Clerodendrum philippinum - Cashmere Bouquet, Scent Malli. Very fragrant off-white flowers, carnation-like, coming in big clusters. Shade tolerant shrub, great for shade gardens as well as indoor culture to enjoy tropical fragrance year around.

Date: 9 Mar 2022

The brightest lives of Sunflowers

Ukrainian 
 


Sunflowers

"...Despite knowing they won't be here for long, they still choose to live their brightest lives - sunflowers..."
- Rupi Kaur -


Photo above: Ukrainian Sunflowers. This photo was sent to us today from Ukraine by Alex & Lena, and Oksana (daughter of our Catalog Editor Marina Rybka). Our thoughts and prayers are with them and their country.