Eat dessert first

"Life is short. Eat dessert first." - Ernestine Ulmer

🐈📸 Cat Cash is tasting Barbados Cherry with attitude, at TopTropicals PeopleCats.Garden

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🚽 The throne is mine

"The throne is mine." - Game of Thrones
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." - Lord Acton

🐈📸 Cat Niki a.k.a. the Security Gard, who created her own salon, now took over the bathroom at TopTropicals PeopleCats.Garden

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⭐️ What will bloom for you in November: Gardenia nitida - Shooting Star

• ⭐️ It's end of November and let's see what's in bloom today.
Gardenia nitida - the Shooting Star Gardenia - is looking absolutely perfect right now. This is one of the most unusual gardenias you’ll ever run into. Native to tropical Africa, slow-growing, elegant, and honestly… it doesn’t even look like the regular gardenias people are used to.
• ⭐️ The leaves are the first giveaway. Instead of the thick, waxy look of common gardenias, this one has big, soft, diamond-shaped leaves that give the whole plant a delicate, almost tropical-orchid vibe. The shrubs grow into neat, rounded shapes, so they do great in containers or smaller garden spaces.
• ⭐️ And the blooms… they’re happening right now! Long, skinny white tubes that flare open into bright little starbursts. They show up in clusters, and when the sun hits them, they really do look like tiny shooting stars across the plant. The fragrance is sweet, rich, and drifting all over the walkway even before you get close.
• ⭐️ It blooms several times a year, but this moment - right now, heading into winter - is one of its best. If you like rare fragrant plants, this is one of those collector pieces you don’t see every day, especially looking this full and this fresh.

🛒 Get the Shooting Star to light up your garden in Winter

📚 Learn more:

More about Gardenia nitida from Plant Encyclopedia

📱 Watch YouTube short videos:

• ✦ You thought you knew Gardenias, until you saw this one
• ✦ Shooting Star Gardenia: a rare scent from Africa

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😘 Stop and smell the sweetness

"A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms - and invites you to stop and smell its sweetness." - Zen Shin

🐈📸 Meet Onika's cats: this is iTembie - read her touching story from PeopleCats.Garden

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Cat or Carrot?

"My cat doesn’t solve problems - he just makes me forget them"

🐈📸 Cat Riki is the Therapist with Whiskers at TopTropicals PeopleCats.Garden

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