Date: 27 Nov 2025
🎃 Thanksgiving Weekend Deal
Photo above: A long-blooming holiday classic, Schlumbergera New Deal, an heirloom Thanksgiving-to-Christmas cactus with cascades of oversized pink flowers. Blooms from Thanksgiving through Easter!
As our way of saying thank you for growing with us all year long, here is your exclusive holiday code. Use it for 15% off any order over $100 (excluding shipping and handling):
THANKS2025
Ends November 30th, 2025 (Sunday) at midnight.
Min order $100 (exculuding S/H).
One use per customer.
Cannot be combined with other discounts.
Cannot be applied to previous orders.
Check out our specials below - hand-picked by our horticulturist for size, beauty, and vigor! These are the biggest, fullest plants you'll see all year! Take advantage of this Holiday discount code and get them now at their best and fullest point!
Gloxinia sylvatica - Bolivian Sunset. A perfect fall-winter standout: it bursts with glowing blooms and makes a great holiday gift as a flowering start.
Date: 27 Nov 2025
Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at Top Tropicals!
Smokey: "We made a list of everything we are thankful for this year."
Sunshine: "I helped. Mostly by napping next to it."
Smokey: "And that is exactly why sunshine naps are on the list."
Smokey and Sunshine wanted to share a short Gardener Thanksgiving Message about what they are thankful for this year:
"We are thankful for warm laps during cold mornings.
Thankful for every gardener who stopped to scratch our heads between loading
carts.
Thankful for the smell of fresh soil, new plants, and boxes that make
perfect cat forts.
Thankful for mango season (even though humans never let us eat the
fruit).
Thankful for sunshine naps on potting tables and shade naps under
benches.
Thankful for all the tiny moments when gardens and people slow down
together.
And thankful that we get to share this tropical adventure with you."
From the whole Top Tropicals Team and PeopleCats, we wish you a warm, peaceful, plant-filled Thanksgiving 🙏 ♥️
Date: 26 Nov 2025
Eat dessert first
Cat Cash
Eat dessert first
"Life is short. Eat dessert first." - Ernestine Ulmer
🐈📸 Cat Cash is tasting Barbados Cherry with attitude, at TopTropicals PeopleCats.Garden
#PeopleCats #Quotes
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Date: 26 Nov 2025
Do this if you want to smell a dizzy perfume!
Night blooming jasmine, Cestrum nocturnum
✨ Do this if you want to smell a dizzy perfume!
- ⭐️ Night blooming jasmine, Cestrum nocturnum, is one of those plants people get obsessed with once they smell it. The fragrance doesn’t play around - the tiny flowers open after dark and fill the whole yard with a sweet, powerful, almost dizzy perfume. You want some serious fragrance? Do this: get yourself a night blooming jasmine!
- ⭐️ The crazy part? It’s in the Nightshade family, related to tomatoes, potatoes, and peppers. But it acts nothing like a veggie. This shrub grows fast, stays dense, and turns into a nighttime perfume machine during warm months.
- ⭐️ Flowers are pale yellow to white and stay insanely fragrant until sunrise. In India and across South Asia they use them for weddings, ceremonies, and perfumery because the scent is that intense.
- ⭐️ If you want the full effect, plant it near a window, a porch, or a walkway. Anywhere you pass by at night. One or two plants are enough to make your whole garden smell like romance after dark!
🛒 Make your yard smell like romance!
📚 Learn more:
- ✦ How many flowers on Night Blooming Jasmine?
- ✦ This magical fragrance follows you all over the garden at night
- ✦ Why everybody wants this plant
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#Perfume_Plants #Hedges_with_benefits
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Date: 26 Nov 2025
Ackee skillet scramble: quick-n-fun exotic recipes
Ackee skillet scramble
Akee (Ackee) tree (Blighia sapida), fruit on a tree
Akee (Ackee) tree (Blighia sapida), fruit close up
🍴 Ackee skillet scramble: quick-n-fun exotic recipes
- 🔴Boil ripe, naturally opened Ackee pieces for a few minutes until tender, then drain well.
- 🔴Saute chopped onion and a few tomato bits in a little oil until soft.
- 🔴Add cooked salted cod (or skip it) and gently fold in the cooked ackee.
- 🔴Warm it through on low heat and serve as a soft, creamy tropical scramble.
Ackee Skillet Scramble
Ingredients
- Ripe ackee pieces (naturally opened)
- Chopped onion
- Tomato bits
- Oil for sauteing
- Cooked salted cod (optional)
Instructions
- Boil ripe ackee pieces for a few minutes until tender, then drain well.
- Saute chopped onion and tomato bits in a little oil until soft.
- Add cooked salted cod if using.
- Gently fold in the cooked ackee.
- Warm through on low heat and serve as a soft tropical scramble.
🛒 Plant Ackee tree and harvest fruit you can't get from the store!
📚 Learn more:
- Ackee breakfast scramble with hot peppers
- Banned Jamaican fruit: why you never see fresh Akee in U.S. stores
- Akee taste of deliciousness
- Are these new Christmas ornaments? Ackee monster fruit!
- What is number one tree-grown vegetable? Akee - Jamaican fruit that is actually a vegetable growing on a tree
📱 What is Akee - Jamaica's National Fruit - and how to grow it
📱 How to cook perfect Akee?
#Food_Forest #Recipes
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