Garden Blog - Top Tropicals

Date: 22 Nov 2025

Stop buying macadamias - plant this tree to enjoy your own nuts

Macadamia tree (Macadamia integrifolia)

🌰 Stop buying macadamias - plant this tree to enjoy your own nuts!
  • 🐿 How to grow a Macadamia tree and enjoy your own nuts - the priciest nuts in the world? Macadamia trees (Macadamia integrifolia) are surprisingly easy to grow once you know what they need. They handle a wide range of soils, prefer regular watering, and adapt well to warm, humid climates. Young trees appreciate consistent moisture, but once established, they can tolerate short dry spells and even brief flooding.
  • 🐿 The most important step is nutrition. Macadamias are heavy feeders and rely on balanced microelements for strong roots, steady growth, and reliable nut production. Use a liquid fertilizer Sunshine C-Cibus and add microelements on a regular schedule. Sunshine SuperFood plant supplement is especially helpful for preventing the leaf yellowing and slow growth that happen when microelements run low.
  • 🐿 Choose a sunny spot, give the tree room to grow, and mulch around the base to keep moisture steady. As the tree matures, it will bloom and form clusters of green husks that dry and split to reveal the sweet nuts inside.
  • 🐿 With the right care, a single tree can reward you with a generous harvest of rich, expensive macadamias right from your garden.


💖 Macadamia nut health benefits

  • 📍 Macadamia nuts are packed with healthy monounsaturated fats, antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals.
  • 📍 They support heart health by lowering total and LDL cholesterol, help steady blood sugar thanks to low carbs and good fiber, and aid digestion and weight management by keeping you full longer.
  • 📍 Their antioxidants, including tocotrienols, protect cells from damage and may reduce risks of diabetes, Alzheimer’s, and certain cancers.
  • 📍 Macadamia oil is great for skin and hair, offering moisturizing, healing, and strengthening benefits.
  • 📍 Even though they are calorie-rich, small daily portions can actually support healthy weight goals.
  • 📍 Enjoy them raw, roasted, ground, as nut butter, or added to both sweet and savory dishes.


🛒 Grow your own Macadamia Nuts

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Date: 23 Nov 2025

📅 Mark Your Calendar - Holiday Plant Market

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 in  a  festive  garden,  one  black  cat  in  an  apron  next  to  a  mango  tree  and  one 
 orange  cat  holding  a  basket  of  tropical  fruit,  with  event  details, 
 discounts,  and  Top  Tropicals 
 locations.

Holiday season in Florida means sunshine, green leaves, and cats on patrol. On Saturday 12/13/25, our PeopleCats are hosting a special Holiday Plant Market at TopTropicals, 9 am to 4 pm. This is not a regular nursery day. This is the one where you grab a donut in one hand, a mango tree in the other, and try not to trip over a cat giving you a tour.

We are bringing out the best plants we grew all year: big fruit trees with real branches, flowering and fragrant beauties, rare collectors plants, and vines that are ready to take off as soon as you get them home. December is perfect planting weather in Florida, so while the rest of the country is scraping frost from windshields, you can be choosing which banana, mango, or jasmine will perfume your yard next summer.

Holiday extras: 30% OFF online prices, free plant with purchase, 5 to 10 dollar specials, mini donuts and holiday treats, iced tea and citrus water, tropical Christmas music, and raffle prizes. If there is enough ripe fruit in the morning, we will set up a tasting table too. Our PeopleCats will be on duty all day, rearranging plants, checking on visitors, and occasionally allowing themselves to be petted between tours.

Event discounts and specials are valid at both locations:

Save the date, tell a friend, and plan your plant hunting route now. Come celebrate the holidays the Florida way: sunshine, rare fruit trees, happy cats, and a car full of tropical plants going home with you.

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Date: 23 May 2024

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Date: 4 Dec 2025

SOS!

Magnolia champaca, the Joy Perfume Tree

🆘 SOS! Why is my Champaka Tree dropping leaves?
  • ✔️ Magnolia champaca, the Joy Perfume Tree, can look a little rough in Winter through early Spring. The leaves may yellow, drop, and make the whole tree look tired. Many gardeners think something went wrong, but this is completely normal. Champaka is semi-deciduous, which means it sheds leaves for a short period during cooler months, even in warm climates.
  • ✔️ This is also the time when the tree sets its seeds for spring. As long as you keep your regular watering routine and don’t overreact with extra fertilizer or pruning, the tree rebounds in Spring. Within a few weeks it pushes fresh new foliage and starts blooming again, filling the air with that unmistakable sweet fragrance.
  • ✔️ Champaka isn’t declining - it’s just taking a winter nap!


🛒 We always have them for you: Joy Perfume Champaka trees

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Date: 19 Dec 2025

13 festive shrubs with bright flowers that bring color to your Winter Garden when everything else is dormant

13 festive shrubs for Winter Garden

13 festive shrubs for Winter Garden

💐 13 festive shrubs with bright flowers that bring color to your Winter Garden when everything else is dormant



Southern Living points to colorful berries as winter garden standbys. Tropical plants take it a step further, filling the cool season with real flowers, not just fruit. From vivid reds to electric blues, these plants prove winter does not have to be dull.
  • 🌈 1. Gloxinia sylvatica - Bolivian Sunset


    This plant waits for cool weather, then suddenly lights up the shade with fire-red blooms. Flowers appear almost overnight and continue through fall and winter. It rests in summer, returns in fall, spreads gently, and makes an easy, festive ground cover that is perfect for sharing.

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  • 🌈 2. Pereskia aculeata - Barbados gooseberry


    An unusual vine that surprises in cool weather with delicate, star-shaped blooms followed by tasty fruit. It flowers steadily from fall through winter, adding light, airy color to fences and trellises when most vines are quiet.

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  • 🌈 3. Mansoa alliacea - garlic vine


    Best known for its garlicky scent, this vine really shines in winter. Cooler temperatures bring clusters of lavender-purple flowers that brighten fences and trellises with very little effort.

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  • 🌈 4. Dombeya wallichii - tropical hydrangea


    Large pink pompom blooms hang from bare branches in winter, creating a true holiday look. Lightly fragrant and impossible to miss, it brings hydrangea-style drama to the cool season.

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  • 🌈 5. Brunfelsia pauciflora Compacta - dwarf yesterday-today-tomorrow


    Compact and cheerful, this shrub opens purple flowers that fade to lavender and white. The color shift makes it look like several plants blooming at once, perfect for pots or small garden spaces.

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  • 🌈 6. Clerodendrums


    Long, cascading sprays of white flowers of Clerodendrum minahassae - fountain clerodendrum - spill from the plant during the cooler months. It brightens shaded areas and adds movement when the garden slows down. Most clerodendrums bloom through Winter!

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  • 🌈 7. Tibouchina multiflora - glory bush


    Soft, fuzzy purple blooms cover this shrub in winter, backed by velvety leaves that look good year-round. It adds strong color and texture during the cool season.

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  • 🌈 8. Holmskioldia sanguinea - Chinese hat


    Bright red, orange or yellow, hat-shaped bracts surround small flowers and hold their color through the cool months. The shape alone makes this shrub a standout in winter.

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  • 🌈 9. Barleria cristata - Philippine violet


    This tough shrub blooms heavily in winter with rich purple flowers. It delivers dependable color when many plants take a break. There is a golden variety too!

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  • 🌈 10. Eranthemum pulchellum - blue sage, lead flower


    Few plants offer true blue in winter. Electric-blue flower spikes appear in cool weather, adding rare color with minimal care.

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  • 🌈 11. Petrea volubilis - queen's wreath


    In winter, this woody vine erupts into cascading sprays of lavender star-shaped flowers. It creates a wisteria-like effect right when the garden needs it most.

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  • 🌈 12. Tabebuia varieties - dwarf golden and dwarf pink


    These trees save their show for winter, blooming on bare branches. Golden forms glow yellow, while pink varieties cover themselves in soft trumpet-shaped flowers.

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🌈 13. Bauhinia trees - pink butterfly and Hong Kong orchid trees


Butterfly-shaped blooms open on leafless branches, giving bauhinias their signature winter elegance. The Hong Kong orchid tree stands out with especially large, vivid flowers.

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