Easter morning with Smokey and Sunshine

Happy Easter to all who celebrate today - especially across Eastern Europe and Orthodox communities around the world.

Smokey and Sunshine are taking a well-earned break with coffee, sweet Easter bread, and a table full of spring color. Wishing you a day filled with peace, renewal, and quiet joy. And of course - the perfect time to plant flowers and fruit and bring new life into your garden.

🛒 Shop tropical flowers and plants

#PeopleCats

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👨‍� Smokey and Sunshine HIRING NOW: Customer service / sales in garden center

Sunshine: Smokey, we need plant people.
Smokey: Does your girlfriend know plants?
Sunshine: Of course. She fertilized my donuts so they would grow larger.
Smokey: Did it work?
Sunshine: Kind of. I gained three pounds.
Smokey: Perfect. Bring her in.

TopTropicals.com is looking for a part-time customer service and sales team member for our Ft Myers Garden Center.

If you genuinely love plants, enjoy helping people, and don't mind getting your hands dirty in a tropical nursery environment – then working with rare tropical plants, fruit trees, and fellow plant lovers can be fun and rewarding!

💼 Responsibilities

· Help walk-in customers select plants and check out
· Answer customer questions by phone, email, social media, and message board
· Open and close office, operate cash register
· General customer service and sales support

📚 Requirements

· Genuine love for plants and willingness to learn. We will train
· Friendly, patient, and polite with customers
· Strong work ethic and reliability; punctuality is essential
· Ability to follow instructions and work efficiently
· Must be able to lift up to 50 lbs and comfortable working outdoors in Florida heat and weather
· Drug-free - background check and drug test upon employment
· Valid Florida driver's license and reliable transportation
· Must love cats - our famous "PeopleCats" helpers patrol the gardens daily

‍� Preferred qualifications

· Basic computer skills (email, office, internet). We will train
· Previous plant knowledge or nursery experience
· Sales or customer service experience

💰 Pay

· Starting pay: $18/hour depending on experience and performance
· Opportunity for growth based on performance

📅 Schedule

· Part-time to start, potential for full-time later
· Friday and Saturday, 9 am - 4 pm

📍 Location:

Top Tropicals Garden Center
13890 Orange River Blvd
Ft Myers, FL 33905

✍️ How to apply:

Please email a brief resume and a short paragraph explaining why you'd like this job.

Resume guidelines:
· Keep it brief; include job history and education
· Please avoid long descriptions of unrelated experience
· Tell us why working with plants and people interests you

🚶‍➡️ To apply in person:

You are welcome to visit our Garden Center during business hours:
Monday-Saturday, 9 am - 4 pm
To apply in person, ask for Kristi - our manager.
No phone calls please.

Thanks for applying - we hope to see you working alongside our plants, #PeopleCats, and fellow plant lovers soon.

#Smokey_Sunshine


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🍲 How to make a zippy Papaya-Citrus Marinade

🍗 🍖 The Papaya enzyme papain makes this fruit especially suitable for tenderizing meat in marinades. Use this zippy marinade for beef or poultry.

✔️ 1 cup papaya puree
✔️ 1 tbsp lime zest
✔️ 1/3 cup grapefruit juice
✔️ 1/2 cup low sodium soy sauce
✔️ 1 tbsp honey
✔️ 1/2 tsp red pepper flakes
✔️ 1 tbsp coarse black pepper
✔️ 1/2 tsp basil leaves
✔️ 2 tbsp olive oil

🍊 Combine and mix all ingredients except olive oil, then gradually mix in olive oil. Marinade meat for 2-8 hrs and cook over grill.

📚 From previous posts:
• How to have fresh Papaya fruit year around
• Top 3 most wanted Papaya varieties
• The truth about Papaya

🛒 Get your own Papaya tree

#Recipes #Food_Forest

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🍳 Fragrant Fried Eggs for bees and butterflies 🐝

🟡 Oncoba spinosa - Fried egg tree - is a conversation piece in your garden.

🟡 A medium shrub or small tree.

🟡 Beautiful white and yellow camellia-like flowers look like 'fried eggs' when they drop off and fall on the ground with their yellow stamens facing upwards.

🟡 Flowers are honey-sweet fragrant and attract butterflies and bees.

🟡 The fruits have a sour, edible pulp.

🛒 Get a Fried egg tree

#Hedges_with_benefits #Butterfly_Plants #Perfume_Plants

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