Garden Blog - Top Tropicals

Date: 8 May 2025

What bougainvillea doesnt need pruning and grows into a tree? Kristis Garden Secrets - sound on!

Bougainvillea arborea - Thornless Bougainvillea Tree

🌸 What bougainvillea doesn't need pruning and grows into a tree? Kristi's Garden Secrets - sound on! 🎤
  • 🌸 Tired of pruning your thorny bougainvillea that takes over your yard? Here’s one that breaks all the rules.
  • No thorns, no pruning - and it grows into a bushy little tree!
  • 🌸 It's called Bougainvillea arborea, or Thornless Bougainvillea Tree.
  • 🌸 It stays tidy, blooms lavender flowers with a light scent, and it won’t overgrow your space. A total gem if you want beauty without the chaos!


🛒 Plant the Bougainvillea That Behaves!

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Date: 29 May 2025

A Plumeria you can train to climb? Fragrance on the fence - the climbing Frangipani

Chonemorpha fragrans - Frangipani vine

💮 A Plumeria you can train to climb? Fragrance on the fence - the climbing Frangipani...
  • 💮 Twelve-inch leaves and a perfume cloud? Yes, it's real. Chonemorpha fragrans, or Frangipani vine, is a large woody tropical liana with clusters of large, perfume-fragrant flowers and lush green foliage. It is close related to perfumed Plumeria - Frangipani.
  • 💮 Chonemorpha fragrans, the stunning Frangipani vine is a classic tropical woody climber, Plumeria's wilder cousin, bursting with huge, lush leaves (up to 12 inches long!) and clusters of intensely fragrant, creamy white flowers that smell just like your favorite Plumeria.
  • 💮 Unlike its tree-form relative, this beauty grows as a vine and needs a strong support to climb - think fence, trellis, or pergola.
  • 💮 Plant it in full sun for the best bloom show, though it's happy in partial shade too.
  • 💮 With the right care and some fertilizer, it will turn your garden into a fragrant paradise and stop guests in their tracks. Plant it by your sitting area, and enjoy nature's own perfume drifting in the breeze!


🛒 Add Frangipani perfume to your fence

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Date: 23 Jun 2025

What is the best tasting and most beautiful tropical cherry? Grumichama

Grumichama - Eugenia brasiliensis

🍒 What is the best tasting and most beautiful tropical cherry? Grumichama!
  • 🍒 If you are hunting for a fruit tree that does it all - gorgeous looks, unbelievable flavor, and nonstop productivity - meet Grumichama (Eugenia brasiliensis), the tropical cherry you'll fall in love with!
  • 🍒 Grumichama is a compact cherry tree that steals the show. In spring, the tree transforms into a cloud of delicate white starburst flowers, like fireworks frozen in bloom. The blossoms are pure white with long, golden-tipped stamens, giving them a soft, lacy glow. The entire tree hums with life - bees and butterflies swarm to sip the nectar, turning your garden into a pollinator paradise.
  • 🍒 And then comes the fruit! The cherries are dark purple-black, glossy, and almost too juicy to believe. One bite and you're hooked- sweet, smooth, with hints of cherry, grape, and plum. It's our favorite tropical cherry at Top Tropicals, hands down. So good, you'll eat one - then a handful - and then realize you've picked half the tree. They're that good!
  • 🍒 Grumichama tree is a dream come true for beginners. It tolerates heat, partial shade, even salt spray. It's drought-tough, yet grateful for a little water with a crazy fruit yield - up to 500 fruits per tree. And it's perfect container fruit, so even small-space gardeners in colder zones can grow it. Cold hardy to the upper 20s!
  • 🍒 Even when not fruiting, Grumichama is a stunning ornamental. Shiny evergreen leaves, showy blooms, and a neat, upright form make it a standout in your landscape.
  • 🍒 And the fruit? Packed with vitamin C, fiber, and even a bit of plant protein, it's a sweet treat that’s also healthy. Perfect fresh off the tree, or turned into jam or jelly - if you can stop eating them long enough.
  • 🍒 Start your food forest with Grumichama. It's easy. It's beautiful. And it's the most addictive fruit!


🛒 Start your food forest with Grumichama

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Why grow Grumichama? Benefits of Brazilian Eugenia Tree - Cherry of the Tropics

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Date: 7 Jul 2025

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Chonemorpha fragrans - Frangipani vine

💎 What is better than Plumeria? Only climbing Plumeria!
  • 💮 It's in bloom again at Top Tropicals Garden! Over and over, from Spring through Winter! Almost year around non stop. What a vigorous vine, and the perfume flowers never stop coming.
  • 💮 Imagine Plumeria's wild cousin climbing your fence: Chonemorpha fragrans, the Frangipani vine, is a tropical liana with jumbo 12-inch leaves and creamy white flowers that fill the air with that unmistakable Plumeria scent.
  • 💮 This beauty doesn’t grow like a tree - it climbs! Perfect for fences, trellises, or pergolas, it brings vertical drama and sweet, Plumeria-like fragrance to sunny or lightly shaded spots.
  • 💮 Give it some support and a little fertilizer, and your garden will bloom into a lush, fragrant escape that smells like a Hawaii vacation!


🛒 Grow your own wall of perfume

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Date: 13 Jul 2025

Put it into practice

James Coconuts the Cat

James Coconuts the Cat

😰 Put it into practice



"Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice." - Anton Chekhov

🐈📸 James Coconuts the Cat is at his practice, at TopTropicals.

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