Garden Blog - Top Tropicals

Date: 24 Nov 2025

One fruit on this tray always stumps people

Tropical fruit on a tray

One fruit on this tray always stumps people

  • 🍉 Another day, another fruit tray from the garden! Even at the end of November, something is always ripening here in Florida. This tray turned out especially fun - a mix of familiar fruits and a couple that always make people guess twice!
  • 🍉 Today’s harvest includes: sweet Persimmons, Star fruit, a few different dragon fruits: yellow Palora and white with red skin - this is Seoul Kitchen. There's also Cocoplum, which makes great drinks. And - ta-da! - the little showstopper of the day: Curly Locks Orchid Cactus fruit (Epiphyllum guatemalense Monstrosa). It looks wild, but it's edible and tastes like a tiny dragon fruit.
  • 🍉 If you live in Florida or any warm climate, growing your own fruit is one of the best gifts you can give yourself. Tropical fruit trees are generous plants - they don’t wait for a season, they give you something month after month. Some days it’s a handful, some days it’s a whole tray, but there’s always a fresh treat waiting. Once you start growing your own food, you realize how easy and rewarding it is to fill your garden with flavor.
  • 🍉 Every tray has a new surprise. Come along and see what the garden gives us next!


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Date: 18 Dec 2025

How to have fruit year around from Everbearing Mulberry

🍇 How to have fruit year around from Everbearing Mulberry



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💗 Dwarf Everbearing and Dwarf Issai - Compact, container-friendly varieties perfect for small spaces. These dwarf trees (6-10 ft tall) are disease and drought resistant, with multiple crops year-round, even from the first year! Ideal for patios and small yards..

🛒 Plant hardy Mulberry year around

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Broussonetia papyrifera, Morus papyrifera
Paper Mulberry
USDA Zone: 9-11
Large shrub 5-10 ft tallSemi-shadeModerate waterRed, crimson, vinous flowersOrnamental foliageSubtropical plant. Mature plant cold hardy at least to 30s F for a short time
  • · Mulberry trees in Plant Encyclopedia
  • · What are the best Mulberry varieties
  • · Top 10 fast-fruiting trees: #7. Mulberry
  • · How Mulberry fruit helps with diabetes

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    Date: 19 Dec 2025

    Eight best winter blooming trees

    💐 Eight best winter blooming trees





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    Date: 22 Dec 2025

    Center of the world tree that stops traffic in Florida - now fits in a pot

    Ceiba Dwarf Pink Princess

    🗿 Center of the world tree that stops traffic in Florida - now fits in a pot



    🎥 Ceiba Dwarf Pink Princess
    • 🌸 If you’ve ever visited Florida in winter, you’ve probably seen those unbelievable pink trees in full bloom - that’s a Ceiba (Chorisia) speciosa, also known as the Kapok or Pink Silk Floss tree, famous for its hibiscus-like flowers and fluffy silk pods.
    • 🌸 The problem? The classic Ceiba can grow 40 feet tall.
    • This one doesn’t! Ceiba hybrid Dwarf Pink Princess stays compact - about 8-12 feet in the ground and even smaller in a pot.
      And unlike seed-grown trees, this one blooms right away because it’s grafted! No long wait.
    • 🌸 In winter, it drops most of its leaves and explodes into thousands of soft pink flowers. Same wow factor. Just a fraction of the size.
    • Perfect for small yards, patios, balconies, or anyone who wants a show-stopping winter tree without committing to a giant.
    • 🌸 #Fun_facts: the ancient Maya believed the Ceiba was the sacred tree at the center of the world, connecting earth to the sky.
    • 🌸 So yes… You can officially say you’re growing the center of the world in your backyard.


    🛒 Plant it now - it fits any garden

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    Ceiba speciosa, Chorisia speciosa
    Silk Floss Tree, Bombax
    USDA Zone: 9-11
    Small tree 10-20 ftSemi-shadeFull sunModerate waterRegular waterPink flowersThorny or spinyPlant attracts butterflies, hummingbirdsSubtropical plant. Mature plant cold hardy at least to 30s F for a short time
  • Ceiba (chorisia) speciosa in Plant Encyclopedia
  • How this breath-taking flowering tree stays so compact

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    Date: 16 Jan 2026

    What is blooming in January: Purple Orchid Tree

    Purple Orchid tree - Bauhinia purpurea

    Purple Orchid tree - Bauhinia purpurea

    🌺 What is blooming in January: Purple Orchid Tree



    📸 Purple Orchid tree - Bauhinia purpurea

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    Discover Bauhinias - Orchid trees

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    Plant Facts

    Bauhinia purpurea, Phanera purpurea
    Orchid Tree, Butterfly Tree
    USDA Zone: 9-11
    Large tree taller than 20 ftFull sunDry conditionsRed, crimson, vinous flowersPink flowersPlant attracts butterflies, hummingbirdsDeciduous plantSubtropical plant. Mature plant cold hardy at least to 30s F for a short timeSeaside, salt tolerant plant
  • Bauhinias - Orchid trees in Plant Encyclopedia
  • The most asked-about tree in the Sunshine State: Bauhinia

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