Garden Blog - Top Tropicals

Date: 17 Nov 2022

Get your plants ready for winter:
Just spray this to improve cold hardiness...

How to improve plant cold hardiness?

Pland cold hardiness depends on several factors, including:
1) genetics of specific species
2) maturity of the plant, size of root system, stems and branches
3) plant health and vigor which is supported by proper nutrition program and adding special plant hormones.

While 1) and 2) may be out of our control, the 3rd factor is something that can be easily improved! It is important to feed plants during the season of active growth on regular basis by applying macro- and micro- elements. Liquid fertilizers and especially natural plant food like Sunshine Boosters can be applied year around to keep plants healthy and strong.
Besides the routine fertilizing program, just a few applications of special plant hormones can increase tropical plant hardiness big time! Before the cold is coming, spray your plants with these 3 magic potions and they will gain a few degrees in low temperature tolerance! It is recommended to make 2-3 applications.

- Sunshine Superfood
- Sunshine Epi
- Sunshine Power-Si

Buy Cold Hardiness Improvement Kit

Date: 27 Jan 2026

🌸 Adenium, Coffee, and Donuts

Smokey and Sunshine with a blooming adenium desert rose on a worktable,
surrounded by potted adeniums in the background.

Smokey: Desert rose. One caudex. Multiple grafts. Different flowers.
Sunshine: So it is a team plant. Everyone blooms, nobody agrees.
Smokey: Yet it grows just fine.
Sunshine: That is the secret. Coffee and donuts.

🌸Featured Adeniums

Recommended by our Horticulturist, Tatiana Anderson

Moung Kusuma Moung Kusuma adenium flower with deep magenta velvety petals and dark
edging

Deep magenta flowers with a velvety look and a darker, almost black edge. A bold, elegant adenium that stands out immediately.

Sunshine

Bright yellow and mauve swirls across layered petals create a warm, cheerful bloom that lives up to its name.

White Rabbit

Clean white petals brushed with playful pink streaks. A reliable bloomer with soft ruffled flowers.

Thong Samsee

Known for its three-color effect, shifting from yellow to pink to nearly white on the same plant.

Candy

Cheerful yellow petals dipped in cherry red with bold ruffled layers. Bright, playful, and impossible to miss.

Black Sheep

Nearly black petals with a glowing red center. Dark, dramatic, and different.

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Offer valid through 02/06/2026. Limited quantities. While supplies last.

Free shipping applies to qualifying Adenium items only. Excludes other items and prior orders.

✍️ Learn About Adeniums

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Date: 11 Mar 2026

📅 Do Not Miss: March 21 - Spring Equinox Plant Market

🍩 Saturday, March 21, 2026: 9 am - 4 pm

Smokey the tuxedo cat in work clothes studies the Spring Equinox Plant
Market poster at the Top Tropicals nursery entrance while Sunshine the
ginger tabby cat rides a bicycle balancing coffee and
donuts.

Sunshine: Smokey, look at me! See what I can do on my bike? I'm practicing to give people what they like: coffee and donuts.

Smokey: You'd be perfect for a Gulf beach cafe. But gardeners don't come here for donuts.

Sunshine: Really? Then why do they come?

Smokey: Some gardeners lost plants to the freeze. Others want trees that will handle winter better. Cold-hardy avocados. Macadamia. Grumichama. And some just come for fun - to see the PeopleCats.

Sunshine: And my charm... and my donuts will make it more fun.

🌞 Welcome to our Spring Equinox Plant Market, proudly hosted by the PeopleCats of Top Tropicals.

This one feels different.

After Florida’s record freeze, many gardens are brown, trimmed back, or missing a few old friends. We felt it too. And now - we rebuild.

The equinox marks equal day and night. More light ahead. New growth beginning.

And the PeopleCats are ready🐾.

🐱King is back on gate duty - inspecting every vehicle for proper plant-hauling capacity.
😺Paisley is rearranging freeze survivors and new arrivals like a design consultant.
😼Snitch is supervising recovery efforts from a comfortable chair.
😸Persephone is checking under tables for "hidden spring energy."
😻Sushi and Loki are preparing for guided garden tours - recovery edition.

This is not just a plant market. This is the spring reset.

👍 Why You Should Come

It is finally warm in Florida. After several nights of hard freeze, some plants survived - and some didn’t. This event is your chance to see real freeze champions in person.

If you lost plants, you are not alone. If you are ready to plant smarter, this is your moment.

Walk the gardens. See proven winter survivors. Discover cold-hardy fruit trees and resilient ornamentals. Get practical advice about replanting after freeze. This is rebuilding - Florida style.

♥️ What Makes This Event Special

We are featuring:

Verified freeze survivors
Cold-hardy fruit trees
Tough flowering trees and shrubs
Replacement plants for damaged landscapes
Smart layering ideas for frost-resilient gardens
You will see which species handled 25F with wind and multiple nights of freeze - with no protection.

Real-world test. Real results.

Cold hardy fruit favorites include:

Cold-hardy Avocado varieties, including varieties, which are cold hardy to 15-20°F: Joey, Fantastic, Mexicola, Poncho, Brogdon and more.
Macadamia Nut Trees
Eugenia Cherries, including Rio Grande and Grumichama
Gin Berry and Jaboticaba
Loquat and Cattley Guava
Peaches and Pomegranates

🌸 Cold hardy subtropical flowering trees including:

Bauhinias and Tabebuias
Mexican Bird of Paradise - Caesalpinia mexicana
Jacaranda and Magnolia

And many other cold hardy plants

🎉Event Highlights

30% OFF online prices
FREE plants with purchase
$5-10 specials
Exciting raffle prizes

🌳Don't just mow - grow!

Start your food forest, beat rising prices, and plant a future your family will thank you for.

🌿 Friendly Reminder

Just a quick reminder before we go: Sunshine Boosters are still shipping free. If you were thinking about stocking up for the season, now is a great time to do it while the offer is still active.

🛒 Feed your plants

Date: 29 Nov 2025

The throne is mine

Cat Niki a.k.a. the Security Gard

🚽 The throne is mine

"The throne is mine." - Game of Thrones
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." - Lord Acton

🐈📸 Cat Niki a.k.a. the Security Gard, who created her own salon, now took over the bathroom at TopTropicals PeopleCats.Garden

#PeopleCats #Quotes

🟢 Join 👉 TopTropicals

Date: 26 Apr 2016

HEALING POWER OF HERBS

The most effective herbs to help you sleep. Tick-tock, tick-tock. Nothing is worse than the feeling of lying awake, unable to sleep as the numbers on the clock edge closer and closer to morning. Perhaps like many others, you toss and turn with your mind racing, playing the events of the day over and over again. Maybe you fall asleep easily, but wake up shortly after and can't get back to sleep for the rest of the night. If this sounds familiar, you are not alone. Fortunately, there are natural alternatives to prescription sleeping pills that are just as effective but are far gentler on the body. The following article by Marilyn Reid takes a closer look at some of the best herbs to help you sleep. Reed more...

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