Date: 1 Jan 2022
Easy Sunday Morning Deals: Five Tropical Garden favorites for 2022
Saving on your favorite plants is Easy. Easy like Sunday Morning...
"...The ticking of the hands of your watch are telling you how time is passing away, never to return. Listen to it..."
Ryan Holiday, Daily Stoic
Tropical Colors for the New Year
This New Year, resolve to add color into your garden and into your life.
Today we feature five Tropical Garden favorites for 2022.
1. Bolivian Sunset
Gloxinia sylvatica - Bolivian Sunset. Low growing perennial that will always surprise you with a sudden burst of scarlet blooms in Fall-Winter.
2. Dwarf Tibouchina
Tibouchina lepidota - Jules Dwarf. So much purple for such a small compact plant! Relatively cold tolerant.
3. Tropical Hydrangea
Dombeya seminole - Tropical Rose Hydrangea. All time favorite that blooms for several months from Fall through Winter.
4. Cranberry Hibiscus
Hibiscus acetosella - African Cranberry Hibiscus. Super fast growing colorful shrub with beautiful flowers and edible leaves.
5. Burgundy Thread
Alternanthera dentata - Red Thread Burgundy. Ultimate fast growing groundcover for sun or shade, any soil and any water, any size of garden, cold- and heat-tolerant.
The Easy New Year Deal expires at midnight Sunday,
January 2nd, 2022.
Enjoy your Hot Deal!
Date: 11 Dec 2025
Cat guided Garden tours of Top Tropicals - Holiday Plant Market
Cat guided Garden tours of Top Tropicals
🎉 December 13, 2025 - Holiday Plant Market!
- 🎄 It is almost here! Holiday Plant Market, proudly hosted by the #PeopleCats of TopTropicals.
🎄 Why you should come
It is December in Florida - warm breeze, sunshine, and perfect planting weather. While the rest of the country is scraping frost off windshields, you're choosing which banana tree to take home. Come enjoy a colorful Saturday surrounded by plants, music, snacks, and friendly #PeopleCats. This is your holiday escape, your plant-hunting adventure, and your chance to bring home something amazing before the season ends.
🎄 Holiday extras
- 30% OFF online prices
- FREE plant with purchase
- $5-10 specials
- Mini donuts and holiday treats
- Cold drinks, iced tea, citrus-infused water
- Tropical Christmas music playing all day
- Cat-guided tours from our PeopleCats (they know the garden better than we do) - Subject to Purrrson's schedule/availability
- Exciting Raffle prizes
📱 Event discounts and specials valid at both locations:
- ✦ Ft Myers Garden Center: 13890 Orange River, Ft Myers, FL
- ✦ Sebring Farm: 9100 McRoy Rd, Sebring, FL
🎁 Learn more about this Event, Holiday deals and extras
📱
#PeopleCats
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Date: 30 Jan 2026
Start a garden
Cat Persephone
😳 Start a garden
"Life begins the day you start a garden." - Chinese proverb
🐈📸 Cat Persephone - the Guard of TopTropicals PeopleCats.Garden.
#PeopleCats
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Date: 8 Feb 2024
Mark your calendars: March 2, 2024
Plant Festival "March into Spring!"
Saturday, March 2, 9 am - 4 pm
Save the date! On March 2, 2024, join us for our vibrant Plant Festival, "March into Spring!"
Dive into a world of lush greenery, blooming delights, and rare fruit trees
at our garden event. Discover unbeatable sales, exclusive deals, delightful
gift bags, and receive free plants with every purchase.
Don't miss out on this opportunity to embrace the beauty of spring and
elevate your garden to new heights!
Highlights of the event:
30% OFF online prices, one day only!
(excluding 15 gallon material and rare plants)
Gift bags - for first 25 customers with $50 order
Secret Garden: Super savings area 50-70% off
$5 and $10 plants
Raffle
Free plant with any purchase as a token of our appreciation
Event discounts valid at both locations:
Ft Myers Garden Center: 13890 Orange River, Ft Myers, FL
Sebring B-Farm: 9100 McRoy Rd, Sebring, FL
Facebook event page - Download invitation
Date: 12 Dec 2023
Easy compact bush for sandy soil
Caesalpinia pulcherrima - Red Dwarf Poinciana, Bird of Paradise.
Q: Can you recommend a flowering bush that will be in full sun and in sandy soil. I do not want it to exceed 10 feet.
A: For a garden specimen bush that is medium size and tolerates poor soils, we can recommend to choose from the plants below. These are all easy to grow, not fussy about soil and water, and stay compact and require minimal or no trimming at all.
Calliandra surinamensis - Powderpuff - 6-8 ft
Hibiscus
mutabilis Cotton Candy - Mallow Hibiscus - 5-6 ft
Dombeya seminole
- Tropical Rose Hydrangea 4-6 ft
Allamanda
schottii - Dwarf Allamanda Bush 3-4 ft
Brunfelsia
pauciflora Compacta - Dwarf Yesterday-Today-Tomorrow - 4-5 ft
Calliandra
schultzii - Dwarf calliandra - 4-5 ft
Plumbago
auriculata Imperial Blue
Caesalpinia
pulcherrima - Red Dwarf Poinciana, Bird of Paradise - 2-4 ft
Hibiscus
schizopetalus - Coral Hibiscus - 5-6 ft
Jatropha
integerrima compacta - 4-5 ft
Clerodendrum
bungei - Glory Bower - tolerates shade, 4-5 ft
Eranthemum
pulchellum - Blue Sage, Lead Flower (prefers shade) - 4-5 ft
Magnolia figo -
Banana Magnolia - small tree, 6-8 ft
Megaskepasma
erythrochlamys - Brazilian plume (tolerates shade) - 5-6 ft
Tibouchina
lepidota - Ecuador Princess, Jules Dwarf - 3-4 ft
Leonotis leonurus
- Lions Ears - 3-4 ft
Also, for your further reference, check out the reference chart Hedges with Benefits Chart to see different flowering bushes that are great for hedges as well as garden specimens, depending on your specific needs.
Megaskepasma erythrochlamys - Brazilian plume.
Brunfelsia pauciflora Compacta - Dwarf Yesterday-Today-Tomorrow.
