Garden Blog - Top Tropicals

Date: 22 Jan 2025

What is the biggest papaya fruit on the smallest tree?

Papaya TR Hovey

🔔 What is the biggest papaya fruit on the smallest tree?



🍈 We discovered an amazing Papaya variety. It is called TR Hovey. This dwarf tree is only 4-5 ft tall and yet produces giant sweet papayas size of a melon!

📚 More about Papaya from earlier posts:


Carefree Garden: How Easy Is It to Grow a Papaya Tree?
Top 10 fruit you'll ever need for your health benefits: #4 Papaya
Top 10 fast-fruiting trees: #6. Papaya
How to have fresh Papaya fruit year around
Top 3 most wanted Papaya varieties
The truth about Papaya
Papayas contain a secret enzyme

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Date: 30 Jul 2024

How India grows most of the mangoes in the world

Mango fruit

Mango fruit

🥭 How India grows most of the mangoes in the world.

  • 📍 India grows 45% of all the mangoes in the world. However, exports account for only 1% of international trade - almost all the mangoes are consumed locally by the residents.
  • 📍 Mango import in the US limited by only easy-to-ship, fibrous varieties such as Tommy Atkins.
  • 📍 To enjoy the full palette of mango varieties, you need to grow your own tree or buy fruit from local growers in southern areas.


📝 Earlier posts on Mango:



🛒 Plant your own Mango Tree

#Food_Forest #Fun_Facts #Mango

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Date: 28 Mar 2025

What is fruiting in March?

Loquat tree (Eriobotrya japonica)

Loquat tree (Eriobotrya japonica)

❤️ What is fruiting in March?



🍊Loquat trees (Eriobotrya japonica) are loaded with fruit right now at Top Tropicals Garden! We've started picking them and have already made some delicious preserves - you can only eat so much fresh. Loquats continue fruiting through April and May, making them one of the most rewarding, easy-to-grow, and productive fruit trees of the Early-Spring season when other fruit are not ready yet.

See fresh fruit in previous post⤴️

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Date: 28 Mar 2025

Enjoy Loquat fruit fresh out of hand in early season

Loquat fruit (Eriobotrya japonica)

🙂 Enjoy Loquat fruit fresh out of hand in early season



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Date: 26 Apr 2025

Fun Facts About the Guava Flower

Guava Flower

🌸 Fun Facts About the Guava Flower

  • 🌸 Frilly and Fabulous - Guava flowers may be small, but they're packed with fluffy white stamens that give them a soft, powder-puff look.
  • 🌸 Pollinator Magnet - Bees and butterflies love guava blooms, making them a great addition to a pollinator-friendly garden.
  • 🌸 Scent-sational - The flowers have a light, pleasant fragrance that adds a touch of sweetness before the fruit even arrives.
  • 🌸 Bloom to Fruit - Each flower can turn into a delicious guava fruit, making them both beautiful and productive.
  • 🌸 Part of the Showy Family - Guava (Psidium) belongs to the Myrtaceae family, which also includes eye-catching bloomers like Eucalyptus, Bottlebrush (Callistemon), and the stunning Rose Apple (Syzygium).


📚 More from previous posts about: #Guava

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