Garden Blog - Top Tropicals

Date: 7 Jun 2022

NEW VIDEO and ARTICLE:
Vietnamese Pepper - Lalot

...We are featuring today another useful plant for your healthy and delicious meals! The leaves of Lalot pepper are used as food wraps in Vietnam and make delicious, flavorful meals for BBQ!
Lalot is eaten raw in salads or cooked with other greens or dishes, or used to wrap meats and cook in the oven or on the stove or grill. It is used medicinally in India and South China as well as Indonesia...

Lalot  Video

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What is the Lalot plant?

by Alex Butova, the Witch of Herbs and Cats

Lalot

Discover the health benefits that Lalot pepper can bring you in a simple BBQ... In addition, the Lalot - Piper sarmentosum - has a great ornamental value, which is popular in urban landscape gardens as ground covering shrubs. The plants can be grown in pots as bushes by pruning the creeping branches. The bushy, abundant procumbent branches are about 1-2ft in height... CONTINUE READING >>

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Date: 13 Mar 2022

A Really Fig Deal for You...

Saving on your favorite plants is Easy.
Easy like Sunday Morning...


It's time for our favorite day and another Easy stroll through Top Tropicals Garden with savings of

up to 50% and MORE!

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Easy Sunday Fig Deal
50% OFF

Figs are a superfood that have been associated with health and prosperity since ancient times. Linked to Demeter, the Greek goddess of agriculture and fertility, figs are not your typical fruit. In fact, figs are technically a collection of inverted flowers!

Figs satisfy your sweet cravings and offer a variety of health benefits including:
- reduce high blood pressure
- improve digestion
- increase bone density
- they are naturally fat-free and cholesterol-free food that is an excellent source of vitamin A, vitamin C, calcium, iron, potassium and magnesium (Source: webmd.com).

Figs trees are easy to grow and are cold hardy subtropical fruit trees that can tolerate some hard freeze once established. They have very low water demands and require minimal care. These trees will fruit for you right away!

Beers Black
Celeste
Ischia
Lattarula Italian Honey
LSU Purple
Violette de Bordeaux Negronne
Yellow Longneck Honey

The trees are in 1 gal pots, ready to step up. They have well-developed root system, and are ready to fruit this year!

Actual plants for sale

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Seven Fig Deal:
6 plants at 50% off + 1 plant FREE!

Regularly $230.65
Easy Sunday Collection price $98.85
(half price plus one plant FREE)
This is savings of $131.80 per set!
Told you, that's a really Fig Deal!

Remember, this Easy Sunday Deal expires on Tuesday, 3-15-22.

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Date: 9 Jan 2022

Easy Sunday Morning Deals: It's all about figs

Saving on your favorite plants is Easy.
Easy like Sunday Morning...


Photo above: Duck Dobi can't believe this deal!


It's time for our favorite day and another Easy stroll through Top Tropicals Garden with savings of 50% and MORE!

We are not figging!

Get our two most popular fig trees for only $19 each or $34 for both!

This week it's all about figs. Delicious fruit; make a great indoor or patio plant; cold hardy, and grow with little attention. The fig was one of the first plants ever to be cultivated by humans!

Top health benefits of figs

(from webmd.com):
Reduce high blood pressure;
Improve digestion;
Increase bone density;
Satisfy your sweet cravings...

Add them to your garden and you can taste the fruit of your labor!
Learn more about Fig trees >>

For this Easy Sunday we have priced these large plants in 3 gal pots at incredible savings:

Fig Brown Turkey, regularly $39, is on Easy Sunday sale for only $19
Fig Black Mission, regularly $39, is on Easy Sunday Sale for only $19.

Combine the two for your own delicious pair of Figs and save even more:

only $34 for both!

Picture of the actual plants
in 3 gal pots

- Ready to fruit this year! -

Remember, the Easy Sunday Deal expires on Monday January 10th.

Date: 24 Nov 2021

Carambola - the Star of the orchard

from seed to flower... in less than 2 years?

by Ed Jones, the Booster guy

...My story starts on Dec. 2, 2019 when a co-worker brought a bag of carambola. Well, being a crazy plant person, and being still fairly new to Florida, you know I had to save a seed and plant it, right? Why not, it just might grow. If it does, I may get my own star fruit someday. But when? Google tells me that it takes 3 - 8 years to get fruit from a carambola that is planted from seed. OK, I am good with 3 years....8, not so much, but I was willing to give it a shot... Not really knowing what to expect, I planted just one salvaged seed in some potting soil in a coffee cup and placed in on a shelf on our lanai...
...Here is a picture of that plant FLOWERING and ready to fruit, taken at the end of October 2021... Now, read the whole story...

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Grafted Carambola Trees available from our store are ready to flower and fruit right away. Some of them start fruiting right in a pot!

Date: 26 May 2021

The Magic Goji  Berry

by Alex Butova, the Witch of Herbs and Cats

...According to folklore, people living in the Himalayas who eat Goji berries are reputed to live to between 120 and 150 years old... The famous Li Quing Yuen - a herbalist selling litchi, goji berry, wild ginseng, and gotu kola along with other Chinese herbs, and lived off a diet of these fruits, herbs and rice wine - ate Goji berries on a daily basis. Is said he to have lived to over 250 years... Is this possible? Find out!

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