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Date: 4 Jan 2026

Dont drink your coffee until you see this!

Coffea arabica - Coffee tree, fruit

☕️ Don't drink your coffee until you see this!

Our coffee trees, Coffea arabica, are growing in 7-gallon pots, and after months of waiting, the cherries are fully ripe!

Coffee is one of the easiest fruiting plants you can grow at home. It does well in containers, loves shade, and can be grown indoors or outdoors in warm climates. With regular watering and a little patience, you can grow, harvest, roast, and brew your own coffee right from your home garden.
We are harvesting now, and the next video will show the full roasting process step by step.

👉 Coming up next: Roasting video coming soon - stay with us!

🛒 Start your own coffee harvest

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Date: 29 Dec 2025

New way to grow Vanilla Orchid, and a wise message at the end

Vanilla planifolia - Vanilla Bean Orchid

🎆 New way to grow Vanilla Orchid, and a wise message at the end

✨ Vanilla planifolia - Vanilla Bean Orchid (they call it also Madagascar, Bourbon, or French Vanilla) discovered a new set up!
✨ I gave this vanilla orchid as a tiny plant last year: "Bathroom with a skylight, add trellis" - classic vanilla advice.
✨ Fast forward to this Christmas - and this thing has gone rogue! It climbed out of the bathroom, marched down the hallway, and claimed the concrete wall by the front door. And yes, it looks very happy doing it!
✨ Every visitor stops. Every visitor stares. And then they notice the sign underneath. Turns out vanilla orchids are excellent at pointing things out.
✨ If you’ve ever wondered where vanilla really wants to grow… this one has opinions. Add something unexpected to your garden - or your house.

🛒 Plant Vanilla Orchid the new way!

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📱How to produce your own vanilla: secrets of hand-pollination.

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Date: 10 Dec 2025

The secret New Deal Franklin Roosevelt never told you about

Schlumbergera x New Deal - Thanksgiving-to-Easter blooming Cactus

🌸 The secret New Deal Franklin Roosevelt never told you about

🌸 Schlumbergera x New Deal is not your regular Christmas cactus. Big blooms, long history. This heirloom flowers from Thanksgiving to Easter and descends from a plant first sold on the very day Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected.

🌸 What makes New Deal so special? The blooms are huge - about an inch larger than standard holiday cactus flowers - and come in brilliant violet-pink and white. And the timing is even better. It sends up a full flush around Thanksgiving and Christmas, then wakes up again with a second wave closer to Easter. That’s why some people call it a Thanksgiving cactus, others call it a Christmas cactus, and many insist it’s an Easter cactus. The truth? It’s all three.
🌸 Despite its pedigree, New Deal is surprisingly easy to grow. It thrives in normal houseplant conditions, stays compact, and rewards even casual care with heavy, reliable blooming.
🌸 The plants available today come from true descendant cuttings of an original 1932 specimen that is still alive. This makes New Deal one of the rarest, most authentic holiday cactus cultivars you can own - a living slice of history and one of the most generous bloomers of the entire holiday season.

🛒 Get the New Deal: the Thanksgiving-to-Easter bloomer

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Date: 27 Nov 2025

It opens overnight, wakes up just for Thanksgiving!

Gloxinia sylvatica - Bolivian Sunset

🔥 It opens overnight, wakes up just for Thanksgiving!

🔥 Gloxinia sylvatica - Bolivian Sunset, is one of those plants that waits for the perfect cool morning and then explodes in red.
🔥 The blooms really do show up overnight - bright fire-red, glowing even in deep shade. and blooms all through fall and winter. In Summer it sleeps, then flowers come back in Fall.
🔥 It's an easy, water-loving, shade-loving plant that makes a showy holiday ground cover. It stays low, spreads from rhizomes. And if you like sharing plants, this one gives you plenty of starts to pass around during the holidays. Perfect timing, perfect color, perfect seasonal surprise!

🛒 Plant Bolivian Sunset - the Winter Wonder that turns on like a light switch!

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Low growing show stopper blooms like a winter fire

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Date: 27 Nov 2025

An heirloom holiday cactus lost for decades: Thanksgiving-to-Easter bloomer

Schlumbergera x New Deal

Schlumbergera x New Deal

🌸 An heirloom holiday cactus lost for decades: Thanksgiving-to-Easter bloomer

🌸 Schlumbergera x New Deal is not your regular Christmas cactus. This is a true heirloom, a variety that vanished from the trade for decades and originally appeared at a rare plant sale at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden back on November 8, 1932 - the same day F.D.R. won the presidency and launched the famous New Deal. The name stuck, and so did the plant’s reputation!
🌸 What makes New Deal special? First, the flowers. They are big - about an inch larger than standard holiday cactus blooms – and show up in brilliant violet-pink and white. Second, this variety blooms twice a year, which is why people call it a Thanksgiving-to-Easter cactus. It usually opens a full flush around Thanksgiving and Christmas, then surprises you with a second wave toward spring.
🌸 Despite its pedigree, New Deal is easy to grow. It handles normal houseplant conditions, stays compact, and rewards even casual care with heavy blooming.
🌸 The plants available today come from 3rd-generation cuttings of an original specimen that's still alive, making this one of the rarest and most authentic holiday cactus cultivars you can add to your collection. A living piece of history - and one of the most generous bloomers for the holiday season!

🛒 Get your own vintage Christmas cactus with a history

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