Garden Blog - Top Tropicals

Date: 17 Jun 2022

New Video: What to do when your mango tree freezes?

...It's a happy warm Summer and we hate to think about cold weather. However, when buying a tropical Mango tree, be ready to protect it when winter comes!
In this video we explain how to properly take care of your mango tree after a freeze or frost. We give you step by step directions to ensure your tree has the best chance for survival.....

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Date: 13 Jun 2022

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The point of your Garden

"...A garden always has a point..."
- Elizabeth Hoyt, The Raven Prince -

Let our Secret Garden selections help you make the point of your Garden!
Each week we add a variety of plants to our Secret Garden with special savings of

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Check back often to find new the Secret Garden selection! Find new specials of the month from our Newsletters.

And for local customers, come visit our Garden Center for an even larger Secret Garden selection. Ask our sales reps about full list of Secret Garden plants available for local pick up!

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Photo above: Trachelospermum asiaticum Ogon Nishiki Gold Brocade (tri-color), very undemanding plant, can be used as an eye catching groundcover.

Date: 13 Jun 2022

New Video:
Black Surinam Cherry Lolita

...Black Surinam Cherry - tropical cherry variety Lolita, very hard-to-find. The fruit starts as red and turns black as it ripens. It has an exceptional flavor. The fruit is very sweet, without aftertaste, large 1-1.2 inch, very juicy. Reliable producer. The tree is upright, freely branching. Seedlings come true to seed. These cherry trees are relatively cold hardy and can take light frost. Once established, the plant can withstand upper 20's without damage....

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Revised video:
Garden in Trenches

We apologize for the broken link in our last newsletter and repeat Garden in Trenches per our subscribers request:

YouTube Video from the front line. Ukrainian soldiers continue growing vegetables and herbs at the front line, right in the trenches...

Date: 7 Jun 2022

Ukrainians: Nation of Growers

104 days of war in Ukraine... Our friends and customers ask how our Ukrainian Team is surviving... Here is a brief update.
...Most Ukrainian people are gardeners. Plants and flowers, fruit and veggies - growing is in their hearts and their blood. Ukrainians are people of Peace; however, when it came to protecting their Home, they have already shown the world their strength and pride. What is the secret of these people to keep optimism and strong will? They just love life and know how to stay happy, no matter what. We all should learn from them...

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Garden in Trenches

Video above is from the front line: Ukrainian soldiers continue growing vegetables and herbs at the front line, right in trenches! This Nation is invincible!

Reminder:
All Sunshine Boosters proceeds go to Ukraine!

If you want to help, simply feed your plants and help Ukrainian families at the same time! Get your plants Sunshine Boosters - the Fertilizer that Works, proudly developed in Ukraine, proudly made in the USA.
As always, we appreciate the support of our loyal community of Top Tropicals customers and enthusiasts.

FEED YOUR PLANTS AND HELP UKRAINE

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...

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What is the Lalot plant?

by Alex Butova, the Witch of Herbs and Cats

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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