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🗂 Index of TopTropicals Telegram Channel
Follow these tags to find your interests:
#Butterfly_Plants - Butterfly attracting plants.
#Container_Garden - Plants suitable for container garden and indoor culture.
#Fertilizers - All the truth about fertilizers, plant food supplements, and our recommendations for different types of plants.
#Food_Forest - Fruit trees, Spice plants, and Edibles.
Including: #Avocado, #Mango, #Papaya, #Guava, #Jackfruit, #Loquat
📖 #Fun_Facts - interesting plant facts and legends.
🌳 #Hedges_with_benefits - Practical approach to your landscape and how to properly select showy and useful plants for your yard.
♍️ #Horoscope - Plant Horoscopes and Cat Horoscopes. Did you know that cats also have their Zodiac signs?
🛠 #How_to - Q&A about growing plants, tropical garden lifehacks.
👀 #Nature_Wonders - Unusual, amusing, outrageous, bizarre plants...
🐈 #PeopleCats - our Favorite PeopleCats (and some PeopleDogs, too).
🌸 #Perfume_Plants - Fragrant plants and perfume trees.
✍️ #Quotes - Interesting quotes.
#Recipes - Exotic recipes for tropical fruit and edibles.
💊 #Remedies - Medicinal plants.
☁️ #Shade_Garden - Plants suitable for low light conditions.
🌼 #Trees - Spectacular flowering tropical trees.
🏆 #Win - Contests, Sweepstakes, and other specials.
Join and share with friends👇🏵
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Follow these tags to find your interests:
#Butterfly_Plants - Butterfly attracting plants.
#Container_Garden - Plants suitable for container garden and indoor culture.
#Fertilizers - All the truth about fertilizers, plant food supplements, and our recommendations for different types of plants.
#Food_Forest - Fruit trees, Spice plants, and Edibles.
Including: #Avocado, #Mango, #Papaya, #Guava, #Jackfruit, #Loquat
📖 #Fun_Facts - interesting plant facts and legends.
🌳 #Hedges_with_benefits - Practical approach to your landscape and how to properly select showy and useful plants for your yard.
♍️ #Horoscope - Plant Horoscopes and Cat Horoscopes. Did you know that cats also have their Zodiac signs?
🛠 #How_to - Q&A about growing plants, tropical garden lifehacks.
👀 #Nature_Wonders - Unusual, amusing, outrageous, bizarre plants...
🐈 #PeopleCats - our Favorite PeopleCats (and some PeopleDogs, too).
🌸 #Perfume_Plants - Fragrant plants and perfume trees.
✍️ #Quotes - Interesting quotes.
#Recipes - Exotic recipes for tropical fruit and edibles.
💊 #Remedies - Medicinal plants.
☁️ #Shade_Garden - Plants suitable for low light conditions.
🌼 #Trees - Spectacular flowering tropical trees.
🏆 #Win - Contests, Sweepstakes, and other specials.
Join and share with friends👇🏵
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Did you know that you can eat and drink Hibiscus plants?
Hibiscus sabdariffa - Flor de Jamaica
Hibiscus sabdariffa - Flor de Jamaica
Hibiscus sabdariffa - Flor de Jamaica
Hibiscus sabdariffa - Flor de Jamaica
Hibiscus sabdariffa - Flor de Jamaica
🌺 Did you know that you can eat and drink Hibiscus plants?
Who doesn't adore hibiscus flowers? But guess what? Some hibiscus species are not only gorgeous but also surprisingly practical. They can jazz up your garden and your dinner plate!
Hibiscus cannabinus - Salad Hibiscus - flowers and leaves used in tasty healthy salads and teas.
Hibiscus sabdariffa - Flor de Jamaica, Karkade Sorrel, Roselle - flowers and used for famous beverage "Agua de Flor de Jamaica" and Karkade Tea.
Hibiscus acetosella - Cranberry hibiscus - cranberry-colored flowers and leaves are also tasty and healthy in salads and teas.
Grow your edible flower landscape in no time!
📚 Learn more, with recipes: Most useful Hibiscus plants
🎥 YouTube video: Jamaican Hibiscus Tea: what's in it?
🛒 Shop Edible Hibiscus
#Food_Forest #Remedies #Recipes
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Who doesn't adore hibiscus flowers? But guess what? Some hibiscus species are not only gorgeous but also surprisingly practical. They can jazz up your garden and your dinner plate!
Hibiscus cannabinus - Salad Hibiscus - flowers and leaves used in tasty healthy salads and teas.
Hibiscus sabdariffa - Flor de Jamaica, Karkade Sorrel, Roselle - flowers and used for famous beverage "Agua de Flor de Jamaica" and Karkade Tea.
Hibiscus acetosella - Cranberry hibiscus - cranberry-colored flowers and leaves are also tasty and healthy in salads and teas.
Grow your edible flower landscape in no time!
📚 Learn more, with recipes: Most useful Hibiscus plants
🎥 YouTube video: Jamaican Hibiscus Tea: what's in it?
🛒 Shop Edible Hibiscus
#Food_Forest #Remedies #Recipes
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Who wants a cold hardy, dramatic looking tropical fruit tree with a sweet fruit? Or, who doesnt?
Persimmon (Diospyros sp.)
Persimmon (Diospyros sp.)
Persimmon (Diospyros sp.)
Persimmon (Diospyros sp.)
Persimmon (Diospyros sp.)
Persimmon (Diospyros sp.)
🍯 Who wants a cold hardy, dramatic looking tropical fruit tree with a sweet fruit? Or, who doesn't?
📚 How to grow Persimmon tree
🛒Order Persimmon Tree
#Food_Forest #Container_Garden
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- 🍑 Persimmon (Diospyros sp.) is a graceful, small, subtropical fruit tree from China, with multitrunked or single-stemmed structure and drooping leaves and branches, turning dramatic shades in autumn.
- 🍑 People love Persimmon fruit for its sweet and unique flavor, often described as a blend of honey and apricot.
- 🍑 The tree thrives in deep, well-drained loam soil, tolerating alkaline conditions.
- 🍑 The fruit classified into astringent (soft, sweeter pulp) and non-astringent (crunchy) cultivars.
- 🍑 Best Varieties for Container Culture:
- 🍑 Hardy to USDA zones 7-10, may need protection in colder regions.
Non-Astringent: Fuyu, Giant Fuyu, Matsumoto-Wase, Jiro, Maekawa, Izu.
Astringent: Chocolate, Guang Yang, Hachiya, Meader, Saijo, Tanenashi, Winterset.
📚 How to grow Persimmon tree
🛒Order Persimmon Tree
#Food_Forest #Container_Garden
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What fruit can you drink? Costa Rican Cas is the Guava for Drinking, yet with a bonus of health benefits!
Cas Guava (Psidium friedrichsthalianum)
Cas Guava (Psidium friedrichsthalianum)
Cas Guava (Psidium friedrichsthalianum)
Cas Guava (Psidium friedrichsthalianum)
What fruit can you drink? Costa Rican Cas is the Guava for Drinking, yet with a bonus of health benefits!
📚 Learn more about Cas Guava
🛒Order Cas Guava
#Food_Forest #Remedies
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- The fruit of Cas Guava (Psidium friedrichsthalianum) has unusual tart flavor with passionfruit and pineapple tones, more pronounced than common Guava🍍
- Cas Guava used in pies, salads, fresh juices, ice-cream, jams, and as a base for the refreshing drink Fresco de Cas!🍹
- High pectin content makes firm jellies.
- Hydrating and low glycemic index, suitable for those mindful of sugar consumption.
- Rich source of fiber, vitamin C, antioxidants, phosphorus, potassium, copper, vitamin A, and folic acid.
- This small tree or bush is very fast growing and undemanding, usually pest free (unlike most Guavas that can be very bugsy).
- Tolerates hot summers and short frosts, appreciates well-drained soils.
- Easy to grow, drought-tolerant once established, suitable for container cultivation.
- Seedlings start flowering and fruiting at a young age, typically 2-3 years old from seed.
📚 Learn more about Cas Guava
🛒Order Cas Guava
#Food_Forest #Remedies
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How to always have lots of Guava Juice
Psidium littorale, Cattley Guava
Psidium littorale, Cattley Guava
Psidium littorale, Cattley Guava
Psidium littorale, Cattley Guava
Psidium littorale, Cattley Guava
🍈 How to always have lots of Guava Juice.
🛒Order Cattley Guava and never run out of juice
#Food_Forest #Recipes
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- Psidium littorale, also known as Cattley Guava, is a charming small tropical fruit tree.
- Round fruits offer a unique culinary experience with a sweet and tangy flavor, perfect for various dishes and drinks.
- Surprisingly cold-hardy, it adds both beauty and flavor to any landscape.
- Ideal for containers
- A must-have for fruit lovers seeking a tropical treat.
- One tree can bring enough fruit for making a delicious, aromatic, refreshing Guava juice for the whole family during Summer months. Just put the fruit in a blender, add some water, ice and sugar and enjoy!
🛒Order Cattley Guava and never run out of juice
#Food_Forest #Recipes
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