Garden Blog - Top Tropicals

Date: 19 Jun 2025

Find it yourself

Sushi the Cat finding her sushi dinner in refrigerator

Sushi the Cat finding her sushi dinner in refrigerator

🍴 Find it yourself

"To find yourself, think for yourself." - Socrates

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Date: 19 Jun 2025

Valencia Pride mango - a stunning shade tree with red-blushed, fiberless, honeyed fruit

Valencia Pride mango

Valencia Pride mango - a stunning shade tree with red-blushed, fiberless, honeyed fruit.
Mango Rainbow🌈

Valencia Pride is a vigorous Florida heirloom - a Haden seedling from 1941, famed for its large, oblong-sigmoid fruit with yellow skin and crimson blush. The nearly fiberless, firm flesh is juicy and flavorful, offering sweet-tart notes of honey, coconut, and stone fruit . The tree grows tall and open, making it ideal for shade in zones 9-11, and is moderately cold-hardy with good disease resistance. It ripens mid- to late summer (July-August in Florida) and produces reliably once established.

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Date: 19 Jun 2025

One look and youre hooked: Macaranga!

Macaranga grandifolia - Elephant Ear Tree

One look and you're hooked: Macaranga! 🐸
  • 🐘 These leaves are bigger than your head!

    • Macaranga grandifolia – the Elephant Ear Tree - came from Hawaii. It has leaves so huge, they look like elephant ears or jungle umbrellas! Each one can grow over a foot wide, with a glossy, rounded shape that's pure eye candy.
  • 🐘 Macaranga is easy to grow - perfect for a frost-free garden or in a big pot.
  • 🐘 Macaranga is a real conversation starter. It looks like something straight out of a rainforest dream. Big, bold, and totally tropical! Fast-growing, it brings that lush, exotic vibe instantly to your garden.
  • 🐘 Hard to find, super cool, and ridiculously showy - you’ll want this beauty front and center. Once you see it, you have to have it!


🛒 Get your giant leaves - Elephant Ear from Hawaii

#Nature_Wonders #Trees

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Date: 19 Jun 2025

♥️ Best Mementos of Fathers Day Event

Father's Day Event at Top Tropicals, Cat at checkout

A huge thank you to everyone who joined us for our Father's Day Plant Market! Your TopTropicals Team works hard in the field and is always happy to help with your garden needs, plant selection, delivery, and installation. Our friendly PeopleCats are always hard at work, guiding guests through the garden as they picked out the perfect plants to brighten their spaces.

See also on Facebook: Reels of the event and Video of Hand Pan Lady Performance at Top Tropicals 6-14-2025.

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Father's Day Event at Top Tropicals, Happy Customer

Hand Pan Lady playing music at Top Tropicals Fathers Day Plant Market

Hand Pan Lady Performance at our Garden Center - see a short video of her wonderful music.

Hand Pan Lady Music Video

Date: 18 Jun 2025

The love you take is equal to the love you make

Bob the Cat at PeopleCats.Garden

Bob the Cat at PeopleCats.Garden

❤️ The love you take is equal to the love you make

"And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make." - Paul McCartney, "The End" by The Beatles

Paul McCartney turned 83 today. Happy Birthday, Paul! Thanks for bringing LOVE into this world ❤️

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Date: 18 Jun 2025

If you want to be happy

Baby Persephone - the Queen of the Underworld - at PeopleCats.Garden

Baby Persephone - the Queen of the Underworld - at PeopleCats.Garden

🍂 If you want to be happy

"If you want to be happy, be." - Leo Tolstoy

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Date: 18 Jun 2025

Five best tropical fruits to naturally boost your energy

Five best tropical fruits to boost your energy

Five best tropical fruits to boost your energy

⚡️ Five best tropical fruits to naturally boost your energy

How to boost your energy without coffee, or taking medications and supplements? Naturally - from your #Food_Forest! These 5 tropical fruits are not only delicious but packed with nutrients that support natural, sustained energy.
  • 🔥 Banana - Packed with vitamin B6, potassium, and natural sugars, bananas provide a quick yet steady energy boost, perfect for pre- or post-workout fuel.
  • 🔥 Mango - Rich in natural sugars and B vitamins, mangoes help convert food into usable energy while also supporting digestion for better nutrient absorption.
  • 🔥 Jackfruit - Loaded with vitamin B1 (thiamine) and complex carbohydrates, jackfruit fuels the body steadily and supports healthy energy metabolism throughout the day.
  • 🔥 Avocado - A powerhouse of monounsaturated fats, B vitamins, and potassium, avocados help sustain energy levels and promote healthy circulation for optimal vitality.
  • 🔥 Macadamia Nut - Loaded with thiamine (B1) and healthy fats that support nervous system function and long-lasting energy without blood sugar crashes.


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#Food_Forest #Discover #Remedies #Bananas #Avocado #Mango #Jackfruit

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Date: 18 Jun 2025

What is the rarest Tacca?

Tacca leontopetaloides - Green Bat Flower, Devil Flower

What is the rarest Tacca?
  • 💚 Tacca leontopetaloides - Green Bat Flower, Devil Flower - is the rarest Tacca of them all!
  • 💚 Move over Black and White - this is the green bat flower, and it's in a class of its own!
  • 💚 Tacca leontopetaloides is a collector's dream and is rare in cultivation. With eerie greenish-purple flower clusters perched on tall stalks and long, trailing whisker-like bracts, this plant looks like something out of a botanical fairytale.
  • 💚 Unlike its fussy cousins, the Green Bat Flower is surprisingly easy to grow. It thrives in shady or semi-shaded spots, comes back reliably each spring, and doesn’t mind a bit of neglect. Its glossy, deeply divided leaves die back in fall and return with vigor as the weather warms up. A well-draining pot, occasional feeding, and moderate watering are all it asks for.
  • 💚 Native to Asia, Australia, and the Pacific Islands, it's more than just a pretty face - this plant has traditional medicinal uses too. But let's be honest: most collectors grow it for the jaw-dropping display.
  • 💚 Very few collectors have this variety - don't miss your chance to be one of them!


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🛒 Get the rare Green Bat Flower - easy to grow and unlike anything else in your garden

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Date: 17 Jun 2025

Scooby in action

Scooby the Cat at TopTropicals

🐈 Scooby in action

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop" - Confucius

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Date: 17 Jun 2025

What is a good late-season Mango? Gold Nugget, a late-season fiberless gem

Mango Gold Nugget

🌈 What is a good late-season Mango? Gold Nugget, a late-season fiberless gem

Gold Nugget, developed in Florida in the 1990s and patented in 1990, likely originated from Kent seedling parentage . The fruit is large, oval, about a pound, with yellow‑orange skin and occasional pink blush. Inside, it offers firm, fiberless yellow flesh with a mild, classic mango flavor. The vigorous tree is spreading and prolific, ripening fruit from late July through August in Florida, and exhibits strong resistance to bacterial black spot. An excellent choice for late-season harvest and home dooryard planting.

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