🎄 Holiday Plant Market Event Mementos

• Thank you to everyone who came out for our Holiday Plant Market!
It was a joy watching the garden fill up with familiar friends and first-time visitors all exploring, chatting, and discovering new favorites.
• Our PeopleCats took their jobs very seriously, trotting ahead of guests, inspecting carts, and making sure no one left without the perfect plant. The whole place buzzed with good moods, warm weather, and that fun holiday energy only a tropical garden can create.
• If you see yourself or your friends on the photos, save or forward to share the memories!
If you spot yourself or someone you know in the photos, go ahead and save them or pass them along. We hope your new plants settle in beautifully, and we look forward to seeing you back in the garden soon. Happy holidays and happy growing!
• Check out more pictures of the Event

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🐈🐈🐈 The Prince and the Pea

"Living with me is a bit like The Princess and the Pea - I notice everything, especially when I pretend I don’t."

🐈📸 Cat Bob is quality-testing pillows at TopTropicals PeopleCats.Garden

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🎉 PeopleCats Garden Tours

🎄 It is almost here! December 13, 2025 - Holiday Plant Market, proudly hosted by the #PeopleCats of TopTropicals.
Our big end-of-season Plant Day. All year we grow the rare and unusual plants that will be featured at this event, and Saturday is the day they finally meet their new homes. The garden turns into a small holiday escape: fresh air, bright colors, music, snacks, and the PeopleCats greeting everyone like they have known you for years.

📱 Event discounts and specials valid at both locations:

• ✦ Ft Myers Garden Center: 13890 Orange River, Ft Myers, FL
• ✦ Sebring Farm: 9100 McRoy Rd, Sebring, FL

🎁 Learn more about this Event, Holiday deals and extras

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🍴 Banana Skillet Fritters

Ingredients

• 1 ripe banana
• 1 tablespoon flour
• Oil for pan searing

Instructions

1. Mash the ripe banana in a bowl until smooth.
2. Stir in the flour to form a thick batter.
3. Heat a lightly oiled skillet over medium heat.
4. Drop small spoonfuls into the pan.
5. Cook until golden and crisp outside, flipping once.

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The best varieties of edible Banana to plant

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😆 Achieving the impossible

"Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible." - Miguel de Unamuno

🐈📸 Cat Pelmen - is an incredible achiever, a friend of TopTropicals PeopleCats.Garden.

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🎉 December 13, 2025 - Holiday Plant Market!

• 🎄 It is almost here! Holiday Plant Market, proudly hosted by the #PeopleCats of TopTropicals.

Our big end-of-season Plant Day. All year we grow the rare and unusual plants that will be featured at this event, and Saturday is the day they finally meet their new homes. The garden turns into a small holiday escape: fresh air, bright colors, music, snacks, and the PeopleCats greeting everyone like they have known you for years.

🎄 Why you should come


It is December in Florida - warm breeze, sunshine, and perfect planting weather. While the rest of the country is scraping frost off windshields, you're choosing which banana tree to take home. Come enjoy a colorful Saturday surrounded by plants, music, snacks, and friendly #PeopleCats. This is your holiday escape, your plant-hunting adventure, and your chance to bring home something amazing before the season ends.

🎄 Holiday extras


- 30% OFF online prices
- FREE plant with purchase
- $5-10 specials
- Mini donuts and holiday treats
- Cold drinks, iced tea, citrus-infused water
- Tropical Christmas music playing all day
- Cat-guided tours from our PeopleCats (they know the garden better than we do) - Subject to Purrrson's schedule/availability
- Exciting Raffle prizes

📱 Event discounts and specials valid at both locations:

• ✦ Ft Myers Garden Center: 13890 Orange River, Ft Myers, FL
• ✦ Sebring Farm: 9100 McRoy Rd, Sebring, FL

🎁 Learn more about this Event, Holiday deals and extras

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🕺 Meet Onika's cats: Fred

🐈📸 Meet Onika's cats from TopTropicals PeopleCats.Garden:
This is Fred - the most inquisitive and smartest of all her tuxedo cats! Fred is super smart. Very tough on the outside, but sweeter than a mango on the inside.

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🌸 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.
This variety actually vanished from the trade for decades. Its first known appearance was at a rare plant sale at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden on November 8, 1932 - the exact day Franklin Roosevelt won the presidency and launched the famous New Deal. The name stuck, and so did the legend!
• 🌸 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

📚 Learn more:

✦ More about Schlumbergera from Plant Encyclopedia

✦ What is the most popular Christmas plant?

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

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