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Date: 27 Nov 2025

🎃 Thanksgiving Weekend Deal

Schlumbergera x New Deal - Thanksgiving, Christmas Orchid Cactus, plant covered in cascading bright pink flowers indoors.

Photo above: A long-blooming holiday classic, Schlumbergera New Deal, an heirloom Thanksgiving-to-Christmas cactus with cascades of oversized pink flowers. Blooms from Thanksgiving through Easter!

As our way of saying thank you for growing with us all year long, here is your exclusive holiday code. Use it for 15% off any order over $100 (excluding shipping and handling):

THANKS2025

Ends November 30th, 2025 (Sunday) at midnight.
Min order $100 (exculuding S/H).
One use per customer.
Cannot be combined with other discounts.
Cannot be applied to previous orders.

Check out our specials below - hand-picked by our horticulturist for size, beauty, and vigor! These are the biggest, fullest plants you'll see all year! Take advantage of this Holiday discount code and get them now at their best and fullest point!

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Gloxinia sylvatica - Bolivian Sunset, close-up of a flowering plant with many bright red tubular blooms and dark green leaves.

Gloxinia sylvatica - Bolivian Sunset. A perfect fall-winter standout: it bursts with glowing blooms and makes a great holiday gift as a flowering start.

Large blooming Gardenia nitida plant with many white star-shaped flowers and glossy green leaves growing in a container

Gardenia nitida, Shooting Star: a rare African gardenia with sweet fragrance and star-shaped blooms that appear several times a year. Soft diamond-shaped leaves. This true collectors gem blooms in dramatic waves, filling the air with a strong, sweet scent.

Date: 27 Nov 2025

Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at Top Tropicals!

Smokey the tuxedo cat holding a Thanksgiving sign while Sunshine the ginger tabby smiles beside him on a potting table.

Smokey: "We made a list of everything we are thankful for this year."
Sunshine: "I helped. Mostly by napping next to it."
Smokey: "And that is exactly why sunshine naps are on the list."

Smokey and Sunshine wanted to share a short Gardener Thanksgiving Message about what they are thankful for this year:

"We are thankful for warm laps during cold mornings.
Thankful for every gardener who stopped to scratch our heads between loading carts.
Thankful for the smell of fresh soil, new plants, and boxes that make perfect cat forts.
Thankful for mango season (even though humans never let us eat the fruit).
Thankful for sunshine naps on potting tables and shade naps under benches.
Thankful for all the tiny moments when gardens and people slow down together.
And thankful that we get to share this tropical adventure with you."

From the whole Top Tropicals Team and PeopleCats, we wish you a warm, peaceful, plant-filled Thanksgiving 🙏 ♥️

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Date: 26 Nov 2025

Eat dessert first

Cat Cash

Cat Cash

Eat dessert first

"Life is short. Eat dessert first." - Ernestine Ulmer

🐈📸 Cat Cash is tasting Barbados Cherry with attitude, at TopTropicals PeopleCats.Garden

#PeopleCats #Quotes

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Date: 26 Nov 2025

Do this if you want to smell a dizzy perfume!

Night blooming jasmine, Cestrum nocturnum

✨ Do this if you want to smell a dizzy perfume!
  • ⭐️ Night blooming jasmine, Cestrum nocturnum, is one of those plants people get obsessed with once they smell it. The fragrance doesn’t play around - the tiny flowers open after dark and fill the whole yard with a sweet, powerful, almost dizzy perfume. You want some serious fragrance? Do this: get yourself a night blooming jasmine!
  • ⭐️ The crazy part? It’s in the Nightshade family, related to tomatoes, potatoes, and peppers. But it acts nothing like a veggie. This shrub grows fast, stays dense, and turns into a nighttime perfume machine during warm months.
  • ⭐️ Flowers are pale yellow to white and stay insanely fragrant until sunrise. In India and across South Asia they use them for weddings, ceremonies, and perfumery because the scent is that intense.
  • ⭐️ If you want the full effect, plant it near a window, a porch, or a walkway. Anywhere you pass by at night. One or two plants are enough to make your whole garden smell like romance after dark!


🛒 Make your yard smell like romance!

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Date: 26 Nov 2025

Ackee skillet scramble: quick-n-fun exotic recipes

Ackee skillet scramble

Ackee skillet scramble

Akee (Ackee) tree (Blighia sapida), fruit on a tree

Akee (Ackee) tree (Blighia sapida), fruit on a tree

Akee (Ackee) tree (Blighia sapida), fruit close up

Akee (Ackee) tree (Blighia sapida), fruit close up

🍴 Ackee skillet scramble: quick-n-fun exotic recipes
  • 🔴Boil ripe, naturally opened Ackee pieces for a few minutes until tender, then drain well.
  • 🔴Saute chopped onion and a few tomato bits in a little oil until soft.
  • 🔴Add cooked salted cod (or skip it) and gently fold in the cooked ackee.
  • 🔴Warm it through on low heat and serve as a soft, creamy tropical scramble.

Ackee Skillet Scramble

Ingredients

  • Ripe ackee pieces (naturally opened)
  • Chopped onion
  • Tomato bits
  • Oil for sauteing
  • Cooked salted cod (optional)

Instructions

  1. Boil ripe ackee pieces for a few minutes until tender, then drain well.
  2. Saute chopped onion and tomato bits in a little oil until soft.
  3. Add cooked salted cod if using.
  4. Gently fold in the cooked ackee.
  5. Warm through on low heat and serve as a soft tropical scramble.

🛒 Plant Ackee tree and harvest fruit you can't get from the store!

📚 Learn more:
📱 What is Akee - Jamaica's National Fruit - and how to grow it
📱 How to cook perfect Akee?

#Food_Forest #Recipes

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