Garden Blog - Top Tropicals
Date: 27 Nov 2025
An heirloom holiday cactus lost for decades: Thanksgiving-to-Easter bloomer
Schlumbergera x New Deal
🌸 An heirloom holiday cactus lost for decades: Thanksgiving-to-Easter bloomer
🌸 Schlumbergera x New Deal is not your regular Christmas cactus. This is a true heirloom, a variety that vanished from the trade for decades and originally appeared at a rare plant sale at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden back on November 8, 1932 - the same day F.D.R. won the presidency and launched the famous New Deal. The name stuck, and so did the plant’s reputation!
🌸 What makes New Deal special? First, the flowers. They are big - about an inch larger than standard holiday cactus blooms – and show up in brilliant violet-pink and white. Second, this variety blooms twice a year, which is why people call it a Thanksgiving-to-Easter cactus. It usually opens a full flush around Thanksgiving and Christmas, then surprises you with a second wave toward spring.
🌸 Despite its pedigree, New Deal is easy to grow. It handles normal houseplant conditions, stays compact, and rewards even casual care with heavy blooming.
🌸 The plants available today come from 3rd-generation cuttings of an original specimen that's still alive, making this one of the rarest and most authentic holiday cactus cultivars you can add to your collection. A living piece of history - and one of the most generous bloomers for the holiday season!
🛒 Get your own vintage Christmas cactus with a history
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Date: 27 Nov 2025
🎃 Thanksgiving Weekend Deal
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):
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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!
Gloxinia sylvatica - Bolivian Sunset. A perfect fall-winter standout: it bursts with glowing blooms and makes a great holiday gift as a flowering start.
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: "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 🙏 ♥️
Date: 26 Nov 2025
Eat dessert first
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
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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!
📚 Learn more:
✦ How many flowers on Night Blooming Jasmine?
✦ This magical fragrance follows you all over the garden at night
✦ Why everybody wants this plant
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