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Is This a Plant or a Coral?

🔥 Is This a Plant or a Coral?

  • 🟠 Medinilla scortechinii - Orange Coral Spike - these flowers look like they came straight from a coral reef! Orange Coral Spike is a rare gem that's hard to find and easy to love.

  • 🟠 Bright orange stems burst into star-shaped blooms that mimic glowing underwater branches - but they're blooming in your garden or home instead. Exotic, rare, and totally unforgettable.

  • 🟠 Compact and easy to grow - stays under 2 ft tall.

  • 🟠 Glossy dark leaves highlight the vibrant orange panicles.

  • 🟠 Grows in light shade or filtered sun

  • 🟠 Great in pots, hanging baskets, or as an epiphytic accent

  • 🟠 Perfect for collectors of unusual tropical plants

  • 🟠 Add a pop of orange to your garden or indoor jungle – this coral spike doesn’t stay in stock for long!


🛒 Buy Your Coral Bloom Beauty

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A splash of tropical flair

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Making a promise

Making a promise
💻 Making a promise

"Writing a letter is like making a promise, for when you send a letter, you promise to send a part of yourself." - Nina Bawden

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The First Video of Exotic Adenium Hybrids!

🌸 The First Video of Exotic Adenium Hybrids!

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    Our Desert roses - Adeniums - were planted in March - and now, at the end of April, they're in full bloom. Just look at these colors!

  • 🌸 Check out the varieties still in stock and grab yours before they’re gone. Some are already sold out, but you still have a chance to score amazing blooms!

  • 🌸 Why Collect Adeniums?

· Easy to grow indoors or out
  • · Thrive in sun, shade, and low humidity
  • · Drought-tolerant, low maintenance
  • · Not picky about soil
  • · Stunning blooms and unique caudex shapes

  • 🌸 How Many Varieties Exist?

· Over 200 hybrids at Top Tropicals
  • · 100+ varieties in stock now
  • · From doubles to red, purple, yellow, striped, dotted, rainbow, even black flowers - you'll want them all!


🌸 How to Grow a Big, Swollen Caudex
Each time you repot, raise the plant slightly to expose more of the upper roots. This encourages new root growth downward and helps form a thicker, more dramatic caudex.
  • · Use a well-draining mix
  • · Water only when dry - Adeniums love dry conditions
  • · Feed with Sunshine Megaflor Booster that supports both caudex and blooms
  • · Grow best in filtered bright light


👍 A simple trick with big results!

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🛒 Shop Adenium colors and hybrids

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All your eggs in one basket

All your eggs in one basket All your eggs in one basket All your eggs in one basket
🐱 All your eggs in one basket

“Easter is the only time when it's perfectly safe to put all your eggs in one basket.”


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How to Grow Your Own Cinnamon Tree Spice and Health Right by the Kitchen

Cinnamon tree (Cinnamomum aromaticum, Cinnamomum zeylanicum), young leaves

Cinnamon tree (Cinnamomum aromaticum, Cinnamomum zeylanicum), young leaves

Cinnamon tree (Cinnamomum aromaticum, Cinnamomum zeylanicum), flowers

Cinnamon tree (Cinnamomum aromaticum, Cinnamomum zeylanicum), flowers

Cinnamon tree (Cinnamomum aromaticum, Cinnamomum zeylanicum)

Cinnamon tree (Cinnamomum aromaticum, Cinnamomum zeylanicum)

Cinnamon tree (Cinnamomum aromaticum, Cinnamomum zeylanicum), balk and leaves

Cinnamon tree (Cinnamomum aromaticum, Cinnamomum zeylanicum), balk and leaves

🏺 How to Grow Your Own Cinnamon Tree – Spice and Health Right by the Kitchen
  • 🌿 The Cinnamon tree (Cinnamomum aromaticum or zeylanicum), is an easy, fast-growing tropical plant that thrives in pots, making it perfect for patios, balconies, or even sunny indoor spaces.
  • 🌿 It naturally grows compact and bushy, so it's great for container gardeners - even those outside the tropics.
  • 🌿 You don't need to wait years for fruit - because cinnamon is the bark and the leaves!
  • 🌿 Once your tree is established, you can begin gently harvesting bark and fragrant leaves. Both parts of the plant are bursting with that signature warm aroma. Use the bark as a spice in baking, curries, or mulled drinks, and steep the leaves in teas or add them to savory dishes.
  • 🌿 Cinnamon has been treasured for over 4,000 years. Ancient Egyptians used it in rituals, and Roman emperors burned it at funerals to show wealth - it was once worth more than gold. Its value helped drive global trade and exploration.
  • 🌿 Today, cinnamon is celebrated not just for its flavor, but also its health benefits. It may help lower blood sugar, reduce inflammation, and fight bacteria and fungi. It's even linked to improved memory and brain function! The tree's powerful scent comes from cinnamaldehyde, a natural compound with medicinal properties.
  • 🌿 Two main types of cinnamon:

🟤 Cassia Cinnamon – stronger, spicier, and most common in supermarkets
🟤 Ceylon Cinnamon – milder and sweeter, often called "true cinnamon"

🌿 In short: With a cinnamon tree near your kitchen, you’re not just growing a plant - you're growing a spice, a medicine, a piece of world history, and a daily source of joy!

🛒Start growing yours today - fresh, homegrown cinnamon is truly the spice of life!

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How to tell the difference between Jasmine Sambac Varieties

How to tell the difference between Jasmine Sambac Varieties

  • 💮 Jasminum Sambac is hands down the most fragrant jasmine in existence - and the most popular among tropical gardeners and plant collectors.

  • 💮 Native to India, it's the source of jasmine perfume oil and the signature ingredient in jasmine tea.

  • 💮 This plant comes in several varieties, each with unique flower size, shape, and growth habit - ranging from compact shrubs to vigorous bushes and climbing vines. It takes both sun and shade and makes a perfect container plant and indoor plant favorite.

  • 💮 All varieties of Sambac are equally fragrant. To get more flowers, just use Sunshine Pikake plant booster and enjoy the perfume all day long!

  • 💮 At Top Tropicals, we grow every known variety of Jasminum sambac in cultivation:


Arabian Nights - compact slow growing shrub with small delicate flowers

Belle of India - compact vine with long elegant petals, shade lover

Grand Duke of Tuscany - the most popular, vigorous bush with carnation-like flowers

Grand Duke Supreme - bigger, more vigorous version of Grand Duke with larger flowers

Gundu Malli - new hybrid between Arabian Nights and Grand Duke

Little Duke - more compact version of the Grand Duke

Maid of Orleans - vigorous full sun climber, great for hedges and fences

Mali Chat - very delicate, rare variety, with miniature 3-tier flowers, not easy to establish, shade lover

Mysore Mulli - vigorous vining shrub for sunny or semi-shade locations

🛒 Smell the Difference – Shop Sambac varieties

Learn more:
📚 Jasminum Sambac Absolute Flower - book download

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How to tell the difference between Jasmine Sambac Varieties

Jasminum Sambac varieties

How to tell the difference between Jasmine Sambac Varieties
  • 💮 Jasminum Sambac is hands down the most fragrant jasmine in existence - and the most popular among tropical gardeners and plant collectors.
  • 💮 Native to India, it's the source of jasmine perfume oil and the signature ingredient in jasmine tea.
  • 💮 This plant comes in several varieties, each with unique flower size, shape, and growth habit - ranging from compact shrubs to vigorous bushes and climbing vines. It takes both sun and shade and makes a perfect container plant and indoor plant favorite.
  • 💮 All varieties of Sambac are equally fragrant. To get more flowers, just use Sunshine Pikake plant booster and enjoy the perfume all day long!
  • 💮 At Top Tropicals, we grow every known variety of Jasminum sambac in cultivation:


Arabian Nights - compact slow growing shrub with small delicate flowers

Belle of India - compact vine with long elegant petals, shade lover

Grand Duke of Tuscany - the most popular, vigorous bush with carnation-like flowers

Grand Duke Supreme - bigger, more vigorous version of Grand Duke with larger flowers

Gundu Malli - new hybrid between Arabian Nights and Grand Duke

Little Duke - more compact version of the Grand Duke

Maid of Orleans - vigorous full sun climber, great for hedges and fences

Mali Chat - very delicate, rare variety, with miniature 3-tier flowers, not easy to establish, shade lover

Mysore Mulli - vigorous vining shrub for sunny or semi-shade locations

🛒 Smell the Difference – Shop Sambac varieties

Learn more:
📚 Jasminum Sambac Absolute Flower - book download

#Perfume_Plants #Hedges_with_benefits #How_to #Discover

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Happy Easter!

Happy Easter!
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Towards the Sunshine

Towards the Sunshine
🔥 Towards the Sunshine

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you."
- Walt Whitman

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Grow Your Own Guac: Avocado Independence Starts Now!

Dwarf Avocado tree with fruit

Dwarf Avocado tree with fruit

Avocado trees in pots

Avocado trees in pots

Red avocado

Red avocado

Avocado Russel

Avocado Russel

Mexican Avocado

Mexican Avocado

Guatemalan Avocado

Guatemalan Avocado

🥑 Grow Your Own Guac: Avocado Independence Starts Now! 🇺🇸

🇲🇽 News from Mexico? Avocado supplies are uncertain, and prices are going up. Why wait and worry - when you can grow your own right here at home?

🇺🇸 Our grafted avocado trees are LOADED with flowers this April and ready to set fruit by the end of spring. Dozens of varieties, from 3-gallon to 25-gallon sizes, these are not babies - they're future guacamole machines!

🛒 Plant today. Harvest tomorrow. Never run out of avocados again. Get your Avocado tree!

📚 For more information on #Avocado varieties, including fruit color and size, tree habit, season, and much more - check out our interactive Avocado Variety Guide. It will helps to choose the right variety for you. With its interactive tool, you can sort cultivars by fruit shape and quality, cold hardiness, origin, crop season, flower type A or B, tree habit and more.

🎥 How Avocado trees set fruit

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