Tree Frog Tropicals

No time to make a reel or even a more aesthetic photo. But a pile of freshly harvested homegrown bananas is great to see regardless. Big Cold is coming tomorrow night, so had to take down the last of this season's racks. They'll be back next year. But I don't like the cold, I belong in the jungle. Wake me up in 3 months 😂

These nam wah bananas are probably the best ones to grow here. Big beautiful plants and super sweet fruits that taste like bananas mixed with strawberries and a hint of green apple. Why aren't you growing them? Buy a plant!

Bro discovered growing your own.

Ready for this weekend! Come get some plants 🌱💚🐸

See you this weekend, I'll be there as always with lots of cool plants you didn't know you needed 💚🌱

Miracles are real, and they grow on trees!

Meet the Miracle Berry (Synsepalum dulcificum)!

This little red berry from the tropics of Africa contains a very special compound - a glycoprotein called miraculin! It binds to the sour receptors of your taste buds and blocks them, temporarily making sour foods taste sweet! Eat a few berries, coating your tongue with the juice, and for a while you will be able to bite into lemons and limes just like oranges! A squeeze of lemon juice in a glass of ice water will taste like sweet lemonade from the county fair. It will enhance already palatable fruits - a normal pineapple or kiwi will become the sweetest, most delicious one you ever tasted, as if it was soaked in sugar syrup.

The possibilities don't end there... Plain sugar free Greek yogurt will taste sweet like vanilla! People throw "flavor tripping" parties, experimenting with all sorts of different foods, seeing how the flavors are affected.

The berry itself has a very interesting and pleasant taste. Extremely hard to describe, and sweet but in an unfamiliar and unusual way. These plants are cold sensitive, but are extremely well adapted to keeping in a pot their whole life. This was my first ever edible plant, which I've had for nearly 10 years. The one that started it all! It now stands about 5 feet tall in a ~7 gallon pot where it will stay for years to come.

Plants available 🌱