Yellow is a particularly striking color in a flower bed or booming edge, adding bright spots of colour and mixing nicely with other contrasting colours. Many plants provide flowers in… [Continue Reading]
Category: Tropical Style
Do Persimmons will need to Be Pollinated?
Ripe persimmons (Diospyros spp.) Earn their Latin genus name — “fruit of the gods” But before fruits can mature on trees, the flowers that precede them need to be pollinated…. [Continue Reading]
Will Store Bought Beans Grow If You Plant Them?
Beans grow in the same seeds offered as dry beans for eating at the grocery shop, but that doesn’t mean all grocery shop beans can grow into a wholesome bean… [Continue Reading]
The Blackberry Plants for the Largest Berries
Blackberries (Rubus) are produced by various species of woody plants, all which are members of the rose familymembers. The shrubs create sweet, elongated purple-black fruitsand vegetables. Based on the species,… [Continue Reading]
Peat Moss at a Vegetable Garden
Peat moss is an old stand-by in the garden. The fluffy material has been favored as a natural soil amendment for many decades. There are, however, some peat moss naysayers…. [Continue Reading]
The way to Replant a Grown Papaya Tree
Native to South American, the papaya (Carica papaya) creates yellow, pear-shaped fruit using a mildly sweet flavor. Even though they produce desirable fruit and supply interest to the landscape, these… [Continue Reading]
How to Prune Winter Burn From Boxwood
Boxwoods (Buxus spp.) Grow in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 6 through 8, and even in the warmer zones, then you might have an unusual cold spell. When… [Continue Reading]
How to look after Dwarf Blueberries
Dwarf blueberry bushes (Vaccinium spp.) Grow from 12 to 36 inches tall, as opposed to the 5 to 6 feet of the full-sized versions. Blueberry bushes need acidic, well-draining dirt… [Continue Reading]
Plants Compatible With the Barberry
Barberry bushes (Berberis spp.) grow as dense spiny stemmed shrubs in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 5 through 9. Standard-sized barberries reach up to 10 feet tall, however,… [Continue Reading]
Low, Mounding Non-Invasive Grasses
Ornamental grasses have also gotten a bad rap as being uncontrollable and invasive plants that will quickly spread out of control. Happily, not all of ornamental grasses are competitive growers,… [Continue Reading]