Category: Tropical Style

Most vegetable seeds can be planted in straight, neat rows, allowing for enough space between the plants and the rows of cultivating, weeding and harvesting. When space is at a… [Continue Reading]

The usable hosta (Hosta spp.) Provides color, texture and a focal point to this landscape with its interesting foliage and the variety of available colours, sizes and shapes. Most varieties… [Continue Reading]

The rose (Rosa spp.) , the “queen of the flowers,” has been in existence for thousands of years. The classes of roses abound, however, the three main categories are Species… [Continue Reading]

A lilac is often much bigger than the homeowner anticipated, and it can become overgrown and dominant in the landscape. Pruning a tree to artificially control its shape or size… [Continue Reading]

Cucumber vines may be permitted to sprawl across the floor but there are lots of benefits to growing them to a trellis. Vines which are supported on a trellis are… [Continue Reading]

Cabbage plants grow easily and provide beneficial nutrients, but you must provide the plants with appropriate services to boost their growth. A cool-season vegetable, it is possible to plant cabbage… [Continue Reading]

Flowers that drop off and don’t produce fruit are a symptom of bad pollination on a blueberry bush. If you are having this problem, you might want to hand pollinate… [Continue Reading]

If you own an apricot tree (Prunus armeniaca), you know the enjoyment of eating the plump, sweet summer fruit straight off the tree. This cherry tree relative produces an exceptional… [Continue Reading]

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]

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]