MacCubbin gives gardening advice for Central Florida on care of peach trees, phalaenopsis orchids, tropical fruit trees, ...
Last week, we traveled vicariously to visit the tropical fruits of the New World. This week, let us imagine that we are in the jungles of Borneo, home of orangutans, proboscis monkeys and humans who ...
If you are ready to venture into the world of exotic tropical fruit, consider planting a tree from the annonaceae or custard-apple family. Several tasty species are available and grow well here in ...
Fruit trees. Consider planting a guava tree. Make sure it’s a tropical guava (Psidium guajava) and not a pineapple guava (Feijoa sellowiana) or a strawberry guava (Psidium callleianum). The latter two ...
For many years, a good portion of metro-Houston yards have been planted with citrus, figs, pomegranates, persimmons, pears and a few other types of fruit trees. The quest for growing tropical fruit ...
It’s amazing what you can do with a third of an acre of land. Take Alex Silber, for example. On a piece of ground this size, he is growing 52 exotic fruit trees, shrubs, and vines, 9 exotic herbs and ...
It’s about time you considered growing dragon fruit, also known as pitaya. Dragon fruit is native to the Central American and South American tropics, but I have seen it growing in the San Fernando ...
This tropical dwarf tree can thrive indoors all year long as long as you give it enough humidity and sunlight. It'll even produce fruit after a few years.
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Climate change has shifted the flowering times of tropical plants by days to months, potentially disrupting entire ecosystems.