Category: Tropical Style

Why waste water on your lawn by running your sprinkler overly long? There’s a way to be more precise with your watering schedule to ensure your grass grows and grows deep roots without wasting water. It is possible to determine the watering number you need for your individual lawn by amending the general guidelines for…

Like the human body, plants have the miraculous ability to heal themselves. If a tree limb breaks in a storm or for some other reason, then it will remain alive so long as it remains attached to the tree. The spontaneous regeneration of cracked wood is comparable to what happens when a new branch is…

Old-fashioned flowering quince shrubs are covered with long sharp thorns and drop messy fruit throughout the autumn. A new set of flowering quinces, named the Double Take flowering quince, grow without thorns to scrape the fruit or skin to clean up. So far there are just three kinds developed, maturing in 6 feet tall with…

For a plant to be self-fruitful, it sets fruit from its own pollen rather than wanting to be pollinated by a separate plant or distinct selection. For instance, many apples can’t set fruit unless another harmonious variety is nearby to pollinate it. Edible bananas (Musa spp.) Do produce fruit without external pollination, but here’s the…

Hackberry trees (Celtis spp.) Are this emperor caterpillar’s host plants. These green caterpillars feed on the leaves and developed shoots of trees but do not cause extensive damage in most cases. Also known as Asterocampa celtis, the hackberry emperor is the hackberry butterfly’s larval form. In its butterfly type, the hackberry emperor feeds on tree…

By growing strawberry and blackberry bushes in your yard, you will have them readily available throughout the season to use in various dishes or to share with friends. Your most important issues, when deciding whether to plant those berry trees, are space and soil. You must clear out an area of well-draining soil which allows…

While most vegetables are suitable for planting in containers, a few big vegetables with extensive root systems demand containers which take up precious space on a deck or deck. Radishes are ideally suited to container growing, since the delicious, fast-growing vegetables thrive in relatively tiny containers. Plant seeds as early as February, since radishes are…

If a snowball hydrangea traveled to the large town, slimmed down and dressed in frilly white, it may resemble a “Unique” hydrangea (Hydrangea paniculata “Unique”). “Unique” is an elegant tree, using its elongated 8-inch blossom clusters that open in the shade of pale cream and mature slowly into seashell pink. The showy “Unique” hydrangea is…

Marigolds (Tagetes spp.) Are commonly implanted as companion plants in vegetable gardens. These brightly colored annuals create flowers from summer. The aroma in the marigolds will conceal the smell of the vegetable plant, which confuses backyard pests. Insects, such as beetles and nematodes repel. Do not plant only a couple of crops, plant clumps of…

Angular leaf spot is a significant disease of the cucumber family that leads to reduced yields and fruit of poor quality. You may first notice the disease after a period of warm weather accompanied by rainfall. Treat Super leaf spot with a combination of good garden sanitation, fungicides and keeping the plants as dry as…