Growing Pomegranate Trees In Florida

First, a little about the pomegranate tree, also called Punica granatum. It is dense in nature and a deciduous plant that grows bushy, especially if not cared for properly. Training, as with everything in life, is best done when the tree [...]

The Story of the Loquat Fruit

Loquats, ‘Eriobotrya japonica,’ are documented to have been grown in Japan around 1100 AD. Some botanists have suggested that the first plantings of the loquat trees may have come from China originally and later were introduced into Japan. The loquat tree was widely distributed in Europe after 1712, but early records show that it came [...]

The History of Olives and Olive Trees

Olive trees, ‘Olea europaea,’ are the oldest fruit trees and certainly are one of the most important fruit trees in history. Olive tree culture has been closely connected to the rise and fall of Mediterranean empires and other advanced civilizations throughout the ages. Because olive trees offered wealth and future food supplies to established civilizations, [...]

The Wonders Of The Mulberry Tree

Mulberry Trees evoke a love-hate response from their owners. They are great shade trees with beautiful shape, but their berries can either be a messy disaster for their owners or a wonderful delight.
The Mulberry or Morus is a genus of 10-16 species of deciduous trees native to warm subtropical regions of Asia, Africa, Europe and [...]

Tree Trimming and Tree Pruning: How Do They Differ?

Mature and growing trees abound in almost every neighborhood across the country. If the proper tree care procedures are not regularly observed by homeowners, trees could cause serious injury to their property and the trees themselves could end up in poor form and health. Most of these trees may need some tree trimming and some [...]

Guide to Apple Tree Pruning Basics

quality fruit as the tree matures.
By training a young apple tree to grow “correctly” you enable the tree to develop a strong structure that will be able to support heavy apple growth, plus you will have a tree shape that is easy to manage in later years. A well-applied regimen of training and pruning apple [...]

The Hybrids and Kinds of Plum Trees

The documentation of ancient plums growing in antiquity is sparse. The best evidence of that oldest existence is best documented through America’s most famous pomologist, Luther Burbank, who reported in his twelve volume botanical literary classic, Small Fruits, Volume IV page 136, that the European plum, Prunus domestica, and its ancestor fruit originated in the [...]

Gardening – Tips on Trees

This is an introduction to my online blog full of useful and interesting facts about trees. All of my posts are based on my own knowledge. Knowledge that ‘runs in the family’. My dad owns a tree nursery and at a young age I took a great interest. If you’d like an idea for a [...]

No Relationship Between Bonsai Kitten And Bonsai Trees. Bonsai Cats – Just Fiction

The bonsaikitten.com scandal. Raising bonsai cats is just a joke; bonsai trees are reality and an Art.
The depictions and pictures on raising bonsai cats on the website bonsaikitten.com are obviously just jokes; Nature cannot be forced to impossibilities.
Basically the articles on the website talk about little kittens put in an angular shaped glass, and after [...]

How to Admire Christmas Trees

Near at hand, we all can see charming plants. Every time I gait the city parks, or call the country trait, I gape the leaves that I oppose bringing back memories of ecstatic ranking climbing, pergola camping in the forest, long walks with my people, climbing with contacts or just relaxing underneath a ranking’s brushwood [...]

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