Flowers, Plants & Gardening

The Bamboo-Leaf Japanese Maple (Acer palmatum scolopeudrifolium rubra) has amazing red leaves in the fall. They are deeply dissected, very long, and narrow. The foliage is so cut and long that it almost resembles bamboo...

Species Name: Sequoia -- from the Cherokee Indian chief Sequoyah sempervirens -- from the Latin meaning "always green" Family Name: Taxodiacae, often called the deciduous cypress family Relatives: The coast redwood has only two close relatives...

Height: 10 feet Location: Full sun Ideal For: Conservatory, Containers, Patio, Houseplant Try growing your own olives with this ornamental evergreen with fragrant small white flowers when established...

The Kona is the very popular coffee of Hawaii. Its a heavy bearing variety with excellent quality. One producing tree can provide 1 lb. of coffee. Join the coffee craze and produce your very own coffee beans! Red, pulpy berries produced on an upright shrub, it also has fragrant white blooms against shiny green leaves...

The Famous Italian Tree Tomato produces large crimson tomatoes that grow as big as 6 inches across! It has meaty centers with solid divisions. It is by far the most productive tomato, often producing 3 bushels from just one plant! When grown on a trellis the vines soar 12-18 feet and often to 25 feet...

Calamondin. Citrus mitis a.k.a. Panama orange, Scarlet lime, Golden lime. Small citrus fruit resembling a miniature tangerine. Fruits are very juicy, with a sweet but acidic flavor. Common in tropical zones, but lesser known elsewhere...

Japanese Wisteria (Wisteria floribunda). Japanese wisteria was brought from Japan to the United States in 1860 by George Rogers Hall. Since then, it has become one of the most highly romanticized flowering garden plants...

The Phantom Miracle Tree (Moringa oleifera) gets it's name from the fact that when older it forms an enlarged base and can withstand periods of drought by dropping its leaves. When this happens it looks like a "Phantom"...

Japanese cedar is a tall, cone-shaped evergreen with bluish green foliage and a massive trunk with thick reddish brown bark that shreds and peels in long strips. This is a fast-growing tree that, in its native habitat, can get more than 180' tall with a trunk diameter exceeding 12'; ornamental specimens are rarely more than 60' tall, though, and many of the named selections stay much smaller...

The first record of grafting of apple cultivars is from Greece in about 300 BC. The development of grafting techniques was important as apple plants do not root readily from cuttings. Grafting permitted favourable varieties to be propagated clonally which was important because the favourable characters would have been diluted by outcrossing if seeds were used...