Category: Tropical Style

The hydrangea is a favorite of cottage gardens across the USA. While the big shrubs with pink or blue flowers are well known forms of the plant, the growing hydrangeas are getting to be popular in shade gardens. Growing up to 80 feet tall and tolerating both full sun and full shade, climbing hydrangeas are…

Persimmons are easy to care for, requiring minimal pruning and spraying. They are valued as a landscape plant for their shiny green leaves and for the fruit that they produce. Persimmons are exposed to scale pest infestations, particularly white peach scalethat are controlled with the use of a dormant oil spray. Dormant Oil Sprays Dormant…

Blueberries (Vaccinium spp.) Insert a delicious element to the home fruit garden. Most blueberry varieties do not grow well in areas that have hot summers and mild winters. But in response to this need for a blueberry tree for warm areas, growers have developed hybrid varieties which grow well in light Mediterranean-style climates. Warm-Tolerant Varieties…

Flower beds are often designed with different plants that bloom through the year in order that shade is always existing. However, it is more challenging to grow one plant that retains its flowers all year. In order to keep flowers blooming year-round, gardeners often keep them inside or in greenhouses. Some can grow outdoors, like…

Even though the atmosphere in a greenhouse desires a mixture of heat and heat for proper plant growth, your dirt also has heat requirements. Especially important during seed germination and initial seedling growth, soil heat helps the plant stay in a higher temperature than the surrounding atmosphere to combat foliage condensation which invites disease. You…

When you pick plants to put close to your residence, more than just eye appeal requires consideration. Plantings should enhance and complement the home’s size and style. Consider using a combination of evergreens, deciduous trees and shrubs, and flowering plants to span the seasons and also attract the attention. Avoid plants with invasive roots, high…

Sasanquas (Camellia sasanqua) are an assortment of camellia that blooms from autumn through early winter, depending on the cultivar and growing region. Sasanquas are usually hardy in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 7 through 9. Unlike Japanese camellias (Camellia japonica), sasanquas typically require considerable trimming and pruning to maintain their form and size…

The tiger lily (Lilium lancifolium or Lilium tirginum) along with also the day lily (Hemerocallis spp.) Never don’t brighten with their flowers. Both have”lily” in their titles, and they have some comparable maintenance requirements, but they also differ in some specific ways. Tiger lilies rise in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 4 through…

St. Augustine grass (Stenotaphrum secundatum) includes a high tolerance for shade and salt, which makes it a fantastic selection for partly shaded lawns and wooded areas. When laying a new lawn, you may generally buy it as sod, sprigs or plugs. New sod may be mowed about 14 days after planting, after the St. Augustine…

Blackberries (Rubus fruticosus) are loosely classed into two categories — trailing and erect. For the novice berry grower, erect types, that do not expect a trellising system, could possibly be the best types to plant. Should you prefer the taste of a specific blackberry sub-variety such as marionberry (Rubus x or Rubus ursinus “Marionberry”), however,…