Columbus and other early voyagers to the Americas filled their travel journals with breathless descriptions of the tropical fruits they’d never seen before: avocados, papayas, pineapples, soursop, ...
Mike Barron has seen a lot more customers come in to buy fruit trees in the past year. Barron, owner of Blooming House Nursery in Newberry, attributes the increased demand to a landscaping trend ...
When the annual Rare Fruit Tree Sale was held at the Manatee County Convention Center in Palmetto, a crowd of several hundred would line up well before the doors opened. There was always something of ...
Lychee is a unique tropical fruit tree with distinctive fruits that appear like strawberries covered with rough, dimpled skin ...
Whether that's Tropical Fruit or Prickly plants, every crop has a plant type, and if you want to help Jack grow the Beanstalk, you need to know which ones are which. If you're after some more help, ...
CAPTAIN COOK In 2012, Emmerich Grosch of Captain Cook Trading Company bought a few acres in South Kona that had once been a Buddhist meditation center. Though the nursery is still filled with lovely ...
The pleasure of hanging out with plant people is what you learn from them. Such people, and the plants they grow, are typically full of wonderful surprises. Just the other day, I met Ash Jahanbin, ...