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The Rare, Prolific, Tasty Fruit Of The Chinese Jujube
By Patrick Malcolm · 17 years ago
The Chinese Jujube Tree (Chinese Date), Ziziphus zizyphus. The Chinese Jujube was introduced formally into the U.S. in 1908 by the USDA that imported exceptional Chinese cultivars from China, Japan, Korea and Indochina. About 50 ...
Flowering Dogwood Trees: A Favorite Tree Of America
By Patrick Malcolm · 17 years ago
The State of Virginia has adopted the dogwood flowering tree as its State tree, and many cities in America have named themselves 'The Dogwood City.' Atlanta, Georgia holds a spring festival every April to coincide ...
Palm Trees Suitable For Containers Used Outside And Inside Your Home Or Office
By Patrick Malcolm · 17 years ago
Dioon (Gum) Palm Tree - Dioon spinulosum Giant Dioon is technically a cycad of pre-historical origin, and the Dioon palm tree can grow up to 1 ½ ft. in diameter with a Dioon trunk growing ...
The Amazing Flowers Of Camellia Japonica And Camellia Sasanqua
By Patrick Malcolm · 17 years ago
Japanese Camellia, Camellia japonica. American gardeners in the South know and love the Camellia japonica, a landscape shrub, bush, or tree that can grow 20 feet tall. The Camellia japonica became an important garden landscape ...
Rare And Exotic Garden Perennials For Landscape Planting
By Patrick Malcolm · 17 years ago
The term, 'perennial plant', means simply that the plant returns following severe freezes, to grow again the next year. Trees are cold hardy tested perennials by nature, some trees that are evergreens and do not ...
Garden Tips On Buying The Best, Cold Hardy Flower Bulbs For Outdoor Planting
By Patrick Malcolm · 17 years ago
Buying flower bulbs to plant and grow is an exciting experience that begins in the fall and continues through the spring. Dutch flowering bulbs are usually delivered to American ports by the month of September ...
Shade Trees, Flowering Trees, And Evergreen Trees For Landscape Specimen Growing
By Patrick Malcolm · 17 years ago
Shade trees do not all necessarily shed their leaves in the fall (deciduous), but some shade trees are evergreen, and others can be classified as flowering trees. The fact that shade trees can cool temperatures ...
Windmill Palm Trees, Tropical Accent Plants, Cold Hardy for Northern United States and Canada
By Patrick Malcolm · 17 years ago
The Cold Hardy Windmill Fan Palm tree originated on the island of Chusan off the east coast of China, and the Windmill palm tree is often called the Chinese or Chusan Fan Palm. Robert Fortune ...
The Modern Soft Yellow Banana Evolved From The Cooking Banana As The Number One Fruit In The World
By Patrick Malcolm · 17 years ago
The early Spanish explorers introduced banana plants into America from Spain as a hardcore, large cooking banana, known as a Plantain banana. The amazing yellow fresh eating banana, that we know today sold by supermarkets, ...
Azalea Hybrid Bushes And Native American Fiery (flame) Azaleas
By Patrick Malcolm · 17 years ago
Buying the best azalea shrub offers a gardener many choices for various landscapes. The Southern indica azalea hybrids are the most popular flowering shrubs for warm climates that includes the Formosa azaleas of white, pink, ...
History Of Pomegranates, ‘Punica Granatum’
By Patrick Malcolm · 17 years ago
Because of the many seeds found in pomegranate fruits, they were regarded as a symbol of fertility by the ancient cultures of Egypt, Greece, and Rome. The Greek writer, Homer, wrote about pomegranates growing at ...
Web Review Of Victorian Canna Hybrids
By Patrick Malcolm · 17 years ago
Great progress began in 1870 in the hybridizing of the canna lily by a combination of genetic materials from the wild canna species that had been collected from around the world, leading to the production ...
Moderate Cold Hardy Traits In Date Palms And Fan Palms
By Patrick Malcolm · 17 years ago
The Canary Island Date palm, Phoenix canariensis, is one of the most sought after and spectacular palm trees seen in Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Lower Texas, and coastal South Carolina. This large, formal palm ...
Chinquapin History
By Patrick Malcolm · 17 years ago
There are two types of chinquapin trees, also called ‘chikapin trees,' that are available commercially in the United States, the Allegheny chinquapin and the Georgiana chinquapin. The Allegheny chinquapin, ‘Castanea pumila', is considered a shrub ...
History Of Seedless Grapes And Raisins Used In Wine Making
By Patrick Malcolm · 17 years ago
In centuries past, ancient man noticed that grapes hanging on vines lasted for months, and even though seedy, the fruit was sweet to the taste. These grapes dried out in the sun and were called ...
Flowering Azaleas, Camellia, Crepe Myrtle (crape Myrtle), And Other Important Landscape Shrubs
By Patrick Malcolm · 17 years ago
Landscape shrubs are divided into two main categories: Evergreen shrubs grown primarily for the green leaves, and shrubs that are grown for flowers. Some of the flowering shrubs that are grown for flowers are also ...
Ogeechee Limes – Pleasantly Tasting Like Citrus
By Patrick Malcolm · 17 years ago
The shoreline of the Ogeechee River is densely imbedded with a little known fruit tree called the, "Ogeechee Lime" Nyssa ogeechee, that could easily demand attention from farmers, who are looking for a secondary crop. ...
Clumping Cold Hardy Bamboo Plants In America
By Patrick Malcolm · 17 years ago
Clumping bamboo is composed of over 500 species, and is less adaptable than the running bamboo species. The vast majority of clumping bamboo species grow in the tropical, and sub-tropical regions around the world, however, ...
Fast Growing Cold Hardy Bamboo In America
By Patrick Malcolm · 17 years ago
Running Bamboo is the most widely grown, fast growing type of bamboo plant in the world, and is comprised of over 700 species. The most widely used and possibly the 'King' of the running bamboo ...
Cold Hardy Palm Trees For Landscape Design And Planting In The United States
By Patrick Malcolm · 17 years ago
Scattered reports of palm trees growing in Northern areas of the United States and Canada have been known for many years. Semi-truck loads of windmill palm trees have been unloaded and successfully grown in Canada ...