In Southern California, we all love to eat a fresh avocado, drink a glass of sun-ripened orange juice, or harvest a delicious plum from our backyard trees. However, growing fruit trees in an arid ...

Growing your own fruit is an excellent way to diversify a home garden. Determining which species to grow based on your climate may feel limiting. However, if you are living in subtropical regions or ...

Last week, we traveled vicariously to visit the tropical fruits of the New World. This week, let us imagine that we are in the jungles of Borneo, home of orangutans, proboscis monkeys and humans who ...

Tropical starfruit tree was growing from seed to young plant over 109 days time lapse. Seed was extracted directly from store ...

Tropical and subtropical fruit is being embraced by many South Florida dooryard gardeners. First, consider what kind of fruit you desire and then to research the growing conditions necessary for the ...

Here's the scoop on this tropical treat. "Black sapote, also called black soap apple, is a close cousin to the persimmon and is sometimes referred to as black persimmon,” says Desiree Pardo Morales, ...

It’s amazing what you can do with a third of an acre of land. Take Alex Silber, for example. On a piece of ground this size, he is growing 52 exotic fruit trees, shrubs, and vines, 9 exotic herbs and ...

Exotic trees are rarely grown among fruit tree growers in Uganda. Instead, fruits such as mangoes, jackfruit and pawpaw are the most commonly grown especially in the central region. Soren Jegindoe, a ...

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, ...

Persimmon (Diospyros kaki), kaki and Sharon fruit, need a hotter than average summer in Britain and responded well last ...

It’s amazing what you can do with a third of an acre of land. Take Alex Silber, for example. On a piece of ground this size, he is growing 52 exotic fruit trees, shrubs, and vines, 9 exotic herbs and ...