Archive for the 'Tropical Gardens' Category

16 May

Living in the northeast, and in an area that has cold winters, I can only dream about what it must be like to grow palm trees. I’m not sure whether there is a variety that can be grown in our area, the only ones that hubby and I have enjoyed are the ones we saw [...]

10 Dec

  With Christmas coming the snow outside my window right now, with a backdrop of grey trees, is pretty…what we like to see at this time of the year.  But it is cold, and as time goes by, we tend to look farward to spring, and consider making escapes to warmer climates…where it is warm, [...]

16 Apr

Sometimes when you’ve been working a blog for a while, great posts get lost at the “bottom of the blog”, and need revisiting, so with gardening season arriving for some of us, and always around for other lucky readers, I thought I’d point out a few helpful posts: Gardening in Containers – this post contained [...]

14 Apr

I have an extra-special special to tell you about at the end of this post, but first…Florida!  This is the place that many escape to during the Spring, right on through the summer, and into the Fall months.  But Spring is when most of the people from our part of the US head down to [...]

13 Feb

Being on a tropical theme today, I thought I’d look and see what videos are available for the tropical gardener, and I found quite a few!  I didn’t realize that, in the right climate, Banana Plants are fairly easy to grow, and also didn’t realize that they produce fruit at only 6 feet tall!  I [...]