Okay, we all know that it’s a little too soon to be plucking nice, ripe mangos from your trees, but it is true that early-maturing cultivars have already been in flower for a few weeks and, barring damaging frost as winter rolls along, we might be able to start harvesting the delicious, juicy fruits sometime in May. It’s…
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In many parts of the United States, the Copperleaf is a popular summertime landscaping element, a heat-loving annual bedding plant that disintegrates with the onset of winter conditions. But it’s really a perennial evergreen shrub, and we in southern Florida are fortunate to be able to grow it inground or in containers year-round, allowing it…
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Of the palms suitable to cultivation in southern Florida, the genus Ptychosperma is among the most successful. Its 30 or so species are Asian in origin, native mostly to New Guinea and Australia. Though they’re primarily rain forest species, some, such as the ubiquitous Solitaire Palm (Ptychosperma elegans), have proven successful in sunny exposures. A few species are single-stemmed,…
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Does this name fail to ring a bell with you? Fret not; you aren’t alone. Biscayne Prickly Ash is among the rarest, and least known, of our state’s native flora. While the small tree occurs naturally from the western Caribbean into Florida, from Palm Beach County south, coastal development has been making it vanish. (It…
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Hummingbirds currently abound at the nursery. They are most frequently seen drinking nectar from the Hong Kong Orchid Trees, China Hats, Fire spikes, Fire bush (native and non-native), Bougainvilleas, and Butterfly Orchid Tree, just to name a few. We invite you to tour the nursery and see for yourself just how many hummingbirds are here. Harvesting…
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