Growing fruit trees is a rewarding hobby. Whether you’re interested in growing fruits in pots or in the open ground, from seed or from nursery stock, you’ll find many ways to satisfy your craving for home grown fruit. This is a grapefruit tree that I grew from a seedling. It flowered for the first time at 10… Continue reading Growing Fruit Trees
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Pineapple Guava TreeFeijoa sellowiana
A Feast for the Eyes and the Taste Buds! In addition to producing fragrant fruit and tasty flowers the pineapple guava tree is an evergreen ornamental. The small gray-green leaves and cinnamon brown bark provide year-round beauty. In late spring, Feijoa sellowiana adorns itself with inch wide red and white flowers. The cupped petals are edible and… Continue reading Pineapple Guava TreeFeijoa sellowiana
Guava Tree Information
Psidium guajava The tropical guava tree, Psidium guajava, is a large evergreen that features peeling bark, sweetly fragrant flowers and delicious fruit. The egg-shaped fruit develops a musky aroma as it ripens. In addition to being eaten fresh it is used to make jams and juices. Apple Guava (Psidium Guajava), IllustrationBuy This Allposters.com How To Grow Guava… Continue reading Guava Tree Information
Strawberry Guava Trees
Psidium littorale Strawberry guava trees are beautiful evergreens with shedding cinnamon brown bark and sweet smelling white flowers. Psidium littorale (formerly known as Psidium cattleianum) is self fertile and produces a heavy crop of tart red fruit each year. Thank You for Shopping with Our Partners The 1-2 inch round fruits form at the end of the tree’s… Continue reading Strawberry Guava Trees
The Sharp but Sweet Pineapple Plant
Various Ananas species The tough but beautiful pineapple plant is easy enough for the brownest thumb to grow. Here is all the information you need about ornamental and edible pineapple varieties: starting a pineapple from a top, when to harvest a growing pineapple and how to cut it up once you have. Pineapple plants are large bromeliads native… Continue reading The Sharp but Sweet Pineapple Plant
Banana Plant
All You Need to Know about Growing Bananas The banana plant is loved by gardeners everywhere for its lush, tropical foliage and its sweet fruit. All the information you’ve ever wanted about growing bananas is here. Includes big bananas, green bananas, red bananas, how to ripen bananas and even some fun facts about bananas. Bananas… Continue reading Banana Plant
How to Grow Grapes
Growing and Planting Grape Vines Best Price, Seedless Grape Vines How to grow grapes instructs the home grower in variety and site selection for planting grape vines. Training grapes on a grape vine trellis or arbor. Growing and planting grape vines. Ripens One Month Ahead of Concord! Sweet, Seedless New Himrod Grape$6.99 Grape Varieties Buy… Continue reading How to Grow Grapes
Growing Lemon Trees In Pots
Buy Fruit Trees Online Growing lemon trees in pots is easy as long as you start with the right kind of plant. How to grow a lemon plant from seed. How to keep lemons growing in containers healthy. Lemons grow easily from seed, but seedlings are not the best pot plants. They will be thorny… Continue reading Growing Lemon Trees In Pots
Growing Fig Trees
Common Edible Figs – Ficus carica Growing fig trees at home is the only way to sample the many delicious varieties of this nearly perfect fruit. Each type of fig produces fruit that tastes different from all the others. Some are richly sweet while others taste faintly of honey. All are so perishable that precious few… Continue reading Growing Fig Trees
Growing Mango Trees From Seed
Mangifera indica If all you want is a pretty tree, growing mango from seed might be the way to go. But, if you want delicious fruit, you might be better off buying a grafted selection of Mangifera indica. In the East Indies and Malaysia from whence it hails, the mango tree can grow to the stunning… Continue reading Growing Mango Trees From Seed