Feijoa: Little-known Fruit With 3 Health Perks
Feijoa: Little-known Fruit With 3 Benefits to Health
Autumn is feijoa season, and it’s time to either get your excuses ready not to accept proffered fruit or start to investigate tasty ways to eat them.
That’s...
Pepino Melon: Solanum Muricatum Plant
Pepino Melon, also called melon-pear, is native to the Anden regions of South America and is an ancient crop.
Otherwise known as Pepino Dulce, or sweet cucumber in the Spanish language, the Pepino flips from...
Camphor Tree (Cinnamomum camphora) Info
Camphor Tree (Cinnamomum camphora)
Camphor trees in the landscape grow huge, very fast, making some homeowners happy, others uncomfortable.
Camphor Tree Height
Camphor trees are slow-growing evergreen trees reaching up to 50 feet or 15m tall. They...
How to Grow Pachysandra: A Complete Ground Cover Guide
Want a gorgeous, low-effort landscape? Pachysandra is your answer. This shade-loving superstar spreads quickly, suppresses weeds, and offers year-round greenery with minimal fuss.
What is Pachysandra?
Pachysandra, a Japanese spurge, is a beloved evergreen ground cover....
Indian Hawthorn: 3 Important Facts You Need To Know
Indian Hawthorn
(Rhaphiolepsis indica) is a small, slow-growing evergreen shrub ideal for sunny locations. It’s not hard to care for. Hence it holds a neat, rounded shape naturally, without pruning.
The shrub looks excellent year-round and...
What Plants Are Acid Loving: Make Acid-Loving Border
What Plants Are Acid Loving
Every kind of soil brings its own opportunities, and there's a fantastic range of plants that thrive on acid soils.
As well as the usual ericaceous plants such as camellias, rhododendrons,...
Forsythia: A Spring Garden Stalwart Shrub
Forsythia
Gold Standard, With its boughs laden with brilliant yellow blooms, forsythia earns its
place as a spring garden stalwart.
Subtle is not an epithet anyone ever applied to forsythia, the well-known shrub that turns Colman’s Mustard...
Protective Garden: 6 Plants as Natural Pollution-Busters
Protective Garden
Our gardens can help protect us from air pollution and allergens and filter or mask intrusive noise. Plants are constantly hard at work, shielding us from noise and pollution and improving our environment.
Trees...