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Fig Trees Produce Fruit In Colors Of White, Green, Black, Red, Wine, And Purple
Fig trees are fruit tree garden favorites. Buying and planting large fig trees can fruit the first year of growing. Two of the best orchard or fig tree garden selections are: Brown Turkey Fig Trees and Celeste (Celestial) Fig Trees.
The fruit of the fig tree was well known in Biblical scripture and a fig tree was condemned to wither by Jesus in the Bible gospel of Mark 11:16 for being barren of fruit. The fig was used numerous times in the Bible to symbolize truths of the ...
Large Shade Trees; Pine, Oak, And Maple For Shade Tree Planting And Growing
The largest living creatures that man encounters are shade trees that are handily defined as trees that produce shade protection from the sunlight. Mankind loves and respects shade trees with their cooling benefits and the many available wood products, that improve the recreational environment and offer food and shelter for wildlife, birds, insects, and other creatures. Trees are planted and grown for many purposes; for their sculptured beauty, beautiful seasonal color, and f...
Plant And Grow A Cold Hardy Windmill Palm Tree
The Windmill palm, Trachycarpus fortunei, tree has been extrensively planted and grown during the last five years in most Northern States and in Canada, much to the incredulous surprise of environmentalists and climatologists. Tropical palm trees are not generally believed to have cold hardy characteristics sufficient to survive in non-tropical locations where temperatures often plunge to depths below zero. The windmill palm, Trachycarpus fortunei, can survive cold weather be...
Gift Certificates Are A Delight To A Dedicated Gardener
Gift certificates can be sent by email instantly, by immediate fax or by mail on the date that you wish. A gift certificate is important for two very important reasons. First, the person who receives the gift certificate will cherish the thoughtfulness of your remembering and honoring an important occasion or holiday. Second, you can easily solve the problem of what to give, because a gift certificate will enable your loved ones to pick out exactly what they want to receive a...
The Modern Soft Yellow Banana Evolved From The Cooking Banana As The Number One Fruit In The World
The early Spanish explorers introduced banana plants into America from Spain as a hardcore, large cooking banana, known as a Plantain banana. The amazing yellow fresh eating banana, that we know today sold by supermarkets, resulted from a mutation from the hardcore tissues of the parent plantain banana plant, that was then growing in Jamaica. Mr. Jean Francois Poujot, in the year 1836, a Jamaican farmer, found in his banana plantain orchard a banana plant that produced soft, ...
Windmill Palm Trees, Tropical Accent Plants, Cold Hardy For Northern United States And Canadian Gardens
The Cold Hardy Windmill Fan Palm tree originated on the island of Chusan off the east coast of China, and the Windmill palm tree is often called the Chinese or Chusan Fan Palm. Robert Fortune smuggled Windmill palm plants from China into the Kew Horticultural Gardens and into the Royal garden of Prince Albert of England in 1849 after the Opium Wars of China ended. The Windmill Palm tree was named in Latin, Trachycarpus fortunei, after Robert Fortune, and after 158 years, in t...
Planting Large Fruit Trees, Berry Bushes, Grape Vines, And Oak Trees Produces Successful, Fast Food For Wildlife Management Resources
Much national attention has been focused on the health and future welfare of wildlife animals and birds by wildlife management conservationists and hunters who want to preserve a valuable American resource: the population of wild animals and wild game. Increased planting of inedible crops like cotton and tobacco has reduced wildlife food supplies. Urban expansion has rapidly reduced forests where wildlife food once grew, and very efficient grain harvesting has left only a lit...
Have Dutch Bulb Exporters Gained Financial Control Of American Horticulture? (Part 2)
Can an imaginary scenario be presented that might reveal how such a traumatic financial shift could insipidly develop and with impunity change the course of American Agriculture? The might and power of American Agriculture has been legendary in years past, and it is appropriate to consider whether or not American Agriculture dominance is teetering into a progressive state of limbo that might eventually endanger National security.
Consider a complex situational possibility ...
Have Dutch Bulb Exporters Gained Financial Control Of American Horticulture? (part 1)
Many inquiries have been initiated into the reasons why Foster-Gallagher, the largest direct-to-consumer marketer of horticultural products in North America, filed for Bankruptcy on July 2, 2001, after ceasing all normal business operations on June 29, 2001. Somewhere between 3000 and 4000 employees lost their jobs and retirement benefits, stock-owned equity and $100,000,000 in debt liabilities. The network of companies, owned and operating under the umbrella of Foster-Gallag...
Flowering Dogwood Trees: A Favorite Tree Of America
The State of Virginia has adapted the dogwood flowering tree as its State tree, and many cities in America have named themselves 'The Dogwood City.' Atlanta, Georgia holds a spring festival every April to coincide with the flowering of the of the dogwood trees in Atlanta, Georgia. The Dogwood Festival has continued for 70 years, successfully attracting visitors for events such as outdoor musical extravaganzas in Piedmont Park and the attraction of many artists to display and ...
Box Store Plant Advertising Has Worked Up To Now - Part 2
Many factors affect commerce, including uncontrollable and unpredictable rising and falling fortunes of various industries, such as air travel, that nevertheless still performs excellent passenger services for our American society. The soaring fortunes of the National airlines 10 years past, now has been reversed by ongoing bankruptcy factors caused by inflated fuel costs, worker pensions and salary contracts. American automobile manufacturers may face a similar fate from the...
Box Store Plant Advertising Has Worked Up To Now - Part 1
The status quo of the nursery business has been changed forever by the entrance of the box stores into the plant and tree markets. Box stores are defined as retail stores with commercial building designs, shaped like cardboard boxes. Industry spokesman categorize box stores, such as Home Depot, Walmart, K-Mart and Lowe's, as the most obviously successful of these chain store giants. Many communities welcome the opening of new box stores, while other cities dread and invoke or...
Advertising Nursery Plants And Trees In Newspapers
Classified ads and display ads are not used much anymore to advertise nursery plants in newspapers, although 15 to 20 years ago, plant ads were commonly seen in newsprint publications and farm magazines. Several reasons are responsible for the nursery plant businesses abandoning this form of media advertising. The main reason has been the emergence of other competitive, lower priced media forms, the most significant being the Internet, followed by free advertising offers in a...
Advertising Nursery Plants In National And Regional Magazines
Some mail order nursery companies still continue to advertise their plant products in magazines. To determine whether or not a selected magazine may have editorial pages and content concerning plants to attract mail order customers is important. The advertiser must predetermine whether or not his nursery ads will result in orders after receiving a free printed catalog or after a visit to a plant nursery website, and that is not an easy task for the inexperienced nursery man. ...
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