If you love fruit you might consider growing your own and Lee Reich’s book Grow Fruit Naturally, is an excellent guide to help you. Written for the everyday gardener, the…
Botanically called Labiatae and more recently, Lamiacea, the mint family is large and made up mostly of annual or perennial herbs, many shrubs, and rarely trees. It includes a large…
Like most conifers, blue Atlas cedar is evergreen and produces cones. It is a tall handsome tree native to the Atlas Mountains of Algeria and Morocco and closely related to…
The plants that dominate the world today are known as flowering plants because of their method of reproduction. They produce ovules (flower eggs) that are completely contained within the ovary…
Native to central and southeastern United States, this deciduous tree is a member of the soapberry family, Sapindaceae, that also includes maple and lychee. The tree grows up to 70′…
Andrea Wulf’s book, Founding Gardeners, is a unique work that appeals to the history buff as well as the gardener. It examines the lives of the founding fathers to show…
Peppercorn is an annual native to North American and found all over the United States including Alaska and Hawaii. A relative of the mustard family it is related to broccoli,…
A member of the Agave family, corn plant is native to tropical Africa where it is used as fence posts. The plant has rough-textured multiple stems that grow up to…
Native to southern Japan and southern and eastern China, this evergreen shrub or small tree is also called Buddhist pine and yew plum pine but is neither a pine nor…
Books about holidays are very appealing to children and a good way to teach them about the traditions that play a role in our culture. Gail Gibbons book, Groundhog Day!,…
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