With the recent cooler, more fall-like temps, the mum and aster plants being sold, seems appropriate. However, these plants started to be sold, in August, while it was still hot...



New foliage is forming on this CASHEW, Anacardium occidentale, tree. For those who may not know, cashew trees are tropical nut trees. Two edible parts are produced on cashew trees...cashew apples (from which the cashew nuts hang), and the cashew nuts...



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Another basket of TUBEROUS BEGONIAS, is beginning to bloom. The corms stay in the baskets, from one year to the next. Just before frost, usually in October, the baskets are brought indoors, and dried off, for the winter. In early spring, the corms "give the sign". when they are ready to resume growing...



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Another of my ROSE of SHARON, Hibiscus syriacus, trees is blooming. This one is considered "red". It is a double variety, and has the cultivar name of 'Lucy'....



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The ORANGE TRUMPET BUSH, Tecoma fulva, is blooming. The cultivar name is 'Chicklet'...



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New leaves are forming on the LEMON DROP MANGOSTEEN, Garcinia intermedia, plant. For anyone unfamiliar with the plant, it is a tropical fruit tree...



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- NEW PLANTS -



Below is a pic of an ACHACHAIRU, Garcinia humilis, tree. For those unfamiliar with the plant, it is a tropical fruit tree, in which the fruits are similar to those of a mangosteen...



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Below is a pic of a JAMAICAN ALLSPICE, Pimenta dioca, plant I got. For those unfamiliar with allspice, is that it is a culinary spice. The berries the plant is used like peppercorns, in dishes. However, the leaves of the plant is also used as a seasoning....



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