Tropical Food Gardens

Tropical Food Gardens
Author: Leonie Norrington
Publisher: Bloomings Books
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2008
Genre: Gardening
ISBN:

This book tells you how to grow exotic vegetables such as snake beans and water chestnuts. Luscious fruits such as rambutans and mangoes Herbs like vanilla and turmeric.

Growing Tasty Tropical Plants in Any Home, Anywhere

Growing Tasty Tropical Plants in Any Home, Anywhere
Author: Byron E. Martin
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2012-01-02
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1603424652

Enjoy fresh java brewed from your own coffee beans or juice from the orange tree growing in a sunny corner of your living room. Laurelynn G. Martin and Byron E. Martin show you how to successfully plant, grow, and harvest 47 varieties of tropical fruiting plants — in any climate! This straightforward, easy-to-use guide brings papaya, passionfruit, pepper, pineapples, and more out of the tropics and into your home. With plenty of gorgeous foliage, entrancing fragrances, and luscious fruits, local food has never been more exotic.

Landscaping with Tropical Plants

Landscaping with Tropical Plants
Author: Monica Moran Brandies
Publisher: Sunset
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2004
Genre: Gardening
ISBN:

Design ideas; creative garden plans; cold-climate solutions.

Hot Plants for Cool Climates

Hot Plants for Cool Climates
Author: Susan A. Roth
Publisher: Timber Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2005-07-01
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 9780881927191

Passionate gardeners in cooler climates struggle year after year to overwinter their gorgeous tropical plants. Our new paperback edition is the answer to their problem — practical advice for achieving the tropical look in a temperate garden. The authors, who both live and garden on Long Island, New York, reveal the secrets to creating a lush, flamboyant landscape. Separate chapters cover such topics as principles of design and maintenance, proper plant selection, container gardening, and overwintering. Fantastic color photography throughout will inspire gardeners in even the hardiest zones. With the help of this book, an impressive tropical garden is within any gardener's reach.

The Tropical Garden

The Tropical Garden
Author: Matilda Sean
Publisher:
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2020-07-09
Genre:
ISBN:

Tropical Gardens is a lovely introduction to tropical landscaping styles and a gardening aesthetic that combines the best of East and West with superior knowledge of plant cultivation and care. Tropical Gardens contains a rare glimpse into some of the most beautiful tropical gardens in the world today. It presents 42 spectacular contemporary gardens, both big and small. This book gives delails of a tropical garden designs and landscape architecture that both professionals and beginners will love.

Tropical Homegardens

Tropical Homegardens
Author: B.M. Kumar
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 383
Release: 2007-04-21
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 140204948X

‘Homegardens’ are integrated tree–crop–animal production systems, often established on small parcels of land surrounding homesteads, and primarily found in tropical environments. This multi-authored volume contains peer-reviewed chapters from the world’s leading researchers and professionals in this topic. It summarizes the current state of knowledge on homegarden systems, with a view to using this knowledge as a basis for improving both homegardens and other similar multistrata agroforestry systems.

Grow a Little Fruit Tree

Grow a Little Fruit Tree
Author: Ann Ralph
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2015-01-16
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1603428895

Grow your own apples, figs, plums, cherries, pears, apricots, and peaches in even the smallest backyard! Ann Ralph shows you how to cultivate small yet abundant fruit trees using a variety of specialized pruning techniques. With dozens of simple and effective strategies for keeping an ordinary fruit tree from growing too large, you’ll keep your gardening duties manageable while at the same time reaping a bountiful harvest. These little fruit trees are easy to maintain and make a lovely addition to any home landscape.

Tropical Gardens of the Philippines

Tropical Gardens of the Philippines
Author: Lily Gamboa O'Boyle
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Total Pages: 503
Release: 2012-03-13
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1462906125

Full of stunning landscape photographs, this tropical gardening book is a delight for anyone interested in the lavish gardens of the Philippines. Aimed at gardening enthusiasts, Tropical Gardens of the Philippines contains a rare glimpse into some of the most beautiful tropical gardens in the world today. It presents 42 spectacular contemporary gardens, both big and small, situated in and around Metropilitan Manila area and the nearby provinces of Laguna, Batangas and Cavite. The vast majority of the gardens are in private homes. Introducing a contemporary gardening style that has been evolving in the Philippines over the past decade, as well as more traditional formal styles, it traces the development of garden design in all its forms. Designers new and old are showcased along with a number of talented home owners. Experimenting with both indigenous and introduced species, use of hardscapes such as local stones and pavers, bonsai, clipped shrubs and water features, some work along Oriental lines, others follow Western models. Tropical Gardens of the Philippines is a lovely introduction to Filipino landscaping styles and a gardening aesthetic that combines the best of East and West with superior knowledge of plant cultivation and care.