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How to Grow a Lemon Plant in a Home Garden – Tips and techniques for best growing and for more fruits

Description of a Lemon Plant The lemon; a member of the citrus family is well-known for it’s sour taste and antiseptic properties. This yellow fruit is used to prepare nutritional drinks; for garnishing; marinating meat; in fruit pulps; in aromatherapy; as a deodorizer and has innumerable other cooling, inflammatory and diuretic uses. The advantages of [...]

Tabebuia serratifolia (aka known as Yellow trumpet tree or yellow poui tree)

Tabebuia makes an excellent shade, lawn, or street tree, or border plant. The yellow poui develops like a tree and is the national tree of Brazil. It is a tree that grows up to 37 m in height and has large buttresses at the base of the tree. (Explanation: Buttresses are flared supporting structures found [...]

Growing the Sweet Gum tree

The sweet gum is a large, native, aromatic tree becoming 60 to 120 feet in height, with a trunk from 2 to 4 feet in diameter. In the open it develops a very symmetric pyramidal crown, with spreading and almost horizontal branches persisting rather low on the tapering, continuous trunk. When growing in the forests, [...]

Growing apricot trees

Apricot trees are versatile, graceful and beautiful. The foliage is attractive, and they make nice shade trees throughout the summer months. And, in the fall, as the tree prepares for the winter months, they have nice color. Apricot trees can be a lovely centerpiece in a yard: their blossoms are white or pink; their foliage [...]


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