March has been a strange season around the world. In the Northern hemisphere, spring is just beginning, and in the Southern hemisphere, Autumn is beginning. As people shelter in place all over the world, one…
Trees and plants can be used for a wide variety of industrial and household applications. While they are beautiful and are an important part of the environment, if you usually focus on how trees look…
The dragon tree will grow its trunk first, it will flare out the middle, then it starts to form its next set of branching. From where it initially starts to branch…
The leaf structure will come out in the initial year and then you’ll start to see some trunk starting to form on these little branches.
Where the green reads the brown on the leaf right there on the dragon tree. As you can see just here, that’s where we cut them.
We get clients that ring up asking about stripping the leaves off. What happens is with the dragon tree, guys, if you do strip the leaves off…
Once it’s flowered, the dragon tree will not feed the original leaves. It stops feeding those leaves and it starts to focus on the small branches coming through on the sides.
I often get a phone call to say, “Okay, when’s my dragon tree going to flower?” Or, “When are the branches going to start coming out?”
Australia is an amazing place. There are more than 25,000 different plants that grow there, many of which do not grow naturally anywhere else in the world. One of the plants that is unique to…
What looks like a bottle, stores up liquid and has an edible inner bark? The Queensland bottle tree. Shaped like a sturdy wine bottle, these trees are often left standing when undergrowth is cleared away…
February is the beginning of autumn for the “land down-under.” That is, no doubt, common knowledge to the people who live in Australia. It can be somewhat mind-bending for people who live in the northern…