A favorite Australian architectural tree is brachychiton rupestres otherwise known as the Queensland Bottle tree. It should not be confused with the baobab, Adansonia Gregorii, even though baobabs are also known as bottle trees. Both…
Just about every tree is beneficial in terms of improving air quality, but some are truly exceptional at filtering away toxins and purifying the air. If you’ve been looking for a way to improve the…
No matter how much you know about trees, there is always something more to learn. This book was a fortuitous used book find. Originally published in 1968, by Ivan Holiday and Ron Hill, it is…
Water is essential for a tree’s survival, but, unfortunately, rainfall often doesn’t provide enough. This makes manual watering a must. However, do this in the wrong way and they’ll still end up suffering, making it…
Grass Tree 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…
What looks like a bottle, stores up liquid and has an edible inner bark? The bottle tree. Shaped like a sturdy wine bottle, these trees are often left standing when undergrowth is cleared away for…
Yucca Filifera: St. Peter’s Palm or St. Peter’s Yucca, sometimes also known as palma china, is native to Mexico and grows wild in North America as far north as the Carolinas. Or, to put it…
Yucca Rostrata or the Beaked Yucca is an exceptionally beautiful tree yucca. It develops a perfectly spherical pom-pom at the top of a slender stem. In summer, it puts up a single tall bloom stalk….
Olive…Oil, and so much more. Olive Oyl was Popeye the Sailor Man’s girlfriend. She looked after Sweet Pea, was pursued by Brutus, and frequently provided the impetus for a variety of plotlines, all culminating with…
It is hard to imagine a more beautiful tree than a mango tree. They have a proportionally narrow trunk and wide-reaching branches. When they bloom, the trees are covered with a blush of tiny blossoms…
Some garden trends quickly come and go, while others have more staying power and significantly influence how a garden develops over time. If you’ve been looking to make a few changes in your own garden,…
The aloe barberae, or tree aloe is a close cousin of the common aloe vera plant that many cooks love to have in their kitchen. Like the aloe plant, the clear, gel fluid from the…
There has always been something special about trees, no matter where you are in the world. We have all sorts of trees, but we specialize in the kinds that will grow well in Australia. One…