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The Hoya plant is a waxy plant with fleshy leaves and cluster of star shaped flowers. It is sometimes a shrub but can also be a vine. Though it can be found in some rainforests, it can also a pretty low maintenance house plant that is an easy way to keep any home decorated.
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Growing an apricot tree from a seed isn't difficult but takes time and patience. Whether extracting the seed from the pit or stratifying the pit itself, seeds can be started indoors in pots or planted directly in the ground outside. Apricot trees thrive in full sun with well-draining soil.
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To plant emerald cedar trees, dig a trench and position the trees 2 feet apart. Plant the trees and add mulch on top to help hold moisture in and prevent weed growth.
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In USDA zones lower than 9, lantana will need protection to survive the winter and should either be heavily mulched or brought indoors until the spring.
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You can create a grape cultivar by stratifying, sowing, and germinating grape seeds and planting seedlings, but fruit production takes from two to seven years.
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An avocado tree may take some time to mature and bear fruit, and having good weather is important. Hand pollination can be helpful once the tree is established.
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Pick loofah gourds just before the first frost when they're dry and brittle. Methods for peeling, cleaning, and disinfecting them depend on how ripe they are.
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To care for an indoor fig plant, give it a warm, sunny location, water regularly, and prune as needed. Neem oil is a pest treatment option for indoor figs.
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If you live where it's warm all year round, there's no reason not to plant tropical trees. You can grow one yourself – simply propagate a puakenikeni tree from a branch with an easy air layering technique.
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Rejuvenate your overgrown holly tree by cutting it back hard or pruning it over two or three years. Hollies can come back from the old wood at the base of its stems, eventually filling out with fresh new growth.
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Peafowl are beautiful, exotic birds, but they may be a nuisance to homeowners. Get rid of them humanely before they start wreaking havoc on your property.
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Care for a coral cactus by fulfilling its basic indoor or outdoor needs while steering clear of the plant's sap, which can cause inflammation of the eyes, mucous membranes and skin.
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Care for a bamboo orchid requires lots of sun, well-drained soil and consistent moisture. While it grows best outdoors, the bamboo orchid can be grown in containers and moved indoors during cooler months.
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Italian cypresses are beautiful Mediterranean trees that grow up to 60 feet tall in height. Although the Italian cypress tree maintenance is not that difficult, you want to make sure that you are properly taking care of them. The trees are drought tolerant, so excessive moisture will rot the tree.
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Pansies have good freeze and frost resistance, but petunias and geraniums do not. Protect petunias and geraniums by covering them with row covers or planting them in pots that you can bring indoors. Usually, however, these are grown as annuals.
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The largest variety of citrus, pomelo or pummelo (Citrus maxima) can produce 25-pound fruits up to 1 foot across in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 9 through 11. Usually, however, the fruits remain about the size of an extra-large grapefruit (Citrus x paradisi, USDA zones 9 through 11).
Read MoreIf you grow jasmine in a container, you have the option of moving it indoors when necessary to preserve its life or enjoy its scent.
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Varying from 16-inch bedding plants to stately spires 10 feet tall, echiums (Echium spp.) generally are hardy biennials or tender perennials with rosettes of hairy leaves and bell-shaped blue, purple, white, pink or red flowers clustered up the stems.
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The large blooms of peonies (Paeonia spp.), hardy in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 3 through 8, add color and drama to your early summer flower arrangements. They can last as long as eight or nine days in water, if you take the proper precautions.
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The berries on a lantana (Lantana spp.), black and about 1/6 of an inch across, are the fruits of the plant. Produced after its 1- to 2-inch clusters of flowers are pollinated, each berry contains one seed. Not all lantanas produce berries, as many of the newer hybrids are sterile.
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Because Pennsylvania includes three U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones and their subzones, the times for planting vegetables vary considerably from Philadelphia, which is in USDA zone 7a in the southeastern part of the state, to Bradford in USDA zone 5a in the northwest.
Read MoreConsidered by some people to be the source of the mustard seed mentioned in Scripture, the mustard tree (Salvadora persica) grows wild throughout much of the Middle East and Africa.
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