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If you're looking to grow your own fruit, the American south makes a great farming choice for it's sunny days and year-round warm weather. When it comes to growing Alabama fruit, it's important to understand which trees are ideal to guarantee your best growing experience and highest yields.
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Although Madagascar palms may look like palms, they are really tree-like succulents that you can propagate through dividing and planting offsets or by starting seeds.
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Weeping conifers can grow quite large, so keeping them trimmed is necessary in many landscapes. Pruning them selectively will help them stay sound and attractive.
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Prune a Bismarck palm by removing any dead growth or living fronds that pose a hazard or otherwise interfere with other garden plants or structures. Use a pruning saw to remove fronds and flower stalks.
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The Crimson Sweet watermelon is a popular variety that matures in about 85 days. Learn the signs of ripeness to determine when to harvest your Crimson Sweet watermelons.
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It's best to plant watermelons and cantaloupes in different areas to avoid space constraints and shared pests and diseases that can spread easily when the plants are close.
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Several outdoor plants look similar to a pineapple plant, including other bromeliads, yucca, aloe, century plant, red hot poker, and pineapple lily plants.
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Fir and pine trees are both evergreen trees that bear needles and produce cones, but there are subtle differences in their characteristics, including needles.
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Mountain laurel bloom time can vary but can happen anywhere from mid-April to the summer solstice. It most often blooms in May and June with flowers ranging from white to deep rose colors.
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Ripe grapefruit are sweet and delicious, especially from a home garden. But you need to be sure the fruit is ready for harvest. Watch for green grapefruit skin to turn yellow or pink before you pick. The exact harvest season will vary depending on where you live and what the climate is like.
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A Majesty palm tree may turn yellow when the plant receives insufficient light or water. Palms are also susceptible to mineral deficiencies, which can cause the fronds to turn yellow.
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The Schubert chokecherry is native to much of America and features reddish-purple leaves. The Schubert cherry must be pruned regularly to stay healthy. This tree is tolerant of alkaline and clay soils, so it's a good tree for many soil types.
Read MoreHave a birch tree in your yard and unsure of which plants go well beside or around it? Here's a short guide with some planting suggestions.
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Orchids (family Orchidaceae) are hardy in USDA zones 3-12, depending on the species. While orchids are not poisonous to dogs and cats, discourage plant eating. Other flowering species, such as lilies, can be lethal to your pet, especially cats.
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Stake palm trees after planting for approximately a year or until the roots become well established and can securely support the palm tree in strong winds.
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To avoid mud splashing onto exterior walls and windows, cover the soil with something, either landscape fabric, gravel, organic mulches or various types of low-growing plants.
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Keeping weeds, overgrown shrubs and soil mounds away from a building's foundation provides many maintenance advantages. Better air flow, and improved access, viewing and moisture drainage all occur when the foundation is free of debris.
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The quintessential floral symbol of Christmas across North America, the poinsettia (Euphorbia pulcherrima) is a tropical shrub native to Mexico, where it is known as the flor de Nochebuena. As a member of the spurge family (Euphorbiaceae) poinsettias have a milky sap.
Read MoreMuhly grass is the common name given to any of the ornamental plants in the genus Muhlenbergia. Perhaps the most showy species is pink muhly or Gulf muhly (Muhlenbergia capillaris), which displays rosy pink flower spikes and seed plumes in late summer or early fall.
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Single-trunk palm trees will not grow back if their trunks are severed. Clustering palms, however, may produce new trunks.
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With origins in eastern Asia, two species of slow-growing deciduous trees are commonly called Japanese maples -- Acer palmatum and Acer japonicum. These temperate plants need an annual winter dormancy with cold temperatures to grow well. Japanese maples are grown in U.S.
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Although both members of the Pinaceae or pine family, the Douglas (Pseudotsuga menziesii) and Fraser fir (Abies fraseri) trees are not closely related. Fraser fir is botanically a true fir, as it's a member of genus Abies. Douglas fir is in the genus Pseudotsuga, a grouping of fir tree cousins.
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White flowers grace the bare branches of pear trees (Pyrus spp.) when they bloom from late winter to midspring, depending on climate.
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The word cocos -- the botanical genus name for the coconut tree -- is a Portuguese corruption of an aboriginal word for monkey. Across the South Pacific, native peoples thought that the three black depressions on the coconut nut resembled the basic face of a small monkey.
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Across its native Eastern United States, the black walnut tree (Juglans nigra) becomes a large, picturesque shade tree, but it's rarely planted in residential yards. Typically, walnut trees are enjoyed in large pastures or woodland clearings or preserved on parkland estates.
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One of America's most prized wildflowers, the purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) begins blooming in early summer and often continues into the fall. Deciding whether or not to do any trimming of the plant after flowering ends is completely up to you.
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Native to the lowland coastal plain of the extreme southeastern United States, both the pond and bald cypress are winter deciduous conifers with feathery, soft needles. When grown in fertile soils that are abundantly wet, the trees develop pointy or rounded "knees" or root-like protrusions from the soil surface.
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