🟢 What dos Sugar Apple look like and how does it taste?

😋 Annona squamosa - Sugar apple, is considered by many to be the most delicious tropical fruit. The fruit is a true treat, with pulp that resembles creamy custard, offering a flavor experience that’s hard to beat.

🕺 This very small, compact tree is perfect for containers or small yards, making it an excellent choice for home gardeners. It starts fruiting within just three years from seed and is remarkably easy to grow and undemanding.

📚 More about Anonnas in previous posts:

Guanabana - the most delicious Annona fruit
Top 10 fast-fruiting trees: #1. Annona
Why everyone wants the Sugar Apple?
The best tropical fruit tree for container growing, and the fastest to fruit: Annona
Spiny Hedgehog fruit: what does it taste like?

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🆒 When is the flowering season of Dwarf Chanel No 5 Tree?

• ✨ Our Dwarf Ylang-Ylang has been flowering non stop for almost a year by now! Even during cool winter. What a surprise!
• ✨ Cananga fruticosa - Dwarf Ylang-Ylang, or Chanel No5 Tree - is a fragrant favorite, the star of perfume plants and the secret behind Chanel No. 5!
• ✨ Its elegant, pendant flowers aren't just fragrant - they're works of art.
• ✨ Easy to grow and naturally compact, this tree keeps a tidy, tree-like shape.
• ✨ Perfect for containers, it's a stunning houseplant that smells as good as it looks!

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How to grow your own Chanel #5
What is the best perfume tree for container culture
Ylang Ylang Tree

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🍯 Who wants a cold hardy, dramatic looking tropical fruit tree with a sweet fruit? Or, who doesn't?

• 🍑 Persimmon (Diospyros sp.) is a graceful, small, subtropical fruit tree from China, with multitrunked or single-stemmed structure and drooping leaves and branches, turning dramatic shades in autumn.
• 🍑 People love Persimmon fruit for its sweet and unique flavor, often described as a blend of honey and apricot.
• 🍑 The tree thrives in deep, well-drained loam soil, tolerating alkaline conditions.
• 🍑 The fruit classified into astringent (soft, sweeter pulp) and non-astringent (crunchy) cultivars.
• 🍑 Best Varieties for Container Culture:
Non-Astringent: Fuyu, Giant Fuyu, Matsumoto-Wase, Jiro, Maekawa, Izu.
Astringent: Chocolate, Guang Yang, Hachiya, Meader, Saijo, Tanenashi, Winterset.
• 🍑 Hardy to USDA zones 7-10, may need protection in colder regions.

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💩 💃 Why did she say it's a dog poo? It's a beauty from Argentina!

• 🌸 This remarkable caudiciform Morning Glory - Ipomoea platensis - is native to arid regions of Argentina.
• 🌸 This is a showy flowering vine growing from a large caudex! The caudex can be of some weird shapes and forms. Some old lady once said "it's a dog poo plant!"
• 🌸 Similar to Desert roses (Adeniums), it grows caudex for water storage to survive extended drought periods.
• 🌸 Caudex grows over 2 ft! Vines reach over 12 ft, covered with beautiful bell-shaped pink flowers.
• 🌸 Can be kept as a bonsai in a pot, easy to control as a container specimen with trellis or pruning.
• 🌸 Although it doesn't mind dry conditions, the plant benefits from regular watering and good drainage, then it grows fast.
• 🌸 This is one of our favorite plants, easy to grow, makes a great conversation piece. It is a perfect for bonsai

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What fruit can you drink? Costa Rican Cas is the Guava for Drinking, yet with a bonus of health benefits!

• The fruit of Cas Guava (Psidium friedrichsthalianum) has unusual tart flavor with passionfruit and pineapple tones, more pronounced than common Guava🍍
• Cas Guava used in pies, salads, fresh juices, ice-cream, jams, and as a base for the refreshing drink Fresco de Cas!🍹
• High pectin content makes firm jellies.
• Hydrating and low glycemic index, suitable for those mindful of sugar consumption.
• Rich source of fiber, vitamin C, antioxidants, phosphorus, potassium, copper, vitamin A, and folic acid.
• This small tree or bush is very fast growing and undemanding, usually pest free (unlike most Guavas that can be very bugsy).
• Tolerates hot summers and short frosts, appreciates well-drained soils.
• Easy to grow, drought-tolerant once established, suitable for container cultivation.
• Seedlings start flowering and fruiting at a young age, typically 2-3 years old from seed.

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