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A comprehensive guide to avocado varieties by: flower type A or B, tree habit, cold hardiness, fruit shape and quality, origin, season and more.
Many gardeners who are eager to purchase their first avocado tree often wonder which variety to choose. Most people are familiar with two primary classifications commonly found in grocery stores: Small and Black or Large and Green... In this guide we aim to provide you with a comprehensive overview of avocado varieties and their differences. This will enable you to savor each one and make the most of the incredible array of tastes and textures they offer. Keep in mind that every garden has unique requirements based on climate, temperature, and property size. These factors must be considered before planning your avocado garden. Additionally, many gardeners may wonder about Type A vs Type B classifications and whether they need more than one tree to yield fruit. You'll find all the answers in this Avocado Variety Guide.
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See also: Avocado Variety Guide Table and interactive Avocado Guide page.

Beautiful and informative full-color edition from series "Plants with Scents as Heady as Incense". A complete info about tropical magnolias, history, species, cultivation, medicinal use and much more. Just about anything you need to know about these plants to grow it and enjoy their beauty and fragrance. 50 color photos, 44 pages. See Cover, Contents and Inside the book.

The unique full-color edition about World Favorite Flower: Jasminum Sambac. Over 30 beautiful full color photos of all varieties, history of the plant, cultural meaning, even confectionery and tea recipes! Classification of varieties, explanation of differences with pictures. Cultivation, common problems, growing tips. Just about anything you need to know about this plant to grow it and enjoy its beauty and fragrance. See Cover and Inside the book.

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A unique book about growing mangroves as houseplants and in aquarium. Many color photos. Habitat, growing instructions for aquariums and Lucky-Mangrove, water purifying facts and charts.

The unique full-color edition about the Queen of Fragrance - Ylang-Ylang. 20 beautiful full color photos of Cananga odorata, history of the plant, legends, cultural meaning, perfume production, aromatherapy recipes, cultivation tips on growing indoors and in the ground.

The first issue of the new magazine TROPICAL TREASURES. A unique magazine about pushing the limits of tropical gardening, growing tropical plants in non-tropical climate and indoors. This issue specials:
- Do-It-Yourself Projects- Hothouse in a Freezer
- Nature's food and pharmacy - Noni - Life Sustaining Plant
- New Introductions - New Fragrant Plants of the Annona Family
...and much more!..
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See VIDEO: Doctor Noni.

The the 8th issue of TROPICAL TREASURES. A unique magazine about pushing the limits of tropical gardening, growing tropical plants in non-tropical climate and indoors.
This issue specials:
Plant school and clinic: Growing tropical plants from seeds
Zone pushing: When the weather outside is frightful
Legendary Plants - Nutmeg: the treasure of Dutch East India Company
Do-It-Yourself Projects: Hi-Tech Nursery - XXI century plant growing: hi-tech computerized systems
Nature's Food and Pharmacy: Sweet as sugar - Muntingia calabura, Strawberry Tree
Plants with scents as heady as incense: Enchanted Gardenia - Queen of Aroma
From Gordon-the-palmaholic: Beware the rays of the sun.
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The 10th issue of TROPICAL TREASURES. A unique magazine about pushing the limits of tropical gardening, growing tropical plants in non-tropical climate and indoors.
This issue specials:
- Legendary plants. Flower names: Myths and Legends
- Plant school and clinic:
Growing plants from seeds: Part 2. Taking care of seedlings
Growing Lotus from seed
Top Tropicals Guide to in-ground planting: How to plant a tree
- From Gordon the Palmaholic: Pray to the Palm God but be ready to pull the plug
- Nature's food and pharmacy. Sapote: a Natural Sweetness.
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The 11th issue of TROPICAL TREASURES. A unique magazine about pushing the limits of tropical gardening, growing tropical plants in non-tropical climate and indoors.
This issue specials:
- Legendary plants. Kiku: the art of Japanese Chrysanthemum
- Zone pushing. Ready-for-winter checklist for in-ground plants
- From Gordon the Palmaholic. Think small
- New introductions. Myrtaceae for garden and potting culture
- Exotic Kaleidoscope. Yellow winter bloomers.
- Tropical Questions and Answers. How to re-pot a plant properly?
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The 12th issue of TROPICAL TREASURES. A unique magazine about pushing the limits of tropical gardening, growing tropical plants in non-tropical climate and indoors.
This issue specials:
- Legendary plants: The divine plant of Incas, Coca
- DIY projects: Indoor Lighting and Plant Light Requirements
- Plant school and clinic: Exotic hoyas - secrets of growing
- New introductions: Myrtaceae for garden and potting culture - Part II (Fruit)
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The 13th issue of TROPICAL TREASURES. A unique magazine about pushing the limits of tropical gardening, growing tropical plants in non-tropical climate and indoors.
This issue specials:
- Growing indoors: "Each man under his own vine and fig tree". Growing Fig Trees as house plants
- Plant School and Clinic: Cold tolerance and cold sensitivity
- Zone-pushing: Winter checklist
- Nature's Food and Pharmacy: Overlooked fruit - Tasty loquat recipes
- Growers of beauty: Exotic rainforest - Tropical Paradise up North.
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The 14th issue of TROPICAL TREASURES. A unique magazine about pushing the limits of tropical gardening, growing tropical plants in non-tropical climate and indoors.
This issue specials:
- Growing indoors: Capturing the Clerodendrum - Growing Butterfly Flowers Indoors
- Growing outdoors: The garden where happiness lives
- Legendary Plants: Aphrodisiac - plants of love
- Growing a pomegranate tree
- Aristolochia: A Calico Pipe With Gynecological Inclination
- Exotic Kaleidoscope: Tambalacoque, the Dodo tree
- Richardia: humble groundcover from the royal family.
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The 15th issue of TROPICAL TREASURES. A unique magazine about pushing the limits of tropical gardening, growing tropical plants in non-tropical climate and indoors.
This issue specials:
- PLANT SCHOOL AND CLINIC - TO LED, OR NOT TO LED: THAT IS THE QUESTION
- ANALOGIES FOR DUMMIES - A word from our editor
- GROWERS OF BEAUTY - THE EXOTIC RAINFOREST: WHAT WE HAVE LEARNED WHILE TRYING TO DUPLICATE THE NATURE
- PLANT SCHOOL AND CLINIC - DO-IT-YOURSELF EFFICIENT LOW VOLUME IRRIGATION SYSTEM
- ASK THE PRO'S - TROPICAL TREASURES Q&A
- PLANT INTRODUCTIONS - Thunbergias
- EXOTIC KALEIDOSCOPE - Winter flame blossoms
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The 16th issue of TROPICAL TREASURES. A unique magazine about pushing the limits of tropical gardening, growing tropical plants in non-tropical climate and indoors.
This issue specials:
- PLANTAHOLIC COLUMN. Ugu, a Nigerian Feel-good Food
- LEGENDARY PLANTS. The Scarborough Fair: Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
- GROWING OUTDOORS. Perfume Garden: Fragrant tropical plants for Southern landscapes and container culture.
- ASK THE PRO'S. Q and A on growing 'the best fruit in the world'
- EXOTIC KALEIDOSCOPE. Mandarin or... Sundrop!
- A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR. Too good to be true.
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The 17th issue of TROPICAL TREASURES. A unique magazine about pushing the limits of tropical gardening, growing tropical plants in non-tropical climate and indoors.
This issue specials:
- PLANTAHOLIC COLUMN - Four Black Nut Trees of Ethnobotanic Interest
- NATURE'S FOOD AND PHARMACY - Don't wiri about it
- GROWING OUTDOORS - The Perfume Garden: Fragrant tropical plants for Southern landscapes and container culture (part 2) .
- PLANT INTRODUCTIONS - Looking into those Dragon Eyes: Sapindaceae Family
- ASK THE PRO'S
- A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR - Something in the water.
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The 18th issue of TROPICAL TREASURES. A unique magazine about pushing the limits of tropical gardening, growing tropical plants in non-tropical climate and indoors.
This issue specials:
- Plantaholic column. Four Black Nut Trees of Ethnobotanic Interest, PART 2
- Growers of beauty. Garden of Eden by the Polar Circle
- Growing indoors. Amorphophallus: unusual method of propagation and growing indoors
- Tropical treasures Q&A: fragrant vines
- Meet the tropics. Growing Lychee in Southern Landscapes
- Zone pushing. Dealing with cold damaged plants
- Exotic kaleidoscope. Spectacular winter bloomers
- A note from the editor. Give it time
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The 19th issue of TROPICAL TREASURES. A unique magazine about pushing the limits of tropical gardening, growing tropical plants in non-tropical climate and indoors.
This issue specials:
- TRAVEL - MEET THE TROPICS. THE CONSERVATORY
- EXOTIC KALEIDOSCOPE. FUN FRUIT FACTS
- GROWING INDOORS. INDOOR TROPICAL MICROCLIMATES: A TRANSPLANTED FLORIDIAN COPES WITH WINTERS
Nature's food and pharmacy. SPECTACULAR FRUIT TREES AND EDIBLES FOR SOUTHERN LANDSCAPES AND CONTAINER CULTURE. PART I: ALL-TIME FAVORITES
- A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR. IT SAYS SOME THING.
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The second issue of the new magazine TROPICAL TREASURES. A unique magazine about pushing the limits of tropical gardening, growing tropical plants in non-tropical climate and indoors. This issue specials:
- Do-It-Yourself Projects - Indoor lighting for tropical plants PART 1
- Legendary plants - Cinnamon as is
- Nature's food and pharmacy - The Amazon Fountain of Youth, Assai
- New Introductions - Wrightia religiosa - sacred Buddhist
...and much more!..
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The 20th issue of TROPICAL TREASURES. A unique magazine about pushing the limits of tropical gardening, growing tropical plants in non-tropical climate and indoors.
This issue specials:
- PLANT INTRODUCTION. PASSION FLOWERS REVEALEDl implication, this is far from the truth...
- NATURE'S FOOD AND FARMACY. SPECTACULAR FRUIT TREES AND EDIBLES FOR SOUTHERN LANDSCAPES AND CONTAINER CULTURE. PART II: FRUIT TREES FOR SPECIFIC LOCATIONS
- GROWING PAPAYA TREE FROM SEED
- Miracle Fruit -THE FUN, THE TRICKS, AND RECEPIES
- EXOTIC KALEIDOSCOPE. SUNNY FLOWERS FOR SUMMER FUN
- GROWING INDOORS. GROWING TROPICAL PLANTS IN THE DESERT
- A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR. MY FIRST LOVE
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The 21th issue of TROPICAL TREASURES. A unique magazine about pushing the limits of tropical gardening, growing tropical plants in non-tropical climate and indoors.
This issue specials:
- Nature's Food and Pharmacy. The King of Spices: black pepper. Growing Black pepper.
- Growers of beauty. Getaway
- Growing outdoors. Top Tropicals guide to late-season plants (Fall through Early Spring) in SOUTH Florida
- Ask the pros: Tropical treasures Q&A. Transplanting plants from pots into ground and from ground into pots. Cold protection tips
- A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR. Looking at the Green
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The third issue of the new magazine TROPICAL TREASURES. A unique magazine about pushing the limits of tropical gardening, growing tropical plants in non-tropical climate and indoors. This issue specials:
- Plant School and Clinic - Green Thumb ABC
- Do-It-Yourself Projects - Indoor lighting for tropical plants PART 2
- Legendary plants - Biblical plants
- New Introductions - Adeniums. Dotted, Striped and Multicolored
...and much more!..
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The 4th issue of the new magazine TROPICAL TREASURES. A unique magazine about pushing the limits of tropical gardening, growing tropical plants in non-tropical climate and indoors. This issue specials:
- Potting soil. Some practical recommendations regarding the selection of soil mixes.
- Plant science. Linnaeus and Phylogeny - Why is my Michelia now a Magnolia?
- Do-It-Yourself Projects. Winter special. Effective, low budget heating systems for tropical plants.
- Legendary plants. Theobroma Cacao - all about Chocolate tree.
- From Gordon - The Palmaholic. Palm nutrition program.
- New introductions. Strongylodon - Jade Vine.
- Growing outdoors. Hail to the Musa.
- Exotic Kaleidoscope. I'm feeling blue... Blue flowers in tropical landscape.
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The 5th issue of the new magazine TROPICAL TREASURES. A unique magazine about pushing the limits of tropical gardening, growing tropical plants in non-tropical climate and indoors. This issue specials:
- Potting soil. Some practical recommendations regarding the selection of soil mixes.
- Plant School and Clinic: Soil acidity and alkalinity
- Plant science: Linnaeus vs Phylogeny, part II.
- Zone-pushing: Dealing with cold snaps. Cold hardy beauties.
- Do-It-Yourself Projects: Pond for plants and fish in your apartment. Small pond in one day.
- Plants that like their feet wet
- Legendary plants: Adansonia digitata, Baobab. A tree of myth and legend.
- From Gordon the Palmaholic: Palms are a lot like realestate: location, location, location...
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The the 6th issue of the new magazine TROPICAL TREASURES. A unique magazine about pushing the limits of tropical gardening, growing tropical plants in non-tropical climate and indoors. This issue specials:
- Plant School and Clinic. Pest control.
- Growers of Beauty. Tropics way up north: Botanical garden in apartment.
- Wildlife habitat A Practical Guide to Butterfly, Hummingbird, and Nighttime Moth Gardening
- Legendary plants Killer Plants, Part 1. Poisonous plants of Tropics: so deadly, yet so mesmerizing. Growing poisonous plants.
- Growing outdoors. The Social System of Horticulture: A Study of One Neighborhood, One Island, and the Move Towards Self-Sufficiency.
- From Gordon-the-Palmaholic. Every garden needs a few fan palms.
- Nature's Food and Pharmacy. Cold Seed of Incas: exotic fruits of Annonaceae family.
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The the 7th issue of TROPICAL TREASURES. A unique magazine about pushing the limits of tropical gardening, growing tropical plants in non-tropical climate and indoors. This issue specials:
- Zone pushing
When winter is around the corner
Growing exotic Cordyline in colder climate
- Plant clinic. Water, water, water... So simple and yet complex.
How to water plants? How to determine water needs? What happens to the plant if watered improperly?.
- Growers of beauty. Soursop fruiting in apartment: amazing experience of growing Annona muricata (Soursop) from seed and harvesting fruit after years of nourishing and patient waiting. Hand-pollination of Annona flowers.
- Plant science. The documentation of plans.
- Legendary plants. Killer Plants, Part 2. Poisonous plants of Tropics: beautiful and dangerous.
- Growing outdoors. The Mystique of Bamboo.
- Exotic Kaleidoscope. Tropical fruit recipes.
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