Tropical Treasures Magazine

Pushing the limits of tropical gardening. Growing tropical plants in non-tropical climate and indoors.
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Index of Tropical Treasures Articles

Zone-Pushing

  • Growing Tropicals in Nontropical Climate (#1)
  • Three Freezing Nights in Southwest Florida (#1)
  • Temperature drops – an alert or a rehearsal? (#2)
  • Dealing with cold snaps (#5)
  • Cold hardy beauties (#5)
  • When winter is around the corner (#7)
  • Growing exotic Cordyline in colder climate (#7)
  • When the weather outside is frightful (#8)
  • Winter champions  (#9)
  • Ready-for-winter checklist for in-ground plants (#11)
  • Winter checklist (#13)
  •  Dealing with cold damaged plants (#18

 

Do-It-Yourself Projects

  • Hothouse in a Freeze (#1)
  • Indoor lighting for tropical plants – PART 1 (#2), PART 2 (#3)
  • Indoor Lighting and Plant Light Requirements (#12)
  • To led, or not to led: that is the question (#15)
  • Winter special: effective, low budget heating systems for tropical plants (#4)
  • Pond for plants and fish in your apartment. Small pond in one day . Plants that like their feet wet (#5)
  • Hi-Tech Nursery (#8)
  • Mist-house: A propagation and recovery system (#9)
  • Exotic rainforest: Tropical Paradise up North (#13)
  • Do-it-yourself low volume irrigation system (#15)

 

Plant School and Clinic

  • Qualitative research approach to CIRKON and EPIN in Supporting Plant Health In Tropical US Territories. (#2)
  • What color is your thumb? (#3)
  • Green Thumb ABC. (#3)
  • Potting soil (#4)
  • A story told by one Camellia (#4)
  • Soil acidity and alkalinity (#5)
  • Pest control (#6)
  • Water, water, water... So simple and yet complex. (#7)
  • Growing tropical plants from seeds. Part 1. (#8)
  • Growing plants from seeds: Part 2. Taking care of seedlings (#10).
  • Growing Lotus from seed (#10).
  • For the love of plants. Creating a tropical oasis in your apartment (#9)
  • Q&A: Transplanting plants in your garden to different locations (#9)
  • Top Tropicals Guide to in-ground planting: How to plant a tree (#10).
  • Q&A: How to re-pot a plant properly? (#11)
  • Exotic hoyas - secrets of growing (#12)
  • Cold tolerance and cold sensitivity (#13)
  • To led, or not to led: that is the question (#15)
  • Q & A on growing “the best fruit in the world” - the delicious fruit of Lychee Tree (Litchi chinensis) (#16)
  • Something in the water (#17)

 

Plant science

  • Linnaeus and Phylogeny, part I (#4) , part II (#5)
  • The documentation of plans (#7)

 

Meet the Tropics: Plant Introductions

  • New Fragrant Plants of the Annona Family (#1)
  • Parade of the Enchanting and Sacred - Wrightias (#2)
  • Adeniums - Dotted, Striped and Multicolored (#3)
  • Strongylodon - Jade Vine (#4)
  • Plants with scents as heady as incense... Enchanted Gardenia - Queen of Aroma... (#8)
  • Myrtaceae for garden and potting culture. Part I (Flowers). (#11) Part II (Fruit) (#12)
  • Aristolochia: A Calico Pipe With Gynecological Inclination (#14)
  • Growing a pomegranate tree (#14)
  • Tambalacoque, the Dodo tree (#14)
  • Richardia: humble groundcover from the royal family (#14)
  • Thunbergia (#15)
  • Ugu, a Nigerian Feel-good Food (#16)
  • Mandarin or... Sundrop! ... Eugenia victoriana - Sundrop. (#16)
  • Four Black Nut Trees of Ethnobotanic Interest (#17
  • Looking into those Dragon Eyes: Sapindaceae Family (#17). 
  • Growing Lychee in Southern Landscapes (#18

 

Growers of Beauty

  • Tropics way up North: Botanical garden in apartment (#6)
  • Soursop fruiting in apartment. Hand-pollination of Annona flowers. (#7)
  • Exotic rainforest: Tropical Paradise up North (#13)
  • Capturing the Clerodendrum: Growing Butterfly Flowers Indoors (#14)
  • The exotic rainforest: what we have learned while trying to duplicate the nature (#15)

 

Nature’s Food and Pharmacy

  • Noni - Life Sustaining Plant (#1)
  • The Amazon Fountain of Youth - Assai (#2)
  • The King of Fruits - Pineapple (#3)
  • Healing Garden: Loving Horticulture and Rehabilitation (#3)
  • Cold Seed of Incas: exotic fruits of Annonaceae family (#6)
  • Sweet as sugar: Muntingia calabura, Strawberry Tree (#8)
  • Fertility fruit from a “Testicle Tree”. A story of Avocado. Resplendwnt Quetzal - Avocado loving bird (#9)
  • Sapote: a Natural Sweetness (#10).
  • Overlooked fruit: Tasty loquat recipes (#13)
  • Don’t wiri about it (#17

 

Legendary Plants

  • Cinnamon as is (#2)
  • Biblical plants (#3)
  • Theobroma Cacao - an exciting present from Tropics (#4)
  • Adansonia digitata, Baobab. A tree of myth and legend. (#5)
  • Killer Plants. Poisonous plants of Tropics: so deadly, yet so mesmerizing...Growing poisonous plants. Part 1 (#6), Part 2 (#7).
  • Nutmeg: the treasure of Dutch East India Company (#8)
  • Flower names: Myths and Legends (#10)
  • Kiku: the art of Japanese Chrysanthemum (#11)
  • The divine plant of Incas: Coca (#12)
  • Aphrodisiacs: plants of love (#14)
  • Growing a pomegranate tree (#14)
  • Tambalacoque, the Dodo tree (#14)
  • The Scarborough Fair: Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme (#16)

 

From Gordon – The Palmaholic

  • Introduction to Palm Mania (#1)
  • Fooling Mother Nature - at least for a while... (Palms you are not supposed to grow) (#2)
  • Where and how to buy palms (#3)
  • Palm nutrition program: Feed your palms properly to keep them happy! (#4)
  • Location, location, location (#5)
  • Every garden needs a few fan palms... (#6)
  • Beware the rays of the sun (#8)
  • Ode to a big blue  (#9)
  • Pray to the Palm God but be ready to pull the plug (#10).
  • Think small (#11)

 

Plantaholic column

  • Ugu, a Nigerian Feel-good Food (#16)
  • Four Black Nut Trees of Ethnobotanic Interest, PART 1 (#17
  • Four Black Nut Trees of Ethnobotanic Interest, PART 2 (#18

 

Travel

  • Florida: A Visit to the Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden (#1)
  • Freshmen of Tropics in Indonesia (#3)

 

Growing outdoors

  • Five Battles for the Colors of Summer (#2)
  • Hail to the Musa (#4)
  • Living walls (#5)
  • "Going green" and self-sufficiency. The Social System of Horticulture: A Study of One Neighborhood, One Island, and the Move Towards Self-Sufficiency.  (#6)
  • The Mystique of Bamboo (#7)
  • Richardia: humble groundcover from the royal family (#14)
  • The garden where happiness lives (#14)
  • Perfume Garden: Fragrant tropical plants for Southern landscapes and container culture. Part I (#16), Part II (#17). 

 

Growing indoors

  • Tropics way up North: Botanical garden in apartment (#6)
  • Soursop fruiting in apartment. Hand-pollination of Annona flowers. (#7)
  • Growing Orchid Trees as houseplants  (#9)
  • For the love of plants. Creating a tropical oasis in your apartment (#9)
  • Ficus carica (Fig Tree): "Each man under his own vine and fig tree" (#13)
  • Growing Fig Trees as house plants (#13)
  • Growing loquat tree in container (#13)
  • Capturing the Clerodendrum: Growing Butterfly Flowers Indoors (#14)
  • Amorphophallus: unusual method of propagation and growing indoors  (#18

 

Wildlife Habitat

  • Donna's Reborn Garden: Rebuilding our lives and Wildlife Habitatafter Hurricane Katrina (#2)
  • A Practical Guide to Butterfly, Hummingbird, and Nighttime Moth Gardening (#6)

 

Exotic Kaleidoscope

  • Plant Trivia – Amazing Facts (#1)
  • Eye-catching pictures of tropical plants. Curious Flowers. (#3)
  • I'm feeling blue... (#4)
  • Rare flowering trees in bloom (#6)
  • Tropical fruit recipes (#7)
  • Winter bloomers (#8)
  • Purple Desert: Mediterraniean Desert Bloomers  (#9)
  • Yellow winter bloomers (#11)  
  • Tropical fruit recipes: Loquat Kompot (#12)
  • August bloomer: Senna Multijuga (#13)
  • Tambalacoque, the Dodo tree (#14)
  • Winter bloomers: Barleria cristata, Mansoa aliacea (#18
  • Fragrant vines   (#18

 

Index by plant names

  • Adansonia digitata. Adansonia digitata, Baobab. A tree of myth and legend. (#5)
  • Adenium. Adeniums - Dotted, Striped and Multicolored (#3)
  • Amorphophallus: unusual method of propagation and growing indoors  (#18
  • Ananas. The King of Fruits - Pineapple (#3)
  • Annona muricata. Soursop fruiting in apartment. Hand-pollination of Annona flowers. (#7)
  • Annonaceae flowers. New Fragrant Plants of the Annona Family (#1)
  • Annonaceae fruit. Cold Seed of Incas: exotic fruits of Annonaceae family (#6)
  • Aristolochia. Aristolochia: A Calico Pipe With Gynecological Inclination (#14)
  • Bambusa. The Mystique of Bamboo (#7)
  • Barleria cristata Lavender Lace - Winter Bloomers (#18
  • Bauhinia. Growing Orchid Trees as houseplants (#9)
  • Bismarckia. Ode to a big blue (#9)
  • Canarium. Four Black Nut Trees of Ethnobotanic Interest (#17)
  • Capsicum frutescens. Don’t wiri about it (#17)
  • Cinnamomum. Cinnamon as is (#2)
  • Clerodendrum. Capturing the Clerodendrum: Growing Butterfly Flowers Indoors (#14)
  • Cordyline. Growing exotic Cordyline in colder climate (#7)
  • Eriobotrya japonica . Overlooked fruit: Tasty loquat recipes. Growing loquat tree in container (#13)
  • Erythroxylum coca. The divine plant of Incas: Coca (#12)
  • Eugenia victoriana. Mandarin or... Sundrop! (#16)
  • Euterpe oleracea. The Amazon Fountain of Youth - Assai (#2)
  • Ficus carica. Ficus carica(Fig Tree): "Each man under his own vine and fig tree". Growing Fig Trees as house plants (#13)
  • Gardenia. Plants with scents as heady as incense... Enchanted Gardenia - Queen of Aroma... (#8)
  • Hoya. Exotic hoyas - secrets of growing (#12)
  • Litchi chinensis. Q & A on growing “the best fruit in the world” - the delicious fruit of Lychee Tree (#16)
  • Litchi chinensis. Growing Lychee in Southern Landscapes (#18
  • Mansoa aliacea - Garlic Vine, winter bloomer (#18
  • Moringa citrifolia. Noni - Life Sustaining Plant (#1)
  • Muntingia calabura. Sweet as sugar: Muntingia calabura, Strawberry Tree (#8)
  • Musa. Hail to the Musa (#4)
  • Myristica fragrans. Nutmeg: the treasure of Dutch East India Company (#8)
  • Myrtaceae. Myrtaceae for garden and potting culture. Part I (Flowers) (#11), Part II (Fruit) (#12)
  • Nelumbo nucifera. Growing Lotus from seed (#10).
  • Persea americana. Fertility fruit from a “Testicle Tree”. A story of Avocado. Resplendwnt Quetzal - Avocado loving bird (#9)
  • Pouteria. Sapote: a Natural Sweetness (#10).
  • Punica granatum. Growing a pomegranate tree (#14)
  • Richardia. Richardia: humble groundcover from the royal family (#14)
  • Sapindaceae. Looking into those Dragon Eyes: Sapindaceae Family (#17). 
  • Senna Multijuga. August bloomer: Senna Multijuga (#13)
  • Sideroxylon. Tambalacoque, the Dodo tree (#14)
  • Strongylodon. Strongylodon - Jade Vine (#4)
  • Telfairia occidentalis. Ugu, a Nigerian Feel-good Food (#16)
  • Theobroma cacao. Theobroma Cacao - an exciting present from Tropics (#4)
  • Thunbergia. (#15)
  • Wrightia. Parade of the Enchanting and Sacred - Wrightias (#2)

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