So I'm giving up on a couple tropical plants. For some reason. I can get them to survive indoors but as soon as they go out for the summ...

When I was a child, back in the 80's my parents would drive us all to Vancouver, BC to get fresh tropical fruits like longan, jackfruit,...

Pandan Plant - The pandan flavor is typically used in many SE Asian cooking and pastries. The flavor can be described as somewhat nutty, coc...

I'm such a sucker for tropical fruit. It's my white whale here in Seattle, I know our environment isn't made from tropicals but ...

I figured that with a greenhouse I would be able to move some of my less than hardy tropicals out of the house in the winter time and into t...

My Vietnamese Guava is due for a pruning, I need to train it to grow scaffolding branches and get rid of all the unwanted branches that were...

I love tropical fruit. Even though I live in Seattle it hasn't stopped me from growing my own tropical fruit trees. I've found tha...

New Bananas: 4/16/16   It sounds amazing but some Cold Hardy Bananas will survive our winters here in Seattle. The Musa Basjoo supposedly ...

I enjoy watching Bill on his youtube channel. He grows a variety of Sub tropical fruits like Sapote, dragon fruit, and jaboticaba to name a ...

This has to be one of the most interesting tropical fruit trees. The fruit bubbles out of the tree trunk like boils. It tastes like a ...

Another seedling I got late last summer as part of my fascination with tropical fruits was sapote. It's an interesting fruit that is ...

I've been growing this longan or dragon eye for about a season. I wasn't able to root any from seed so I bucked up and bought a see...