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)