Grafting, purpose and best techniques
Grafting, together with preparing cuttings, is one of the most important know-hows to learn when propagating trees and shrubs.
Orange tree
Orange is a fruit so famous it gave a color its name! Imagine how nice it would be to grow your own oranges in the garden. Also does great in pots!
Citrus varieties, the main types to grow indoors and outside
Bright-colored fruit, packed with vitamins, citrus definitely bring sun and a happy way of life to mind, even at the heart of winter. Today, they’re grown in orchards all over the planet. In temperate climates, only milder regions grow them in fields, but many citrus varieties are grown in potted plants from North to South […]
European brown rot, rotting fruit, techniques and treatments to avoid and cure the disease
European brown rot is a fungal disease caused by fungus that attacks fruit trees and can seriously impact harvests.
30+ plants to grow from kitchen scraps – no need to go buy seeds!
Grow plants straight from the kitchen. No need to leave the house to garden!
Mock-orange, beautiful flowering shrub
Mock-orange is a very beautiful shrub that blooms abundantly in spring and at the beginning of summer.
Orange health benefits and therapeutic value
The orange tree, Citrus Aurantium (bitter) or sinensis (sweet) is a tree with a round shape that belongs to the Rutaceae (Rue) family.
Calamondin, a nice indoor orange tree
Calamondin or calamondino is an apartment orange tree very well suited to living inside our heated homes.
Citrus mitis, the dwarf orange tree
Citrus mitis is an indoor orange tree very well suited to living inside our heated homes.
9 orange-flowered plants for the garden
Orange flowers really make a garden feel peppy and active! Perennials, shrubs, bulb and annual flowers flash their orange hues for a vitamin-packed garden.
Citrus, oranges, lemon trees… all there is to know
Citrus are magnificent fruit trees native to Asia and introduced to Europe by the Arabic civilization. From there, they spread to America.
Which fruit trees will do best in my garden?
Available growing space, altitude, soil quality are additional factors to consider when choosing the tree that will enhance your garden.
How to winterize your plants
So you splurged and treated yourself to a eucalyptus tree, an oleander, a mimosa tree, a lemon tree or an olive tree? Here is how to protect these plants over the cold season.
Citrus hardiness, which species survive as it freezes and gets colder
Often grown in our regions, citrus trees don’t all react to freezing the same way. This depends mainly on the variety itself, but how they’re being grown also has an impact on their frost resistance.
Orange tree, grow a magnificent orange harvest
The orange tree has been enchanting our gardens for centuries. It’s quite easy to grow.
Indoor orange tree, ideal for apartments
The indoor orange tree is one of the only citrus plants that is perfectly suited to living in the heated indoors of our homes and apartments.
Potted orange tree, ideal for a terrace
Potted orange is an excellent citrus tree to grow in a pot on a balcony or on a terrace. Caring for this container-grown citrus, from re-potting to pruning helps boost orange harvest and prevents
Sooty mold, techniques and organic treatments to avoid it
When leaves are covered with a blackish substance, similar to black soot that would have collected overnight, it is a sign of sooty mold.
Citrus foot rot, when roots slowly die away unnoticed…
For citrus trees, root rot leads to trunk rot. It’s sometimes detected on fruits, too. The disease results from an infection by Phytophthora, a rot fungus.
