Broadly speaking berries are looked as cool climate fruiting plants. They will however produce worthy crops in the subtropics. For most effective results mulch well and keep the foliage and fruits off the earth. Remove aging canes (a 2 year old cane that has produced fruit on late spring to early summertime) and tie-up new [...]

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Lime trees are native to southeasterly Asia and are found primarily in tropical parts of the world. The trees are rarely reaching more than 4.6 m tall and form irregular crooked trunks. The white blossoms are alike to those of oranges. Lime is a term relating to a number of different fruits in general citrus [...]

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The five-leaf Akebia also called chocolate vine is a deciduous to evergreen climbing vine, genus Akebia, a member of the family Lardizabalaceae, indigenous to China, Korea and Japan. It is a delightful, fruit bearing plant, with edible fruit and decorative chocolate and vanilla-scented flowers. Flowers appear in mid-spring with female and male on the same [...]

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Chinquapins are bushes and trees of the Chestnut genus Castanea. They differ from the chestnut tree in their hairy foliages and smaller, single-seeded burrs. One such small nut tree is the Allegheny Chinquapin (Castanea pumila), which is essentially a shrub or dwarf tree growing to 4-5 meters tall. There is additional small chinquapin, the Georgiana [...]

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