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How to Grow Bougainvillea Outside

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Use Rose Gloves The Tropical Grower is featuring some of Our Gardens oldest plants this week in How to Grow Bougainvillea Outside.  If your Growing Tropical and want a hearty grower, leafy green all year with bursts of color most of it, Bougainvillea is gorgeous.  But, if you’re opposed to thorns, you should think twice…

‘How To’ Tips on Preparing Your Garden for Storms
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‘How To’ Tips on Preparing Your Garden for Storms

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Oh No, It’s Coming Your Way The Tropical Grower is sharing some of our ‘How To’ Tips on Preparing Your Garden for Storms in the hopes of saving some planties.  With the passing of Hurricane Idalia, as forecasted, the ‘I’ named storm missed us this year.  Whoosh!  My prep for it was minimal.  Unlike for…

How to Create a Rock or Shell Path
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How to Create a Rock or Shell Path

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Get the Mud Off Your Shoes The Tropical Grower is sharing How to Create a Rock or Shell Path this week in the hopes you’ll get the mud off your shoes.  Both Rock and Shell paths, or whole areas, add texture to your garden.  Layers of interest, contract, and color.  They define space.  Give your…

How to Train Your Plants
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How to Train Your Plants

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Do You Have Dragons? The Tropical Grower is talking taming plants this week with How to Train Your Plants.  We definitely have some dragons, also known as heavily growing planties, here in our Tropical Zone.  Whether you are Growing Tropical or find your green in more northern regions, some form of Training is necessary to…

How to Grow Wildflowers in Your Yard
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How to Grow Wildflowers in Your Yard

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The Fantastically Simple Grow The Tropical Grower is adding wildflowers to the mix with How to Grow Wildflowers in Your Yard because I was inspired.  A single Wildflower is beautiful, but a field of them is magical.  Absolutely inspiring.  This week I’m up on My Daddy’s mountain for a visit, and the wildflowers climbing the…

What's Bloomn', The Tropical Grower, Growing Tropical, Gardening, Flower Photos
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How to Grow Red Lobster Claw Heliconia

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Fancy, Huh? The Tropical Grower is featuring another one of our favorites this week with How to Grow Red Lobster Claw Heliconia.  Its large thin paddle leaf stalks are distinctly Tropical, filling an area and finishing with the amazing bright Red Lobster Claws.  We loved the red show so much, I transplanted it into several…

How to Grow Broccoli & Cabbage
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How to Grow Broccoli & Cabbage

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Yup, the Brassicas Continuing our growing your own food at home series, The Tropical Grower is featuring How to Grow Broccoli & Cabbage this week.  Ahh, some Broccoli and Coleslaw.  If you’re a fan, these pop up easy and require only light work.  Repeat Harvesting is my biggest chore, of the Broccoli, not the Cabbage. …

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Take That, Hurricane Ian! Transformation.

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Our Garden is Growing Strong The Tropical Grower is featuring Take That, Hurricane Ian! Transformation this week as we look at some of the major restoration that has taken place in Our Garden over the last 6 months.  Yeah, it’s only been 6 months.  If you haven’t seen the Hurricane damage photos, you can find…

How to Prepare Your Garden for Spring
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How to Prepare Your Garden for Spring

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It’s Spring!  Almost. The Tropical Grower has been Preparing Our Garden for Spring the last couple of weeks.  Yup, it’s that time Tropical Growers, you should have already been in the yard.  While most of the rest of the country was still wrapped up tight and holding off their indoor seed sowing, we had a…

How to Grow a Tree from a Cutting
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How to Grow a Tree from a Cutting

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Let’s Make Baby Trees! The Tropical Grower is growing trees from cuttings this week.  Yes, that’s correct, we’re taking branches from trees and making babies.  Have you ever wondered How to Grow a Tree from a Cutting? You know you’re a grower when you start doing weird stuff like this and call it fun.  Hold…