Joshua Siskin: Secrets revealed on growing asparagus, short-lived trees

Without full sun asparagus will not photosynthesize at maximum capacity, which means that foliage will make less food to be sent down to rhizomes for storage for the following year's spears or shoots.

Joshua Siskin: Coffee, trumpets and other delights

I had never seen a coffee plant produce fruit in the Valley until being confronted with a robust specimen thriving in a container on Jerry Esten's shaded patio. The plant is bedecked with a plenitude of coffee cherries, or fruit, which, although green, will eventually turn red, each containing two coffee beans, or seeds.

Zimbabwe's Leading Sunday Newspaper

With the wanton, thoughtless and indiscriminate cutting down of trees still very much going on; the country is fast facing desertification.

Suncoast Gardening: Beautiful trees for smaller spaces

South Florida's showy small trees can work as accents or provide shade and privacy.

Greening with native trees

The loss of forests and the biodiversity they contain is staring us in the face. Illegal harvesting of trees and trade continue in spite of measures taken to curtail forest destruction. This problem is compounded by the fact that most reforestation efforts in the Philippines focus on the development of forestry and agroforestry system using introduced or exotic tree species.