Sago Palm
Cycas revoluta (sago cycad), is an attractive plant native to southern Japan. Though often known by the common name of king sago palm, or just sago palm. Cycas revoluta is..... 
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Palm trees-Mediterranean Fan
The Mediterranean Fan Palm is an outstanding, cold hardy palm. This multi-trunk species will reach a mature height of approximately 20’. The trunks are covered by....
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Pansies
Pansies are probably the most popularly grown and most recognizable cool season plant. Pansy breeding has produced a wide range of flower colors including yellow, gold, orange, purple, violet, red, white, and even black (very dark purple) many with large showy face markings. A large number of bicolored flowers have also been produced. |
Paramagnetism
Professor Phil Callahan discovered that Paramagnetism (that is - a weak attraction to a magnet), whilst only a weak force in nature relative to ferromagnetism (which is well known to have powerful effects on biological processes) has an enhancing .......
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Peaches
The peach tree is a species of Prunus native to China that bears an edible juicy fruit called a peach. It is a deciduous tree growing to 12–30 feet tall. The leaves are lance like.... .
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Pears
Pears are long-lived attractive trees for Texas landscapes. Selected varieties produce good fruit with few management problems.
Three basic types of pears grown in the United States......
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Peas
A pea is most commonly the small spherical seed or the seed-pod of the legume Pisum sativum. Each pod contains several peas. Peapods are botanically a fruit, since they contain seeds developed from the ovary of a (pea) flower. However, peas are ......
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Pecan Tree
The pecan is the Texas state tree, being native to about 150 counties and capable of growing and producing in all Texas counties. The tree is popular for.....
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Peppers
By now, Texas gardens are overflowing with Chile peppers. How do we make sense of all these variations in size, color and "heat"?
Beginning with Nomenclature -........
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perennials
We all want to have lots of color in our landscapes and there are many ways to achieve this, from annuals to shrubs to trees. But one of the easiest and most lasting ways is...
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Persimmon Tree
The American persimmon (Diospyros virginiana) is an attractive addition to the home landscape. Often grown as a multi-stem large shrub, they have unusual dark gray-black bark contrasted by shiny elliptical leaves. The persimmon is hardy, adaptable, requires little maintenance and can provide an abundance of interesting fruit. (click to read more)
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Pests in garden
A garden pest is generally an insect, plant, or animal that engages in activity that the gardener considers undesirable. It may crowd out.......
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Petunias
This V.I.P. petunia is native to South America. The flower is violet colored and the plant is heat tolerant and low spreading. The plant is known for its profusion of small bell-shaped violet colored flowers. Both dainty and durable, it's one of the parents of all modern petunias. It is a great plant for beds, baskets or barrels. Her offspring, the 'Laura Bush' Petunia, offers just as many.....
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Pineapple
Pineapples are probably the best know of all tropical fruits. To grow pineapples you need to buy a pineapple because it takes one to grow one. The easiest way to grow the plant is.......
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Pink Jasmine( or White Jasmine)
Pink Jasmine (or White Jasmine), is an evergreen twining climber from China. Literally thousands of bright pink buds open to small, fragrant white flowers in early spring. This vine is more delicate in appearance than most other jasmines. The plant is very vigorous
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Plant Jacket
This is a great new product that will make it easy to protect your plants from cold and frost. They are made of durable fabric that can easily be secured around cold sensitive shrubs, hanging baskets, or containers. A great alternative to plant jackets is N-sulate which is a light weight fabric that comes in 10` X 12` foot sheets and can be used to cover beds and larger areas. Since
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Plumbago
A tender perennial with profuse blue flowers which thrives in the hot Texas summer. Disease-, pest- and deer-resistant. Sometimes called "sky flower" because of the sky-blue color of its flowers. Native of South Africa. ......
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Plumeria
The plumeria also known as the frangipani is one of the most desirable of fragrant plants around. The garden will be filled with a rich, heady, exotic perfume. The aroma lingers deep within each flower in each cluster. The plumeria is a fast ......
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Mexican plum Tree
Mexican plum is a beautiful single-trunked, spring-flowering small tree with bark that eventually gets dark and striated, peeling off in patches. It grows in full sun or as an understory tree in the eastern half of the state, usually in deep.......
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Poinsettias
Poinsettia is a species of flowering plant indigenous to Mexico and Central America. Poinsettias are a shrub or small tree, typically reaching a height of (2 to 16 ft.). The plant bears dark green dentate leaves that measure (3 to 6 inches) in length. The colored bracts (are actually leaves )which |
Pomegranate
Pomegranate originated in southern Asia and was widely cultivated from India to the Mediterranean during ancient times. From Spain, it was introduced into the Americas by Spanish missionaries during the sixteenth century. Its colorful, orange-red flowers and dense, bushy growth habit make pomegranate an attractive ornamental.
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Pony tail plant
The genus Beaucarnea is the ponytail plant or ponytail palm. These plants have long, thin strap-like leaves arising from a stem that sits atop a very large......
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Potato
The potato is a starchy, tuberous crop from the perennial Solanum tuberosum of the Solanaceae family (also known as the nightshades). The word potato may refer to ........
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Sweet Potato Vine
Potato vines are not actually potato plants. This is a semi-evergreen or evergreen flowering vine that can climb up to 20 feet tall. They bloom during the warm months with white flowers and yellow anthers, which some say resemble a ........
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Pot Risers
These are small rectangular pieces of recycled tires or other materials which can be placed under your pots to raise them up just enough. Placed properly you .....
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Prayer plants
The Marantaceae or arrow root family is a family of flowering plants sometimes called prayer-plants. Several species of genus Calathea are grown as ......
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Pride of Barbados
Pride of Barbados is an evergreen shrub or small tree in frost free climates, a deciduous shrub in zone 9 (Rio Grande Valley), a returning perennial in zone 8 (South central Texas-San Antonio), and an annual in North and West Texas......
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Propagating -Rooting a cutting
A good propagation medium is made up of components that provide optimum aeration, drainage and moisture holding characteristics. These are usually made up from combinations of peat moss, perlite, vermiculite, sand or similar materials. The primary role of ........
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Pruning
Pruning is one of the most important jobs to be done in February because it affects growth for the rest of the year. Pruning is a horticultural practice involving....
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Purple Ruffles
Purple ruffles basil is a cultivar of Ocimum basilicum (sweet basil). This attractive annual basil variety has won multiple awards for its beauty, flavor and ease of cultivation. Its leaves are a glossy dark purple,
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