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Tons of great info and pics!
How would you like to have a house filled with mini tropical trees and plants? I love that idea, it offers so many benefits, from home grown produce to beautiful plants to accent your decor and freshen your air. Understanding what the book offers is not so difficult, since in large, colorful text, the cover of the book gives it's full title: Growing Tasty Tropical Plants* (like lemons, limes, citrons, grapefruit, kumquats, sunquats, tahitian oranges, barbados ... tea, black pepper, cinnamon, vanilla, and more...) *in any home, anywhere. Inside the book are dozens of exotic plants, flowers, fruits, and other delectable, beautiful and wonderfully exotic plants that normally grow in exotic climes. As it turns out, any sunny window in your home probably qualifies as an "exotic clime," and the idea of coming home to discover the lovely aroma of some exotic tropical flowering fruit seems a little like heaven on earth.Growing Tasty Tropical Plants includes lovely drawings of each...
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March 13, 2011
(CA) | Helpful Votes: 13 | Rating: 5
Great read!
This book is great. It is well-designed, has great photos of the plants, and easy to understand cultivation info. It has advice on how to raise the plants indoors or outdoors and tells what temperatures indoors or what zone the plants can tolerate outdoors. Being a tropical book, expect most plants need zone 8-10. The book gives details on which plants produce most fruit, which ones need hand-pollination, what sun conditions they can tolerate, etc. If you're a rare plants junkie, get it!
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June 4, 2011
| Helpful Votes: 3 | Rating: 5
Product Description
Imagine a cup of coffee brewed from beans grown right in your own kitchen. Or juice from an orange harvested from the living room. A salad sprinkled with olives plucked from a tree in the dining room. It's now possible in any climate, with Growing Tasty Tropical Plants in Any Home, Anywhere. This book covers 47 varieties of fruiting plants -- from chocolate to cherries, papaya to passion fruit, grapefruit to guava -- providing everything a gardener needs to know, including information on selecting plants, planting, pruning, maintenance, and harvesting. It's easy! Anyone, anywhere can enjoy the satisfaction of growing tropical fruit at home.
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Lots of inspiration but only basic information
To complement the Kumquat tree that I bought my husband for his birthday, I also bought the book Growing Tasty Tropical Plants in Any Home, Anywhere by Laurelynn G. Martin and Byron E. Martin. True to form, however, I ended up reading the book and just giving him the highlights. The book itself is by Storey Publishing - a name I tend to trust - and is 160 pgs. It is a quick read that I finished cover-to-cover in just a few hours and is broken down into five parts plus an introduction, glossary and resource guide.Introduction: Enjoying an Indoor Edible OasisPart 1: Citrus FruitsAustralian Finger LimeCalamondin OrangeCitronCitrumeloGrapefruitKumquatLemonLimeMyrtle-Leaf OrangeOrangeSunquatSweet LemonTahitian OrangeTangerineTemple OrangePart 2: The Rest of the Tropical Fruit BasketAcerolaAustralian Beach CherryAvocado...
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June 17, 2011
(Delaware) | Helpful Votes: 17 | Rating: 3