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Happy Fourth of July!
The Garden Center will be CLOSED this Saturday.
Celebrate safely and colorfully!
Neo. Rosa Lineata
Beautiful Bromeliads are
ON SALE!
BOGO BROMELIADS!
Regularly $16.99 each, Now Buy One,
Get One Free!
Rosa is a great plant for the shade or for planting in a tree. It is a rather large plant growing to 24" wide. She is a very pretty pinkish color with lines through the leaves.
Fireworks already?! This Summer sure is heating up!
This week, we're talking about
Mangos, juicy, delicious, and grown and hand-picked in your own backyard! We're continuing to inspire Bromeliad Love with another great
BOGO Special! We're bringing on
Butterflies in next weekend's workshop!
Grow Your Own Mighty, Majestic Mangos! Mango Trees are on sale NOW!
Marvin is a true disciple of fruit. He especially loves mangos, as many of you who attended the June 20th festival learned!
Discover what mango you'll love most!
We have many Mango Trees in stock in 3-gallon and 15-gallon sizes!
Save $5.00 on a Mango Tree
this week!
M
ango trees look so mighty or perhaps
majestic, since they are considered the Queen of Tropical Fruit. The mango is the most widely cultivated fruit in the world and is grown throughout the tropics. Mango trees are great shade trees that can reach a height of 35 feet, but they can be easily maintained at 25 feet. The tree is a fairly rapid grower when young and flowers in early spring with the fruit ripening from May to September depending on the variety. The flowers self-fertilize so you only need one tree in order to have fruit. There are three seasons for fruit: early, mid, and late with early varieties beginning to ripen in late May and late ripening in August and September.
There are two races of mangos, the Indian and Asian. The Indian are the more colorful, rounder fruit with red and yellow being the dominant colors; examples are Haden and Southern Blush. The Asian varieties are much longer and thinner with mostly yellow skins; examples are Nam Doc Mai, and Lemon Meringue.
When deciding on a variety to grow, there are several factors to consider (don't worry, we've included a link to a chart that will help you at the end of this article):
- The season you would like to eat the fruit (3 trees will give you a whole season's worth of fresh fruit);
- The size of the tree;
- Fiber content *most important;
- Flavor; and
- Size of the fruit.
Trees can be planted any time of the year but care should be taken to protect them from freezes for the first two years. Plant like any other tree and fertilize every 2 months when it is young during the warmer months of the year. Typically these trees are pest free. The most common problem is Anthracnose, a spotting of the leaf that can be controlled by copper fungicide sprays. Mango varieties that we offer for sale are the most resistant to this fungus.
All grafted mango trees have the potential to flower and fruit the first year, but should only be allowed to hold only a few fruit so that energy can be spent to increase the size of the tree. Note that there have been individuals known to be allergic to the sap of the mango tree.
Plant a mango today for years of delicious fruit and shade! To discover more about mango varieties,
click here!
Supreme Shade & Juicy Fruit- Sounds like Heaven for South Florida Gardeners!
