The Tropical Gardener

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I am looking for a great tropical spot – any suggestions?

Posted by Tropical Gardener on Feb 8, 2010 under Bugs & Pests

I am Canadian and curently staying in New York. I want to travel to a tropical spot easily accessible from NY. I would like a great place to swim and prefer quiet. A place with decent hotel rates would be a bonus – I may stay for more than a month [...]

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How do you get organic tropical fruits if you don’t live in tropical areas?

Posted by Tropical Gardener on Feb 8, 2010 under Tropical Fruits

I live in Maryland and am longing to get all the organic cherimoyas, sapotes, jackfruit, and more from the awesome farms in Hawaii and California, but they don’t ship! Does anyone know how to buy organic tropical fruit like the ones listed above?

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What do you think?

Posted by Tropical Gardener on Feb 7, 2010 under Tropical Herbs

This is just a little of the novel I’m writing. What do you think?
Mordecai’s Magic Shop was chili that morning. The two round portholes that let the dawn rays were fogged and webbed with frost. The maroon walls were alive with purple light from the paper lanterns that dangled from the ceiling. Each quivered with [...]

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my tropical mollie won’t move her back fin when she swims and her stomach is really big and i what to help her

Posted by Tropical Gardener on Feb 7, 2010 under Bugs & Pests

she has been staying in the same place for 5-15 minutes then she moves a little and she has a cut on her tail. also one of my other fish has been bugging her and then when he stopped her stomach got alot bigger. She is a tropical mollie from wal-mart and we got [...]

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Do these show the likelihood that Evolution is happening now and forever, or is god updating his creations?

Posted by Tropical Gardener on Feb 6, 2010 under Bugs & Pests

The human preference for large snow lotus plants, which are used in traditional Tibetan and Chinese medicine, has meant that only the smaller plants go to seed. Hence, the snow lotus is getting smaller.
In another example, scientists have found that human preference for trophy game such as big fish and caribou is driving these species [...]

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