Norfolk Island Pine Care

If it feels dry about one inch below the surface, you need to water. You can replicate these conditions indoors, but it will take some effort on your part – Norfolk Island pines aren't plants that will thrive on neglect.freestar.queue.push(function()...

That is their original habitat and they grow much taller when planted in the ground of warm climes like this.In fact, outdoor Norfolk Island pines easily grow into mighty trees in the warmer regions of the world.

These plants make wonderful houseplants. Just because your Norfolk pine is no longer needed as a holiday plant doesn't mean that you need to abandon it in the trash. Paying attention to humidity is very important in the winter when indoor humidity normally...

They're still popular the world over, however, because they make such good houseplants. Even so, Norfolk pine watering should be limited – only water your tree when the top inch (2.5 cm.) of its soil is dry to the touch.While Norfolk pine watering needs...

Propagating Norfolk pines also works in a container. If you live in USDA zones 10 or 11, plant the seeds outside in a shady area. They do come from Norfolk Island, however, in the South Seas, where they mature into straight, stately trees up to 200 feet...

This is an introductory article on a rather unknown area of the world. Mauritius is the elder of the gang, with eight million years while Reunion is only three million years old and infant Rodrigue just one and a half.

Saint-Gilles is one of the most famous touristic resorts on Reunion island and has many of the features most tourists look for: large white coral beaches, shallow lagoon with a reef to keep the shark securely away, vast choice of restaurants, hotels,...

It is usually found in fallows and forests, growing on sandy or rocky soils, in full sun to partly shaded exposure.The leaves are composed of eight to seventeen pairs of leaflets,the flowers come in dense clusters with a corolla pink to crimson.They are...

Vines are an important part of tropical flora hence we do have quite a few of those on the island, some are endemics, some are indigenous and many are exotic, we will today enjoy a small sample, to be followed by other articles as the subject is pretty...

We will anyhow be back as there still are around many interesting vines waiting for us to admire them! A previous article introduced you to a few vines growing on my tiny secluded island and as stated then just meant brushing this vast subject so here...

See you all soon! Here we come once again, vine lovers! The three preceding articles introduced climbers which are found on Reunion Island although all are exotic or indigenous, the endemic ones are very few and often not very showy therefore we will...

This important difference in terrestrial shape will of course greatly influence weather and the impact of man. Of course after relaxing we need some action which can be wind-surfing, kite-flying, diving, big game fishing, golfing, and horseback riding.

We continue through the gardens, forests and ravines of Reunion in search of the Holy VineWe already have seen a few interesting climbers and lianas but there are a lot more waiting for us out there, so let's go again!

Be sure to not entangle your feet in all those scrambling stems and make time to come back for more! And here we come again with those amazing plants that instead of growing a trunk or stem enjoy clinging to trees and bushes in order to grow; vines and...

Longtime readers of my articles have had the chance to visit two cirques of Reunion Island with me: Mafate and Cilaos, but so far we missed Salazie. Officials try hard to promote tourism, both local and from abroad, pointing to Salazie's natural charm...

Holidays are almost here and I'm so looking forward to get the Christmas decorations out of the box! Some of the crafts I made myself, using especially pine cones. This means that their scales are overlapping each other like fish scales.

There are of course a few terrestrial species so the orchid amateur needs a very flexible neck, checking both the ground and upper branches when strolling in the wild. Keep in mind that most wild orchids here bloom during the wet or cyclonic season, which...

To others, they are just another beautiful flower to add to the garden. We live on an island covered with coconut palms, with bright sunshine and sometimes you could swim through our humid air.

The people in these lovely daydreams inevitably are wearing leis, the beautiful and fragrant flower necklaces so indicative of the Hawaiian "aloha". In the restoration process, it was decided by the powers that be, that more trees needed to be planted...

The Comoros archipelago lies about 1500km from Reunion and 8000km from Paris and is not a well-known area of the world. The other islands of the Comoros are Grande Comores, Moheli and Anjouan that have set up the Union des Comores and still claim Mayotte...

Yes, it will be healthy, because going to this cirque requires some good legs and a good heart as well; there are no roads going there as the geography forbids the building of even a small road! The whole place, which measures some 95 square kilometers,...

Also included at the site is a short list of the tallest Virginia Pines on record, with the largest one at 121 feet (37 meters) in height.Another nice website that I found in my search for information is from the Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia...

While the queen is still alive and feeding the larva she produces some hormones which effect is to sterilize the larva hence giving birth only to workers. At the end of summer the queen will die, allowing the larva to become sexed adults.

The common spoken language is Creole, very resembling the one of Mauritius but quite hard for Reunion Creole speakers, French and English are the official languages.Administratively attached to Mauritius and therefore part of the Commonwealth until 1967...

For example, some 700 residents live in the ‘Cirque de Mafate' and can be reached only on foot or by helicopter. Anyway, after a few hours of serious hiking, a good meal ending with some ‘rhum arrange' there is no difficulty whatsoever to find sleep...Now...

As we cannot possibly go through the 10,400 different species today we will stick to a few species growing wild on Reunion. There are about 250 recorded species of ferns on the island, out of which some 18 are endemic strictly to Reunion while another...

Peasants grow sugar cane (the most important crop, we will come back to this topic), vanilla, coffee, ylang-ylang, rice, coconuts and fruit trees on a small scale. Not much to do there except buying supplies and visiting the small oceanographical museum.