Articles Written by Pat Malcolm From Isnare.com http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Pat+Malcolm Plant And Grow A Cold Hardy Windmill Palm Tree Gardening Pat Malcolm Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=147533&ca=Gardening The Windmill palm, Trachycarpus fortunei, tree has been extrensively planted and grown during the last five years in most Northern States and in Canada, much to the incredulous surprise of environmentalists and climatologists. Tropical palm trees are not generally believed to have cold hardy charact... Large Shade Trees; Pine, Oak, And Maple For Shade Tree Planting And Growing Gardening Pat Malcolm Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=147534&ca=Gardening The largest living creatures that man encounters are shade trees that are handily defined as trees that produce shade protection from the sunlight. Mankind loves and respects shade trees with their cooling benefits and the many available wood products, that improve the recreational environment and o... Fig Trees Produce Fruit In Colors Of White, Green, Black, Red, Wine, And Purple Gardening Pat Malcolm Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=147539&ca=Gardening Fig trees are fruit tree garden favorites. Buying and planting large fig trees can fruit the first year of growing. Two of the best orchard or fig tree garden selections are: Brown Turkey Fig Trees and Celeste (Celestial) Fig Trees. The fruit of the fig tree was well known in Biblical scripture and... Gift Certificates Are A Delight To A Dedicated Gardener Business Pat Malcolm Sun, 29 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=146668&ca=Business Gift certificates can be sent by email instantly, by immediate fax or by mail on the date that you wish. A gift certificate is important for two very important reasons. First, the person who receives the gift certificate will cherish the thoughtfulness of your remembering and honoring an important o... Windmill Palm Trees, Tropical Accent Plants, Cold Hardy For Northern United States And Canadian Gardens Gardening Pat Malcolm Sat, 28 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=146588&ca=Gardening The Cold Hardy Windmill Fan Palm tree originated on the island of Chusan off the east coast of China, and the Windmill palm tree is often called the Chinese or Chusan Fan Palm. Robert Fortune smuggled Windmill palm plants from China into the Kew Horticultural Gardens and into the Royal garden of Pri... The Modern Soft Yellow Banana Evolved From The Cooking Banana As The Number One Fruit In The World Gardening Pat Malcolm Sat, 28 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=146594&ca=Gardening The early Spanish explorers introduced banana plants into America from Spain as a hardcore, large cooking banana, known as a Plantain banana. The amazing yellow fresh eating banana, that we know today sold by supermarkets, resulted from a mutation from the hardcore tissues of the parent plantain ban... Planting Large Fruit Trees, Berry Bushes, Grape Vines, And Oak Trees Produces Successful, Fast Food For Wildlife Management Resources Recreation Pat Malcolm Wed, 17 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=117814&ca=Recreation Much national attention has been focused on the health and future welfare of wildlife animals and birds by wildlife management conservationists and hunters who want to preserve a valuable American resource: the population of wild animals and wild game. Increased planting of inedible crops like cotto... Have Dutch Bulb Exporters Gained Financial Control Of American Horticulture? (part 1) Gardening Pat Malcolm Fri, 15 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=109734&ca=Gardening Many inquiries have been initiated into the reasons why Foster-Gallagher, the largest direct-to-consumer marketer of horticultural products in North America, filed for Bankruptcy on July 2, 2001, after ceasing all normal business operations on June 29, 2001. Somewhere between 3000 and 4000 employees... Have Dutch Bulb Exporters Gained Financial Control Of American Horticulture? (Part 2) Gardening Pat Malcolm Fri, 15 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=109735&ca=Gardening Can an imaginary scenario be presented that might reveal how such a traumatic financial shift could insipidly develop and with impunity change the course of American Agriculture? The might and power of American Agriculture has been legendary in years past, and it is appropriate to consider whether o... Flowering Dogwood Trees: A Favorite Tree Of America Gardening Pat Malcolm Thu, 14 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=109615&ca=Gardening The State of Virginia has adapted the dogwood flowering tree as its State tree, and many cities in America have named themselves 'The Dogwood City.' Atlanta, Georgia holds a spring festival every April to coincide with the flowering of the of the dogwood trees in Atlanta, Georgia. The Dogwood Festiv...