Coral Gables Historical Archive
The Times
Saturday, October 16, 1976, page 16 (of 28)
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Garden Guide
16 TIMES/GUIDE Weekend of October 16/17, 1976 Garden Guide
The Wishing Well has Something for Everyone Rare and Exotic plants their specialty
Why not add a little spice to your backyard. Or maybe some other rare and unusual variety of tropical fruit or vegetable. Exotic plants, unusual varieties of fruit tree families and landscaping suited for this area are Abe Hourany's specialty. A huge selection of malay apple trees, star apple and ackee (the national fruit of Jamaica) can be found at The Wishing Well, 9950 Southwest 56 Street. Abe can help you decide on the type of fruit trees and vegetable plants that would give you many happy years of beauty and goodness. Proper care and feeding of your fruit and vegetable plants will insure a good yield season after season. Abe can tell you how to plant, water, fertilize, and prune your young plants to insure them of a long and fruitful (no pun intended) life. Abe is always happy to give free plant consultation on plant and garden maintenance at no obligation. The Wishing Well also carries a wide variety of indoor and outdoor plants and accessories to compliment any decor. A complete landscape service is also available to add that professional touch to any home or office. The Wishing Well is located in southwest Miami at 9950 Southwest 56 Street. (Above) The Wishing Well, from which the name originates. (Left) Propagation area with many varieties of unusual greenery.
Jolly Green Thumb BY MARY FUREY CRYMES
Put a little drama in your life with an indoor tree. No room, you say, or no time for messing with trees? Tsk, tsk: you're missing out on a good thing. Potted trees have multiple decor uses and are sure conversation pieces. They're easy care and dependable. For instance, the Norfolk Pine is a handsome and thirstless wonder that dresses up a hall mirror or Aunt Hattie's portrait. Just give it light and a little air. If yours is an Oriental-inspired decor, set it off with popular Bambusa Multiplex. This common garden bamboo produces airy green leaves, grows five feet high and propagates like crazy. Remember granny's rubber plant? It filled up a corner in her old fashioned home and one will do the same for yours, with little or no maintenance. If you're adventuresome, try another member of the ficus family. benjamin, or weeping fig. This first cousin of the rubber tree has broad, twisted leaves, and constantly moves as it weeping. It offers no fruit for fig lovers but lots of lush greenery. Trees can be potted in a variety of tubs, boxes and baskets and pruned and trimmed to express your creativity. Look for well established plants at the nursery and check by grasping the trunk and rocking back and forth. If it's loose in the pot, most likely it's a root cutting, rushed by the grower to the nursery before it has time to root properly. Reject it in favor of a sturdier variety and enjoy an indoor tree in your home year around. FREE: A new, geographically regionalized book on how to increase the yield of your garden and improve your lawn. For your copy, send a postcard to: Lawn & Garden Book, JOLLY GREEN THUMB. c/o Times/Guide 4627 Ponce de Leon Blvd., C.G. Fla. 33146
the HANGING BASKET
Stop By And Let Us Introduce You To Our Plants. You'll Want To Meet Jolly Green Giant And The Glamorous Black Pagoda ... Not To Mention Chocolate Soldier, Dracaena Janet Craig And The Others, All Very Down To Earth Types. This Little Ad Gives You 10% Off On Any Green Friend Who Goes Home With You! 5848 S.W. 73 ST. • SOUTH MIAMI • 665-4151
The Wishing Well Nursery
9950 S.W. 56th STREET 274-3254 BLACK OLIVE TREES OVER 6 FEET TALL $7.95 REG. $11.50 ASPARAGUS SPRENGERI 1 GAL. 96¢ REG. $1.45 VEGETABLE SEEDLINGS 6 PACK 75¢
Kendall Landscape Co.
BOTANICAL GARDENS & NURSERY End of Summer Specials Azalias — large & blooming $4.95 Dracena Marginata $4.50-$10.00 Citrus Trees with fruit 4-5 ft. including Key Lime $9.95 Over 1000 types of tropical landscape materials, interior plants, hanging baskets, orchids, bromeliads, driftwood, and related items in stock at our everyday low prices. master charge THE INTERBANK CARD your BANKAMERICARD welcome here 12540 S.W. 77 AVE. 235-0803 OPEN MON. THRU SAT. 9-6 SUNDAY 12-5
DOWN SOUTH GARDENS
COMPLETE GARDENS SUPPLIES LANDSCAPING SERVICES AVAILABLE DOWN SOUTH GARDENS 8301 SOUTH DIXIE HIGHWAY 667-5263 CORNER OF S. DIXIE & 67 AVE. OPEN EVERY DAY & SUNDAY 9 A.M.-6 P.M. PRICES EFFECTIVE SAT. OCT. 16 TO FRI. OCT. 22 RED & GREEN ALL JACOBS COAT SPRENGER I ASPARAGUS FERN ARTILLARY FERN $1.19 GALS ALL TOMATO & VEGETABLE PLANTS 6 for 69¢ ST. AUGUSTINE SOD 7¢ SQ. FOOT LIMIT 25 SQ. FT. NOW IS THE TIME TO FERTILIZE 50% ORGANIC FERTILIZER 50 LB. BAG $2.97 master charge BANKAMERICARD UMBRELLA PLANTS (SCHEFFLERA) UP TO 20" TALL 1 GAL. $1.39