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    I purposely waited to blog about this until now that it is fruiting! The Rambután ( Nephelium lappaceum ) is a true Southeast Asian...

  A beautiful local tree that's part of our everyday life is the common backyard tree, Santól (Sandoricum koetjape). Many people are ...

A small yet handsome native is in flower now just outside our kitchen; it is called Katmón (Dillenia philippinensis), another endemic tre...

In the middle of the fern garden, amidst a grove of mango trees, is a lone Anubing (Artocarpus ovatus), another endemic tree, which means ...

  It's that time of year when the fruit trees are all blooming and some are even fruiting ahead of the rest! The avocados (above l...

Now emerging taller than our palms is a native dipterocarp called Alawíhaw  (sp. Alawíhao?), whose scientific name I have yet to find....

One of the first trees I got acquainted to when we started the farm years back was this tree planted near the road. When we started cleari...

Towering in the garden in less than five years is a Píli tree ( Canarium ovatum ), one of the very first seedlings we planted when we st...

When I set out to plant a pair of shade trees for our parking area, I went to great lengths choosing a pair of native trees whose names ar...

One of my most favorite trees is the  Rímas (Artocarpus altilis), with enormous foliage and an over-all robust stance that makes it look ...

Profusely flowering now is our Purple Bauhinia tree ( Bauhinia purpurea ), on its second year of flowering now since we planted it just a ...

Not many people know that Lipâ is named after a tree! Indigenous to the Philippines (that is, growing naturally here in our islands but ca...

We just finished planting our Toóg seedlings (pronounced to-OG, Petersianthus quadrialatus , Philippine Rosewood) this morning, in the hop...

Since the book launch of Philippine Native Tress 101 , I've become conscious learning more about native trees in the farm. My staff ha...

Occurring naturally only in our archipelago is Ficus pseudopalma , a small but attractive tree that's quite under-rated, even taken fo...

There is now a landmark resource book, striking that there has never been a publication, that writes and informs about and advocates plant...

The river below is lined with what looks like untouched tropical jungle filled with wild plants, massive boulders, mosses, and even...

Photo courtesy of bamdogo.blogspot.com Before any ooohs and aaahs, this is not in the farm. But boy, I think this is one gorgeous drive...

One beautiful plant about to flower now is a true Philippine native, the Bagáwak (Clerodendrum quadriloculare). It has green leaves on t...

In the few couple of years I've been observing fruiting cycles, I'm beginning to notice a pattern wherein certain fruits fruit at...