ZONE TEN NURSERY WEB SITE NAVIGATION CENTER
Welcome to the Navigation Page of our web site. Because our site has become quite large and more complex, we post the site directory on this page. So, if you have been somewhere and can't remember how to get back, or if you just want to explore a bit, this should help you out.
Just click on the titles and you will be on your way.
This is the page most people use to access our web site. It is an introduction to the site and to Zone Ten Nursery.
Maps, photos and instructions on how to find the mysterious Zone Ten Nursery. (It isn't that easy without a map!) Current business hours.
We no longer attempt to list our available plants in this section, but you can get our current availability list via email if you have Microsoft Excel. This page explains it all.
If you are interested in certain types (groupings) of plants, see the many other pages listed immediately below which present our plants in that fashion.
Photographs and brief descriptions of tropical vines available or in propagation at the nursery.
This is a photo album of a selected flowering and shade trees available at Zone Ten Nursery along with botanical and cultural information on each species featured.
A photo gallery of heliconias available at the nursery.
A photo gallery of ornamental gingers available at the nursery.
Aroids and Other Exotic Tropical Plants
These are primarily rainforest understory foliage plants (some with flowers) available at Zone Ten. They are suitable for shade, and greenhouse growing and as houseplants. Some will grow in full sun. (There are some non-aroids on this page as well.) Photo gallery.
Color photos and brief descriptions of some of the various shrub and shrub-like plants available at the nursery.
For reasons aesthetic, moral, political, legal, or ecological, many people in our state are looking for and interested in native Florida plants. We have quite a few of them for sale at Zone Ten Nursery. This page lists the species currently available.
Fruit, Spice and Food-bearing Plants
For those of you who want some or all of your landscape to produce something edible,- a list of food plants available at Zone Ten Nursery.
Mailing Address: Zone Ten Nursery, 18900 SW 186 Street, Miami, Florida 33187
Do not attempt to find the nursery using this address; there is no entrance to the property anywhere near this address.. If you take a look at our Map Page you shouldn't have any problems, though.
E-mail: info@zoneten.com
On this page, which we update regularly, we show new plants available at the nursery as well as anything else timely and interesting. We also highlight new pages on this web site. This is a good page to bookmark on your browser.
For the local plant aficionados: a sampling of some of the flowering plants growing on the Zone Ten Nursery grounds.
This is a narrative and photographic view of Zone Ten Nursery and tropical fruit grove in South Florida. It provides a bit of information about what makes us different from other nurseries.
Gift certificates in any amount are available for our nursery plants and ceramics and they may be ordered by mail. This page gives all the details.
Up late? Can't sleep? Got a big chunk of time to kill? Boy, have we got the page for you! This is the index page to a collection of stuff and miscellany. There is also a current weather report for the Homestead area on this page.
Notable Quotes Discourse and random nonsense. Also a botanical question and answer sort of thing for gardeners that including a few questions from hell.
Florida Color An ever-changing gallery of odd original photos and computer art viewing the subtropics in a new light
Botanical Gardens Links to some of the finest Botanical Garden web sites on the internet
Tom White's Books
Tom has three books out at present (available in hardcover or paperback): "A Panama Journal", which describes his adventures in the highlands of western Panama. is It is 144 pages long and contains over 30,000 words of text along with over 400 color photos. The companion volume of coffee table size photos is Chiriqui - The Valley of the Moon. The third is a collection of Tom's artwork inspired by living forms and is therefore entitled "Biomorphs". If you click on the names of the books, you can preview a portion of them online. You can also order them, if you like.
THE SECTIONS BELOW CONTAIN
GENERAL HORTICULTURAL INFORMATION
As a service to our web site visitors, we offer our personal reviews of selected reference books concerning tropical plants and gardening. Especially if you are new to South Florida, this page is worth a visit. (We don't sell them, we just recommend the ones we like.) Current number of reviews: 20.
Dividing Heliconia and Ginger Plants
Do you have gingers or heliconias that you would like to propagate by division? This page shows our step-by-step method complete with photographic illustrations.
Planting Instructions for Rhizomes
Once you divide them, how do you grow them? This page contains information on how to plant and grow heliconia and gingers from rhizome starts.
Planting and Establishing Trees and Shrubs
Tips on how to prepare the ground, irrigate , fertilize and more. with special attention to the problems facing the South Florida gardener.
A listing of the countries from which we have had web site visitors beginning in February of 2000.
This page supplies links to some of the finest Botanical Garden web sites on the internet. It is part of the "Back Room" section of the site.