Southern gardeners who want to have fun will enjoy training podocarpus from willowy grafts into espalier or shape small shrubs into potted bonsai. Podocarpus tolerates salt and drought well.

The podocarpus is a small, lovely tree native to Japan. The Japanese islands are about the same latitude as North Florida. As a result, even in Central Florida we can grow quite a number of trees ...

The bonsai gardener captures that beauty and mystique with tiny, artfully sculpted trees in pots. Bonsai is small-scale gardening that involves training and nurturing normally full-size plants ...