Lovely Garden Question Of The Week -- One Acorn At A Time

January 10, 2011 / Jerilee Wei

A neighbor gave me a number of acorns from her beautiful and prolific tree so I can grow new trees from it. How should I plant them?

Inquisitive Gardener Answer - Do You Know Your Berries?

May 16, 2010 / Jerilee Wei

Botanically, a berry is defined as a pulpy fruit which developed from a single pistil, with few or many seeds, and which is indehiscent (does not split open). Of the fruits listed on Inquisitive Gardener Question - Do You Know Your Berries? — those having this characteristic are:

FOR INQUISITIVE GARDENERS QUESTION -- DO YOU KNOW YOUR BERRIES?

May 15, 2010 / Jerilee Wei

Things are seldom what they seem,
Skim milk masquerades as cream;
Highlows pass as patent leathers;
Jackdaws strut in peacock’s feathers.

—— W. S. Gilbert, in H. M. S. Pinafore

Some of the fruits popularly known as berries are, to the botanist, something entirely different. Below are listed twenty well-known fruits. Ten of them are true berries, ten are not.

The trick is to tell which is which. Give yourself ten points for every real berry you can pick. When you are through, go to Inquisitive Gardeners Answer - Do You Know Your Berries? Some of the answers that a real botanist gives may surprise you.

Avocado
Banana
Blackberry
Blueberry
Cherry
Chokeberry
Coconut
Cranberry
Currant
Date
Fig
Gooseberry
Grape
Guava
Loganberry
Mulberry
Orange
Raspberry
Strawberry
Tomato

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