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The difference between dragon fruit species Original

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By Joshua Siskin
| The Orange County Register Verified
Five things to do in the garden this week: Fruit. Dragon fruit or pitahaya is produced on a night-blooming, vining cactus, and may be grown as far north as Granada Hills and anywhere east, west, or south of there. Dragon fruit is divided into Hylocereus or Selenicereus species. The former have overlapping flaps of smooth skin that are red, pink, magenta, or white and pulp that may occur in any of these colors, while the latter have a yellow, thorny skin and white pulp only.
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Why cactus cladodes turn red and other reader gardening questions answered Original

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By Joshua Siskin
| The Orange County Register Verified
Horticulture is endlessly surprising. Linda Kokelaar, who gardens in Westchester, sent me a photo of a cactus I had never seen before. The plant itself is an unattractive series of upright reddish stems, which, in the case of cactus, are known as cladodes. Yet the flowers are those of an orchid cactus or night-blooming cereus (Epiphyllum hookeri) that typically produces flappy green cladodes.
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Having trouble with raccoons eating your fruit? Original

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By Joshua Siskin
| The Orange County Register Verified
5 things to do in the garden this week: Fruit. Having trouble with raccoons eating your fruit? Claire Splan, author of “California Month-by-Month Gardening” (Quarto Publishing, 2017), offers this advice: “Soak rags in rubbing alcohol or ammonia and lay the rags along the paths that raccoons are using to enter your garden. I even draped a few of the soaked rags over the plum tree that was their current target. I didn’t have problems with raccoons in the garden for the rest of the season.” Vegetables.
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