Tamarindobotanicalgarden

09/04/2025

After an eight year wait our Akee tree is finally producing fruit!
Ackee (Blighia sapida) is a fruit native to West Africa that's a staple in Caribbean cuisine. It's Jamaica's national fruit and a key ingredient in the national dish, ackee and saltfish.

12/11/2021

It is a red day! As we end our dragon fruit season and we start our achiote season!

19/06/2021

The rain over the last few days has exploded the start of our dragon-fruit crop!

29/03/2021

It may be cashew season buy we are also happy with our first full harvest of Wax Jambu, a relative of Manzana de Agua(Water Apple). We waited 5 years for this tree to bear fruit but it is giving us a wonderful crop and variety this year!

29/03/2021

We are having a wonderful Cashew Apple(Maranon) season this year with a wild range of varieties!

23/12/2020

That's what a 24 lb jackfruit looks like! And eaten fresh it is amazing! Picked yesterday!

06/12/2020

This is a recent find in the garden. Turk's Cap (Malvaviscus arboreus). Funny thing is we thought it was just a w**d over the years and often cut it, but it apparently survived. I noticed the flowers a month or two ago, and then one of the fruits one day and decided to taste it. Quite a surprise, the fruit looks like a little apple and tastes a bit like one, too. But it is tiny, about a half inch across!

06/12/2020

We are delighted to have several of our new cacao trees with fruit growing on them for the first time! And we do have our web site up so you can get information about the other many varieties of fruits we have(www.tamarindobotanicalgarden.com)!

01/12/2020

We are having a wonderful time with Cranberry Hibiscus right now as it is in season. The dark red leaves are delicious and we are also making a tea from the dried leaves!

07/11/2020

This is a great urban gardener!

Ron Finley plants vegetable gardens in South Central LA -- in abandoned lots, traffic medians, along the curbs. Why? For fun, for defiance, for beauty and to...

21/10/2020

On October 27th we will hold another "How to Grow Dragonfruit Workshop." Reina's Chocolate Cafe and Tasting Room has agreed to let us use their cafe as the meeting place, and also supply some free chocolate beverages! Workshop will include a visit to our gardens, instructions for growing Dragonfruit(Pitahaya) in Costa Rica, and one good Dragonfruit cutting for you to plant! The cost of the workshop is $20/person including beverages and your first dragonfruit plant! We can only accept a total of 12 guests! We are just outside of Tamarindo on Google maps as "Reina's Chocolate". You may also want to take a look at our new web site: www.Tamarindobotanicalgarden.com

08/10/2020

Today was special. After 4+ years we have produced our first jackfruit(Artocarpus heterophyllus), from a seedling we planted over 3 years ago! It is timely because in the next month we will open the botanical gardens to the public for the first time! Tamarindo Botanical Garden www.tamarindobotanicalgarden.com