It’s a lovely time of year to get outside and gift the planting of a tree to yourself or a neighbor. Take the kids and/or grandkids to a local nursery and look for an appropriate specimen. One with ...

The calendar says it's fall even though here in sub-tropical Florida, the temperatures are still making us sweat. The fall solstice has come and gone and here on the Treasure Coast, the days are ...

The fruit of the allspice tree is even more delicate. Dangling beneath the leaves, allspice begins to flower in July, developing berries that do indeed resemble fresh green peppercorns, making it an ...

Allspice, often mistaken for a spice blend, is actually the dried berry of the Pimenta dioica tree, native to Jamaica and Central America. Its flavor combines notes of cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and ...

In the April Green Pages, I asked the reader to consider what the Walsingham nature reserves look like now, how they looked like a few decades ago and what they looked like before man arrived in ...

While Christopher Columbus was busy mistaking the Americas for the East Indies, he also confused the identity of what we now know as allspice. Allspice berries look something like peppercorns, and ...

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Allspice is a victim of its own name. You can’t blame someone for seeing the word “allspice” and thinking that it is a blend of many spices -- or even all spices. It’s a natural assumption. But ...