Grow your own food:
Pouteria campechiana - Canistel
The curious heart-shaped Egg Super-Fruit
by Alex Butova, the Witch of Herbs and Cats
...You will be surprised how many health benefits this fruit can
offer! Yet is is a beautiful, curiously shaped piece of Nature's Art, and the
tree is super easy to grow. It is relatively cold hardy and fast growing,
providing with the first crop within a year or two...
10 greatest health benefits of Canistel
fruit
1. Canistel is good for the heart
2. Canistel lowers the risk of diabetes
3. Canistel lowers the risk of cataract
4. Canistel treats osteoarthritis
5. Canistel prevents cancer
6. Canistel is immunity booster
7. Canistel is great for digestion
8. Canistel prevents anemia
9. Canistel promotes healthy bones
10. Canistel reduces the risk of Alzheimer's
A letter from a gardener:
"We just want our paradise back!"
"...My name is Ian, and I am a 21 y/o Natural Resource Management
student at South Dakota State University. In 2006, my family found a small
barrier island lush with foliage and virtually untouched by the modern world, and
we fell in love. Little Gasparilla Island became a piece of our family and
now after 16 years, we still spend months out of each year enjoying the
island's natural beauty.
Enter Hurricane Ian.
With the eye of the hurricane traveling directly over the island, many
homes and materialistic items were destroyed, but more importantly, the once
beautiful "jungle" is now more comparable to a barren desert.
This is where I was hoping to get some help... to restore the beauty of
Little Gasparilla. After almost 3 weeks, neither the county nor FEMA has made it
out to survey our island. And it is almost as if we feel forgotten. After
fending for ourselves for clean-up, I am ready to get to work on landscaping.
Plants are my passion and it pains me each day to wake up and see that 90% of
our Australian and Norfolk Island Pines are completely gone, along with most
foliage and palms.
We just want our paradise back, and many of us will work for it by any
means necessary..."
We replied to Ian who suffered from Ian... We are willing to help his
beautiful island, as well as everyone who is looking for help restoring our
Florida beauty. Check out our deals and re-leaf discounts we send in our Newsletters. Remember to attend our Garden Festival on Nov 19, with some big discounts as well as free
plants for after-Ian re-leaf!
We will make Florida beautiful again.
We will call it Project Ian!
A Miracle for every special
garden:
Synsepalum - Miracle Fruit
...Every tropical plant lover wants to have this plant in their collection. And there are at least three good
reasons for it:
1) it is a true miracle fruit
2) It enjoys growing in a pot, stays compact and brings you miracle berries nearly year
around
3) it can be grown indoors as it has very low water and light needs.
Miracle fruit is one of the strangest tropical fruits. The most unusual thing about it is the
effect it has on one's taste after this miraculous berry has been consumed. The
"miracle" is that if lemon or other sour food is eaten after the miracle
fruit, the sour tastes sweet, as if sugar has been added. That kind of magical
experience is unforgettable! The interest in this plant is so high that anyone who has a plant always finds eager volunteers to test its sweetening
properties. A natural chemical in the fruit masks the tongue's sour taste buds so that lemons taste like lemonade or lemon pie, or lemon candy; beer
tastes like Malta drink, sour strawberries taste super sweet, and a grapfruit
tastes delicions and not bitter! What causes the miracle? The fruit has a unique taste changing glycoprotein that inhibits tastebuds' perception of
sour taste. The sweet sensation lasts for half an hour to a few hours...
