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Is Magnolia edible? Vanilla Magnolia: its for cooking!

Is Magnolia edible? Vanilla Magnolia: its for cooking! Is Magnolia edible? Vanilla Magnolia: its for cooking!
❔ Is Magnolia edible? Vanilla Magnolia: it's for cooking!

💮 Florida Sweet Bay, or Vanilla Magnolia (Magnolia virginiana) has beautiful flowers with strong vanilla fragrance, while the leaves offer unique culinary uses.

  • 🔹 Strong vanilla scent: fragrance can be noticed hundreds of yards away.
  • 🔹 White, delicate blooms.
  • 🔹 Unique leaf flavor: fresh leaves have a distinct taste, fun for cooking. Sweet Bay offers unique cooking flavors.
  • 🔹 Prefers moist, acidic soil conditions, tolerates flooding, ideal for wet spots in your yard.
  • 🔹 Pest-free: no bugs or other pests.


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Shroom time from Timo and Matilda

🌈 Shroom time 🍄 from Timo and Matilda.

🌱 When planting herbs in your garden - mentioned in earlier post - don't forget Catnip for your kitties. They need their mood enhancers too!

🕯 Good night...

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Top 5 exotic Mango varieties for rare fruit collection

Top 5 exotic Mango varieties for rare fruit collection Top 5 exotic Mango varieties for rare fruit collection Top 5 exotic Mango varieties for rare fruit collection Top 5 exotic Mango varieties for rare fruit collection Top 5 exotic Mango varieties for rare fruit collection
🥭 Top 5 exotic Mango varieties for rare fruit collection.

Now that you have decided to collect them all but have limited space, these are the top 5 of the most interesting rare Mango cultivars:

  • 🟠 1. Kar Lon Long - rare and unusual, native to India. Fruits that can weigh up to 5 lbs each! The unique flavor that has been described as being a cross between a mango and a pineapple.

  • 🟠 2. Mun Kun Si - similar to Nam Doc Mai but much bigger. Rare variety, very popular among Thai and Vietnamese people. The fruit are extremely sweet, fiberless and somewhat crunchy ("Mun" means crunchy). Very late producer, fruit may still be on a tree as late as January.

  • 🟠 3. Pina Colada - very sweet, has rich flavor with a hint of coconut and pineapple.

  • 🟠 4. Ugly Betty - awesome mango, great sweet flavor, while the fruit is real ugly! Slightly mis-shaped at the top - hence the name.

  • 🟠 5. Giselle - from Gary Zill's breeding program and was a seedling of a mango called Tower. It was described as a juice mango and is named after Gary's wife.


❓What is your favorite Mango variety? Share in comments 👇

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Is scarlet you favorite flower color too?

💋 Is scarlet you favorite flower color too?

❓What is your favorite flower color? Share in comments👇

  • 🔴 Cordia sebestena - Scarlet Geiger tree - is a showy small tree with bright scarlet flowers.

  • 🔴 Flowers are followed by white edible fruit.

  • 🔴 Named in memory of John Geiger, a 19th-century Key West pilot and wrecker.

  • 🔴 Flowers appear scattered over the tree during most of the warm season.

  • 🔴 Popular landscape tree, but beware it is cold sensitive and won't tolerate frost, otherwise it is easy to grow and undemanding.

  • 🔴 Other species are much more hardier: C. rupocola, C. lutea, C. boissieri (the most cold hardy).


🎥 Cordia sebestena - Scarlet Geiger tree

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1000 times sweeter than sugar! How to eat sweets without sugar

1000 times sweeter than sugar! How to eat sweets without sugar 1000 times sweeter than sugar! How to eat sweets without sugar 1000 times sweeter than sugar! How to eat sweets without sugar
🧁 1000 times sweeter than sugar! How to eat sweets without sugar.

🌱 Lippia dulcis - Aztec Sweet Herb, Sweetleaf - is the answer for sugar-free diet. And it's perfectly tasty, and sweeter than Stevia!

  • 🍭 This is a Mexican herb with an incredibly sweet leaf.

  • 🍭 Leaves can be eaten from the plant like candy or tossed into fruit salads for an unusual addition.

  • 🍭 Medicinal tea: it is used since the time of the Aztecs for coughs and colds.


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Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food, and medicine to the soul

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food, and medicine to the soul
💻 "Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food, and medicine to the soul." - Luther Burbank

📸 Plumeria (mentioned earlier) is one of the most beautiful and desired perfume flowers. It makes you happy.

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🍑 "A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not." - Ernest Hemingway

🕯 Good night...

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How to grow your own Carambola

How to grow your own Carambola
⭐️ How to grow your own Carambola

Star Fruit - Carambola Tree (Averrhoa carambola). Growing this tree is a fun and rewarding way to enjoy this unique and delicious fruit right at home.

  • 🌟 Star power: slice it, and you get perfect star-shaped pieces for impressing guests or adding some sparkle to your fruit salad. Bright yellow and shiny, the fruit adds a pop of color to any dish. Great in salads, smoothies, desserts, or even as a garnish. Endless possibilities!

  • 🌟 Nature's candy and low-calorie treat: a delightful mix of sweet and tangy flavors packed with juicy goodness, a refreshing way to stay hydrated. Guilt-free snacking with hardly any calories. Snack away!

  • 🌟 Health benefits: Star fruit is loaded with Vitamin C. Good source of dietary fiber, keeps things moving smoothly. Packed with antioxidants to help fight off those pesky free radicals.

  • 🌟 Cultivation of the tree is easy:

  • ▪️ Loves full sun. Plant it in a sunny spot for the best fruit.
  • ▪️Keep warm and protect from winds. Thrives in warm, tropical climates, but can take some light frost winters as long as protected from winds, wind-free is the key!
  • ▪️Prefers well-drained soil. Keep it happy with good drainage.
  • ▪️Regular watering but doesn't like soggy feet.
  • ▪️Space saver: compact tree that doesn't take up much space. Perfect for smaller gardens. Dwarf varieties available, good for containers.
  • ▪️Fast grower: grows quickly. You'll be harvesting star fruit in no time!
  • ▪️Pretty blooms: produces lovely pink flowers. Adds beauty to your garden even before the fruit comes.
  • ▪️Home harvest: enjoy fresh, home-grown star fruit. Pick them right off the tree!
  • ▪️Fast-fruiting: seedlings start fruiting within 3 years from seed. Grafted or air-layered trees fruit right away.


📚 Learn more: Carambola tree is the Star of the orchard

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How to grow your own Carambola

How to grow your own Carambola How to grow your own Carambola
⭐️ How to grow your own Carambola

Star Fruit - Carambola Tree (Averrhoa carambola). Growing this tree is a fun and rewarding way to enjoy this unique and delicious fruit right at home.

  • 🌟 Star power: slice it, and you get perfect star-shaped pieces for impressing guests or adding some sparkle to your fruit salad. Bright yellow and shiny, the fruit adds a pop of color to any dish. Great in salads, smoothies, desserts, or even as a garnish. Endless possibilities!

  • 🌟 Nature's candy and low-calorie treat: a delightful mix of sweet and tangy flavors packed with juicy goodness, a refreshing way to stay hydrated. Guilt-free snacking with hardly any calories. Snack away!

  • 🌟 Health benefits: Star fruit is loaded with Vitamin C. Good source of dietary fiber, keeps things moving smoothly. Packed with antioxidants to help fight off those pesky free radicals.

  • 🌟 Cultivation of the tree is easy:

  • ▪️ Loves full sun. Plant it in a sunny spot for the best fruit.
  • ▪️Keep warm and protect from winds. Thrives in warm, tropical climates, but can take some light frost winters as long as protected from winds, wind-free is the key!
  • ▪️Prefers well-drained soil. Keep it happy with good drainage.
  • ▪️Regular watering but doesn't like soggy feet.
  • ▪️Space saver: compact tree that doesn't take up much space. Perfect for smaller gardens. Dwarf varieties available, good for containers.
  • ▪️Fast grower: grows quickly. You'll be harvesting star fruit in no time!
  • ▪️Pretty blooms: produces lovely pink flowers. Adds beauty to your garden even before the fruit comes.
  • ▪️Home harvest: enjoy fresh, home-grown star fruit. Pick them right off the tree!


📚 Learn more: Carambola tree is the Star of the orchard

🛒 Shop Start Fruit varieties

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Would you like a Bat Head?

🦇 Would you like a Bat Head?

The Bat Head Lily we mentioned earlier - is blooming again!

🙈 Bat Head Lily, Bat Flower, Devil Flower or Tacca Lily - is one of the most exotic and bizarre flowers along with Amorphophallus, Sausage Tree and Clitoria.

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