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What is our most favorite Ginger plant? African Princess!

Costus fissiligulatus - African Princess, Cameroon Costus

🎀 What is our most favorite Ginger plant? African Princess!
  • 👸 The most beautiful Ginger flower, in our opinion, is Costus fissiligulatus - African Princess, or Cameroon Costus - an amazing flowering Ginger from Gabon in West Africa.
  • 👸 Dazzling pink trumpet flower with a yellow throat. It is very floriferous with an inflorescence of numerous flower buds.
  • 👸 Low-growing plant only 3-4 ft that stands very erect.
  • 👸 Easy grower with similar growing requirements to other gingers.


💻 What is your most favorite ginger? Share in comments!

📚 Gingers from previous posts:
Most interesting edible gingers
5 most spectacular Ginger species
How to French Kiss the Red Button Ginger

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How to properly eat a pineapple

🍴 How to properly eat a pineapple

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How to make exotic Passion Fruit Champagne Slush

Passion Fruit Champagne Slush

Passion Fruit Champagne Slush

🍾 How to make exotic Passion Fruit Champagne Slush
  • 🥂 Halve passion fruits crosswise and scoop out pulp with seeds into a bowl.
  • 🥂 Sprinkle sugar over the pulp. Let sit at room temperature for an hour.
  • 🥂 Stir in lime juice and boiling-hot water. Stir until sugar is dissolved.
  • 🥂 Pour through a fine sieve, pressing on solids, then discard the seeds.
  • 🥂 Freeze in ice cube tray.
  • 🥂 Once frozen, add 1 cube per champagne flute, then slowly add the champagne.


🥝 Makes 6 cocktails:
  • ✔️ 10 passion fruits
  • ✔️ 1/2 cup sugar
  • ✔️ 1 tbsp lime juice
  • ✔️ 1/4 cup boiling hot water
  • ✔️ 1 chilled bottle of Champagne or sparkling wine


📚 From previous posts:
• The truth about Passion flower and Passion fruit

🛒 Grow your own Passion fruit

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Quisqualis vine - Rangoon Creeper

😍 How to cover an ugly spot with a fragrance and and beauty, stop and smell the roses
  • 🌹 Our Quisqualis vine - Rangoon Creeper - has grown over a roof of our water treatment system (which wasn't the prettiest view!). Now every time we pass by we have to "stop and smell the roses". It is so beautiful, and it does smell like roses!
  • 🌹 It's scent is unforgettable, fruity and intoxicating... The flowers are born in clusters and each flower has many variations of color, depending on how old the flower is.


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Our Barbados cherry has been fruiting on and on

Barbados Cherry (Malpighia glabra)

🍒🥤 What's for lunch?

Yet another crop of Barbados cherry is here! Our Barbados cherry has been fruiting on and on for many months!

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ow this Raspberry ginger became spiral

Costus vargasii - Spiral Ginger Raspberry Yogurt

😵 How this Raspberry ginger became spiral
  • 🍓Spectacular! Costus vargasii - Spiral Ginger Raspberry Yogurt
  • 🍓This interesting name refers to the colorful raspberry colored stem, but that's not the only colorful thing about this Spiraling Ginger.
  • 🍓The leaves are dark green, long and glossy with velvety deep purple undersides.
  • 🍓The inflorescence is a vivid red with tight bracts and bold yellow flowers.
  • 🍓The butterflies love to drink the nectar from the flowers.
  • 🍓This is a large vigorous ginger, the spirals are growing up to 5-6 ft tall!


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Mango Rainbow tasting table-2: whats the taste of that Mango variety?

Mango Rainbow tasting table

🌈 Mango Rainbow tasting table-2: what's the taste of that Mango variety?

🥭 We've had another mango tasting table and asked participants to describe the taste in a few words. And this is what we got:
  • 🟠 Haden - mild, melting, classic heavenly mango flavor,dark yellow flesh, almost fiberless.
  • 🟠 Ugly Betty - opposite to the name, the taste is excellent , juicy, melting, sweet.
  • 🟠 Cotton Candy - true candy, fiberless, sweet, melting.
  • 🟠 Madame Fransis - dark orange pulp, slightly fibrous, robust, meaty like a steak, good with cognac. A little pulpy but unique flavor.
  • 🟠 Diamond - bright yellow, fiberless, sugary, juicy, no pulp at all, classic mango taste, good with ice cream, "wow" taste!
  • 🟠 Pickering - zesty, waterfall: all the flavors come at once, eat with White wine and/or a cake. Oval fruit somewhat flat, very large for a dwarf tree!
  • 🟠 Baptiste - hint of citrus, melts in your mouth, dark orange flesh, crisp, eat with Red wine and cheese.
  • 🟠 Florigon - creamy, buttery, spicy. Eat with Ice cream!
  • 🟠 Tommy Atkins - has a bit zing to it, perfect consistency, perfect taste. Super colorful, crimson red to purple skin!
  • 🟠 Nam Doc Mai - gold standard! Perfect every day.
  • 🟠 Carry - tastes even better than all others, smooth buttery, lite!


❔ What Mango varieties have you tried this year?
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Can a cactus be fragrant?

Echinopsis sp. - Easter Lily Cactus

🌵Can a cactus be fragrant?

The fragrant Easter Lily Cactus we introduced earlier is in bloom again! The flower only lasts a day or two, but what a delight!

❓ What other cactus species with fragrant flowers do you know? Share in comments👇

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