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What cactus vine produces gooseberries?

🐰 What cactus vine produces gooseberries? Barbados Gooseberry!

  • πŸ™‚ Perescia aculeata - Barbados Gooseberry - unique cactus with edible leaves and edible fruit, fast-growing vine. It is a tropical treasure that combines beauty with edible delights.

  • πŸ™‚ The fruit is yellow with a juicy, subacid pulp, and has a flavor that closely resembles a gooseberry. The fruits can be enjoyed fresh, stewed, or made into jams and jellies.

  • πŸ™‚ The young leaves are also edible, making them a nutritious addition to your meals.

  • πŸ™‚ A fast growing vining cactus, the Barbados Gooseberry prefers good drainage but likes its soil to remain moist during the summer, while being kept drier in the winter.

  • πŸ™‚ Can be grown in container on a trellis.


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What is Barbados Gooseberry?
A vine, a cactus, a tasty fruit, and a pretty flower

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What cactus vine produces gooseberries?

Perescia aculeata - Barbados Gooseberry

🐰 What cactus vine produces gooseberries? Barbados Gooseberry!
  • πŸ™‚ Perescia aculeata - Barbados Gooseberry - unique cactus with edible leaves and edible fruit, fast-growing vine. It is a tropical treasure that combines beauty with edible delights.
  • πŸ™‚ The fruit is yellow with a juicy, subacid pulp, and has a flavor that closely resembles a gooseberry. The fruits can be enjoyed fresh, stewed, or made into jams and jellies.
  • πŸ™‚ The young leaves are also edible, making them a nutritious addition to your meals.
  • πŸ™‚ A fast growing vining cactus, the Barbados Gooseberry prefers good drainage but likes its soil to remain moist during the summer, while being kept drier in the winter.
  • πŸ™‚ Can be grown in container on a trellis.


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What is Barbados Gooseberry?
A vine, a cactus, a tasty fruit, and a pretty flower

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All borders eventually end, Part 3

🌚 All borders eventually end, Part 3.

See also: πŸ‘‰ Part 1 and πŸ‘‰ Part 2.

πŸŽ₯ Niki a.k.a IDF Security (right) is explaining to Bob a.k.a. HAMAS (left) where the borders of his authority end. In plain language.

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What are the best plants for a bathroom oasis

🌳 What are the best plants for a bathroom oasis

πŸ‘ If you are lucky to have a large bathroom with a skylight, you can create your little tropical oasis!
Plants on the video are the easiest candidates that require minimum care:

Philodendrons
Calatheas
Monsteras
Aspidistra
Christmas Cactus
Peperomias
Vanilla Orchid
Ruellia makoyana - Monkey Flower

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This is the bush you should plant: Pink Butterfly in no time

Pink Butterfly Bush (Clerodendrum mastacanthum, Rotheca mastacantha)

🀩 This is the bush you should plant: Pink Butterfly in no time
  • πŸŽ€ Pink Butterfly Bush (Clerodendrum mastacanthum, Rotheca mastacantha) is a rare and exciting new addition to the plant world, originating from South Africa.
  • πŸŽ€ It closely resembles the more common Blue Butterfly Bush (Clerodendrum ugandense) but stands out with its stunning pink flowers.
  • πŸŽ€ The pink blooms are arranged in tighter panicles, giving the plant a more compact appearance.
  • πŸŽ€ While the size of the flowers is a bit smaller than its blue counterpart, the vibrant color and unique charm make it a captivating choice for your garden. Its rarity and beautiful blossoms make the Pink Butterfly Bush a standout plant for rare plant collectors.
  • πŸŽ€ Very fast growing and vigorous bush! Perfect when you need a screen plant or a showy specimen quickly.


🎈 These two varieties of Clerodendrum must go together - Blue Butterfly and Pink Butterfly - perfect combination! The flowers and butterfly-like shape attract butterflies and other pollinators to the garden. So these plants are all about butterflies!

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What is better - Blue or Pink?

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Give yourself a cat

Give yourself a cat
🐈 Give yourself a cat

If sorrow nears your heart,
if life’s rush feels too tart,
If the world looks bleak and gray -
Give yourself a cat today.

Do not stint. This gift's profound -
A splendid investment found.
Cats have no brands or breeds,
Only warmth and softness leads.

Feeling ill? Place a cat where it hurts, watch the pain scatter.
Forgive in advance its mischief for a year, no matter,
Its playfulness, wicked genes, the devilish feline spree.
A cashmere-clad wicked genius, compelling all to see love's decree.


- Lenhen Alferova

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When Angel Trumpet is in bloom

πŸŒ› When Angel Trumpet is in bloom

🌈 Brugmansia suaveolens - Angel Trumpet - one of the most popular favorites for Southern gardens. Small tree or bush with trumpet-like fragrant flowers that change color from white (bud) through yellow to pink (mature). Fast growing and easy to grow.

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When Angel Trumpet is in bloom

Brugmansia suaveolens - Angel Trumpet

πŸŒ› When Angel Trumpet is in bloom

🌈 Brugmansia suaveolens - Angel Trumpet - one of the most popular favorites for Southern gardens. Small tree or bush with trumpet-like fragrant flowers that change color from white (bud) through yellow to pink (mature). Fast growing and easy to grow.

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CatAmerica will be great again

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πŸ‡±πŸ‡· CatAmerica will be great againπŸ—½

πŸ“· Jim II keeps his hair style up to date

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This is the bush you should let flower for you: Chinese Hat is in bloom

Holmskioldia sanguinea, Chinese Hat Flower

πŸ’‹ This is the bush you should let flower for you: Chinese Hat is in bloom
  • πŸ’‹ The Holmskioldia sanguinea, or Chinese Hat Flower, gets its charming nickname from the shape of its blooms. Each flower resembles a tiny, colorful hat or parasol, with a narrow tubular structure backed by a broad, circular calyx, giving it a "hat-like" appearance!
  • πŸ’‹ It blooms from Winter to Spring, offering a spectacular view!
  • πŸ’‹ Graceful branches are densely covered with vibrant flowers before the new leaves begin to regrow after winter.


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