What was discovered in the Pyramids: Pigeon Pea - an Ancient Superfood...

Cajanus cajan - Pigeon Pea - existed for more than 4800 year! It's been widely consumed in South Asia, South East Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Documented in India since 2,800 BC; reached Ancient Egypt around 2,200 BC.

Provides flavorful, nutritious, and healthy food, with potential to become widely popular like Japanese sushi 🍱

It is a showy perennial woody shrub or small tree, 4-8 ft tall, with soft leaves. Can be grown in container

Pretty flowers are yellow, with purple or red streaks, pods containing oval to round seeds.

Many culinary uses: the tasty and healthy beans used in rice dishes, soups, stews, tempeh, tofu. Unripe pods eaten in curries, leaves and young shoots cooked as a vegetable.

Rich source of fiber, protein, vitamins (B, C, E, K), and minerals (calcium, iron, magnesium, manganese, phosphorus, potassium, zinc).

Medicinal value: various folk medicinal uses for sores, bladderstones, jaundice, skin irritations, bronchitis, coughs, pneumonia, toothache, dysentery, and more.

Everyone can grow it! The plant is super easy, tolerates poor soils, drought tolerant, improves soil quality like many other beans.

📚 Learn more about Pigeon Pea

🛒Grow your own Pigeon Pea Superfood

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☕️ What flower smells like warm chocolate?

💙 Portlandia grandiflora - Glorious Flower of Cuba is an extremely rare plant.

💙 Luscious perfume of bell-like flowers reminiscent of warm, creamy chocolate.

💙 Small compact tree, perfect for containers or small gardens.

💙 One of very few tropical plants that tolerate alkaline soils❗️

🛒 Get Warm Chocolate Plant

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👾 How to get rid of a bad luck with the Garlic Vine?

🟣 Garlic vine (Mansoa alliacea) is one of the most wanted flowering tropical vines.

🟣 When in full bloom, it looks like a cascade of blue-purple over a fence or trellis.

🟣 The fun part is, crushed leaves smell like garlic, which will keep away the vampires and bad luck!

🟣 Deep lavender flowers with white throat fading to a paler lavender within a few days, and you can see all three colors on the plant at the same time.

🟣 Garlic vine has moderate growth rate and can stay compact in a pot as a specimen, and even can be grown as a house plant.

📚 Garlic vine: how to get rid of bad luck

🎥 Video: Garlic vine keeps away the vampires.

🛒 Get rid of bad luck by getting the Garlic Vine

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🐱🐶 Are these kittens or puppies?

Mango - the dog we rescued - happened to be a few weeks away from... bringing into the world these 8 cute pups!

Good night and sweet dreams about cute kittens and puppies🌜

📸 😺 👇 Share your cats and pups in comments!

🐾 #PeopleCats in our Garden:
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What is the most celebreated fragrant flower?

🌸 Plumeria, or Frangipani, is the symbol flower of Hawaii that radiates beauty and grace in many amazing colors.

🌸 Plumeria sweet and fruity fragrance is enchanting and soothing, captivating the senses... It is one of the most favorite essences in perfumery.

🌸 Often woven into Hawaiian leis, plumeria blossoms embody the spirit of Aloha as a warm welcome and heartfelt hospitality.

🌸 Plumeria tree is very easy to grow and can happily flower in container. See important growing tips in our next post 👇

🛒 Choose from fantastic colors of Plumeria

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