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

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🛒 Choose from fantastic colors of Plumeria

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