🍱 What are the most interesting edible gingers?

• Boesenbergia rotunda - Chinese Keys Ginger, Fingerroot, Kra Chai. A medicinal and culinary herb from China and Southeast Asia. It is used in Javanese cuisine in Indonesia, as well as in Thai cooking where it is called krachai. In the west it is usually found pickled or frozen. Kra Chai is used as a male tonic, vigor, health promotion, longevity, aphrodisiac.
• Curcuma longa - Turmeric, Spice Turmeric, Longevity Spice, Indian Saffron. Turmeric powder might well be the healthiest spice on Earth. Made by grinding this dried root, this ancient superfood and key ingredient in curry powder has been used by Indian Ayurvedic healers for centuries.
• Zingiber officinale - Spice Ginger, Cooking Ginger - the one you eat with sushi! Plant this ginger in the garden to produce your own fresh ginger for pickling or healthy lemonade.

📚 More gingers in previous posts:

5 most beautiful flowering gingers
Alpinia formosana x zerumbet Variegata - Variegated Ginger
Costus spicatus x woodsonii - Red Button Ginger, French Kiss
Hedychium coronarium - Butterfly Ginger
Kaempferia angustifolia - Laos Silver Stripe

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🌳 What is the best shade tree that is fast growing and beautiful?

• 🌸 Orchid trees that we mentioned earlier are one of the most popular shade trees in Southern gardens.
• 🌸 Bauhinia blakeana - Hong Kong Orchid Tree - is the most beautiful of all orchid trees.
• 🌸 It has the largest flowers, brightly colored.
• 🌸 Winter bloomer.
• 🌸 Starts flowering in very small size, when only 2-3 ft tall.
• 🌸 Very fast growing.

📚 Learn more: Bauhinias - trees with Orchid Flowers and Butterfly Wings
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🐙 What do you think about this Giant? This is the coolest looking flower!

• Aristolochia gigantea var. Brasiliensis - Giant Pelican Flower - is one of the most outrageous flowers in the world.
• This striking plant from Brazil is known for its outrageous, huge - over ten-inch-long - lemon-scented flowers 🍋
• Flowers have an elaborate pattern of white and mottled reddish brown.
• Not a vigorous vine, making it easy to train on a stake, trellis, or in a hanging basket.
• Rare and highly collectible variety.
• Like all Dunchman's Pipes we mentioned earlier, this plant is a great butterfly attractor.

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😱 Fun Fact: Giant Pelican Flower

Aristolochia gigantea var. Brasiliensis - Giant Pelican Flower - boasts flowers over 10 inches long, with a zany pelican-like shape and a lemony scent🍋
Its striking pattern of white and reddish-brown makes it a rare and fascinating collectible that thrives on a stake, trellis, or even in a hanging basket! Great butterfly attractor.
More info: previous post.

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🔍 How to choose the right flowering trees for your landscape

• 🌷 There are so many flowering and blooming trees to choose from, where should you start? Well there are plenty of questions to ask and several answers for each.
• 🌷 Are you looking for trees that bloom in winter or are you looking for summer flowering trees? Maybe you are looking for the fastest growing shade tree. The choices are endless. Depending on your answer, there may be several trees that meet your needs.
• 🌷 One good place for beginners and even seasoned growers is to use the search features in our Top Tropicals Plant Encyclopedia. Here you can search by name, size, growth habit, light requirements, watering needs, color of bloom and cold hardiness.
• 🌷 You will be able to search for trees that attract butterflies and even those that are salt tolerant if you live near the ocean.
• 🌷 If you choose the small tree category, you will find small flowering trees and even dwarf flowering trees or bonsai starters.

🎥 Phymosia umbellata - Cranberry Malva Aparasolada

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