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Vietnamese Pepper - Lalot

...We are featuring today another useful plant for your healthy and delicious meals! The leaves of Lalot pepper are used as food wraps in Vietnam and make delicious, flavorful meals for BBQ!
Lalot is eaten raw in salads or cooked with other greens or dishes, or used to wrap meats and cook in the oven or on the stove or grill. It is used medicinally in India and South China as well as Indonesia...

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What is the Lalot plant?

by Alex Butova, the Witch of Herbs and Cats

Discover the health benefits that Lalot pepper can bring you in a simple BBQ... In addition, the Lalot - Piper sarmentosum - has a great ornamental value, which is popular in urban landscape gardens as ground covering shrubs. The plants can be grown in pots as bushes by pruning the creeping branches. The bushy, abundant procumbent branches are about 1-2ft in height... CONTINUE READING >>

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Giant Potato Tree - Solanum macranthum

...The Giant Potato Tree is a showy and very fast growing specimen tree of small to medium size. This plant grows quickly into a bushy tree of 15 feet in height and 15' wide. So this is a great solution when you need to get shade right away - within a couple of months! The leaves are huge, lobed and prickly. Flowers are slightly fragrant and change their color from white to pink to lavender as they mature. This tree is a great choice if you need to create a shady area in your yard within just a few months!..

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Akee - Jamaica's National Fruit

In this video we talk about growing your own Akee tree so you can have delicious Jamaican meals without going to a Jamaican restaurant!
Akee is a rare fruit tree that is hard to find. It is a National fruit of Jamaica and delicious when fried! The tree is easy in cultivation, fast growing and can be maintained compact. It is relatively cold tolerant for being a tropical tree. It will start fruiting for you the next season, you don't have to wait long. Sometimes it fruits twice a year!..

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Aphrodisiac Superherb: Turnera

By Alex Butova, the Witch of Herbs and Cats

This plant has been a much wanted herb for the last decade due to its magic, special properties... The plant is Turnera, or Damiana, the newest superplant to attract attention among the wellness-minded set...
...It is one of the more notorious herbal aphrodisiacs and has the reputation of being a superlative sexual tonic. Turnera is a mood-elevating aromatic herb that helps calm anxiety and induce a relaxed state of mind... It lends a delightful energy and flavor to wines and sundry other erotic potions...

No Winter lasts forever

Photo above: Jasminum nitidum (illicifolium) - Star Jasmine, is a fragrant-sweet Spring bloomer!

"...No Winter lasts forever, no Spring skips its turn. April is a promise that May is bound to keep, and we know it..."
- Hal Borland -

Photo above: Ruttya Fruticosa - Rabbit Ears, Hummingbird Bush