🔥 How to get a mini flamboyant look in a small yard

• 🔥 Caesalpinia pulcherrima - Dwarf Poinciana, Bird of Paradise, Pride of Barbados, Peacock Flower, or Flower Fence - is the national flower of Barbados, and for good reason!
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🔥 Why everyone is planting this butterfly magnet

• &🔥 It puts on a show of fiery red, orange, yellow, or pink blossoms that look like miniature flamboyant trees.
• &🔥 Flowers appear almost year-round, making it one of the longest-blooming shrubs.
• &🔥 A true butterfly magnet - your garden will be full of wings!
• &🔥 Compact, heat- and drought-tolerant, and low-maintenance.
• &🔥 Available in different colors - red-orange, yellow, pink - so you can choose your favorite splash.

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• &Everyone wants this showy Butterfly Attractor: Dwarf Poinciana
• &The most spectacular flowering shrub

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🍴 10-minute recipe Bo La Lot with a leaf you’ve never cooked before!

• &🌮 Forget boring tacos - this wrap will blow your mind! In Vietnam they call it Bo La Lot - beef wrapped in peppery Lalot leaves.
• &🌮 It started as grape leaf wraps in the Middle East, but in tropical Asia grapes don’t grow, so people swapped to Lalot. Way more flavor than grape leaves!
• &🌮 Grilled beef, garlic, onion, lemongrass - all can be tucked into these shiny green leaves. Smoky, juicy, and so good you’ll wonder why you didn't try it sooner! It's better than grape leaf wraps, because it has so much flavor!
• &🌮 Most large leaf pepper plants will work for this recipe - Vietnamese pepper Lalot (Piper sarmentosum), Betel Leaf (Piper betle), or even large leaves of the traditional Black Pepper plant (Piper nigrum).

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🌯 BO LA LOT RECIPE

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✔️ Ingredients

• · 1 pound ground beef or turkey
• · 2 tablespoons chopped lemongrass (optional)
• · 1 tbsp spice powder
• · 1 tbsp curry powder
• · 1 tbsp finely minced garlic
• · 1 tbsp oyster sauce or fish sauce (optional)
• · 1 tsp ground black pepper
• · 1 tbsp finely minced shallots
• · 1 tbsp soy sauce
• · 2 tsp sugar or honey
• · 1/2 tbsp olive oil
• · 1/2 tbsp salt
• · 10-15 fresh Lalot leaves

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👉 Directions

• · Preheat the grill.
• · Combine all ingredients in a large mixing bowl and mix well.
• · Wrap about 2 tablespoons of the mixture into each betel leaf.
• · Spear 3 to 4 betel leaf wraps onto a skewer and grill until the meat is thoroughly cooked.
• · Be sure to eat immediately.

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• &Lalot beef wraps: Quick-n-Fun exotic recipes
• &Vietnamese Pepper - Lalot food wraps BBQ recipe
• &How to grow your own Pepper plants. Five most valuable Pipers
• &How to to get Pepper leaves large and green

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🚚 How do we ship plants, Part 3: it's Christmas - unwrapping is fun?

• &📦 In the previous videos (Part 1: prepare the plant and Part 2: packing in the box), we showed you how we ship the plant to you.
You received the package - what is next?
• &📦 Every order comes with planting instructions. Read them first!

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How to take care of your mail order plant (potted plant)

When your plant arrives, carefully remove it from the box and water it right away.

• &Place it in bright light but out of direct sun for the first few days so it can recover from shipping.
• &Keep the soil evenly moist, not soggy.
• &After about a week, gradually introduce it to more sun or move it to its permanent spot.
• &Read detailed instructions.

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🌴 How to plant your mail order plant in the ground

• &Don't put a new plant straight from the box into the ground!
• &First, pot it up and let it recover and grow strong for a few weeks.
• &Once it's well established, choose a sunny, well-drained spot outdoors.
• &Dig a hole twice as wide as the pot, place the plant at the same depth, and backfill with good, rich soil.
• &Water thoroughly to settle the roots and add mulch around the base, keeping it away from the stem.
• &Keep watering regularly until the plant takes off.
• &Read detailed instructions.

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• &How do we ship plants? Part 1: prepare the plant
• &How do we ship plants? Part 2: packing in the box

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🍌 Blue Ice Cream banana you’ll never find in stores!

• &🔵 The Blue Java Banana, also known as the Ice Cream Banana, is the banana everyone wants - and for good reason.
• &🔵 First of all… it's blue. Yes, really. When the fruit is unripe, it has a frosty blue-green tint - especially striking in the sun. These short, chunky bananas are only about 4 inches long and grow in beautiful bunches under mauve-colored flowers. The whole plant is a tropical showstopper.
• &🔵But the real magic happens when the fruit ripens. The blue fades to yellow… and inside? Oh my God - it’s heaven! The texture is soft, smooth, and creamy. And the flavor? Like vanilla ice cream.
• &🔵That’s how it got the name Ice Cream Banana. And this isn’t just a gimmick - it’s a cold-tolerant, vigorous variety that grows fast, reaches 10-15 feet tall, and produces heavy bunches (up to 60 pounds!) of sweet fruit that you can eat raw or cook with.
• &🔵 Your store-bought bananas can’t compete with this. Add it to your edible landscape, food forest, or patio garden - this one is a must-have! Grab it while it’s in stock. Or if it’s sold out - hit that wishlist button.

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• & Is Blue Java Banana really blue? Great question!
• &Why every garden needs a banana tree (or three!)
• &The best varieties of edible Banana to plant
• &What banana fits anywhere - Banana Truly Tiny
• &How to double your banana crop without extra space - Banana Double Mahoi
• &Which Banana has red fruit and leaves - Banana Bordelon
• &Why everyone wants Banana Lakatan - Banana Lakatan
• More about #Bananas

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📖 Fun Fact: Papayas contain an enzyme called papain, which is commonly used as a meat tenderizer, now you know what the secret is! <
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Papaya (Carica papaya) is a delicious fruit that is good for you as a dessert or as a digestive aid. We eat it after every meal! <
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