Garden Blog - Top Tropicals
Tired of an ugly hedge? Replace it with Aglaia - Chinese Rice Flower, and enjoy Lemony Fragrance year around!
Aglaia odorata - Chinese Perfume Plant flowers
Aglaia odorata - Chinese Perfume Plant
Aglaia odorata - Chinese Perfume Plant
Aglaia odorata - Chinese Perfume Plant hedge
🍋 Tired of an ugly hedge? Replace it with Aglaia - Chinese Rice Flower, and enjoy Lemony Fragrance year around!
🛒 Get a few bushes of Aglaia for lemony-fragrant hedge
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- 🟡 Aglaia odorata is also known as Chinese Perfume Plant, Chinese Rice Flower, or Mock Lemon.
- 🟡 The plant has an outstanding fragrance from tiny, rice-sized yellow flowers.
- 🟡 Aglaia grows into a dense bush without pruning. It is relatively slow-growing; so large plants are rare and hard to find.
- 🟡 Easy to grow bush, it is perfect for a cold tolerant tropical hedge.
- 🟡 Aglaia has many medicinal uses; contains odorine and odorinol, which have cancer chemopreventive activity.
🛒 Get a few bushes of Aglaia for lemony-fragrant hedge
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Can you eat bird-looking flowers? You can eat the whole tree!
Sesbania grandiflora - Hummingbird Tree
Sesbania grandiflora - Hummingbird Tree Red flower
Sesbania grandiflora - Hummingbird Tree White flower
Can you eat bird-looking flowers? You can eat the whole tree!
🛒 Get an edible Hummingbird Tree
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- 🐧 Sesbania grandiflora - Hummingbird Tree - is named for its flowers resembling little birds.
- 🐧 It produces a mass of large, 3-4", curved flowers from November to June. Flowers can be coral red or white.
- 🐧 The fun part is - the flowers are edible! As well as the rest of the plant: tender leaves, green fruit (bean pods), and flowers, used in curries, salads, or fried in batter.
- 🐧 Medicinal uses: bark, leaves, gums, and flowers have medicinal properties.
- 🐧 Lower branches form a beautiful floral canopy. It is a fast growing, but a small tree that will fit any yard. Great everblooming tree for container culture.
🛒 Get an edible Hummingbird Tree
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Did you know that you can eat and drink Hibiscus plants?
Hibiscus sabdariffa - Flor de Jamaica
Hibiscus sabdariffa - Flor de Jamaica
Hibiscus sabdariffa - Flor de Jamaica
Hibiscus sabdariffa - Flor de Jamaica
Hibiscus sabdariffa - Flor de Jamaica
🌺 Did you know that you can eat and drink Hibiscus plants?
Who doesn't adore hibiscus flowers? But guess what? Some hibiscus species are not only gorgeous but also surprisingly practical. They can jazz up your garden and your dinner plate!
Hibiscus cannabinus - Salad Hibiscus - flowers and leaves used in tasty healthy salads and teas.
Hibiscus sabdariffa - Flor de Jamaica, Karkade Sorrel, Roselle - flowers and used for famous beverage "Agua de Flor de Jamaica" and Karkade Tea.
Hibiscus acetosella - Cranberry hibiscus - cranberry-colored flowers and leaves are also tasty and healthy in salads and teas.
Grow your edible flower landscape in no time!
📚 Learn more, with recipes: Most useful Hibiscus plants
🎥 YouTube video: Jamaican Hibiscus Tea: what's in it?
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Who doesn't adore hibiscus flowers? But guess what? Some hibiscus species are not only gorgeous but also surprisingly practical. They can jazz up your garden and your dinner plate!
Hibiscus cannabinus - Salad Hibiscus - flowers and leaves used in tasty healthy salads and teas.
Hibiscus sabdariffa - Flor de Jamaica, Karkade Sorrel, Roselle - flowers and used for famous beverage "Agua de Flor de Jamaica" and Karkade Tea.
Hibiscus acetosella - Cranberry hibiscus - cranberry-colored flowers and leaves are also tasty and healthy in salads and teas.
Grow your edible flower landscape in no time!
📚 Learn more, with recipes: Most useful Hibiscus plants
🎥 YouTube video: Jamaican Hibiscus Tea: what's in it?
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What fruit can you drink? Costa Rican Cas is the Guava for Drinking, yet with a bonus of health benefits!
Cas Guava (Psidium friedrichsthalianum)
Cas Guava (Psidium friedrichsthalianum)
Cas Guava (Psidium friedrichsthalianum)
Cas Guava (Psidium friedrichsthalianum)
What fruit can you drink? Costa Rican Cas is the Guava for Drinking, yet with a bonus of health benefits!
📚 Learn more about Cas Guava
🛒Order Cas Guava
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- The fruit of Cas Guava (Psidium friedrichsthalianum) has unusual tart flavor with passionfruit and pineapple tones, more pronounced than common Guava🍍
- Cas Guava used in pies, salads, fresh juices, ice-cream, jams, and as a base for the refreshing drink Fresco de Cas!🍹
- High pectin content makes firm jellies.
- Hydrating and low glycemic index, suitable for those mindful of sugar consumption.
- Rich source of fiber, vitamin C, antioxidants, phosphorus, potassium, copper, vitamin A, and folic acid.
- This small tree or bush is very fast growing and undemanding, usually pest free (unlike most Guavas that can be very bugsy).
- Tolerates hot summers and short frosts, appreciates well-drained soils.
- Easy to grow, drought-tolerant once established, suitable for container cultivation.
- Seedlings start flowering and fruiting at a young age, typically 2-3 years old from seed.
📚 Learn more about Cas Guava
🛒Order Cas Guava
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What was discovered in the Pyramids: Pigeon Pea - an Ancient Superfood
Cajanus cajan - Pigeon Pea and Egyptian pyramids
Cajanus cajan - Pigeon Pea
Cajanus cajan - Pigeon Pea
Cajanus cajan - Pigeon Pea
What was discovered in the Pyramids: Pigeon Pea - an Ancient Superfood...
📚 Learn more about Pigeon Pea
🛒Grow your own Pigeon Pea Superfood
#Food_Forest #Remedies #Container_Garden #Fun_Facts
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- 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
#Food_Forest #Remedies #Container_Garden #Fun_Facts
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Why cucumbers grow on a tree? Because they are candles!
Why cucumbers grow on a tree? Because they are "candles"! 🕯
🎥 10 Plants That Will Make You Happy. Plant #2: Candle Tree.
🛒Get your own Candle Tree
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🕯 This bizarre tree is a conversation piece and every plant collector should have one!
🕯 Parmentiera edulis - Candle Tree, or Guahalote - is a highly ornamental tree with interesting leaves, pretty cream flowers and...ready?
🕯One foot long fruits resembling a greenish-yellow cucumbers or candles that hang off the tree!
🕯Juicy fruit is edible and has a sweet flavor similar to sugar cane. Eaten raw or cooked; used to make pickles or preserves
🕯The fruit is a remedy for colds; roots used as a diuretic.
🕯Easy to grow and not fussy about conditions. Cold tolerant to light frost.
🎥 10 Plants That Will Make You Happy. Plant #2: Candle Tree.
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🛒Get your own Candle Tree
#Food_Forest #Recipes #Nature_Wonders #Remedies
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Why cucumbers grow on a tree? Because they are candles!
Parmentiera edulis - Candle Tree, Guahalote
Parmentiera edulis - Candle Tree, Guahalote
Parmentiera edulis - Candle Tree, Guahalote
Parmentiera edulis - Candle Tree, Guahalote fruit
Parmentiera edulis - Candle Tree, Guahalote flower
Why cucumbers grow on a tree? Because they are "candles"! 🕯
🎥 10 Plants That Will Make You Happy. Plant #2: Candle Tree.
🛒Get your own Candle Tree
#Food_Forest #Recipes #Nature_Wonders #Remedies
🏵 TopTropicals
- 🕯 This bizarre tree is a conversation piece and every plant collector should have one!
- 🕯 Parmentiera edulis - Candle Tree, or Guahalote - is a highly ornamental tree with interesting leaves, pretty cream flowers and...ready?
- 🕯One foot long fruits resembling a greenish-yellow cucumbers or candles that hang off the tree!
- 🕯Juicy fruit is edible and has a sweet flavor similar to sugar cane. Eaten raw or cooked; used to make pickles or preserves
- 🕯The fruit is a remedy for colds; roots used as a diuretic.
- 🕯Easy to grow and not fussy about conditions. Cold tolerant to light frost.
🎥 10 Plants That Will Make You Happy. Plant #2: Candle Tree.
🛒Get your own Candle Tree
#Food_Forest #Recipes #Nature_Wonders #Remedies
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Cat of the Day - Snitch
🐈 Cat of the Day - Snitch.
Snitch is our office helper and herbs expert.
"Make sure to tell your cats all the truth about Catnip"
Get some herb tea and have a good sleep!🌜
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📸 😺 👇 Share your cats in comments!
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Snitch is our office helper and herbs expert.
"Make sure to tell your cats all the truth about Catnip"
Get some herb tea and have a good sleep!🌜
🛒 Shop Tropical Herbs and Spices for #Remedies
📸 😺 👇 Share your cats in comments!
🐾 More #PeopleCats in our Garden:
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18 most popular herbs: where to use each herb?
Basil
Catnip
Rosemary
Balm
Cilantro
Sage
Tarragon
Lemon grass
Mint
Thyme
18 most popular herbs: where to use each herb? 🍲
📸 Basil, Catnip, Rosemary, Oregano, Cilantro, Sage, Terragon, Lemon grass, Mint, Thyme
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- 🌿 Arugula - Green salads, pasta sauce
- 🌿 Balm - Iced drinks, salads, poultry stuffing
- 🌿 Basil - Tomato salad, any past dish? home-made pesto, garnish
- 🌿 Catnip - Sauces and stews, for tea
- 🌿 Chervil - Soups, green salads, as a garnish
- 🌿 Chives - Cream cheese, potato salad, green salads, sauces
- 🌿 Cilantro - Stews, rice, salads, salsa
- 🌿 Dill - Fish dishes, pickles, potato salad
- 🌿 Lemon grass - Oriental stir-fry, for tea
- 🌿 Marjoram - Italian dishes, stews, soups
- 🌿 Mint - Add to potatoes, peas, cucumber, carrots, mint sauce, mint tea
- 🌿 Oregano - Italian and Greek dishes, green salad
- 🌿 Parsley - Butters, pasta dishes, as garnish
- 🌿 Rosemary - BBQ, roast lamb/chicken, fish, fried/baked potatoes
- 🌿 Sage - Stuffing, add to poultry, mix with cream cheese
- 🌿 Sorrel - Soup, serve with fish, pastries
- 🌿 Tarragon - Fish, chicken, sauces
- 🌿 Thyme - Stocks and stews, add to pasta
📸 Basil, Catnip, Rosemary, Oregano, Cilantro, Sage, Terragon, Lemon grass, Mint, Thyme
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What are the health benefits of Gardening?
What are the health benefits of Gardening?
Therapeutic effect of gardening is not just a modern discovery. Throughout history, various cultures have recognized the mental and physical benefits of gardening...
🏺 In ancient Egypt, physicians prescribed walks through gardens for patients struggling with mental health issues.
🕯 During the Middle Ages in Europe, monastery gardens were designed not only for sustenance but also for meditation and relaxation.
🔮 Gardening has been shown to reduce stress, anxiety, and depression while promoting relaxation and a sense of well-being.
😅 The physical activity involved in gardening also provides exercise, contributing to overall health.
🌳 So, whether you're tending to a small indoor herb garden or cultivating a vast outdoor plot, the act of gardening can be a powerful tool for both mental and physical wellness.
🛒 Shop tropical spice plants and herbs
#Edible_Forest #Remedies
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Therapeutic effect of gardening is not just a modern discovery. Throughout history, various cultures have recognized the mental and physical benefits of gardening...
🏺 In ancient Egypt, physicians prescribed walks through gardens for patients struggling with mental health issues.
🕯 During the Middle Ages in Europe, monastery gardens were designed not only for sustenance but also for meditation and relaxation.
🔮 Gardening has been shown to reduce stress, anxiety, and depression while promoting relaxation and a sense of well-being.
😅 The physical activity involved in gardening also provides exercise, contributing to overall health.
🌳 So, whether you're tending to a small indoor herb garden or cultivating a vast outdoor plot, the act of gardening can be a powerful tool for both mental and physical wellness.
🛒 Shop tropical spice plants and herbs
#Edible_Forest #Remedies
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