Garden Blog - Top Tropicals
Date: 25 Aug 2024
How to make a jam with Surinam Cherry
🍒 How to make a jam with Surinam Cherry
Surinam Cherry (Eugenia uniflora), often used as a hedge in Southern landscapes, also has a tasty fruit with a unique flavore. The black-fruit variety Lolita is especially valuable - the fruit is large, dark red to almost black, very juicy and sweet. It fruits profusely and there will be enough fruit for preserves too!
🎀 Surinam Cherry Jam
✔️ 4 cups seeded Surinam Cherries
✔️ 2 cups sugar
✔️ 1 cup water
🍷Combine the sugar and water, bring to boil and add cherries. Cook slowly for 20 to 25 min until the mixture thickens slightly. Pour into sterilized jars and seal.
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Surinam Cherry (Eugenia uniflora), often used as a hedge in Southern landscapes, also has a tasty fruit with a unique flavore. The black-fruit variety Lolita is especially valuable - the fruit is large, dark red to almost black, very juicy and sweet. It fruits profusely and there will be enough fruit for preserves too!
🎀 Surinam Cherry Jam
✔️ 4 cups seeded Surinam Cherries
✔️ 2 cups sugar
✔️ 1 cup water
🍷Combine the sugar and water, bring to boil and add cherries. Cook slowly for 20 to 25 min until the mixture thickens slightly. Pour into sterilized jars and seal.
🛒 Plant your own Surinam Cherry
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Date: 25 Aug 2024
When Bat Head Devil Flower is in bloom
🌚 When Bat Head Devil Flower is in bloom
Tacca Lily - has been in bloom all summer, on an off.
Curious, bat-like inflorescence both in shape and color, with wide spreading, wing-like bracts of rich maroon-black, accompanied by long trailing filaments or "whiskers".
Perfect container plant for a greenhouse. Needs filtered light, prefers high humidity.
Comes in different species and colors: Black, White, Green:
Tacca nivea - White Tacca
Tacca chantrieri - Black Tacca
Tacca leontopetaloides - Green Tacca
📚 Learn more from previous post:
Bat Head - Devil Flower
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Date: 25 Aug 2024
When Bat Head Devil Flower is in bloom
Tacca chantrieri - Black Tacca
🌚 When Bat Head Devil Flower is in bloom
Tacca Lily - has been in bloom all summer, on an off.
Curious, bat-like inflorescence both in shape and color, with wide spreading, wing-like bracts of rich maroon-black, accompanied by long trailing filaments or "whiskers".
Perfect container plant for a greenhouse. Needs filtered light, prefers high humidity.
Comes in different species and colors: Black, White, Green:
Tacca nivea - White Tacca
Tacca chantrieri - Black Tacca
Tacca leontopetaloides - Green Tacca
📚 Learn more from previous post:
Bat Head - Devil Flower
🛒 Shop Bat Head Lily Tacca
#Nature_Wonders #Shade_Garden #Container_Garden
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Date: 24 Aug 2024
How you react
🎶 "It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters." - Epictetus, a Stoic philosopher.
😶 Sleep tight with no worries. Good night...
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😶 Sleep tight with no worries. Good night...
Share your cats in comments!
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Date: 24 Aug 2024
How old is Southern Magnolia?
How old is Southern Magnolia? 95 million years old!
💮 #Fun_Facts: Magnolia grandiflora - Southern Magnolia, is a unique and ancient flowering plant dating back about 95 million years to the time of the dinosaurs!
💮 Its beautiful, large perfumed flowers are "primitive" and evolved before bees existed, relying on beetles for pollination. The tough petals and reproductive parts are a result of adapting to beetle activity.
💮 Another fascinating feature is its cone-like fruit, which contains striking bright red seeds. These seeds are covered in a fleshy coating that attracts birds and small mammals, aiding in their dispersal, making the magnolia not only stunning but important for the ecosystem.
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💮 #Fun_Facts: Magnolia grandiflora - Southern Magnolia, is a unique and ancient flowering plant dating back about 95 million years to the time of the dinosaurs!
💮 Its beautiful, large perfumed flowers are "primitive" and evolved before bees existed, relying on beetles for pollination. The tough petals and reproductive parts are a result of adapting to beetle activity.
💮 Another fascinating feature is its cone-like fruit, which contains striking bright red seeds. These seeds are covered in a fleshy coating that attracts birds and small mammals, aiding in their dispersal, making the magnolia not only stunning but important for the ecosystem.
🛒 Order Southern Magnolia
#Perfume_Plants #Trees
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