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10 Neat Things About Sea Buckthorn

September 29, 2022 Canada's Local Gardener 3183 Views drought tolerant plants, Medicinal plants, nitrogen fixer, Omega-7, radiation burn treatment, Sea buckthorn, Siberian pineapple, skin care, sustainable farming, vitamin C

1. Shiny horse. Sea buckthorn, Hippophae rhamoides, is a shrub or tree, growing eight to 12 feet tall, native to Europe

10 Neat Things Edibles Foliage Plants

About Parsley

July 21, 2022 Canada's Local Gardener 1676 Views curly parsley, flat leaf parsley, garden herbs, herb companion planting, Medicinal plants, Parsley, parsley growth, parsley in the medicine patch, parsley salad, Plant Care

1. Once or twice. Parsley, Petroselinum crispum, is a biennial in temperate zones of the world and an annual in

10 Neat Things Annuals Edibles Flowers Foliage Plants Wild Flowers

About Native Wildflowers

June 30, 2022 Shauna Dobbie 1629 Views Baptisia australis, Black-eyed Susan, celandine poppy, gentians, Helenium autumnale, Joe Pye weed, milkweed, Native wildflowers, Purple coneflower, wood lily

1. Typhoid saviour. One of the native wildflowers, Joe Pye weed, boneset to some, and botanically Eutrochium (reclassified from Eupatorium a few

10 Neat Things Edibles Plants

About Cabbages

May 26, 2022 Canada's Local Gardener 1854 Views cabbage, cabbages

1. Cabbage head. Coming from the Middle-English word caboge, which itself probably derived from the French word caboce, both meaning “head”, the word

10 Neat Things Edibles Plants Trees & Shrubs

About Raspberries

May 5, 2022 Canada's Local Gardener 2925 Views black raspberry, raspberries, raspberry colors, raspberry folklore, raspberry history, raspberry ketone, raspberry medicine, raspberry nutrition, raspberry pruning, thornless raspberries

1. Oh Ida, how red your blood. Raspberries, Greek mythology has it, were once white. Then along came Zeus’ nursemaid,

10 Neat Things Edibles Plants

About Honeyberries

April 6, 2022 Canada's Local Gardener 2189 Views antioxidant-rich, berry recipes, fruit gardening, hardy shrubs, haskap, Honeyberries, Plant Care, Pollination, summer harvest, vitamin C

Photo: Hansicanada, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons 1. What’s blue, grows on a bush and melts in your mouth?

10 Neat Things Edibles Plants Vines

About Grapes

March 31, 2022 Canada's Local Gardener 1683 Views grape colors, grapevine history, grapevine pruning, raisins, red wine, resveratrol, Sour grapes, sultanas, Vitis riparia, wild grapes

1. Sour grapes. The expression ‘sour grapes’ originated from Aesop’s fable about the fox and the grapes; a hungry fox

10 Neat Things Annuals Edibles Flowers Plants

About Sunflowers

March 10, 2022 Canada's Local Gardener 1946 Views allelopathy, Fibonacci sequence, heliotropism, nuclear remediation, pollinators, sunflower growth, sunflower oil, sunflower roots, sunflowers, Ukraine

1. Sunflowers for Ukraine. Sunflowers grow well in Ukraine, owing to its hot dry summers. The flower was widely planted

10 Neat Things Edibles Plants

About Rosemary

March 3, 2022 Canada's Local Gardener 2073 Views Culinary Herbs, herb of remembrance, Herbal remedies, kitchen herb, Mediterranean herb, Propagation, Rosemary, rosemary flowers, sunlight, water drainage

1. Dew of the sea The name rosemary has nothing to do with roses or anyone named Mary. It is

10 Neat Things Edibles Plants

About Artichokes

December 16, 2021 Canada's Local Gardener 1834 Views ancient vegetables, aphrodisiac food, artichoke history, artichoke preparation, Artichokes, California artichokes, Cynara scolymus, healthy eating, Marilyn Monroe, New Orleans

1. Eating flower babies. An artichoke is the bud of the flowerhead of Cynara scolymus, a plant with lovely violet-blue

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