About Native Wildflowers
1. Typhoid saviour. One of the native wildflowers, Joe Pye weed, boneset to some, and botanically Eutrochium (reclassified from Eupatorium a few
Read More1. Typhoid saviour. One of the native wildflowers, Joe Pye weed, boneset to some, and botanically Eutrochium (reclassified from Eupatorium a few
Read More1. Cabbage head. Coming from the Middle-English word caboge, which itself probably derived from the French word caboce, both meaning “head”, the word
Read More1. Oh Ida, how red your blood. Raspberries, Greek mythology has it, were once white. Then along came Zeus’ nursemaid,
Read MorePhoto: Hansicanada, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons 1. What’s blue, grows on a bush and melts in your mouth?
Read More1. Sour grapes. The expression ‘sour grapes’ originated from Aesop’s fable about the fox and the grapes; a hungry fox
Read More1. Sunflowers for Ukraine. Sunflowers grow well in Ukraine, owing to its hot dry summers. The flower was widely planted
Read More1. Dew of the sea The name rosemary has nothing to do with roses or anyone named Mary. It is
Read More1. Eating flower babies. An artichoke is the bud of the flowerhead of Cynara scolymus, a plant with lovely violet-blue
Read More1. The potato diet. Potatoes have a bad reputation as a heavy carb food that adds inches to waistlines. But
Read More1. Greek kapto, to bite or to swallow. Peppers and chillis are also known as capsicums. Their botanical name came
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