i have a fruit tree that over-hangs my garden...not sure if it is edible!the fruits are small(size of a cherry)and orange with a fleshy centre...they also have a pip like a cherry....but the flowers are yellow in the spring(cherries are pink)The leaves are small with a slightly serated edge.can anyone help me....?
Does anybody know what this tree is?
I belive that is a plum tree from china, if it is umbrella shaped thats what it is.
Reply:rowan?
Reply:It could even be a Dogwood tree, but don't quote me on this one!
Reply:Sounds like a "bing cherry" tree to me....these fruits are delicious and much larger than a regular size cherry~ They are an expensive fruit too!
Reply:There is a type of yellow cherries, which is absolutely delicious. We had one of these in our orchard when I grew up. There is also a small type of apricot that looks like that.
Monday, May 17, 2010
Is goldenrod edible?
I have alot of it around , and the flowers when crushed smell fantastic.
Is goldenrod edible?
Sweet Goldenrod
Family: Asteraceae
Solidago odora
Description: This plant has yellow blooms during the summer (June-September). The flowers are unusual because they grow only on the top side of the stems. When the Goldenrod gets taller, it typically droops over or lays on the ground due to the weight of its flowers and leaves.
Leaf: The leaves are toothless and can be 7.5-10 cm (3-4 in.). A good detail from the Peterson's Guide is that when held up to light, there are tiny transparent dots.
Habitat: Goldenrods grow in dry soil, in open woody areas, in roadbanks, and in pine barrens.
Location: Brandeis's Sachar Woods.
Use: Fresh and dried leaves and flowers are highly recommended for a brewed tea. Leave in hot water for 10 minutes, and you'll get an "anise-flavored" tea.
Is goldenrod edible?
Sweet Goldenrod
Family: Asteraceae
Solidago odora
Description: This plant has yellow blooms during the summer (June-September). The flowers are unusual because they grow only on the top side of the stems. When the Goldenrod gets taller, it typically droops over or lays on the ground due to the weight of its flowers and leaves.
Leaf: The leaves are toothless and can be 7.5-10 cm (3-4 in.). A good detail from the Peterson's Guide is that when held up to light, there are tiny transparent dots.
Habitat: Goldenrods grow in dry soil, in open woody areas, in roadbanks, and in pine barrens.
Location: Brandeis's Sachar Woods.
Use: Fresh and dried leaves and flowers are highly recommended for a brewed tea. Leave in hot water for 10 minutes, and you'll get an "anise-flavored" tea.
What do you think about the undermentioned?
Have Fun And Save The Planet
Think Globally, Eat Locally
We all know that our planet needs our help right now, but we often feel unsure about what to do, where to make an effort, and what will really help. The good news is that we can heal the planet on a daily basis simply by buying and eating food that is grown locally. Food that has been transported long distances doesn’t contain much life force by the time it gets to your kitchen. Making a commitment to shop, buy, and eat locally is not only a very important part of creating positive change, it can also be delicious fun.
One of the best places to begin the adventure of eating locally is a farmer’s market. Stalls brim with fresh fruits and vegetables grown on nearby farms. Not only is this good for the environment, it’s good for the farmers since they benefit from selling directly to the consumer. The consumer benefits, too, from the intimate experience of buying food from the hand of the person who grew it. In addition, the food is fresher and more diverse. In supermarkets, particular varieties of fruits and vegetables are favored due to their ability to survive transport to a far destination. Alternately, at a farmer’s market, you will find versions of the fruits and vegetables you know that will surprise and delight your senses—green striped heirloom tomatoes, purple cauliflower, white carrots, and edible flowers, just to name a few.
Make an effort to buy as much of your food as possible directly from local farmers. You will become one of a growing number of people eating delicious food to save the planet and having fun doing it.
What do you think about the undermentioned?
I love buying local. We have 2 farmer's markets close by and visit them weekly in the warmer months. This time of year it's a bit harder, but when I can I support local.
White Teeth
Think Globally, Eat Locally
We all know that our planet needs our help right now, but we often feel unsure about what to do, where to make an effort, and what will really help. The good news is that we can heal the planet on a daily basis simply by buying and eating food that is grown locally. Food that has been transported long distances doesn’t contain much life force by the time it gets to your kitchen. Making a commitment to shop, buy, and eat locally is not only a very important part of creating positive change, it can also be delicious fun.
One of the best places to begin the adventure of eating locally is a farmer’s market. Stalls brim with fresh fruits and vegetables grown on nearby farms. Not only is this good for the environment, it’s good for the farmers since they benefit from selling directly to the consumer. The consumer benefits, too, from the intimate experience of buying food from the hand of the person who grew it. In addition, the food is fresher and more diverse. In supermarkets, particular varieties of fruits and vegetables are favored due to their ability to survive transport to a far destination. Alternately, at a farmer’s market, you will find versions of the fruits and vegetables you know that will surprise and delight your senses—green striped heirloom tomatoes, purple cauliflower, white carrots, and edible flowers, just to name a few.
Make an effort to buy as much of your food as possible directly from local farmers. You will become one of a growing number of people eating delicious food to save the planet and having fun doing it.
What do you think about the undermentioned?
I love buying local. We have 2 farmer's markets close by and visit them weekly in the warmer months. This time of year it's a bit harder, but when I can I support local.
White Teeth
Passion vine i found in my yard has red bulbs on it...is this the passiion fruit????
The flowers are smaller than regular passion vines, light purple and white and the unripe "fruit" has a thorny looking bush around it...i say thorny ..it looks thorny but its rather soft and the red fruit has nothing on it...I opened one of the red "fruits" and it had small clear seed looking things with black things in the middle...any ideas...i know edible passion fruit only comes from one variety but i dont know what kind??
Passion vine i found in my yard has red bulbs on it...is this the passiion fruit????
It sounds like a wild passionfruit. Sometimes the big fruiting varieties are grafted onto wild vines to increase their growth, but the wild types don't bear fruit worth eating. Sounds like the fruit you are describing. easiest way to grow a black passionfruit, is to get a fruit, scrape out the pulp, plant the seeds and wait foir the vine to grow. Can be hit and miss as to weather the vines will be good fruiting types or not.
If you can buy a grafted variety, like "Nellie Kelly" and keep the part from below the graft producing any branches, the vine will grow easily and flower and produce very nice, large sweet fruit.
Passion vine i found in my yard has red bulbs on it...is this the passiion fruit????
It sounds like a wild passionfruit. Sometimes the big fruiting varieties are grafted onto wild vines to increase their growth, but the wild types don't bear fruit worth eating. Sounds like the fruit you are describing. easiest way to grow a black passionfruit, is to get a fruit, scrape out the pulp, plant the seeds and wait foir the vine to grow. Can be hit and miss as to weather the vines will be good fruiting types or not.
If you can buy a grafted variety, like "Nellie Kelly" and keep the part from below the graft producing any branches, the vine will grow easily and flower and produce very nice, large sweet fruit.
In lieu of flowers?
please donate to some "priest fund". Is it inappropriate to send a fruit basket from edible arrangements to the house?
In lieu of flowers?
Queen Bee... just because they ask you to donate to some fund does not mean that you have to. You can make a donation to any fund you want in the deceased person's name (to an animal shelter or the like). I have never heard of sending edible arrangements to the house after a funeral. It could go either way and make the loved ones really happy. Or you could really shoot yourself in the foot if you are sending it to coincide with the food being served after the funeral. Then I would say do not do it. You might be accused of trying to garner attention to yourself by sending something so unusual. Don't get me wrong-I know what you are referring to and I think they are great but you may want to weigh your other options.
Reply:I donate to the library. The library dedicates the book to the person with a dedication placed at the beginning of the book.
This dedication goes on, and on, in remembrance of the person. Flowers wilt. The book is a remembrance.
Reply:People get so much food when a loved one dies. Who can eat that much ham? As it was stated before you can donate to any organization you see fit. Just make sure that the check says in who's memory you are giving. You might want to give them the family of the deceased information so they can send a note to them making them aware of your gift.
Reply:No, it's a nice and thoughtful thing to do.
Reply:No, priests need their vitamin C too! I'd say it's even better than sending a bunch of useless flowers.
In lieu of flowers?
Queen Bee... just because they ask you to donate to some fund does not mean that you have to. You can make a donation to any fund you want in the deceased person's name (to an animal shelter or the like). I have never heard of sending edible arrangements to the house after a funeral. It could go either way and make the loved ones really happy. Or you could really shoot yourself in the foot if you are sending it to coincide with the food being served after the funeral. Then I would say do not do it. You might be accused of trying to garner attention to yourself by sending something so unusual. Don't get me wrong-I know what you are referring to and I think they are great but you may want to weigh your other options.
Reply:I donate to the library. The library dedicates the book to the person with a dedication placed at the beginning of the book.
This dedication goes on, and on, in remembrance of the person. Flowers wilt. The book is a remembrance.
Reply:People get so much food when a loved one dies. Who can eat that much ham? As it was stated before you can donate to any organization you see fit. Just make sure that the check says in who's memory you are giving. You might want to give them the family of the deceased information so they can send a note to them making them aware of your gift.
Reply:No, it's a nice and thoughtful thing to do.
Reply:No, priests need their vitamin C too! I'd say it's even better than sending a bunch of useless flowers.
What's borage good for?
there are rather large patches in the backyard. the flowers are edible, and they don't taste bad. does it do anything MAGICAL?
bees like it, and the compost eats the plants up. i hear the british used to use it in their salads. was that the leaves too, or just the flowers? leaves are pretty bristly.
What's borage good for?
Borage flowers and leaves can be used as decoration for gin-based summer cocktails, and may be set in ice cubes to garnish other drinks.The flowers and young leaves may be used to garnish salads. dips, and cucumber soups. Candied borage flowers make attractive cake decorations.
Chopped leaves can be added to soups and stews during the last few minutes of cooking.The leaves can be cooked with cabbage leaves (two parts cabbage, one part borage.)
Used as a tonic plant for the adrenal glands, borage is said to provide an invaluable support for a stressful lifestyle.
Borage is rich in minerals, especially potassium.
A tea made with borage helps to reduce fevers and ease chest colds.
An infusion of borage promotes the production of milk in breastfeeding mothers.
Borage makes an excellent facial steam for improving very dry, sensitive skin.
The flowers may be dried to add color to potpourri.
Borage is an excellent companion plant for tomatoes, squash and strawberries. The plant actually improves the flavor of tomatoes growing nearby.
http://www.gardenguides.com/plants/info/...
Borage helps the body to produce natural cortisone, acts as an expectorant as well as eases coughing. It's also used as a diuretic; for regulating menstruation; oily skin; fighting rheumatism; relieving eczema; %26amp;
assisting with soothing irritable bowel
syndrome
http://www.ageless.co.za/borage.htm
Romans used borage flowers to produce an elixir, to lighten the spirits and raise confidence. In the Elizabethan age, in England, Borage was used to beat back depression. Boils %26amp; bodily rashes are treated using the herbal tea made from borage. It may help those with high blood pressure, arthritis and rheumatism; fevers may be alleviated; %26amp; it is used to detoxify the body.
http://www.herbs2000.com/herbs/herbs_bor...
Besides its medicinal use in homeopathy, it was grown to increase the yields of honey.
http://www.flowersociety.org/Three_Borag...
Reply:You're welcome! It's amazing how many things Borage is used for. The thing about gardening I like most ...is finding how many gifts are simply just waiting for us... we just have to learn about them, so we can accept them as the gifts that they truly are. Enjoy !!!! Report It
bees like it, and the compost eats the plants up. i hear the british used to use it in their salads. was that the leaves too, or just the flowers? leaves are pretty bristly.
What's borage good for?
Borage flowers and leaves can be used as decoration for gin-based summer cocktails, and may be set in ice cubes to garnish other drinks.The flowers and young leaves may be used to garnish salads. dips, and cucumber soups. Candied borage flowers make attractive cake decorations.
Chopped leaves can be added to soups and stews during the last few minutes of cooking.The leaves can be cooked with cabbage leaves (two parts cabbage, one part borage.)
Used as a tonic plant for the adrenal glands, borage is said to provide an invaluable support for a stressful lifestyle.
Borage is rich in minerals, especially potassium.
A tea made with borage helps to reduce fevers and ease chest colds.
An infusion of borage promotes the production of milk in breastfeeding mothers.
Borage makes an excellent facial steam for improving very dry, sensitive skin.
The flowers may be dried to add color to potpourri.
Borage is an excellent companion plant for tomatoes, squash and strawberries. The plant actually improves the flavor of tomatoes growing nearby.
http://www.gardenguides.com/plants/info/...
Borage helps the body to produce natural cortisone, acts as an expectorant as well as eases coughing. It's also used as a diuretic; for regulating menstruation; oily skin; fighting rheumatism; relieving eczema; %26amp;
assisting with soothing irritable bowel
syndrome
http://www.ageless.co.za/borage.htm
Romans used borage flowers to produce an elixir, to lighten the spirits and raise confidence. In the Elizabethan age, in England, Borage was used to beat back depression. Boils %26amp; bodily rashes are treated using the herbal tea made from borage. It may help those with high blood pressure, arthritis and rheumatism; fevers may be alleviated; %26amp; it is used to detoxify the body.
http://www.herbs2000.com/herbs/herbs_bor...
Besides its medicinal use in homeopathy, it was grown to increase the yields of honey.
http://www.flowersociety.org/Three_Borag...
Reply:You're welcome! It's amazing how many things Borage is used for. The thing about gardening I like most ...is finding how many gifts are simply just waiting for us... we just have to learn about them, so we can accept them as the gifts that they truly are. Enjoy !!!! Report It
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
HELP!! Its my mums wedding anniversary and im looking for an unusual thing to buy them?
I was gonna buy a edible arrangment - like a flower arrangment but with fruit and chocolate, but the shop doesnt deliver to leeds :( Anyone know anyone else who does it or other ideas welcome
HELP!! Its my mums wedding anniversary and im looking for an unusual thing to buy them?
Buy them a trip abroad. can get some cheap weekend breaks to Europe now.....£150 or so. I suppose depends which number anniversary it is. PS it might not be her Dads anniversary.
could be stepdad
Reply:why are you fed up sending them flowers i bet they appreciate them. at least i would think that they are pleased that you remember them and care enough to send them
Reply:I'd find a local beauty parlour and book them both in for a pedicure or a massage - sounds odd but they will really enjoy it, particularly your dad who may not have had one before. They'll certainly remember it and it is qite unique.
Reply:Strap on c ock?
Reply:Give them a grandchild.
Reply:you could buy them an anniversary candle with their names and anniversary date on.
There are lots of websites to look on and it is a nice keepsake.
Reply:hello ,
Shall I send you a nice card ( UNUSUAL IN everysense) from India ? Please tell me the date ? ( let me see whether it will work out ? I am worried about the transit time.
joicey
Reply:2 tickets to Honolulu or Hawai.. pls. dont go with them, let them enjoy themselves !!
Reply:As it is actually your DAD's as well how about taking them BOTH out for a meal - you spending time with them is what they would really LIKE
Reply:Isn't it your dads wedding anniversary too?
Reply:Why not get a copy of their wedding pictures and select one, get it blown up and present it to them in a nice frame.
Reply:usually a wedding anniversary involves husband and wife!! Porthmadog in Wales is very romantic
Reply:Get them a digital photo frame- you can find cheap ones on eBay or I would get them a HD radio for their car. Go for something modern.
Reply:Buy them a weekend break,you can get some good deals this time of year,,,pack them off to Paris or Venice for a short break or ...Scotland is very Beautiful and has a number of superb hotels. Remember it's your Dad's anniversary too....and somehow I don't think he'd go for the edible arrangement thing.
skates
HELP!! Its my mums wedding anniversary and im looking for an unusual thing to buy them?
Buy them a trip abroad. can get some cheap weekend breaks to Europe now.....£150 or so. I suppose depends which number anniversary it is. PS it might not be her Dads anniversary.
could be stepdad
Reply:why are you fed up sending them flowers i bet they appreciate them. at least i would think that they are pleased that you remember them and care enough to send them
Reply:I'd find a local beauty parlour and book them both in for a pedicure or a massage - sounds odd but they will really enjoy it, particularly your dad who may not have had one before. They'll certainly remember it and it is qite unique.
Reply:Strap on c ock?
Reply:Give them a grandchild.
Reply:you could buy them an anniversary candle with their names and anniversary date on.
There are lots of websites to look on and it is a nice keepsake.
Reply:hello ,
Shall I send you a nice card ( UNUSUAL IN everysense) from India ? Please tell me the date ? ( let me see whether it will work out ? I am worried about the transit time.
joicey
Reply:2 tickets to Honolulu or Hawai.. pls. dont go with them, let them enjoy themselves !!
Reply:As it is actually your DAD's as well how about taking them BOTH out for a meal - you spending time with them is what they would really LIKE
Reply:Isn't it your dads wedding anniversary too?
Reply:Why not get a copy of their wedding pictures and select one, get it blown up and present it to them in a nice frame.
Reply:usually a wedding anniversary involves husband and wife!! Porthmadog in Wales is very romantic
Reply:Get them a digital photo frame- you can find cheap ones on eBay or I would get them a HD radio for their car. Go for something modern.
Reply:Buy them a weekend break,you can get some good deals this time of year,,,pack them off to Paris or Venice for a short break or ...Scotland is very Beautiful and has a number of superb hotels. Remember it's your Dad's anniversary too....and somehow I don't think he'd go for the edible arrangement thing.
skates
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