The Huffington Post had an article about one of the world’s least known most impressive gardens of the world. The flowers look like annuals. So, if you are going to Dubai soon, don’t forget to visit the Dubai Miracle Garden.
VIDEO: The Snob’s Dictionary: Heirloom Tomatoes
Entry #404, Heirloom Tomatoes: Irregularly shaped, vividly colored fruits grown from the seeds of non-hybridized tomato plants, thereby standing apart from drab supermarket tomatoes, which are uniformly orange and spheroid.
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VIDEO: Students Build Teaching Garden
Bethel Grove Elementary students have built the second teaching garden in Memphis.
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Roses in TheGardenLady’s Garden
This has been a spectacular year for roses. And the roses in my garden are show pieces. These are photos of a few of the showiest roses in bloom right now. I did not take pictures of the miniature roses I have that are filled with flowers and my Fairy rose is still filled with buds. (see here)
My favorite rose is Livin’ Easy an orange – apricot Floribunda rose that has rewarded me each year covered with gorgeous flowers. Next to this rose are two Knock Out Shrub roses that also reward me with prolific flowering. And, very important to me, none of these three roses are difficult to care for and none have had black spot or any other diseases. They do attract Japanese beetles, but seem to have their main show of blooms before the Japanese beetles come out to dine.
Ten Tips for Success with your Garden
Apricot rose and budding alliums by katewrightson
1. Be sure your vegetable garden is in a sunny location away from an area where there might be underlying roots of trees. And it is good to have a watering source nearby.
2. Be sure you have had your soil tested in the last 3 years and you have amended your soil with your extensions recommendations for the plants you want to grow. If you had it amended a few years ago, you can easily get a pH strip to see if the pH is still optimum.
3. Till in the ground cover that was on the soil where you want your plants to grow and work in good compost into the soil.
4. If it’s been more than a couple of weeks since you’ve turned the soil and prepared your beds, then they’ve probably crusted over from rain. Drag a rake over the area a couple of times to break up the crust (you’ll likely need to weed, too). (see here)
5. Make a diagram of your garden with the names of the plants you will grow. It doesn’t have to be fancy. But it will make you decide what you want and how much you need to buy and decide which plants are happy growing together. (see here)
Oriental Melons
Chinese melon by NomadicEntrepreneur
Yesterday was my most recent trip to an Asian supermarket where I found a variety of interesting melons that I have never eaten. I love melons so I wanted to try some new ones. I asked an Asian shopper who was buying them what they were like. She told me one was very sweet and the other crisp and not so sweet.
Most of the Oriental melons were very small, enough for one person, or for a light eater two could have a little half. So I bought the two different Oriental melons. I liked them, they could be nice serving “dishes” to fill the cavity with sorbets.
VIDEO: Strangest Plants: Plants that can kill you.
The Corpse Plant, which waits years or even decades to bloom, just flowered up while on display at the US Botanical Garden Conservatory in Washington DC. It smells like rotting flesh and grows up to ten feet tall. But there are plenty of other bizarre looking plants in the world as you’ll see.
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Enjoying and Growing and Cooking With Persimmons
Diospyros kaki (Persimmon or Kaki)by Arthur Chapman
I enjoy going to Asian or Indian food markets because of the variety of exotic, to my eyes, fruits and vegetables they carry. I always come home with a new taste treat. Some I love and some I don’t care to try a second time. But the experience is so much fun.
I adore the Japanese or Asian persimmons- called Kaki in Japanese, though they originate in China and Korea, too. I like the non-astringent variety, which you eat when it is hard. The astringent types of persimmons, like the American persimmon, you must wait until the fruit is very, very soft to eat it. You can tell the difference in some of the persimmons because most of the non-astringent varieties are flatter in shape; the astringent ones seem to be shaped like acorns. I am not a connoisseur of Japanese persimmons, so I mostly buy fuyu persimmons which are the most readily available in supermarkets or in Chinatown or even my local food store. Persimmons are sold for a longer time period in Asian food markets. I look for the brightest orange ones I can find. Blemishes don’t seem to affect the taste. To see how to pick persimmons when buying, watch this video:
VIDEO: ‘Corpse flower’ blooms, raises stink
The titan arum reveals itself to Washington at the U.S. Botanic Garden next to the Capitol. The rainforest plant is known for its peculiar, disturbing odor at peak bloom. But now, the beastly flower is raising a stink for what it did not do.
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The root of mustard garlic weed
Photo taken from website called Straight from the Farm
TheGardenLady received this question from Charna.
I think I have this little bugger in my flowerbeds and garden. I really really need to know what the roots look like. I keep pulling up these large carrot type roots that are very often doubled and remind me of what ginsing must look like, and can be rather large clumps. Do you have a picture ofthe root for a mustard garlic weed?
It is so much easier to identify a plant when it is growing above ground when you see the leaves than trying to identify a plant from its roots. And it helps the most for identifying purposes to look at the flower of the plant, if it has flowers.
Garlic mustard is an easy plant to identify when one sees the leaves the first year before it has flowers and also when it has flowers from both the sight and the smell. (see here)