What is Blooming in Our Garden
Dear Steemit friends :
Greetings! We are located in Tampa Bay area of Florida and would like to share with you what's blooming at this time of the year in our garden.
We planted our edible garden to have flowers year-round in order to attract and feed honey bees, other pollinators, and pest predators.
These flowers are not only pleasing to the sight but also help maintain a healthy ecosystem. When little beneficial insects are abundant and happy, so are the plants in the garden and the people :-)
Cranberry Hibiscus
Canna Edulis
Sweet Potato
Pigeon Pea
Amaranth
Pumpkin
Singapore Daisy
Day Flower
Loquat
Banana
Papaya
Asparagas
Spanish Needle
African Potato Mint
Shampoo Ginger
Hibiscus Mahogany Splendor
By the way, most flowers shown above in our garden are edible by humans, too!
Amazing! What a different flora you have! I‘m fascinated!
Thank you, my friend! I am so fortunate to live in a semi-tropical area. However, permaculture practices can be applied to all climates :-)
Oh my gosh how beautiful. Really, really beautiful. I had not heard of some of those plants. Pretty sure they are warm weather plants. I am wondering how when you do a post you put those sub-titles at the end. That way you can really elaborate on your post and draw more peeps into your audience. Very smart. I am really interested in your posts thus far. Flowers, gardening, permaculture. Not sure what ecotrain really involves but I am sure to soon find out. Happy Gardening.
The flowers are a symbol of life and death. The more care and love you give them, the more beautiful they will be while the less water, the more faded vitamins they will put on, just as life is.
Yes, most are all warm weather plants. Frost and snow will kill them in no time. EcoTrain means Eco-Training. It was a tag I tried to see what response I could get. Probably not the best tag for this post. Thank you for your comment!
Your Cranberry Hibiscus is simply beautiful!
Bananas, papayas and asparagus! Quite the garden you have going!
You should do an edible garden post from you garden! Would love to see that.
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Thank you, @goldendawne! Cranberry Hibiscus is not only beautiful but also fast growing and edible (both flowers and leaves). I picked up some flowers this morning to make a smoothie, also added moringa leaves, mint, lemon, banana, mulberry from my garden. For lunch today, I will have sweet potato leaves, Longevity spinach, Malarbar spinach, asparagus (photo below), grapefruit, and malanga. In addition, I also harvested two papayas at the same time. Per your request, I will certainly do an edible garden post from my garden.
The following link shows my lunch a few days ago: https://steemit.com/health/@cheneats/my-simple-lunch-gathered-from-my-garden-with-no-added-ingredients
That's great about an edible garden post! I'm looking forward to it.
Hi @goldendawne I did my first edible garden post. More to follow https://steemit.com/homesteading/@cheneats/my-banana-circle
I'm really liking your hibiscus' ! Thanks for sharing these beautiful photos :)
Thank you! My pleasure :)