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Whizz11 Butternut Squash: ... autumn turns to winter my thoughts turn to comfort foods and in particular home made soups. I love making soups as they are really easy and tasty and one of my favourite ingredients at this time of year is the Butternut Squash. A Butternut squash is a type of winter squash. It has a sweet, nutty taste that is similar to pumpkin. It has yellow skin and orange fleshy pulp. When ripe, it turns increasingly deep orang...
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Plants - Celery Celery
Food / Plants / Vegetable - Also known as celeriac.
overall rating  7 reviews
 
 
Narcissus Narcissus
Plants / Daffodils - All Narcissus species have a central trumpet-, bowl-, or disc-shaped corona surrounded by a ring of 6 floral leaves called the perianth which is united into a tube at the forward edge of the ovary. The three outer segments are sepals, and the three inner segments are petals. Th...
overall rating  7 reviews
 
Plants - Runner Beans Runner Beans
Plants / Phaseolus coccineus is often called the scarlet runner bean since most varieties have red flowers and multicolored seeds, though some have white flowers and white seeds. It differs from the common bean in several respects: the cotyledons stay in the ground during germination, and the plant...
overall rating  9 reviews
 
Orchids Orchids
Plants / Orchids (Orchidaceae family) are the largest and most diverse of the flowering plant (Angiospermae) families, with over 800 described genera and 25,000 species. Some sources give 30,000 species, but the exact number is unknown since classification differs greatly in the academic world. The...
overall rating  8 reviews
 
Plants - Sage Sage
Plants / Salvia officinalis is a small evergreen subshrub, with woody stems, grayish leaves, and blue to purplish flowers native to southern Europe and the Mediterranean region. It is much cultivated as a kitchen and medicinal herb, and is also called Garden sage, Kitchen sage, and Dalmatian sag...
overall rating  10 reviews
 
Sunflowers Sunflowers
Plants / Native to the Americas the stems of the flowers can grow as high as 3 metres tall and the flower head can be up to 30 cm in diameter producing large seeds.
overall rating  6 reviews
 
 
Plants - Avocado Avocado
Plants / Persea americana (Lauraceae).
overall rating  6 reviews
 
 
Rhubarb Rhubarb
Plants of the genus Rheum, especially R. rhabarbarum, having long green or reddish acidic leafstalks that are edible when sweetened and cooked. Rhubarb is a perennial plant that grows from thick short rhizomes, comprising the genus Rheum. This genus is in the family Polygonaceae, along wit...
overall rating  7 reviews
 
Plants - Venus Fly Trap Venus Fly Trap
Dionaea muscipula is a carnivorous plant eating insects to collect the necessary animal proteins and other byproducts to sustain life. This plant has a very fast reaction time. As a insect, such as fly, lands on the plants leaves and touches the adaxial receptors, a chemical reaction occur...
overall rating  7 reviews
 
Thyme Thyme
Thymus is a genus of about 350 species of aromatic perennial herbaceous plants and sub-shrubs to 40 cm tall, in the family Lamiaceae and native to Europe, North Africa and Asia. A number of species have different chemotypes. The stems tend to be narrow or even wiry; the leaves are evergree...
overall rating  9 reviews
 
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berrydelight Pumpkins
... I admit im a little bit late and have missed the major annual pumpkin related event but what will you do with the orange beauties now? They are liable to be on offer in supermarkets everywhere as shoppers turn their backs on this fabulously versatile ingredient and so join me for a quick review of pumpkins and a few of my favourite pumpkin recipes! Pumpkins are from the same family as squash and according to Saturday Kitchen at the weekend are seeing a huge surge in popularity as people like me realise there is more to them then making scary faces at Halloween (an art form in itself! A quick Google search brings up some incredible images and as you can imagine the US...
Read the full review: As the nights draw near fill your tum with some Pumpkin cheer! by berrydelight
shroud Aucuba
... is a fairly common garden plant found in British gardens. It is usually known by its English name, spotted laurel, due to the most popular variety being the sort that has variegated leaves (green with yellow markings). This is actually a complete misnomer, as it is not related to the laurel at all, but a completely unrelated genus of plants that were imported a few centuries ago from Asia. The particular variety known here as spotted laurel, is actually a species imported from Japan, Aucuba japonica., and if left unpruned can reach a height of about 13 feet, depending on the particular cultivar. It takes to being topped off quite well though, so it is possible to al...
Read the full review: Aosa Nishiki by shroud
shroud Rhododendrons & Azaleas
... centuries these plants have been popular with gardeners around the world. Many of the species we are familiar with were actually originated in Asia, with the largest concentration of the commonly found varieties being Chinese and Japanese in origin. They also come in two leaf types: deciduous (loses its leaves in winter) and evergreen (pretty self explanatory, no?). Additionally, there are standard varieties, which can grow quite large, and dwarf varieties which never grow more than about 2 feet tall. The dwarf variety of azalea (commonly known as satsuki) is also popular for making into bonsai. Now, while stationed at American military bases actually located in the ...
Read the full review: From English Cottage, to Woodland Garden, to Formal Japanese Garden by shroud
 
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