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This week in plants 🌱

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Our Food Stories

[orchid-grower]

Primulina yungfuensis and ‘Loki’ make fantastic and unusual houseplants.

[chickadeegreen]

corner of my new apartment 🌿💫🌿

[raereauland]

I dont know who she is, but I adore her.

[leafy-leafs]

Don't forget to rotate your plants y'all

29 June 2020

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Don't forget to water them either. This begonia is looking rough

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The caladiums

I wanna get a window box for these ladies.

31 May 2020

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21 July 2020

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[growingsucculents]

Fluffy leaves and new roots

[lyrabrie]

The only gardening I managed to do this year - a bouquet of carrots! 🥕🥕🥕

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Aeonium kiwi 🥝☘️🌺🍃

[regnum-plantae]

Brassica oleracea (kale) F1 ‘Peacock White’, Brassicaceae

During this time of the year it’s easy to come across ornamental varieties of kale, as they are colourful, tough and will last well through winter frost, but many of them have been bred mostly for their looks, so they are often inferior when it comes to taste and texture. 

I haven’t personally tried it (yet!), but the F1 hybrid ‘Peacock White’, selected in the XIX century, is apparently as tasty as it is stunning. It certainly stood out in the vegetable garden of Pollok House, where it looked incredible against dark, cultivated soil, but I think it could be even more interesting incorporated in a border, to add some contrast and extend, with its bright ivory, the spectrum of typical autumn shades. 

At the allotment I am currently growing my favourite Italian variety, Lacinato kale, (which we call cavolo nero, ‘black cabbage’) and red russian kale, but next year I am definitely going to try this one as I am now really curious to know if its really as tender and flavourful as I read on websites advertising its seeds. If you haven’t tried it, I’ll let you know, but if you already have then please come forward!  

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A little forest of pagoda fungus [Podoserpula pusio]. This fungus can be found throughout Australia, New Zealand, Venezuela, and Madagascar. Images by Petra Gloyn.