Herb Marigold 'Dropshot', a nice texture in the landscape.
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Comments (4)Hi, I am interested in the tomatoes,peppers, and the gourds. I have some of the herbs that you want and also some hen and chicks. Let me know if this would be a good trade for you, Suzy...See Morefall colors and textures
Comments (39)My favorite combination was a dark green mid sized agave inside a haze of Foo Foo Muhly with the setting sun behind it. It rocked me in the mall parking lot, if you can imagine that. I rarely EVER step foot in malls and usually I am in a rotten mood when I do. I am not much of a pink person, but I admire things that go for broke in what they do and this one does that. I do like the pink haze , it is like setting sun fog. I never hung out at the county fair. Being the big city intelgensia child that I was, I was denied the kewpie doll/corndog experience and was denied salt taffy and cotton candy . Poor poor me. I know it theoretically and have seen it in movies so there is that. But I do not go there when I see Foo foo muhly do its thing..It is starting to be used a lot in big plantings everywhere in Texas. Which is a good thing that coporate landscapers are going first to our Natives and looking for solutions that take less water and fertilizer.I hope it does not become the ubiquitous muhly in the way that Pampas _ _ass has. You see the Deer muhly and pine muhly. too. I just picked up some wispy plain jane bloomers, Weeping Muhly (M. dubioides) or Muhly dubi-dubi-do(my name). It is definitely more one for texture.It is an Arizona native so I am hoping for success in the xeric and low nutrient factors. The summer reduces colors around here to dull buff tones and greyed out greens. Then when all is just starting to cool down to a livable 70 degrees, the world just gets juicier, the light warmer and gold, young chartreuse, red and purple peek into the palette and the there is a rebirth in color and this pink fog fits right in but near the top of the scale.. I do not see M. capillaris as out of place in the garden experience. It might not be as sparse as the high plains prairies . But it is a native of the coastal prairies of Texas. A slightly different look. I have not been successful with growing it in the severe treatment that I give most of my plants. It might have something to do with the placement in a pocket of dirt in solid white hard caliche. I really should be nicer if I want things to thrive..Maybe I should give it another try. It needs a bit more water than what we have been having lately....See MoreHelp with herb varieties
Comments (21)Don't forget that Lavendar is also a culinary herb as well. Great in cookies! Needs full sun and absolutely good drainage. I like to cook with fennel (foliage) on fish. There are different fennels - the bulb (large bulb used as a vegetable), the regular, grown for foliage only, and bronze. I plant all 3. Mainly for the Black Swallowtails. If you find those beautiful black, yellow, and white striped caterpillars on dill, parsley (curled mainly), and fennel - you've got black swallowtail caterpillars. You can plant extra for them and most the cats to those plants. This is our state butterfly. Flat leaf parsley is easier to cook with and eat. The curly leaf parsley tends to "stick" in people's throats. I know because I made a dish with it, and nobody could eat it! Big leaf green basil I agree is best for cooking pesto. Mmmmmm, I'm hungry already! I also grow garlic chives and chives, too. Hardy Rosemary can be grown here as well. Make sure you have the hardy cultivars. I grow lots of medicinal types of herbs, too, like Rue, because it is a host plant for the Black Swallowtail as well as the Giant Swallowtail. The butterflies love the blooms on many medicinal plants, e.g., echinacea or coneflowers, and many are quite lovely. A lot of what we grow in the garden is actually a medicinal and/or culinary herb. I also grow plantain for the Buckeye butterflies, but it is edible as well. Curry plant, or helichrysum petiolare(not the flowering straw flowers) can be eaten, too. This is also a host for Painted Lady butterflies. Pleurisy root (or asclepias, or milkweed) was used for just that. However, it is the host plant for Monarch butterflies. The tropical (Asclepias curassavica) is an annual, but it's flowers also attract lots of nectaring butterflies as well. There are several perennial milkweeds, too. Think about foxglove as well, or digitalis (heart medicine). Most people don't actually use these for medicinal purposes anymore, because these plants can be poisonous if not used properly. But, I include them in my garden not only as host plants for butterflies, but because they are beautiful as well. BTW - I have lots of Asclepias curassavica 'Silky Gold' and red/yellow blooms if any wants the seeds. Best planted after frost, directly in ground or pots outside. Susan...See Moreherbs ?
Comments (16)man, i'd love to travel to india. i've studied hinduism for years OM JAI! well, after years of mixing my own curry, i found a great pre-mixed curry i have to buy it in indian grocery stores, we have a huge indian population here in the houston area, so finding a market was no problem its made by pataks, i buy the vindaloo curry, their madras curry is good too, but the vindaloo is my favorite this refers to the style of curry, as you might know there are tons of different curries i usually make a veggie "stew" type thing, you've gotta watch your veggies carefully, i like mine still somewhat crisp, but not raw, and not overly done that they turn to veggie mush i almost always add potatos, and peas, and many times chicken too we can take it hot, and the kids don't eat it, so i usually use about 2 tablespoons of the vindaloo curry, but be warned, that stuff is HOT, so i'd try to make a small batch first, and see how hot you really like it beings that i can't make naan (trying to get husband to build me a tandori oven!) i usually serve it with tortillas for dippin, its not quite the same, but good enough, since the indian market where i could get naan is very far away best of luck namaste! tesa...See Morefloraluk2
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