The sunflowers are doing wonderfully, this one is a multi-head, or a mutant! I have never seen one like this before be interesting to see how it progresses.
Guavas are often included among superfruits, being rich in dietary fiber, vitamins A and C, folic acid, and the dietary minerals, potassium, copper and manganese.
Having a generally broad, low-calorie profile of essential nutrients, a single common guava fruit contains about four times the amount of vitamin C as an orange.
These are planted around the fruit trees. The bees go crazy over them so pollination is at an all time high, beauty and purpose.......what more could anyone want!
They love our hot summers, love being around the rocks of the pond where soil is rather shallow and rarely need any work other than a prune once a year.
I have dried a mountain of this for soups and casseroles, always nice to have that celery taste when the celery is actually not in season.
Now you know why I label everything LOL!
Today was not only hectic in the garden, but in the kitchen too............posts on that in the morning:)
Hope your weekend is a good one:)
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I don't know what the last one is, but your garden is lovely! Wishing I could grow guavas here in the midwest US.
Thanks DK, it will be once it is complete, we have only just started having brought it just over 12 months ago.......self sufficiency in as much as possible is the goal:)
Hi Molly,
It looks a bit like Caraway.
Looks like things are picking up in the garden at last. We had a pretty miserable winter as well, maybe not as cold as you but a lot more overcast than usual. More rain than the last few winters so we are looking forward to a great spring with all the extra moisture in the soil.
It maybe chervil or Queen Anne's Lace or lovage, from the flowers it looks as if it is from the Umbellifer family
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apiaceae
Have you had a little taste that might help identify also.
Your garden is looking fantastic, coming along really well, I think end of winter/spring is the best time of the year in the drier parts of Australia.
Thanks Jonesy. I wouldn't have minded the winter but here we got more frosts than rain, it has been very dry, not a good start to the cropping season for the farmers unfortunately.
Thanks Pip, I am not game to taste it, bit of a wuss in things like that lol. I agree, the garden is always at its' best here this time of the year.
I agree Pip Queen Anne's Lace. It is in the same family as carrot and parsley so don't feed it to your chooks. It will self seed and become a weed if you allow it.
I'd pick it as Queen Anne's Lace from the picture - a really good attractant for hoverflies, which also eat aphids. And it looks really healthy!
Looking fantastic!
Not sure what the herb is, does the smell give you any clues?
Thanks Olive & Linda, I will leave it there for now, anything that attracts the nemesis of the aphid is a friend of mine:)
Ta Dixie, the warmer weather is working a treat:)
Hi GF, no, it didn't, although I think the readers are right, it does indeed appear to be queen anns lace.
Frost damaged a lot of plants in our garden as well over winter. I was surprised by how many frosts we actually had, and some mornings the ice over everything was an inch thick! I'd never seen anything like it! These past few weeks I've been getting out in the garden and pruning all the dead bits off and the plants seems much happier for it, especially with all the rain we've been having. :)
~S.
I've pruned mine back too Sorcha, and gave them a good spray with seasol, they seem to be picking up wonderfully......well most, think I have lost a couple:(
The last photograph to my eyes looks like abundant coriander going to flower. It looks like very familiar to me as this is how it looked like when my mother would grow it from seed in her garden.
Mango thanks, you were right, it was the coriander:)
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