collard greens

Mustard (top) and collard greens. Greens In Florida, hardy collards thrive under a wide range of conditions and can easily be grown throughout most of the year. They’re one of the few greens that can make it through the hot weather and can be planted in the spring for a summer harvest — but they…

foxtail palm

Available in single or multi-trunk specimens. Its smooth gray trunk is topped with a bright green crownshaft and big tufted fronds that resemble the bushy tail of a fox. Native to Australia. By Clau8a – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link   Classification Alternate names Latin name Wodyetia bifurcata Family Arecaceae (palm) Related species Cultivars…

moringa

Post is germinating Branch of a fully grown moringa tree with flowers and leaves in West Bengal By J.M.Garg – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link Pruning Moringa 2/9/19 Two years ago, in 2017, a friend gave me a stick. I stuck the stick in the ground and watered it. Now I have a monster…

canna lily

You’ve seen cannas around gardens in Florida, even if you don’t know it. They’re the giant orchid-looking things with great big colorful leaves and seed pods that look like fuzzy duck heads. They take some work to look their best and they prefer to stand alone, but they’re worth it. Probably. Cannas are heat-loving perennials…

culantro

This attractive dark green biennial herb grown throughout the Caribbean and Central America is a key ingredient in Puerto Rican cooking as well as dishes of other nationalities. It belongs to the same plant family as cilantro and smells similar but has long bladed leaves and a sharper taste. I will use this pretty herb a…

candlestick senna

The first thing sustainability-minded people usually say about candlestick plant is, “Yay, it’s a host plant for sulphur butterflies to lay their eggs” (of which we in FL are blessed with species ranging from the tiniest sulphur species, the size of a fingernail, to a giant floating flower the size of a tiger swallowtail.) But…

chard

By Neelix at English Wikipedia – Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons by Quadell using CommonsHelper., Public Domain, Link (post is sprouting} Classification Family Chenopodiaceae (beet) Cultivars Favorite varieties are `Bright Lights’ and `Fordhook Giant,’ which are green-leaved, and `Rhubarb,’ which has red leaves. Also Bright Yellow, Lucullus, Red Ruby. Source Seeds, Neem Tree Farm (8/1/18)…