I had one of these for a few years, it grew happily in my window and one day it just up and died. Went from happy and bushy to dead within a few days. :-(
Flashback to the past, thank you! My dad used to put the flowers on mixed salads in the past. Very interesting taste, enhancing the salad experience quite a bit for young me.
I've actually tasted some of these flowers on cupcakes before. I definitely could taste some kind of cucumber-like flavor, but it was slightly different.
Yeah the cucumber taste is why people tend to use a more neutrally flavored flower for edible decor. Although, there are some dessert flavors that I think go really well with it, like blueberry. The color is the major draw though. They really are beautiful.
Yes! The older leaves grow hairs on them, so people tend to cook them in soups or stews to soften it up and make the texture less evident. Its a very interesting herb overall.
This is one of the invasive ones, right? I've honestly never minded the smell, but I repeatedly hear other people saying it smells like various bodily fluids and I'm left confused.
@ClimbingBunny@Nepenthe Ah, yes. The cultivar common here in Alabama is "Bradford Pear." Messy, malodorous, and super invasive in the American Southeast.
Our roses are struggling this year even though the last few years they have been thriving. We live in the Midwest zone 4 and this year is the first one not in a serious drought
Looks like potentially sun scorch or a fertilizer burn. How much have you been watering it/how much has it been raining, and when/what do you fertilize with?
We haven't fertilized this year at all so it can be that. I was thinking it was sun scorch. We typically water in the morning or evening but it's by the bird bath so it can get hit with water when we fill that.
We have been water every couple of days but we have had some big rain. It might be over watered since it's in a small space
Overwatering is definitely a possibility then, but discoloration would start on the leaf tips and be more consistent throughout, and typically more yellow, which makes me think it could be something more severe. It's hard to tell because of all the leaf breakage happening, though. Try cutting back on water for a few weeks, and if it doesn't get better you might be looking at an infection like Rose Mosaic. Hopefully not though!
Bugs would explain the breakage! Though this would have to be the most extreme case of rose sawfly I've ever seen, which is why I originally discounted it.
More succinctly, they are magic berries that will make you not a mammal.
I used to see this all the time up in Virginia and never had any idea what to call it. My shock at seeing anything with a hot pink stem for the first time
The color is associated with the toxin if it’s not actually the toxin itself. You can eat (after boiling and draining the water repeatedly) the leaves of a young plant before the stems start turning colors. They used to eat them during the Great Depression because they grow so easy.
I had no idea a virus could cause these streaks. I just thought it came about through selective tulip breeding (is that what it is called in horticulture?).
That is how the modern day Rembrandt Tulips came to be! They're a fairly modern plant courtesy of selective breeding. The virus was just the inspiration for the effect.
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