Salad Burnet (Sanguisorba minor)

Have you met anyone who would plant something just because they liked the sound of its name? Well, look no further – here’s one. So when someone offered me some salad burnet seeds, I was thrilled. I didn’t know what the herb was for, but I reckoned it would be good just going by its [...]

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Nepenthes Ampullaria

    These ground-hugging squat pitchers look like nature’s tea-cups or shot glasses. Except that I wouldn’t want to take a sip of its slimy cocktail of drowned insects. But ampullaria pitchers are lovely with their wide lips and narrow lids. There are two sorts of pitchers; aerial pitchers and basal ones. The aerial pitchers [...]

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Evodia Suaveolens aka Zodia – mosquito repellant plant

Why is the Evodia Suaveolens such a rarity? I searched long and hard, but could not find what was touted to be the ultimate mosquito repellant plant. I even searched the internet but strangely, there wasn’t much information posted on the plant. I sniffed and touched every plant which looked remotely like the Evodia Suaveolens. [...]

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