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Spring Planting for Summer Flowers
If you’d like flowers in your garden to cut this summer, April is a great month here for sowing or planting out “cut and come again” flowering plants. They’re especially useful to grow because, if you keep picking their flowers, they’ll continue producing more. Most of them are annuals, so their survival strategy is to…
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Ideas for Edible Flowers
Recently, I’ve enjoyed reading several new cookbooks that are full of ideas for using edible flowers (titles listed down below). Here are some tips I gleaned from these books, to help bring the vibrant colors and delicate flavors of flowers to your kitchen: Harvesting and Storing (2 Methods) It’s ideal to harvest edible flowers in…
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Leucojum: A Favorite February Plant
Leucojum aestivum is a spring bulb native to Europe that sends up multiple flower stems. Each stem has several white, bell-shaped, pendant flowers with a delicate form and a tiny green dot on each of its tepals. Though Leucojum plants are often called “summer snowflakes” and their Latin name contains the word “aestivum” (“of the…
Local flowers from St. Helena, CA 