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Dr Souvik Chatterji
@sathviksouvik (23230)
15 May
In bengali we call basil plant as tulsi. I have tulsi plant in pots in balcony. The leaves are useful if eaten with honey which can reduce cold and cough. Also there are other medicinal properties of basil. It is offered in Vishnu...
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celticeagle
@celticeagle (189793)
• Boise, Idaho
9 Apr
As many of you know I have three trees outside my bedroom window. I live in there so seeing out past those trees is really the bees knees. I can see over to the parking lot at Taco Bell across the side street. Then it's out past...
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Dr Souvik Chatterji
@sathviksouvik (23230)
2 Apr
In Bengal and Orissa pan or betel leaves create a mood. Pan leaves or betel leaves are watery plants requiring huge watering. So they cannot stand strong sunshine. The covering ensures that. There are suparies, gulkand made out of...
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celticeagle
@celticeagle (189793)
• Boise, Idaho
29 Nov
It was only about two weeks back and I was enjoying looking out my twin window in my room at the beautiful orange and yellow leaves. So pretty! Now the limbs that once held those lovely examples of Mother Nature are all grey and...
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Jim Bauer
@porwest (112717)
• United States
23 Nov
Well, that's it. The camper is in hibernation until next year. A couple of weekends ago we towed it to Camping World about an hour away to have it winterized, and just yesterday we went and picked it up, and now it's back in...
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celticeagle
@celticeagle (189793)
• Boise, Idaho
19 Nov
I have lived in this world now for 74 years. I have seen some idiotic things, some silly and some downright bizarre things in my day. I remember growing up at my grandparent's house and the lovely relationship we had with all the...
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Dr Souvik Chatterji
@sathviksouvik (23230)
7 Sep
There is a mahua tree grown in forests in India. Their leaves and fruits are crushed to make a wine of local variety. There is huge intoxicating effect of all of them. When one stands under the tree there is a lovely aroma that...
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Traceyjayne
@Traceyjayne (11252)
• United Kingdom
27 Jul
So, The Mister has just been tending the garden and suddenly he shouts me ….he is holding something ….”is it alive ?” I ask ….it was ….
He found a caterpillar on his beloved roses ….
Up to now ….14 of the little darlings have...
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celticeagle
@celticeagle (189793)
• Boise, Idaho
10 Jul
It's only 76F here today so far. We were actually able to enjoy some cooler weather last night and got some good sleep. My daughter and I both wake up early and don't get a full night's sleep when it is so hot. My grandson could...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (381741)
• Rockingham, Australia
10 Jun
We stayed at a B&B on Saturday night and I took this photo of a tree that was in the yard. I don’t know what sort of tree it was although it didn’t look like anything exotic.
However, the patch of leaves you see was very...
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Dr Souvik Chatterji
@sathviksouvik (23230)
4 Dec 24
It is winter in Calcutta. Fenugreek or methi leaves are crushed and atta or flour is put on top of that to make methi ka paratha. Generally a curry is also made of brinjal and methi and it gives awesome taste to eat with methi ka...
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Jim Bauer
@porwest (112717)
• United States
19 Nov 24
Yesterday I would have liked to have gotten out to mulch the leaves yet another time, but it was rainy all day and there's no way I'd want to try to mulch wet leaves. So far the weather is working out this morning and I hope it...
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Dr Souvik Chatterji
@sathviksouvik (23230)
17 Nov 24
In bengal there are many ponds and water bodies where the lotus flower with leaves are offered in Puja to Gods. I already wrote about lotus leaves are used in fooding. The same lotus is used for making oils having huge herbal...
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Dr Souvik Chatterji
@sathviksouvik (23230)
17 Nov 24
In the different villages of bengal still lunch and dinner are given in lotus leaves. The lotus leaves float in ponds in villages. They are helpful and dont have germs. These days banana leaves are used in villages. In cities...
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celticeagle
@celticeagle (189793)
• Boise, Idaho
14 Nov 24
Outside my bedroom window are three trees. The limbs consume my windows and the leaves obstruct my view of the Taco Bell across the street and the main drag just past it. I don't mind too much but would like to see out.
There...
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