Purslane: a Tasty Garden Green

This delicious and highly nutritious plant is considered to be a WEED by many and uprooted and thrown away. High in Omega-3 and other nutrients it is a wonderful food and gives the most delicious flavor to a pot of beans. I put it in my pasta sauce as well. It costs almost nothing to grow because I just buy a handful of the live greens at the market and then put the stems in water to root and before long it has hundreds, no, thousands of tiny seeds that sprout very fast and make more plants.

Patch

Pumpkin patch!

Herbal Garden

My garden has plenty of catmint which can also be diffused into a herbal tea. My cats just adore this stuff. It's a perennial that will take over your flower bed if you don't keep it trimmed back!There are probably many wonderful plants you could use to make tea, potpourri or even skin lotion. Roses are very common.

Venus Flytrap! Plant? or pet? What should it be?

I'm the proud owner of a Venus Flytrap! It's name is Munchkin. It likes flies but it detests gnats!

Venus Flytrap: Carnivorous plant (eats meat)

This is my Venus Flytrap. Its name is Munchkin. In this picture, it has 2 flies captured.

growing

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Helping Hands

Hands holding soil with seedling

Flowers on the rocks

Flowers could grow on the rocks.

flower in the rainforest

beautiful flowers grow in the rainforest

flowers

pretty flower we saw in the rainforest