Got a good dose of Vitamin D
By rebelann1949
@rebelann (111084)
El Paso, Texas
May 24, 2019 7:11pm CST
Yepper, I was out digging the hole for the Afghan pine and rearranging some fencing I had put up over a decade ago. I think I got a sunburn.
I had to face a truth today, I am not as strong as I was back then damit all
The collage above is mostly of my hollyhock but the shot in the middle is a local bloom on a bush that grows all over the desert here, the orange bloom is only about the size of a penny which is the typical size for most blossoms on our desert bushes.
The one below it is a cluster of my Mexican Elder, apparently it is edible but I have to research just how I'm supposed to eat it.
Do you know how to prepare Mexican elder blossoms for eating?
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
3 Jun 19
We have most of those flowers in the image growing here.
I think we all have to take it a bit more easy and I usually do a warm up kind of thing if I do anything like gardening.
Great images.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
3 Jun 19
@rebelann
Welcome have a good day ahead.
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@rebelann (111084)
• El Paso, Texas
3 Jun 19
Thank you @lovinangelsinstead21 I hope you have sweet dreams
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@rebelann (111084)
• El Paso, Texas
3 Jun 19
I think you probably have a similar climate to what I have. I have to water my plants at least every other day in the hot weather to keep them from drying out, these are not native to my desert.
I am always mindful of my back and knees when doing any kind of yard work, the last thing I want is to re injure old injuries.
Thank you, I am glad you like them.
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! I have no idea about Mexican Elder. Do you eat other blossoms?
@rebelann (111084)
• El Paso, Texas
25 May 19
You are correct about that but many of those edible plants would dry up before they'd have half a chance to even try to grow. The climate here is far to dry and hot for a lot of the plants that you probably have easy access to.
Yes, I do love the sun.
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@Shellyann36 (11385)
• United States
5 Jun 19
I enjoy looking at your flowers! When I was young my Mama always had hollyhocks growing in the yard. I really like that orange bloom in the middle. Thank you for sharing your sunshine.
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@Shellyann36 (11385)
• United States
21 Jun 19
@rebelann It is very pretty. Do you get lots of bees, butterflies or other pollen spreading insects out there in the desert?
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@rebelann (111084)
• El Paso, Texas
22 Jun 19
A few but too many of the people here use pesticides and herbicides which kills so many of them @Shellyann36 I wish that crap were illegal.
@changjiangzhibin89 (16518)
• China
25 May 19
I haven't seen the hollyhock with orange blooms.I don't know about Mexican elder ,but know the local elder blossoms are diaphoretic.
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@changjiangzhibin89 (16518)
• China
26 May 19
@rebelann Oh , It isn't a hollyhock ! However it indeed look like a sort of malvaceous plant.
The Malvaceae Info web site provides information, both botanical and horticultural, on the angiosperm family Malvaceae sensu APG (which includes the traditional Bombacaceae and much of the traditional Sterculiaceae (± Byttneriaceae) and Tiliaceae), togethe
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@rebelann (111084)
• El Paso, Texas
26 May 19
It might be but the blossom is barely the size of my finger tip @changjiangzhibin89
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@rebelann (111084)
• El Paso, Texas
26 May 19
I have planted flower seeds before but the only ones that ever germinated were my hollyhocks, I doubt those are edible. As for the Mexican Elder, it was accidental, a friend of mine was trimming his tree and I asked if I could take the large stump he had uprooted and when I put it into it's spot on my lot I didn't expect it to take root then after about 2 years it began to show leaves, now it's a nice large bush.
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@LowRiderX (22907)
• Serbia
3 Jun 19
Unfortunately, I can not help you here, I do not know how to prepare, but I believe there's information about it on the Internet
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@LowRiderX (22907)
• Serbia
4 Jun 19
@rebelann Great! Yes, there are people who know that
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@GardenGerty (157494)
• United States
31 May 19
Now you have given me something to research. I would think that it is probably like the elder plants we have here. If so then the flowers make a wonderful tea. I will get back to you on this.
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@rebelann (111084)
• El Paso, Texas
1 Jun 19
Hmmmm, tea wouldn't be too bad. Add ice and it's iced elder tea, I'll have to check that out after I get the notifications done.
@PatZAnthony (14752)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
1 Jun 19
You will probably have to go to YouTube to get some good answers about the elder blossoms. We have eaten squash blossoms and more. People think we are crazy, but that's okay!
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@rebelann (111084)
• El Paso, Texas
1 Jun 19
If it's edible why not? I prefer to allow blossoms become fruit when possible but then here I rarely get the chance to grow any kind of fruits, most plants like that usually dry out in our nasty dry winds.
