Showing posts with label Penta. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Penta. Show all posts

Tuesday, 24 December 2019

Fruiting and flowering in late December

Coreopsis

Penta

Crepe Myrtle (Tuscan Red)

Bismarck Palm with Furcrea in foreground

Edible (tastes like Lemon Sorrel) Cranberry Hibiscus

Flowers on Star Fruit

Macadamia

Wax Jambu

Golden Grumichama

Black Grumichama


Tamarillo

Tamarillo

Brazil Cherry
 or Pitanga or Surinam Cherry

Salvia

Black self-seeded Passionfruit

Immature Kwai Muk fruit

White Penta

Galangal

Strongly Perfumed Brunsfeldia

Monday, 29 May 2017

Ornamentals in our Fernmount Food Forest

Ornamentals ensure the Fernmount Food Forest is not just an unattractive, utilitarian source of food.
Of course many food producing plants are also ornamental and many plants we consider only as ornamentals are also edible. Ornamentals also attract bees and other beneficial insects and of course many birds, especially small insect eaters. There is no reason that a food producing garden can't also be attractive and a delight to explore.

In our climate foliage provides much colour so gold, yellow, orange, copper, silver and bronze foliage plants feature. The advantage is that foliage colour is so easy to provide compared to the work and time required to grow annual flowers. Trees and bushes also contribute many flowers and contrasting leaf shapes also contribute to visual interest.



Large Bromeliad
This Bromeliad looks green now but will turn gold again once gradually exposed to more sun.