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Unconventional Plants, Rare Seeds, Exotic Seeds, Unique Vegetables, Odd Fruits, Unusual Botanics

Monday

Dark Flowers Desert Indigo Bush

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Dark flowers for Bees! Lovely!  Desert Indigo Bush, Amorpha fruticosa, is a spectacular loose shrub with fine textured, fragrant folia...
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Red Mangrove Rhizophora mangle

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What a beauty!  Rhizophora mangle perfectly can be grown in any kind of aquarium whether seawater aquarium, brackish water aquarium or ...
Friday

Dwarf Evergreen Plumeria Frangipani pudica "Bridal Bouquet"

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Absolutely beautiful and rare Flower, native of Panama, Colombia and Venezuela , blooms in bouquets of white flowers usually in Texas, F...
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Monday

Wild Wild Vegetables: Sea Asparagus Salicornia europaea

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Utterly delicious and very hard to find, this generally unknown culinary plant of salty mudflats and the shoreline produces succulent te...
Thursday

Mini Garden Gnome Jewelry

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Too c ute not to post...  Gnome Earrings from Lonestarbeadery Cute cute cute. Miniature Garden Gnomes with a shovel and Swarovski glass c...
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Monday

Broken Bones Tree Midnight Horror

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Oroxylum indicum is a rare tree commonly called Tree of Damocles found in tropical countries, such as India, Japan, China, Sri Lanka, M...
Thursday

Heirloom Rats Tail Radish - Incredible

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It sure sounds and looks weird but it tastes like regular radish. Great in hot climates The aerial Rat Tail Radish came from Asia...
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Red Devil's Claw Proboscidea (sp)

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Another weird plant. Devils Claw.  Proboscidea parviflora is a species of flowering plant in the family Martyniaceae known by the commo...
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Friday

Chocolate Cocoa Plant Theobroma cacao

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Obtained fresh pulpy seeds to grow some Chocolate Trees.  These are not like typical seeds. Once they dry out, they are no longer viable...
Monday

The Killarney Strawberry Tree

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Isn't this lovely! The strawberry tree is native to Ireland, southern Europe and the western Mediterranean region (Turkey, Greece, ...
Friday

Goblin Garden - The Mighty Alraun

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Rare Mandrake Root Atropa Mandragora officinarum. It's one of the oldest and most famous plant in witchcraft, rituals and medicina...

Scarce Gem - Extremely Rare Sorcerer's Tree

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What have we here.   The Sorcerer's Tree (Solanaceae family) is a showy woody shrub, to 12ft high, native to a small area in south...
Wednesday

Mini Fruit Kiwi Berry Yum!!!

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The self-pollinating Actinidia arguta is a heirloom perennial vine native to Japan, Korea, Northern China, and Russian Siberia. The fruit ...
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Monday

Carnivorous Spoon Sundew

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Species of the Drosera spatulata group are found from New Zealand, Tasmania, and Australia. Drosera tokaiensis is beautiful, small rosette-...
Thursday

Beautiful Chilean Potato Vine 'Glasnevin'

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Lovely! Solanum crispum is a species of flowering plant in the Solanaceae family, native to Chile and Peru. Common names include Chilean...

What a stinking Lily!! - Voodoo Lily

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If you like the smell of death and decay in the garden, this one might be of interest to you. The little sister of the giant corpse flower. ...

Dr. Seuss Trees - Tree Echium

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Probably the drama queen of the Echiums... Echium pininana, also called Tree Echium and Giant Viper's bugloss, is a plant, nativ...

American Ginseng Panax quinquefolius

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Panax quinquefolius roots have become a very popular herbal medicine, especially in China. As a result of its over-exploitation and the lo...
Wednesday

The Dove Tree, also called Handkerchief Tree or Ghost Tree

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Native to China, handkerchief tree is considered to be the Holy Grail of exotic flora, and seeds were first sent to England by the legendar...
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Dark Purple Cauliflower..Yum!

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Look what we have here... This specialty market variety will certainly attract attention at your garden and kitchen. This rare and st...
Friday

Heirloom Bean Yard Long Vigna Unguiculata Sesquipedalis

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The coolest new bean in my assortment.  It is doing extremely well in the Texas heat. Another great feature is the bend ability that let...
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Thursday

Incredible Maniltoa

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Latest stunning discovery. The Australian Manitloa is a highly ornamental small tree with very spectacular, cascading pink new growth. As a...
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Tuesday

Edible Ornamental Loroco Fernaldia pandurata

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Loroco is native to Central America, and was called Quilite, which in the indigenous language means “Edible herb”. It is a perennial pla...
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Friday

Chilean Zabala Fruit Lardizabala funaria

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For its foliage, for its flowers and for its fruit, this plant from Chile is just full of interest. A very handsome and vigorous, twinin...

How to Test older Seeds for Germination

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Common Vegetable Seeds:   Nobody wants to plant dead seeds but just because it’s old doesn’t mean it won’t grow. Some seeds will germinat...
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Exotic plants and flowers are my hobby! With the hard garden labor help and great ideas of my Husband, kids, cats and myself we produce amazing plants.
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