Friday 19 April 2013

Beautiful Edible Landscaping Plants

Edible landscaping is a very convenient and quite rewarding indisputable fact that will serve you a dual purpose. You'll be able to transform your landscape with some beautiful wild edible plants that will give you a wide range of fresh fruits and vegetables you could pluck out and use when they are ripe and ready. Furthermore, your landscape will appear attractive using the various green plants punctuated with colorful edible wild berries from time to time.


Flowers

Flowers are commonly employed for food and dessert decoration. Edible flowers easily utilized in landscaping include chrysanthemum, clovers, daisies, dandelions, daylilies, hibiscus, pansies, roses, sunflowers, violet and zucchini blossoms. Make use of the petals, stems and other parts of these flowers in drinks, salads, soups, teas along with other culinary creations.

Trees

Newer fruit tree styles, including dwarf versions of larger trees, are recent uses in landscaping. Common trees for landscaping include apple, apricot, cherry, jujube, mulberry, olive, peach, pear and plum trees. Other edible trees used today in landscaping include cactus, bamboo and palms.

Shrubs

Many trees present in dwarf or shrub versions are low growing and ideal for landscaping purposes. Edible shrubs are blueberry, cherry, currant, elderberry, fig, gooseberry, honeysuckle and pomegranate. Each of these shrubs bear fruit or flowers which are eaten raw or utilized in desserts, soups, salads or any other dishes.

Herbs

Using herbs for aesthetic landscaping and groundcover is another part of the edible landscaping trend. Herbs which are easily used in landscaping scenery include thyme, garlic chives, chocolate mint, lavender, rosemary, sweet bay laurel lemongrass, sage, violet spearmint, basil.

Rhubarb

The huge leaves and red stems of rhubarb plants create a bold statement in a flowerbed combined with other perennials or as a stand-alone specimen plant. The hardy perennial matures to 3 feet high and 5 feet across when fully mature. Set the guarana plant in a sunny location, with partial shade in heat of your day to protect the leaves from sunburn. Harvest rhubarb in early summer by cutting the largest stems off at walk out and stripping away the leaves. Fresh rhubarb pies and rhubarb sauce to drizzle over desserts would be the reward of nurturing this edible landscaping plant.

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