Plants and Food

2022-07-24

Plants

We may have become a bit plant obsessed as of late. This weekend we picked up the following plants for our yard and future garden:

Natives

- Cocoplum

- Prickly Pear

- Wild Coffee

Non-Natives

- Citronella

- Lantana

Apparently there are some Lantana species that are native to this area but I don't think they are the type that are typically sold at plant nurseries. Both the Lantana and the Citronella were purchased to hopefully help repel mosquitoes around our porch.

We are hoping to be able to cultivate a nice collection of edibles on our property over time. So far we have 7 different plants that are edible, maybe 8 if you count Hibiscus. Right now the edibles we have are 2 guava trees, 2 varieties of mint, basil, cocoplum, prickly pear, lime and calamondin. Plus, our neighbor on one side has a big avocado tree that produces tons of avocadoes and on the other side they have a huge walnut tree. I'm not sure what else we'll get in the future but some likely possibilties are some of the many varieties of banana that grow well here, maybe a dwarf variety of orange or maybe some other edible natives like blueberry and mulberry. There are some other native and non-native edibles that grow well in our climate too so we'll see.

Of course we also plan to have a vegetable garden eventually as well. Tomatoes, sweet potatoes, peppers, all that kind of stuff. It would be really nice to get a significant amount of food from our own garden.

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