Enriching your vegetable garden, garden or terrace with some of these plants means being able to combine business with pleasure and knowing how to take into consideration the chosen plant species both for their aesthetic appearance and for the health benefits they contain. . We therefore present some examples in this regard.
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There are plants than for their beauty they can be an ornament for your garden, but at the same time represent a source of nourishment, thanks to the presence of edible fruits, flowers or leavesi.
Enrich your garden, garden or terrace with some of these plants it means being able to combine business with pleasure and knowing how to take into consideration the chosen plant species both for their aesthetic appearance and for the health benefits they contain. We therefore present some examples in this regard.
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Rosemary
It is one of the aromatic plants best known and used, loved both for its scent and for its flavor. It is used in the kitchen both to garnish culinary preparations and to flavor them, as well as in infusions and herbal teas. A jar of rosemary can pleasantly decorate the windowsill, but also be arranged in the garden and carefully transformed into an ornamental bush pruned to obtain the desired shape.
Laurel
Laurel is one of the ornamental plants par excellence, Chosen as a symbol of victory and wisdom in ages past, it is now rarely used in festivities, but still more often in the kitchen, not only to flavor dishes but also for the preparation of dishes. Bay leaves can be breaded with a batter made of water and chickpea flour and fried in a pan. Both the berries and the leaves can be dried and pulverized to be used in the preparation of curative infusions for colds.
Black mulberry
Il black mulberry is a perennial herbaceous plant capable of adorning gardens, even in the form of hedge, for a long time and to offer the lucky ones who cultivate it excellent color berries black, edible, with a sour taste and very similar to blackberries. The two plants in fact belong to the same family. Black mulberry berries can be used for the preparation of homemade jams and to garnish pies and other desserts. In Sicily with them excellent granita and cremolate are prepared. Black mulberry leaves are used for the preparation of astringent herbal teas.
Chinese mandarin
The Chinese mandarin produces small citrus fruits of orange color, the length of which usually does not exceed 3 centimeters. If pruned with care, it can be comfortably grown in pots on your terrace, guaranteeing a pleasant scent to the rooms overlooking it. Its fruits are used for the preparation of both jams and candied fruit. The very thin and tasty peel allows them to be eaten without the need to peel them.
Chilli
Chilli can be used both as an ornamental and edible plant. It is sufficient to pay some attention when buying. THE Chillies grown as ornamental are not usually considered edible, due to the fertilizers used. However, it is possible to buy organic pepper seedlings or grow them in pots starting from the seeds. With their white flowers and, subsequently, with their first green and then red fruits, they will be able to brighten up both windowsills and terraces.
Amaranth
Amaranth is one herbaceous plant of Central American origin which is often cultivated as an ornamental. Particularly popular is in fact the color of its ears and its leaves. Both the latter and the grains of its ears are edible and make amaranth, often assimilated to cereals such as barley and spelled, an edible plant species that is not very widespread and known to us, but which should be taken into greater consideration. because of its peculiar richness of iron.
Pineapple sage
La pineapple sage, otherwise known as "salvia elegans“, Is an edible ornamental plant that owes its name to the scent and shape of its leaves. They are considered particularly decorative due to their shape oval / triangular, but their main feature remains theunmistakable pineapple scent, which can be distinctly felt by sniffing your fingers after gently rubbing them. THE its red flowers make it the queen of balconies. Its leaves are excellent both fried in batter and for the preparation of pesto.
Peach
You can choose to grow small fruit trees suitable for the purpose in pots, like the peach tree of the “bonanza” or “nectarella” variety. The dimensions of which remain small without the need for major pruning. These are plants that can be grown in pots to be placed on the terrace and which can first brighten the balcony with the scent of their flowers, and then offer excellent perfectly edible peaches.
Climbing kiwi
The kiwi of the variety “Actinidia arguta” represents a climbing species capable of giving life to small edible fruits slightly larger than those of an olive. These are smooth-skinned fruits, which ripen forming light green clusters and which can be collected and enjoyed at the end of summer, in particular for the preparation of fruit salads. They are also particularly rich in potassium and vitamin C.
Red currants
Small fruits like i red currants they can be grown carefully both in pots, allowing them to climb, for example, on the balcony wall, and in the garden, giving rise to real hedges with which to delimit different sections of the garden. Red currants can be picked and eaten fresh, or used for the preparation of jams and jellies. They can also be frozen and used later, without fear that they may lose their great flavor.
Marta Albè
