Today’s botanical profile is the “Cercis siliquastrum” or Judas Tree. So much beauty in this small (but not always) tree.
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A large shrub famous for its long, powerful thorns and colorful berries. It adapts to many climatic situations and offers, if well pruned, very colorful winters. Let’s go and meet it.
Oregano: aromatic with an unmistakable scent and irreplaceable ingredient of Pizza margherita! Did you know that in nature it is alpine?
What did the Indians smoke without pejote? Don’t go looking for it in nature because you won’t find it as it is refractory to looks.
A semi-evergreen plant with multi-colored leaves, two blooms a year and an orderly habit: what more could you want?
How many children happened to touch the nettle? How annoying she was! In the botanical card “Urtica dioica” we will discover that it is also worth collecting.
Texas glory is the common name of a cactus that we know well but whose scientific name few know. Elvia Speranza helped us choose it.
Among the most beautiful and ancient plants that we can put even in small gardens is the Pomegranate, or Punica granatum: beautiful to look at, to eat, and easy to take care of.
The Weigelia florida. Many of its varieties are used and few know that it can make two blooms a year and even more in the right climatic situation.
The Glycyrrhiza glabra, Liquorice is known and used since the ancient world. But did you know that it supplies nitrogen to the soil?
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