More Ginger Blooms
This entry was posted on Jul 24 2008
The ginger in the front yard is going crazy this year, blooming all over the place. Here’s an overhead shot of four bulbs, with three of them flowering. When they’re done flowering, the bulb gets full of a clear liquid that has a light perfumed scent – it smells amazing. From what I’ve read, awapuhi can do all kinds of things, from curing a bad stomach to washing hair.
I chose this photo crop because the green part of the plant commanded so much attention. Although it’s not the best crop, I felt like keeping the leaves because they looked so healthy. When this stuff dies off in the fall, it’s not pretty, so I’ve got to enjoy it now.
Happy Friday!
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That is such an unusual plant – we don’t have anything like that here in the UK – probably too wet – although we are having a bit of a heat wave at the moment. Well, for us anyway!
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In honor of this, I’m going to happy hour to have some Ginger…ale. With Southern Comfort, of course…
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I am really wondering what the liquid tastes like and what the smell is like. Someone has to invent scratch and sniff monitors, unless it’s on Dcr Blogs- I don’t even want to smell what creepy pants is cooking.
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Dang it, Pete. The script patch I sent you to stop the link luv to Michelle has apparently stopped working,
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Wow, mad blooms, dude! Oh yeah…you need to give us an update on the broken agave plant stalk. Is it still rigid enough to use as a sailboat mast…or something?
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