Channel Island Flowers

Do not run for water, those are of the mild sort, not the kind which would set fire to your mouth and stomach. Next door, the Indian woman also sells sweets but I am not sure what those are, maybe some gullam, anyone ready to act as a guinea pig for us?

All three islands have the same geological background, formed by emerging volcanoes, the only still active one being on Reunion, the Piton de la Fournaise, which spits lava in the Ocean every once in a while.

Saint-Gilles is one of the most famous touristic resorts on Reunion island and has many of the features most tourists look for: large white coral beaches, shallow lagoon with a reef to keep the shark securely away, vast choice of restaurants, hotels,...

It is usually found in fallows and forests, growing on sandy or rocky soils, in full sun to partly shaded exposure.The leaves are composed of eight to seventeen pairs of leaflets,the flowers come in dense clusters with a corolla pink to crimson.They are...

Interested clients should contact us to place their orders from i day old chicks to egg laying chickens Interested clients should contact us to place their orders from i day ... We have several varieties of chickens including crossbreeds and of all age...

So we only saw six of those fascinating plants that creep, climb and slowly but surely can cover an ugly fence or uninteresting decaying plant, we still have many more to discover, so be sure to come back!

We will anyhow be back as there still are around many interesting vines waiting for us to admire them! We can now walk out of this ravine and go back to civilization, maybe enjoying a drink by the lagoon before heading home to the garden.

See you all soon! This small tour of some vines of Reunion took us once again in a world-wide trip; I would bet that it will not be the last one we take together. Here we come once again, vine lovers! The three preceding articles introduced climbers which...

The fact that it is quite flat allowed men to use a very large part of the land for agricultural purposes, so very little of the original vegetation remains on Mauritius while most of it has been preserved by the steep relief of Reunion (which allowed...

Carota seeds in bulk quantities. I do not want to correspond with anyone about any product other than this one. I do not need domestic carrot seeds or any other vegetable or any other seeds so do not email me unless you can provide Daucus carota ssp.

I hope you enjoyed this little tour and will now start growing all sorts of vines, climbers and lianas! They need some tending but are really fun and grow fast, even producing marvelous fruits for the sweet tooth.

Be sure to not entangle your feet in all those scrambling stems and make time to come back for more! Yes, we already became acquainted with quite a few of those species in the four previous parts, but the subject is so vast that we have to revisit it!...

A yearly Miss Chouchou is even elected. As you may have guessed, the sign translates as "pee upward"--not very poetical but full of meaning.In Hell-Bourg we can stop for lunch and enjoy a few sambos and stuffed hot peppers or a full course in one of the...

Another feature which has greatly helped preserving our local orchids is the fact that many display rather small and poorly coloured flowers, an important deterrent to human predators!for most tropical orchids (as opposed to orchids in temperate or Mediterranean...

Well, you shouldn't. The prevailing attitude is that orchids are very temperamental and fragile…remember Nero Wolfe and his orchid garden at the top of his apartment building? To others, they are just another beautiful flower to add to the garden.

Then around the turn of the century the red showed up, probably from Mexico and just who brought it in is a matter of debate. There are hundreds, if not thousands of books, articles and websites devoted to this beautiful and fragrant blossom.

The French people took hold of Madagascar and then the Comoros in 1841 when it became a French colony. After some turmoil the Comoros decided to become independent in 1974 but Mayotte voted to stay French and has the official status of Territorial Colectivity,...

The first people to live permanently on the island were indeed runaways who had escaped from the big sugarcane plantations on the coast, many of them from Africa or nearby Madagascar.century that white people came to settle and run small farms, those...

If you throw them directly in hot oil they will mostly burst open which means that your pan will be almost empty and you will have to clean the whole kitchen from floor to ceiling.

The first people to settle there were seven French Huguenots (Protestants who fled at the time of the Edit de Nantes) in the year 1693. People live on fishing, chickens and goats, tourism has somewhat developed since the building of an airstrip but it...

Production field is in Romania southern part. Samples and pictures can be send. I have 200kg of dried marigold flower production 2010.samples and pictures can be send. Dried marigold flower.

This place is found on the road going to our still-active (very active at times!) volcano, at some 2100 m high (roughly 6300 feet) so we may need a sweater (a hike usually starts early.) A friendly neighbour or any other nice person will drop us off as...

They should be grown and enjoyed much more. There are about 250 recorded species of ferns on the island, out of which some 18 are endemic strictly to Reunion while another 25 are endemic to the Mascareignes and will therefore be found also on the sister...

You can fly from Madagascar (Antananarivo and Mahajunga), from Reunion and from Paris, to the small airport of Fassene. The reserve has many birds, batrachians, lemurs, snakes and numerous insects, don't forget an effective repellent! And around Nosy...

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At this time the garden was called ‘Mon Plaisir' then it became the ‘Jardin Royal', the ‘Jardin des Plantes' and its most recent name was given in 1988 as "Jardin Botanique Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam," honoring the first prime minister elected in...

They are based on the everyday duties of arborist climbers, so there are five required events; shot pouch throwing (the throw weights we use to set up a climbing line on the required branch), rapid climbing (using only natural holds), fast foot-lock (getting...