Beetroot, a vegetable with sweet local flavors Beetroot is an essential vegetable but not always very popular with consumers who do not know it well, because it is often bought cooked or even prepared. Beets, there are reds, oranges, white, purple and white ... And when you grow them yourself, in the vegetable garden, you rediscover them on your plate.
Water hyacinth, superb pond flowers! The water hyacinth offers beautiful rounded, fleshy leaves, which also resemble "fat" spinach leaves. At the base of the leaves and more precisely at the base of the petiole of water hyacinth leaves, a "float". Indeed, the leaves of this beautiful aquatic plant are balanced on an "air bulb", and form a real carpet.
Spring seedlings and plantings… Colors, scents, flavors by the thousands! Spring seedlings and plantings are to gardeners what aspirin is to effervescence! Spring is a pleasant season, more than any other, motivating, involving, sometimes warm if not hot for gardeners.
Ariséma, arisaema, flower with "cobra's head" or poisonous baroque spathe! Arisemas are original to say the least. They form large erect calyxes, from which, depending on the variety planted, a fleshy piece appears like a small white or tinted phantom, sometimes it is a more or less visible central spike ... The flowers take on various colors but the more often dull.
