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Kshakal

Flowers | Gail Gibbons

#bloom #summersouls @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

julieclair Gorgeous!! 2w

Eggs Stunning🌿🪻💚 2w

DieAReader ❤️‍🔥Beautiful! 2w

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TheBookHippie

Around the World in 80 Plants | Jonathan Drori

🪷 https://www.floweraura.com/blog/everything-about-national-flower-india-lotus

🪷 INDIA
Lotus
Nelumbo nucifera
One of Asia's most loved and revered plants

🪷#litsolace 🧘🏻‍♀️🧘🏻🧘🏽🧘🏿‍♀️🧘🏽‍♂️ plant & meditation

🪷 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odKi0b2K4LY

🪷 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqRq5uoSako

🪷 By visualizing your heart as a lotus flower, you can begin to create a safe, comfortable place for your mind to settle.

Chrissyreadit, AllDebooks

TheBookHippie @IndoorDame @DestinyMorna @dabbe @julieclair @KadaGul @kspenmoll
@Catsandbooks @DebinHawaii 2w

monalyisha Gorgeous! 2w

TheBookHippie @monalyisha this book is a favorite it‘s just stunning. 2w

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dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 2w

AllDebooks So pretty 😍 2w

KadaGul 🪷 What a soothing and refreshing representation of Summer 🌞🌻🍉🕶️⛱️😎( Sorry for being MIA; I had a lingering sinus infection for two ✌️ weeks and then was busy with Eid Ul Adha, the Muslim Holiday equivalent of Easter 🐇 🐣 ) #Refreshing (edited) 2w

TheBookHippie @KadaGul OH NO 🤧!!! I‘m glad you could celebrate (I hope!) Easy to catch up on my posts 🙃 ten to go yet! Yay! 2w

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Darklunarose

The Wonders of Nature | Ben Hoare

pick

Quite a good book that would be great for young confident readers!

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Darklunarose

The Wonders of Nature | Ben Hoare

It‘s a wet and cold day in Adelaide today. My reading buddy is chilling out in front of the heater

RaeLovesToRead Toebeans!!! 🥰🥰 3w

Leftcoastzen Awww!😻 3w

AnnCrystal 😍💕😻🐾💝. 3w

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dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 3w

Misti6 Love this so much! Looks just like my Mimi! ❤ 1w

Darklunarose @Misti6 your Mimi must be gorgeous! Tabbies are adorable 1w

Misti6 @Darklunarose I have two tabbies and they are amazing! Yours is absolutely adorable and made me say awwww out loud! Great reading buddy! 💕 1w

Darklunarose @Misti6 I‘m finding tabbies are full of attitude! It really makes them endearing. I wouldn‘t be without Salem. We rescued each other I think 5d

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TheBookHippie

Discovering Trees | Douglas Florian

My baby pine tree is growing … ummm awkwardly … or this is how they grow 🤣🫣🤷🏻‍♀️

Finally thought of a what‘s new Wednesday a day late … 🙃🌲 #litsylove #whatsnewwednesday

TieDyeDude, Read4life, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

AnnCrystal 😍💕🌲💝. 3w

ItsAnotherJen So green!! This exact color of green is my favorite. Just makes my eyes happy. Beautiful yard. 3w

IndoorDame Adorable! 3w

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TieDyeDude That looks about right. We had a couple funky looking trees when we got a permit to cut our own Christmas tree in Colorado. They don't grow quite as uniform in the wild as farmed trees. 3w

TheBookHippie @ItsAnotherJen it‘s about to storm so it‘s always this color right before!! 💚 3w

TheBookHippie @TieDyeDude Ahhhh! Makes sense. 3w

TheBookHippie @IndoorDame It‘s so cute. 💚🌲💚 3w

dabbe #thehippestpinetree 💚💚💚 3w

marleed I love it! 3w

Read4life It has character 💚💚💚 3w

Sleepswithbooks Oh - it‘s beautiful! I haven‘t seen one (or noticed one) since I‘ve been back. It reminds me of my Nanna and Poppa‘s house ❤️ 3w

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Darklunarose

The Wonders of Nature | Ben Hoare

A simple younger book on nature to read tomorrow night.

tpixie This sounds adorably wonderful 🎄🌿🪴🦨🐇🦥 3w

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TheBookHippie

Around the World in 80 Plants | Jonathan Drori

#litsolace Food 🍋

I love lemon and citron 💛🍋💛

ISRAEL
Citron
Citrus medica
A small, thorny evergreen, the citron tree originated in China and was then brought west in about 600 Bc. Along with mandarins and pomelos, it is one of the true primary species of citrus from which others, such as oranges and grapefruit, have been cultivated. Lemons were not widely grown in Europe until the middle of the fifteenth century.⬇️

Chrissyreadit, AllDebooks

TheBookHippie ⬆️ Highly variable in size, from a large lemon to a rugby ball, citrons ripen from lime green to golden yellow and do indeed resemble overgrown lemons. Their scent is similar too, although it has an almost overpowering intensity that lingers on the skin long after handling, but sliced through, the contrast with a lemon is obvious.⬇️ 3w

TheBookHippie ⬆️ Citron peel is rough and tough, and although it is not overwhelmingly bitter, the layer of white pith is substantial; the pale greenish-yellow flesh inside makes up perhaps just a fifth of the fruit, full of pips and strangely lacking in tartness.⬇️ 3w

TheBookHippie ⬆️ In about 300 Bc the Greek philosopher Theophrastus mentioned the citron's efficacy as a breath-freshener and its use to repel clothes moths.
He called it the 'apple of Persia', or Media, as the region was then known, and that is the derivation of its scientific name, rather than any special association with medicine.⬇️ 3w

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TheBookHippie ⬆️ More than two thousand years ago the citron was spread quickly around the Mediterranean because of its adoption by Jews into religious tradition; it is still grown in Morocco, France and Italy. It is also widely cultivated in Israel, where it is known as the etrog, and included - with palm, myrtle and willow - in celebrations of the joyful harvest-time holiday of Sukkot. ⬇️ 3w

TheBookHippie ⬆️ Shopping for ideal fruits for the festival, based on symmetry and intact perfection, has itself become a social institution, while after Sukkot, etrogs are used to make jam, pomanders or flavoured vodka. Other cultures have also incorporated the citron into their rituals. A bizarre, many-fingered cultivar, the Buddha's Hand' variety, is used in South East Asia as a religious offering by Buddhists, or as a fragrant new year gift.⬇️ 3w

TheBookHippie ⬆️ citron has recently been revived. It is being researched as an alternative ingredient for lemonade that would need less sugar to balance its acidity its zest is added to trendy tisanes and its peel candied for cakes, such as Italian panettone, and, triumphantly, coated with chocolate. 🍋🍫💛 3w

TheBookHippie @IndoorDame @DestinyMorna @dabbe @julieclair @KadaGul @kspenmoll
@Catsandbooks @DebinHawaii 3w

IndoorDame It‘s one of my favorite smells in the whole world! (Though “shopping” for one for Sukkot in the US has become bizarre and terrifying. Probably very funny as long as you‘re watching the saga on TV and not inadvertently caught in the room😳😰😅😂) (edited) 3w

TheBookHippie @IndoorDame I agree with everything you said!!!!! 😅👀🍋😵‍💫🤯😳 3w

Catsandbooks I love the scent of lemons! My kitchen is even lemon themed 💛 3w

julieclair I don‘t think I‘ve ever heard of a citron! 3w

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TheBookHippie

Herbs: Detailed Plant Guide _500 Photographs - Recipes and Crafts | Elizabeth Ginis

So #naturalitsy
My RAISED compost herb garden grand baby hippie and I do every year has never been robbed—— til now.. 8 years no robbery 👀
BIRDS took it for their NEST in my Tradescantia zebrina plant …ummmm 🫣

Oy.

TheBookHippie @Bookwormjillk my current battle 😵‍💫 4w

IndoorDame Very cheeky 🐦‍⬛s! 4w

TheBookHippie @IndoorDame Seriously. 4w

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Bookwormjillk Wow, the birds are against you 4w

kspenmoll They know a good thing when they see it! 4w

Read4life Is it because you said the yellow bird has attitude? Bird solidarity 😄🐦‍⬛ 4w

TheBookHippie @Read4life PROBABLY 🤣 I‘ll have to speak to my crow about them 🤣 4w

AllDebooks Well, it's being used to help create and nurture new life. Just not in the way you envisaged 😅🐦‍⬛🐦🐣🌱 3w

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TheBookHippie

Around the World in 80 Plants | Jonathan Drori

#litsolace Food fun

ITALY
Artichoke
Cynara carduncalus

The artichoke does not exist in the wild. It was probably bred in the Middle Ages from cardoons, imposing members of the thistle family whose stems have been eaten since antiquity. Its curious common name derives from the Arabic spoken by the traders who brought it to Europe.
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TheBookHippie ⬆️ Its scientific name, meanwhile, is widely - but inaccurately ~ linked to a non-existent Greek myth involving Cynara, who was turned into the vegetable by Zeus as a punishment for some piffling transgression.
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TheBookHippie ⬆️ In 1948 Castroville, California, appointed the budding actress Norma Jeane Mortenson, who had just become known as Marilyn Monroe, to be the state's first Honorary Artichoke Queen. Hor rather light duties included meeting growers and, principally, being photographed wearing a sash.⬇️ 4w

TheBookHippie ⬆️ Ever the assertive marketeers, Castroville today has an artichoke festiva! and (steady yourself) the world's largest concrete artichoke, Creating a modern-day myth, the little town has dubbed itself the Artichoke Center of the World', even though Italy produces eight times the crop of the entire United States.⬇️ 4w

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TheBookHippie ⬆️ Artichoke plants are muscular, stout-stemmed and head-high, with deeply lobed blue-green leaves. Their flower heads are cloaked in leathery bracts, specially adapted leaves to protect the flowers that develop inside.
Although they are rarely allowed to blossom, they develop into splendid fist-sized blooms, bluish-purple, sweetly fragrant and long-lasting.⬇️ 4w

TheBookHippie ⬆️ closely and you will see that the flower head is composed of hundreds of individual shimmering florets.
Whole flowering heads can be steeped in water to extract enzymes that coagulate warm milk. The resulting traditional Spanish and Italian cheeses have a soft, buttery texture and a pleasant, subtle bitterness, and are especially desirable to people who prefer to avoid rennet, the usual clutting agent, which is derived from calves' stomachs.⬇️ 4w

TheBookHippie ⬆️ is derived from calves' stomachs.
Most artichokes are eaten before the Aower heads have a chance to open. Obviously, they taste best when their hearts are grilled with a hint of orange, but, steamed whole and accompanied by lashings of melted butter from a communal dish, the dipped bracts make a sociable and engagingly messy treat.⬇️ 4w

TheBookHippie ⬆️ Finally reaching the secret, tender heart makes the world feel more agreeable; the artichoke's unusual chemistry confuses the tongue so that even plain water tastes sweet afterwards.💚 4w

TheBookHippie @IndoorDame @DestinyMorna @dabbe @julieclair @KadaGul @kspenmoll
@Catsandbooks @DebinHawaii @Chrissyreadit @AllDebooks 4w

TheBookHippie 👩🏻‍🍳 https://www.onceuponachef.com/recipes/spinach-artichoke-dip.html 4w

Aimeesue What gorgeous illustrations! 💚 4w

TheBookHippie @Aimeesue The whole book is gorgeous. 💚📗💚 4w

dabbe @TheBookHippie 🤩🤩🤩 4w

Aimeesue @TheBookHippie Kindle edition is $3.99 right now, so I invested in a digital copy! (edited) 4w

Catsandbooks Spinach artichoke dip is so good! 💚 4w

TheBookHippie @Aimeesue OH YAY!!! I hope you love it! 4w

TheBookHippie @Catsandbooks I love it!! 4w

IndoorDame @Aimeesue thanks for the tip! This is so cool, I had to splurge on the kindle sale too! 💚 4w

kspenmoll Thank you so much for the artichoke‘s engaging history. My first introduction was when i was at dinner at a friend‘s house. I must have been in 8th grade. I did not want to admit I had no clue what it was, so tried imitating those around me & ate whole leaves, etc. My impish friend thought it was quite funny. 4w

TheBookHippie @kspenmoll 🫣🤣🤣🤣🤣 what a fun memory!!! 4w

TheBookHippie @IndoorDame 💚📗💚 it‘s such a cool book. 4w

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Judybskt

Cottage Garden (Gardening Guides) | Polly Bolton

☀️Elin Hildebrand comes out with a book every June and I always read it! This year is the last one!
☀️Beach, baby! 🌊🏖️🐚🦀
☀️My youngest has been a big help in my gardens! He‘s helped weed, mulch and dig up flowers that are spreading too much. 🌸💚🌻🌳
@Eggs #wondrouswednesday

Eggs All great news on your homefront!! 1mo

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