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Zebra grass (middle)
By Tommymoo
- 21 Oct, 2014
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2 Oct 2014
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Me too!
Thank you for your comment ! ! ! :-)
21 Oct, 2014
Does it fruit, and if so do you eat them? I have seen the fruits in the markets in F.
21 Oct, 2014
Yes!
I did eat one last month and I gave the rest to my friend and she made jelly (I think: I haven't asked her what she made with them!).
This is my photo of the fruits called "Le figuier de Barbarie" in French (↓):
http://www.growsonyou.com/photo/slideshow/281198-my-little-friend/member/tommymoo
22 Oct, 2014
How would you describe the taste? I tasted some Passion Fruit and banana jam at the Shaftesbury Agricultural show recently, delicious. Presumably from Passiflora edulis, the edible passionflower. I grow Passiflora caerulea which can be eaten, but it had an insipid texture like frog's spawn!
23 Oct, 2014
Tommymoo I see you like grasses do you have Melica Ciliata (hairy melic grass) I've just been collecting seed and thought of you, its very easy from seed and fast growing, I got the seed for mine from the RHS a couple of years ago.
http://www.growsonyou.com/photo/slideshow/280400-melica-ciliata-hairy-melic-grass/member/simbad
24 Oct, 2014
Siris,
I love Passion Fruits. I used to eat them fresh when I lived in Palau (a country in the western Pacific Ocean) more than 10 years ago. So you know how frog's spawn tastes like?! - Just winding you up lol lol lol :-) The taste of "Le figuier de Barbarie" is somewhere between melon and cucumber!!! Not really my taste but GoY member Bathgate in NY said: Those fruits are really delicious, especially when juiced.
Simbad,
Yes yes yes! I love grasses and haven't got the one you mentioned. I looked at your photo and it's very very nice with pretty ears. It'd be fantastic if you could spare me some :-) Thanks a lot!!!!!!
24 Oct, 2014
I've put you some seed aside :-)
26 Oct, 2014
Thank you my Angel Simbad ♪♪♪
26 Oct, 2014
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This photo is of "Grass (Zebra grass: Miscanthus sinensis 'Zebrinus')" in Tommymoo's garden
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21 Oct, 2014