There are many multi-purpose plants grown in gardens in the UK, for example Lavender is the ultimate multi-purpose plant. This plant combines flavour, fragrance, and elegant looks characteristics, and is a top 10 favourite in gardens all over the country.
There are many multi-purpose plants grown in gardens in the UK, for example Lavender is the ultimate multi-purpose plant. This plant combines flavour, fragrance, and elegant looks characteristics, and is a top 10 favourite in gardens all over the country.
The lavender-lined path smelling sweetly, or the rose-framed doorways and honeysuckle arches, is the perfect English garden. The lavender plant has been exploited to the full over the years, and there are many lavender farms in the UK, who from their shops sell an array of food flavoured with lavender, also a fragrant selection of bath and beauty products, and handmade soap made from the oil of lavender is very often seen not only in the UK but around the world.
This plant has been historically documented for more than 2,000 years and has been used to mummify, to protect from the plague and to perfume; in fact lavender’s properties are legendary. It has been documented that Elizabeth I used it to ease her migraines, Queen Victoria to scent her linens, furthermore the Shakers and Quakers were lavender kings.
Lavender is picked and then left to dry, it is hung upside down in a cool, dark place and despite being nectar-rich and attractive to bees, branches were used to repel insects. Lavender is more often than not substituted wherever you might have used rosemary, and is now visible on the trendiest menus.
The begoniais another multi-purpose plant and has a long history of medicinal uses, such as treatment of colds also swellings, and disinfection for wounds also is an excellent source of vitamin C, the leaves and flowers are used in cooking in China, Japan and Indonesia.
The begonia offers more variety than just about any other genus of house plant, available in many colours and sizes, all begonias have asymmetrical leaves and look and are often earlike in shape, gardeners will find some varieties go dormant or semi-dormant during certain periods of the year and should be kept cool and dry at that time.
The scented geraniumcomes in such a variety of flavours of scents, if you love apricot, or mint, you can taste chocolate, mint and peppermint, lemon, lime, apple, ginger and nutmeg are all scented geranium flavours.
Scented geranium leaves cut finely can flavour jellies, or can create scented sugars, it is so easy to achieve one layer of sugar covered with scented geranium leaves in a flavour of your choice, then top with another layer of sugar, leave for a week and you have scented sugar to use in tea and baking.
A spokesman for Blooming Direct located on the island of Jersey said “there are many many plants that have a multi-purpose use, and gardeners want them in their gardens, more and more people are using plants in cooking, going back to the roots of bygone days. We are an online shopping facility, and our website is very user friendly, and we guarantee if you do not find what you are looking for we will do our best to source it for you, our customer. We offer everything for the garden plants, shrubs, trees, gardening tools, garden furniture, furthermore you can buy gift vouchers for your friends and family, so they can buy exactly what they want”.
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