Asheville Plant Walks

08/17/2025

Sea Grapes 🍇☀️💛

06/21/2025

Nature Coast~ Florida 🌴☀️
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06/03/2025

Fat Wood 🪵 Fat Pine 🌲
Good for Kindling 🔥🏕

06/29/2024

Nope, that's not clover. ☘⁣
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Wood sorrel grows worldwide, and it's easy to identify. ⁣
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As one of the most unique-tasting wild weeds, wood sorrel tastes like a combination of cucumber and lemon rather than a leafy green. 🌿⁣
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This wild edible makes a wonderful addition to salads, soups, or any other dish, even desserts, that could benefit from its tanginess.⁣

Learn more: https://practicalselfreliance.com/wood-sorrel/

06/29/2024

Have you ever eaten these? What did you think? Any favorite recipes?

The Daylilies (Hemerocallis) are popping and we consider them a perennial vegetable... the orange ones in particular are particularly nice in a salad.

You may already know this one as a landscaping plant…you might have some growing in your yard! Both the leaves and flowers (including buds) are tasty.

Greens should be picked young and cooked before eating; flowers and buds can be eaten raw. Orange flowers are ideal for eating. They like moisture and are happy in partial shade to full sun.

Important Note: Some people have an adverse reaction to one of the compounds found in daylilies. So, if it’s your first time trying them, just eat a small amount and see how you feel before really going for it.

Check out our blogpost: "10 Perennial Vegetables We Love"
https://www.wildabundance.net/blog/10-perennial-vegetables-we-love/

06/29/2024

Perfect summer day in Western North Carolina. Beautiful plants along the French Broad River~ blackberries, mountain mint, black eyed Susan, echenacea, Empress tree, fleabane (or is it astor?) And is that hops? summer grapes, or mulberry?🤔🌱💕

02/26/2024

Growing succulents, aloe, agave, pineapple, palm, desert rose, gardenia.. West coast of Florida, subtropical grow Zone 9/10. Beautiful winter weather 🌴🌲☘️🌺☀️

10/17/2022

Craggy Gardens is a wonderful area for an Autumn walk on the Blue Ridge Parkway 🍂
Hawthorne, golden rod, turkey tail, jewelweed

08/14/2022

08/14/2022

Our aloe and basil fell in love🌱💕

07/24/2022

Plant walk, midsummer. Blue Ridge Parkway 🌿

Witch hazel feels so good on the skin, astringent, eases inflammation. Yellow flowers blossom in the fall. See the 'witch's warts' on some of the leaves?🌿

Monotropa uniflora ~one flower~
Indianpipe. This beautiful plant lacks chlorophyll, feeds off nearby mushrooms; a nervine can help reduce anxiety, relax the nervous system.🌿

Solomon's seal. Root rhizome said to resemble the 'seal of King Solomon' Fresh root helpful for arthritis, rheumatism, injuries, bruises. Restorative, laxative,can help strengthen joints, balance women's cycles, ease lungs. *Eating the berries not recommended.🌿

Autumn olive. Beautiful bush has bright red berries that ripen in summer. Though invasive to our area, it's edible berries are full of vitamins and nutrients, can be eaten raw or cooked. Plant is said to inhibit cancers, provide tonic to the pulmonary system.🌿