Rhododendrons, Azaleas, Acers Don't Care
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- CarolWallace
- gertrude
- Gay_Klok
- CarolWallace
- Cottage_Garden
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- Gay_Klok
- Cottage_Garden
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» CarolWallace - All parts of the daylily are edible
I've had the tubers stir fried in Chinese food, and I often sprinkle shredded flower petals into salads. I have heard that too much can have minorly unpleasant consequences - but they are certainly as much a food crop in the Orient as they are a flower crop. I do admit to snacking on a petal or three when I get busy inthe garden and don't feel like going all the way back to the house. A field salad of arugula, chicory and daylily works pretty well.-- posted by CarolWallace
» gertrude - Eating the daylilies.
Am a bit behind with this,just 'tuned'in.Daylilies can be frozen also,tight buds are best,blanch as you do any other veggie.I would not use deep coloured ones,or highly scented .I mainly nibble very early in the morning,when i am deadheading.Bicycle tours use the country road i live on,many stop to gaze at my gardens,(many being dragged away by the 'leader')this summer seven from Virginia had not had breakfast,i introduced them to fresh daylily petals.Oh yes they are full of vitamin C and A.And good protein too.-- posted by gertrude
» Gay_Klok - Hello
Welcome, Gertrude. Thank you very much for those hints. Will the highly coloured daylilies be bitter to eat? Those are important vitamins that we can get by a few nibbles whilst walking around our gardens!The Chinese eat Peoney roots, I believe, but I can't imagine myself digging them up for the odd snack!
-- posted by Gay_Klok
» CarolWallace - Bitter?
I haven't noticed that the dark daylilies are any more bitter than the paler ones - but they stain! And the problem with the fragranced ones is that they taste a bit of perfume. Not that either is much of a problem when tossed into a salad with mixed greens, which is what I usually do with mine - but as a solitary nibble, pale and scentless is best!-- posted by CarolWallace
» Cottage_Garden - How many do you need to eat
in order to feel like you've had a decent snack? Somehow a handful of flower buds just doesn't compare that well with a handfull of black berries for example.-- posted by Cottage_Garden
» CarolWallace - I'll have to hear what Gertrude says
because I have never made a snack exclusively of daylilies. When I get a wee hunger pang and am in themiddle of something that I don't feel like interrupting to head back to the house I'll nibble anything edible in sight - usually the arugula if it's handly, or a garlic chive or two, or nasturtiums or daylilies - but only enough to help me resist the temptation to head into the house and waste time finding food when I could be weeding.-- posted by CarolWallace
» Gay_Klok - Christmas shopping
Hello, girls, I have at last started my Christmas shopping. Four [and another next beginning of April] grandchildren - great fun!I was born in Sydney, NSW and my parents moved here when I was nearly 3. Sydney is the most sophisticated city in Aussie. All my first cousins used to come over to Tassie for school holidays but when I was 15 I went and stayed with them. My favourite cousin [boy and an absolute devil] took me to some girlfriend's mansion and she had about 5 of her friends there having "afternoon tea". My eyes nearly popped out for in the middle of the modern Italian table was a huge bowl of rose petals. We munched on those petals all afternoon, it was the latest craze in Sydney. The country bumpkin couldn't wait to get back and shock her friends by giving a "rose tea party"
-- posted by Gay_Klok
» Cottage_Garden - Thank you.
LOLOLOLOLI suppose they wouldn't be any more filling by the handfull, anyway. 
-- posted by Cottage_Garden
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