Magenta Spreen: Chenopodium gigantium
Like its cousin, lamb's quarters - Chenopodium album, it excells at seeding but look at the seedlings!
Orach - Red and Gold: Atriplex hortensis
Another self sowing beauty which makes for a delicious cooked or fresh green rainbow.
Rhubarb
My youngest, for scale, with a strange smile on her face. Mabye she's not sure about rhubarb muffins or maybe it was all those green gooseberries she insisted on eating?
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Great rainbow greens:
Orach - comes in colours from gold, purple, red, magenta, green and in between
Chard - Bright Lights is a favourite or try beets like Bull's Blood
Mustard - Many asian greens come in shades of purple and pink
Chicory - look for red and variegated varieties.
Magenta Spreen - A towering plant once its mature and delicious
Amaranth - Gold, red, orange, variegated. Look for types for greens
Kale - purple, pale and green with purplish viens
Lettuce - more than I can describe
Fennel in bronze and green
5 comments:
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Magenta Spreen: Chenopodium gigantium
Beautiful plant and I love the colors.
That rhubarb looks huge. I keep seeing rhubarb blooming all over the place right now.
The orach is simply beautiful. I should be growing it too! The rhubarb is really big. That's one thing I never acquired a taste for.
Interesting colors! Thanks for the introduction to magenta spreen and orach. Lots of new to me greens to dream about and try in the garden.
I love when veggies look beautiful, and also taste lovely. Rhubarb is big! I don’t grow it, but when I see pics like this, I start to think that I just might try.
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