How to Grow and Care for Lupines Lupinus spp.
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6 Types of Peppers to Grow There's a colorful world of flavors, shapes and sizes to try for sweet and hot peppers! Here are some of my favorite pepper varieties to grow in the garden. Meet some of our favorite types of peppers!
There are thousands of types of sweet and hot peppers grown around the world in an incredible range of flavors, heat levels, colors, and fruit shapes and sizes. Read on to learn about six of the most popular types of peppers to grow in the garden.
There are two main types of peppers: sweet and hot Sweet peppersSweet peppers have little to no heat and a flavor that runs from mild to fruity. The immature fruits of most varieties of sweet peppers are green and ripen to rich hues of red, orange, yellow, purple, white, and even chocolate brown. Large bell pepper plants produce 5 to 10 fruits each, while mini fruiting varieties typically yield several dozen peppers per plant.
Hot peppers, also called chilis, really kick it up a notch! They run from the mildly spicy poblano to the five-alarm fire of a Carolina Reaper, which has a Scoville heat unit of 2.2 million. Yikes! (Learn more about this spiciness rating system in “Scoville Scale” below). Some favorite hot peppers include jalapeño and cayenne varieties, which are so versatile in the kitchen.
The Scoville scale, developed by Wilbur Scoville in 1912, measures the hotness of a pepper, given in Scoville heat units (SHU). Capsaicin is the compound in peppers that produces a burning sensation. Knowing where a pepper ranks on the scale of 0 (sweet bell peppers) to 16,000,000 (pure capsaicin), you can choose ones that are best for your heat tolerance. Take a look at the graphic to see how different
How to Grow and Care for Lupines Lupinus spp.
Flanking our waterways in great mops of silver green, the willow is the most poetic and mysterious of trees. In many cultures – including ancient Egypt and ancient Greece – it was associated with immortality, death, and the underworld; old English folklore states that if you sit beside a willow and shed tears, the tree will cry with you. In China, where the weeping willow hails from, it represents strength and resilience, reflecting the instruction in the Tao Te Ching to have a flexible attitude: 'A tree that won't bend, breaks easily in storms.' Being pliant and strong, willow is used for weaving, and its light weight and hardness make it the best wood for cricket bats.
Heucheras are shade-loving plants, native to the woodlands of North America. Grown for their foliage, their leaves come in a huge range of colours from red, purple, vivid green and even silver, and they bear attractive flowers in summer, too. Heucheras make excellent ground cover plants, and work well in winter pot displays. Members of thesaxifrage family, heucheras are also known as coral bells and alumroot.
Zinnias are mostly annual plants, popular because of the colourful, daisy-like flowers. Native to Mexico, there are 18 species and hundreds of cultivated forms, which are grown as annual bedding plants. Flowers come in vivid colours from red, orange and deep pink to green, with a lovely long flowering season from summer to the first frosts. Zinnias are perfect for filling gaps in the border and also work well in container displays. Long stemmed varieties make great cut flowers.
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