Saturday, February 11, 2006

Ugni Mollinae. This is one of my favourite plants at the moment, one i want to use in forest gardens. Myself and my mate Dave work in as a partnership called Sector 39, sustainable design. He's a graphic designer and photographer and education resources writer, and like me he is passionately interested in forest gardens and fresh local food. We are currently writing a bid to design forest garden plots for inner city junior schools in Reading, I am definitely going to be using this plant! its of the Myrtle family and is unique to Chile as far as I can tell, but it seems to like our climate, well it grows well on the roof garden at RISC and I have one in my tunnel here. The berries last for months and are delicious, Queen Victoria is quoted to have declared it the 'most exquisite of fruits' on first tasting one of the very first specemins to reach these shores. You can make a tea from teh leaves as well but I have not tried that yet. Dave has propagated cuttings from the shoots.

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