tel: 512 280-1192 Thursday, May 26, 2016
Nursery notes: aloe vera and milkweed sale continues through
Memorial Day Weekend: $3.59 for aloe, $1.99 milkweed. Fresh
citrus arrived this week: calamondin (bitter orange) for $49.99.
Phalsa berry (Indian sherbert berry) $34.99, 3 gal. Carolina rasp-
berry $34.99, 3 gal (full sun); elderberry 1 gal. for $7.99. Mex-
icola avocado $49.99 3 gal. We will be open on Memorial Day
until 4 p.m. Please come by for a visit! 🌷
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Life on a farm: 'Sprawling oak trees dot the landscape on the
road to Belle Vie Farm and Kitchen, a family farm northeast of
Elgin. On this 40-acre plot of land, husband-and-wife team Aub-
rey and Perrine Noelke busy themselves raising free-range ducks.'
Math, medicine and a little madness: a wide range of fascin-
ating garden creations are on display at London's Chelsea Garden
Flower Show at the moment. The 'maths' comes from Nick Bailey's
creations, who comments: 'No matter how wild something looks
it's actually driven by algorithms and equations.' Chelsea Show 🌷
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Central Texas Gardener: a moving story of community garden
success at Fort Hood. Plant collages and living walls with Articul-
ture designs. Pruning coral honeysuckle, and hummingbirds.
Saturday at 4 p.m. Sunday at 9 a.m.or on-line. KLRU 🌷
A Celebration of Indian Curry Leaf
Many thanks to our wonderful customer Ramiah Subramanian (in
photo above) for sharing a link to the following recipe for curry
leaves gravy, writes David Sargert. The gravy 'goes very well with
rice but can also be used as a spread over a bagel or toast, or as a
from Ramiah: Karuveppilai is the Tamil name for curry leaves. /
Bengal gram = chickpea flour / Urad dal = black lentils or black
Cannon Drive #750 78749 512 892 9600. The nursery has 4" pots
of Indian curry leaf plants for $3.59.
Curry Leaf Thrives in Austin's Climate
by Chris Winslow
Indian curry leaf has proved to be an easy plant to grow here in
our central Texas area.
Native to India and Sri Lanka, Indian curry leaf is a member of the
rue family, which includes citrus and the popular herb rue. (In olden
times, rue was thought to improve eyesight and creativity, and is a
plant for swallow-tail butterflies.)
In its native habitat, curry leaf (Murraya koenigii) grows as a small
tree, reaching a height of 15 to 20 feet. It is popular with Indians and
fans of Indian cuisine because of its highly aromatic pinnate leaves
which are used to make curry. Leaves are chopped and fried in oil
with onions as a start to many traditional dishes.
Here at the nursery we grow curry from seed obtained from our
mother plants. The white flowers bloom in clusters, each providing
shiny black berries containing one seed each.
We remove the seed from the berry and plant in a soil-less potting
or germinating mix (Metro). The berry needs to be plump and soft.
If allowed to dry and shrivel, germination is poor. With fresh seed,
the germination is close to 100%!
Since curry leaf is a tropical tree, it can’t survive freezing tempera-
tures. We planted one in our butterfly garden last spring and it sur-
vived through our very mild winter. Our low was around 30 degrees
which didn’t harm the tree.
Lucky for us, curry leaf is easy to grow in containers. Plant them
in full sun to part shade, and use a great soil mix like Metro or
Happy Frog, and keeping moist but not wet.
Give one a try. Because I cannot let one seed go to waste, I have
hundreds of baby curries ; - ) Happy gardening everyone!
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