{"id":35430,"date":"2018-06-23T15:05:10","date_gmt":"2018-06-23T20:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35430"},"modified":"2018-06-23T15:05:10","modified_gmt":"2018-06-23T20:05:10","slug":"ornamental-plants-that-are-edible-and-or-edible-plants-that-are-ornamental","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35430","title":{"rendered":"Ornamental Plants That are Edible and\/or Edible Plants That are Ornamental"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"post-featured-image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/permaculturenews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Daylilies-511x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"511\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/permaculturenews.org\/2018\/06\/23\/ornamental-plants-edible-edible-plants-ornamental\/\">ORNAMENTAL PLANTS THAT ARE EDIBLE AND\/OR EDIBLE PLANTS THAT ARE ORNAMENTAL<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>When I first began growing food and working with ideas of permaculture, I lived in the tropics where many edible plants leaf out large and are exceptionally stunning. Moreover, the places I found myself building gardens tended to be free-for-alls, where anything goes and HOAs didn\u2019t interfere with what people planted on their property.<\/p>\n<p>Last year however, after twelve years abroad, I moved back to the US. Where often people aren\u2019t allowed to grow food at home. Because I\u2019m more into rural areas, I don\u2019t foresee much issue in this regard to me personally. However, I\u2019m often asked for advice and eventually, I may do some consulting work.<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly, the idea of having to gett around these committees and associations seems an important avenue for getting people into home food production. I already knew that it was possible to create an \u201cornamental\u201d garden entirely with plants that are edible. However, now in the temperate climate, it was time to learn some of the plants with which to work.<\/p>\n<p>(Please follow links, if necessary, for Latin names and more information.)<\/p>\n<p><b>Perennials<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Sticking with the principle that perennial plants are always a plus, I would want to recommend several to go into the garden. The selling points \u2013 there are many. Perennial plants put fixed roots into the soil, which take nutrients less intensively than annuals. In terms of appearance, they often appear earlier and provide earlier blooms as well, and in many cases, they hang on a bit longer. Ultimately, they are lower maintenance, often spreading out on their own, which makes for easy gardening.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-43563 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/permaculturenews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Hosta-300x200.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/permaculturenews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Hosta-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/permaculturenews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Hosta.jpg 960w\" alt=\"\" width=\"459\" height=\"306\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Hosta<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Perennial Edible Ornamentals<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are several ornamental plants that grow perennially, some of which are noted for being delicious as well as attractive.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ORNAMENTAL PLANTS THAT ARE EDIBLE AND\/OR EDIBLE PLANTS THAT ARE ORNAMENTAL When I first began growing food and working with ideas of permaculture, I lived in the tropics where many edible plants leaf out large and are exceptionally stunning. Moreover, the places I found myself building gardens tended to be free-for-alls, where anything goes and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[18767,319,13594,11500,20642,13595,8748,9358],"class_list":["post-35430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-edible-plants","tag-food","tag-food-plants","tag-jonathon-engels","tag-ornamental-plants","tag-perennials","tag-permaculture-news","tag-permaculture-research-institute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35431,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35430\/revisions\/35431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}