Foods that Contain More Vitamin C than Oranges

We all know that oranges are a nutritious and convenient source of vitamin C! But did you know that there are foods which contains much larger dose of vitamin C than oranges?

Check em out below! 

One cup of raw kale contains more than 80mg of vitamin C! It also contains vitamin K (helps prevent heart attack, mantains healthy bones,..), vitamin A (gene transcription,skin and cellular health, antioxidant activity,..)

One yellow bell pepper contains over 500 percent of a day's worth of vitamin C, which is more than four times as much as an orange! It also contains vitamin B6, folate, vitamin A, vitamin E!

One cup of strawberries provides 96 mg of vitamin C to your body! Strawberries also include dietary fiber and manganese!

One kiwi  contains over 100 percent of a day's worth of vitamin C! It also contains dietary fiber, vitamin K and the trace antioxidant copper, which has powerful antioxidant properties!

 One cup of raw broccoli contains over 130 percent of a day's worth of vitamin C! it also contains dietary fiber, vitamin B6, folate, vitamin K, phosphorous, and potassium.

Cause it's always best to meet your daily needs of vitamins by eating a wide variety of food!

 Bon Apetite!

Flowers to plant in March

 Flowers need water, Sun (light, warmth) and soil or compost to grow. Spring is the best time cause   they get the conditions they need to begin to grow.
 Showery weather gives them the water they need. The longer days which means that have more light and warmth from the Sun. And we all know the Sun is only reason why life in our galaxy exists!
 Let`s see which plants are the best to grow early in spring.

 Flowers to plant in March (I`m just gonna count them a few, my favorites):

 

Coreopsis Rising Sun

 

Also known as Tickseed.  Produces large double golden-yellow flowers, each with a charming mahogany-red eye. 

Plants begin blooming in June and continue all summer, especially if faded blooms are removed regularly!

 

 Delphinium Guardian Blue

 

 Delphinium or even called the star of the early summer.
This flower form a low mound of deeply-cut green leaves, bearing tall spikes of satiny flowers. 

Deep blue petals and strong stems that are great for cutting. Removing faded spikes will encourage repeat blooming in fall. 

 Use a high phosphorous fertilizer each year, in early spring. 

 

 

 

 

 

Echinacea PowWow White

 

Echinacea ‘PowWow White’ is a white-flowered coneflower. well-branched stems that do not need staking. Flowers bloom from late spring to late summer.

Dead flower stems will remain into the winte. If flower heads are not removed, the blackened cones may be visited by goldfinches or other birds that feed on the seeds.

 

 

Geum Queen of Orange

 

Common Name :Geum, Avens, Grecian Rose.

It produces slender branching stems rising above neat compact foliage with stunning orange flowers. 

Guaranteed to perform well!
Geum Queen of Orange will flower from May all the way through to August! Excellent ground cover in sun or partial shade and well drained soil.

 

 

Viola Columbine

 

Violet Columbine is a spectacular hybrid with columbine colors--rich blue with white.The basic shades are blue and white, but the composition is a lot more interesting. The scented flowers are a soft, lilac-infused white marbled and streaked with violet-blue and held about 10in high. Plants start flowering toward the end of May and carry on into fall.

 

 

 

Strawberry Elan

 

 Who doesn`t like strawberries? Everyone does, its a nice sweet, delicious flavour caused by high sugar levels.

My advice is to plant early enough (end of March)!

Enjoy the sweet taste!

 

 

 

 

Geranium Ivy Precision Amethyst

Geranium Ivy Precision Amethyst has flowers that form large heads of colour in a gorgeous almost luminous pinkish mauve. 

Fast growing and vigorous that always looks good whatever the weather! 

A fantastic all summer long flower performance!

 

 

 

Fuchsia Trailing Annabelle

 

 Throughout the flowering season keep consistently moist and once in flower feed weekly. Some of plants have single flowers, some have semi-double or double flowers. 

Beauty guaranteed!

Some of our trailing Fuchsias have single flowers, some have semi-double or double flowers. - See more at: http://babyplants.co.uk/fuchsia-plug-plants/trailing-fuchsias#sthash.iOT8hZCh.dpuf

Flowering HD

By Alexander Reeder and Yutaka Kitamura.  "touched by strangers" is a performative piece where audience members touch interactive garments worn by dancers to make flowers bloom on a 120' by 12' screen. The project emerged from a class called Big Screens at the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP)
at New York University.

St. John’s Wort Flower

St John's wort is the plant species Hypericum perforatum, and is also known as Tipton's Weed, Chase-devil, or Klamath weed. St John's wort is widely known as a herbal treatment for depression.

Hypericum perforatum is a yellow-flowering, stoloniferous or sarmentose, perennial herb indigenous to Europe, which has been introduced to many temperate areas of the world and grows wild in many meadows. The common name comes from its traditional flowering and harvesting on St John's day, 24 June. The genus name Hypericum is derived from the Greek words hyper (above) and eikon (picture), in reference to the traditional use of the plant to ward off evil, by hanging plants over a religious icon in the house during St John's day. The species name perforatum refers to the presence of small oil glands in the leaves that look like windows, which can be seen when they are held against the light.

St John's wort is a perennial plant with extensive, creeping rhizomes. Its stems are erect, branched in the upper section, and can grow to 1 m high. It has opposing, stalkless, narrow, oblong leaves which are 12 mm long or slightly larger. The leaves are yellow-green in color, with transparent dots throughout the tissue and occasionally with a few black dots on the lower surface. Leaves exhibit obvious translucent dots when held up to the light, giving them a ‘perforated’ appearance, hence the plant's Latin name.

Its flowers measure up to 2.5 cm across, have five petals, and are colored bright yellow with conspicuous black dots. The flowers appear in broad cymes at the ends of the upper branches, between late Spring and early to mid Summer. The sepals are pointed, with glandular dots in the tissue. There are many stamens, which are united at the base into three bundles.
When flower buds (not the flowers themselves) or seed pods are crushed, a reddish/purple liquid is produced.

St John’s wort has a complex life cycle that includes a mature plant cycle with vegetative and sexual reproduction. It thrives in areas with either a winter or summer dominant rainfall pattern; however, distribution is restricted by temperatures too low for seed germination or seedling survival. Altitudes greater than 1500 m, rainfall less than 500 mm, and a daily mean January temperature greater than 24 degrees C are considered limiting thresholds. Depending on environmental and climatic conditions. Summer rains are particularly effective in allowing the plant to grow vegetatively, following defoliation by insects or grazing.

This herb is not just an anti-depressant it is a mild sedative as well. St. John’s Wort has also been shown to have a lower risk of side effects than conventional anti-depressants and is worth trying for those that don’t quite have severe enough depression to mandate the use of a prescription pharmaceutical, but instead need something to take the edge off and boost the mood a bit.

If you are suffering from anxiety that has a form of depression associated with it, then this would be a great herb to consider in your herbal sedative blend pending that you are not on any anti-depressants or anti-psychotic medications. The condition “serotonin syndrome” may occur from combing this herb with those classes of medications or other herbs and supplements that boost neurotransmitter levels.
This herb should not be used by those on oral contraceptives, or any medications as it increases the cytochrome p450 enzyme system which results in a more rapid detoxification of drugs from the system. The drugs or birth control pills are then rendered useless. Standard dose of St. John’s Wort for those not on any other medications, is 300 mg three times daily of the 0.3% standardized extract.

Lucid Dream Plants

Plants have been used for thousands of years to induce states of lucid dreaming by shaman throughout the world. These plants are often classified as oneirogens. Oneirogen, from the Greek "oneiros" meaning dream and "gen" meaning to create, describes that which produces a dream-like state of consciousness.


Silene Capensis 

Silene capensis, also known as African Dream Root, is a plant native to the Eastern Cape of South Africa, where it is regarded by the Xhosa people as a sacred plant. The root is traditionally used to induce vivid lucid dreams during the initiation process of shaman. It is regarded as the most powerful dream inducing plant, more powerful than Calea zacatechichi or Entada rheedii.

It is suspected that this sacred plant's oneirogenic activity is due to triterpenoid saponins contained within its roots, although the exact pharmacological action is still unknown. Relatively small amounts of root (250 mg mixed with water) is reported to be active. The plant exerts only minimal alterations in waking consciousness, yet the effects upon the dream state are often reported as being profound (Psychoactiveherbs, 2008).

Calea Zacatechichi

Calea zacatechichi, also known as Dream Herb, is a plant used by the indigenous Chontal of the Mexican state of Oaxaca. The plant naturally occurs from southern Mexico to northern Costa Rica. It has been scientifically demonstrated that extracts of this plant increase episodes of lively hypnagogic imagery during SWS stage 1 of sleep and the frequency and/or recollection of dreams versus placebo and diazepam.

Its oneirogenic activity lies within its leaves which are usually boiled with water to make a tea and then drank directly before going to sleep. The leaves are also often smoked, sometimes even at the same time as the tea is drank. Bouncing bear botanicals (2008) explained that , "Those who partook of the Dream Herb were able to experience lucid dreaming; the ability to control and remember their dreams with less effort. Auditory hallucinations are also fairly common, which prompted the Chontals, believing they were hearing the voice of God, to refer to Calea zacatechici as Leaf of God." The exact pharmacological action of this plant is unknown, as with many consciousness altering plants more research studies are desperately needed.

Entada Rheedii

Entada rheedii, also known as African Dream Herb, is a large woody liana or climber. These very large seeds are often washed up onto beaches. Because of this, they also have gained the name Sea Beans.

The seeds, which are usually ground up and smoked, contain the plants oneirogenic activity. It has been reported to cause vivid dreaming and is traditionally used by shaman in South Africa to remember dreams. Like the other plants described in this article, the exact pharmacological action of Entada rheedii is unknown.