Here an old pallet proves to be an excellent plant container for a range of edibles including
Ocimum basilicum ‘Crimson King’ (purple basil). This variety was bred for its uniform leaves and vigour. This is a half-hardy plant that needs to be grown from seed sown in a protected warm, light environment in spring with young plants moved outside in summer. The leaves need to be harvested regularly and the flowers removed to concentrate the plant’s energy on leaf production. The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Hyde Hall, Essex, UK, not only had purple basil in pallet containers on the safety fencing around the construction site for their new restaurant but also in the new productive World Garden.
This fat little Euphorbia is commonly known as the Baseball Plant, for obvious reasons. It has separate male and female plants, and the one pictured here is a female, with no pollen. It comes from near Kendrew, in the south-central part of South Africa.
The grave of Caroline Christine Walter in the Alter Friedhof, Freiburg. She died aged 17 in 1867. Ever since, her grave has been decorated with flowers on most days by a mystery donor.
