Saturday, June 18, 2011

Name That Bloom

Arugula flowering















It's Arugula. Flowering in Brooklyn. Another benefit of letting some of your vegetables and herbs go to flower is that you can often observe a family resemblance. Arugula and Radishes are related and you can see that in their flowers. Below, a flowering Daikon Radish from the community garden pumpkin patch in early October of last year. Both the Arugula and the Radish are in the Brassicaceae family, which contains a lot of food crop plants that are producing this time of year, like Broccoli and Cabbage, to name just a few.

Daikon Radish flower, Floyd Bennett Field, Brooklyn

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

WHEN IS DINNER?

NICE PICTURES AND WHAT FUN WATCHING YOUR FOOD GROW.

GRANNY FROM FLORIDA