{"id":9354,"date":"2014-08-31T06:35:15","date_gmt":"2014-08-31T13:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9354"},"modified":"2014-09-01T02:26:20","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T09:26:20","slug":"unusual-fruit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/vegetables-herbs\/unusual-fruit\/","title":{"rendered":"Unusual Fruit &#8211; A Taste of the Unexpected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Pomegranate on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/5330747670\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5290\/5330747670_80bf866921.jpg\" alt=\"005\" width=\"500\" height=\"382\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The pomegranate is a native of Iran and Pakistan. The shrub or small tree bears bright red flowers and juicy, if seedy fruit.<br \/>\nEven if placed in the sunniest, warmest part of the garden they will suffer in the UK but with global warming who knows.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"pomegranate by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/2989087716\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3282\/2989087716_1a743b6d8e.jpg\" alt=\"pomegranite\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1899470271\/richardpettin-21\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/1899470271.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg\" alt=\"Book Cover\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1844008460\/richardpettin-21\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/1844008460.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg\" alt=\"Book Cover\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\" http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1844008460\/richardpettin-21\">A taste of the unexpected<\/a> contains details about growing and cooking Chilean guava and Szechuan pepper amongst other unusual items.<br \/>\nWhilst the photograph below was taken in England these bananas were only grown in the Kew garden tropical hot house.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Banana hand by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4405986751\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2754\/4405986751_a2a99b989a.jpg\" alt=\"Banana hand\" width=\"500\" height=\"406\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Eden Project by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/7557100074\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8027\/7557100074_be0c2e2ba0.jpg\" alt=\"Eden Project\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAre these warts, fruit or just part of the trunk? sadly Eden project did not have a name on this plant<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Guava Baby by CeeKay's Pix, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ceekay\/719386461\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1265\/719386461_b46b119e78.jpg\" alt=\"Guava Baby\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em><strong>Guava Baby<\/strong> by CeeKay&#8217;s Pix CC BY-NC 2.0 &#8216;Not sure if this is yummy but we stumbled upon this &#8220;face&#8221; on a guava fruit. It had eyes and a big round nose. To complete it, I stuck a piece of apple skin into his &#8220;mouth&#8221;. It was so adorable that we dressed it up too!&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pomegranate is a native of Iran and Pakistan. The shrub or small tree bears bright red flowers and juicy, if seedy fruit. Even if placed in the sunniest, warmest part of the garden they will suffer in the UK but with global warming who knows. A taste of the unexpected contains details about growing and cooking Chilean guava and Szechuan pepper amongst other unusual items. Whilst the photograph below was taken in England these bananas were only grown in&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/vegetables-herbs\/unusual-fruit\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-vegetables-herbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}