Description
🚚 The fastest delivery time : 3-5 day delivery.
🐝 Supplier / Origin : Fa Liu Farm / Tai Po, Hong Kong
🔖 Certification : ZFP Restore Fund Supported Farm
🌱 Supplier introduction : Fa Liu is Ms. Liu Ting Chun, a teacher of the Green herbal medicine class. She has been managing a private farm for ten years. Green (绿藤) joined the organization in the last year, 💚Hope to transform into a #lifeeducationfarm that combines folk wisdom and promotion of physical and spiritual health, practicing #regenerative farming and #community integration experience 💚
The characteristic of Fa Liu is the quiet valley scenery, rich biodiversity, and natural mountain streams passing through. There are more than 100 kinds of horticultural flowers and Chinese herbal medicines planted in the field, and the seasonal vegetable fields are being cultivated one after another, and we are constantly learning from the obstacles. 🌱
As a farm being rebuilt by hand, a farm with rich biodiversity, it is worth visiting and learning with partners: how can we transform the farm by ourselves, and how should we face other life besides crops...
🛍 Product Information :
Costus barbatus (also known as closed-sheath ginger) is a tropical perennial herb and a common ornamental flower. Its most distinctive feature is its tower-shaped inflorescence, with layers of red bracts and small golden flowers emerging from them, resembling a pagoda and very eye-catching. The leaves are spirally arranged throughout the plant, which grows to approximately 1–2 meters tall.
- It blooms for a long time (April–November), has a long lifespan as a cut flower, and is edible, with a slightly sweet and sour flavor.
- Its symbolic meaning: happiness, stability, and harmony.
- It prefers high humidity and bright, indirect sunlight, making it a hardy plant suitable for gardens and potted plants.
- The picture shows the original Costus barbatus, with a strikingly tropical appearance!
Location: Tai Po, Hong Kong
Farm Size: 28,700 sq.ft / 0.6 acres
Produces Grown:
Mulberry, lemon, papaya, coffee beans, watercress, daikon, carrot, coriander, lettuce
Regenerative Practices to Implement:
Mulching, compost application, alley cropping, nutrient management
Carbon Sequestration Potential: 2T CO2
Supply Period： From November To December
🥗 Recipes (English Version)：
Notes
Ornamental and edible flowers in pots generally require a combination of warmth, sunlight, and fertilizer. They are not suitable for cultivation in most urban areas, unless you have a sunny rooftop or a village house. Planting them may not be suitable for every home. If you want to increase their survival rate, consider violets and orchids, ornamental flowers that are more suitable for urban cultivation.
