What better sound to accompany the rising harvest moon than a combine harvester in the field below the house. Post Views: 153
Botanical Garden / Edimentals / Medicinal plants / Talks
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Edimentals and other useful plants in the Atlanta Botanical Garden
A year ago I was scheduled to give the Alston lecture at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens. Before the lecture, my host Cornelia Cho showed me round the botanical […]
Forest Gardening / Garden tour / Medicinal plants / Perennial vegetables
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Mountain Gardens tour with Joe Hollis
A year ago, on 22nd September 2019, Joe Hollis had invited me to do a walk and talk with him at his Mountain Gardens in North Carolina! Before […]
Flora
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Preparing for Mountain Gardens Flora
A year ago at Mountain Gardens, Joe was busy preparing for the guests who were to come on our joint walk and talk. Luckily Joe had a well […]
Garden tour
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Visitors from Ohio
One year ago, it was a pleasure to spend some time touring Joe Hollis’ Mountain Gardens with these three guys who’d come all the way from NE Ohio […]
Medicinal plants / Seed
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Joe Hollis’ pharmacy and library
It’s a year since I arrived at Joe Hollis’ Mountain Gardens in North Carolina. I wrote about it here https://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=24110 and just added a few additional pictures. Here are […]
Birds
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Canada Geese
Apart from a small resting flock of 5 birds seen resting in the bay in early March 2017 I’ve never seen Canada Geese (Kanadagås) in the bay before […]
Edimentals / Food / Forest Gardening / Perennial vegetables / Root crops
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Nettle-leaved bellflower
Nettle-leaved bellflower (Campanula trachelium) has a more southwesterly distribution in Europe than my favourite giant bellflower C. latifolia and replaces the latter species in the south of England, […]
water plants
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The mini-pond and marginal areas
My house was given the name Bergstua by the previous owners, literally meaning house on the rock, a rocky hillside overlooking the fjord. Not a natural place for […]
Berries
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Illinois Everbearing Mulberries
After a 15 year wait, I was finally able to harvest a few mulberries last year, see https://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=23040 In the winter I was sent 4 cuttings of the variety […]
Birds / Fjord views / Sun
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Autumn on the way
It felt really autumny early this morning with geese moving, cranes (trane) calling in the distance and fog hanging over Stjørdal. Post Views: 179
Butterflies and moths / Edientomental / Pollinators
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Buddleja Butterflies
By chance, the best two plants in the garden for pollinating insects in late summer are growing together in the garden. The Clematis vitalba (old man’s beard / […]
Climbers / Edimentals / Food / Fungi / Legumes
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Runner Bean harvest
As I wrote earlier, it looks like we may have a glut of runner beans (Phaseolus coccineus) this year, the first time for many years. Runner beans are […]
Foraging / Fungi
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Fungal abundance
The forest is now full of edible fungi, witness today’s haul of mostly chantarelles, winter chantarelle, hedgehog fungi (two species) and puffballs (Norw: kantarell, traktkantarell, lys- og rødgule-piggsopp […]
Insects
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Long hoverfly action in the garden
Who needs Netflix when all the entertainment you’d ever need is in the garden? Here is a direct comparison of male and female long hoverflies (Sphaerophoria scripta), stor […]
Birds
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Young basking robin!
Wishing my oldest and favourite son, Robin Arne Barstow, a very happy 37th today…..with a young basking robin (rødstrupe) in the garden Post Views: 182
Moon
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Moonrise over Malvik Kirke
Sitting at my desk last night I noticed the nearly full moon just appearing over the horizon above Malvik Kirke (church). Below you can see a video as […]
Fjord views
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A Venusglade
I often shown pictures of moonglades from the house (the long beam-like reflection of the moon on the fjord), but I’d never noticed a venusglade before. Then three […]
Birds
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Spotted flycatchers on the perch
This is another example where an untidy garden attracts wildlife. One of my Manchurian walnuts died last winter and rather than cutting it down, I decided to leave […]
Bees / Butterflies and moths / Pollinators
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Unusual Pollinators
A dark green fritillary (aglaya perlemorvinge) and my second red-tailed bumlebee (steinhumle) on my Buddleja and Clematis vitalba (old man’s beard….not me!) Post Views: 175
Beans / Edimentals
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Edimental Runner Beans
My Dad (95) has always grown Runner Beans, so I have them in my blood. Moving to Norway, I was surprised to find that they were mostly grown […]
Edible flowers / Food / Perennial vegetables
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A Taste of Myoga
After many years trying, I finally had a taste of home grown myoga or Japanese ginger (Zingiber mioga) this week!I think it was in the garden of my […]
Edimentals / Root crops
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Edimental Cacomitl Flowering Time
Currently flowering in the Edible Garden are these beautiful Tigridias! Read more about my tastiest root crop here: https://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=5470 Post Views: 164
Birds
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Wren in the indoors forest garden
With warm weather and the balcony door open, yet another bird species found its way into my indoors forest garden this evening , hunting for flies on the […]
Fjord views / Moon / Sun
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This week’s fjord views
The night has become dark enough again after a 3 month pause for the moonshine to reflect in the fjord again! Post Views: 144