Having breakfast this morning, I noticed this Hablitzia (Caucasian Spinach) flowering shoot peeping in the window at me, as if to say “Look what I’m doing”…
This plant has seeded itself from my original plant seen in the background in the second picture and is busily climbing up and smothering a grape (Vitis coignetiae)!
Red sky in the morning or night, shepherd’s confused!
The most striking plant in the Tromsø Arctic-Alpine Botanical Garden on Monday was undoubtedly Meconopsis punicea, a plant that doesn’t like temperatures over 20C and a very minor edible – Meconopsis seed are oil rich! Here’s a short video clip….
Brynhild Mørkved has over the years collected forms of Allium victorialis from over it’s range – the Alps, Caucasus, Japan and the Kola peninsula in North West Russia. The main reason has been to try and determine where the naturalised populations in the Lofoten Islands originate as this isn’t a native plant in Norway. I tell the story of the Lofoten victory onions in full in my book Around the World in 80 plants: http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?page_id=30
Allium nutans xsenescens, Stellaria media, Oregano (yellow leaved), Bay leaf, Campanula latifolia, Red streaked mustard greens, Asparagus, Malva moschata, Day lily buds, Crambe maritima, Rumex patientia, Rumex acetosa (non flowering), Atriplex hortensis (two cultivars)
At last, 6 years after planting my wine sorrel (see the book) is about to flower… seeds may soon be available for this beauty!
North America’s most widespread Taraxacum is the horned dandelion or pissenlit tuberculébracts (Taraxacum ceratophorum). Here are its horns:
My Persian shallots are in flower. Here they are:
More in these links:
http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=357
http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?page_id=893
http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=1407
Also in flower and even taller is Allium rosenbachianum Album (unknown edibility):
400 copies of my book Around the World in 80 plants have arrived in Trondheim! This means I’ll have very heavy suitcases for some time yet, the negative part of being a travelled author/speaker…. :(
VILL365 (Wild365) – Wild Food each day for 1 year and so beautiful too! Rita Amundsen: WOWWWW!!!