During my trip to Switzerland I had a fantastic day together with Mountain Gardener Joe Hollis in Zurich, first in the new (larger) Botanical Garden of the University […]
Birds
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Redwing song
A distant redwing (rødvingetrost) in full song today (high volume required)! I remember whilst still living in Scotland hoping to hear redwing singing in June in North West […]
Climbers / Perennial vegetables
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Mass Hablitzia germination
Hablitzia’s attempt to take over the temperate world continues with this mass germination after 10 days in the fridge! Plenty of plants will be finding new homes this […]
Birds
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Sounds of spring
I’ve been attending a great gathering of gardeners from all over Norway the last couple of days, organised by my colleagues at the Ringve Botanical Gardens. These relatively […]
Food / Foraging / Perennial vegetables
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Spring Ryotto
We’re now going into a period traditionally called the hungry gap, but in my eyes it’s the Full gap, the period with an abundance of vegetables, both perennial […]
Nut trees
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Monkey Puzzle Safari in Chile
In December 2004, I went to a remote sensing conference in Concepcion in Chile in my other life as an ocean wave climatologist! I took some holiday to […]
Garden tour / Nut trees / Trees / Uncategorized
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Balestrand and the journey to Sogn
Andrew McMillion kindly picked me up early on Friday morning from the night train at Oslo airport and we drove together to the location of the KVANN / […]
Climbers / Perennial vegetables
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In its 18th year
My oldest Hablitzia is finally growing after the cold winter and in response to higher daytime temperatures over +5C! Post Views: 92
Foraging / Garden tour / walks
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Extreme Salad Man is a Guest of BBC Gardener’s Question Time Summer Garden Party!!
I’m chuffed to be asked to be a guest at the BBC Gardener’s Question Time Summer Garden Party at Mount Stewart on Strangford Lough in Northern Ireland on […]
Perennial vegetables / Seminar
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The Potential of Perennials for Food System Resilience Symposium
Last weekend I attended this symposium in Stans (near Lucerne) with a diverse group of people including farmers, decision makers, bankers, investors, NGOs, students, landscape architects, writers, international […]
Fjord views / Moon
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Twice in a blue moon
Two full moons in January and two in March, but none in February…the clouds held off just long enough last night! Post Views: 132
Fjord views / Sun
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Sun in the east both late and early
Reflections from the hotel at the airport (not far from Hell) at sunset and then sunrise in the same place at 6 am this morning! Post Views: 110
Community Garden
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Verdenshage and Væres Venner
It was the first time I cycled to my office at the Ringve Botanical Garden today and I took the opportunity to see how the new Væres Venner community […]
Birds
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Spring song
Spring can’t be stopped and this woodpigeon (ringdue) could be heard singing from the house today and I was woken at 6am (was 5am) by a robin (rødstrupe) […]
Birds
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Large jackdaw flocks
With the mild weather and bare patches on the fields, it’s good times again for the crow family…it seems that, by the over 300 jackdaws (kaie) counted resting […]
Perennial vegetables
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Hardy Habby
Hablitzia tamnoides (stjernemelde) is a pretty tough plant! These plants in a bucket have been like this exposed to this colder than average winter, totally frozen for probably […]
Seed / Sowing
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Earth hour
Hands in earth for Earth Hour….sowed 8 varieties of tomato in candlelight! Post Views: 109
Root crops
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Pursuing the Giant Root Chervil
I’ve had the turnip-rooted chervil, Chaerophyllum bulbosum, in my garden for maybe 20 years. It’s grown well, self-seeds, but the tubers rarely get bigger than a thumb nail. […]
Book
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Book delivery
My book Around the World in 80 plants is still selling well. Just received delivery of 200 more to sell at my lectures and courses as I’ve sold […]
Birds
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Great tit boundary dispute
There are two great tit (kjøttmeis) territories in my garden and you can here both males singing to defend their patch in this video… Post Views: 169
Article
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2002 Norwegian Article on Ostrich Fern
An article in Norwegian about my first experiences with ostrich fern (strutseving). From the magazine of the Norwegian Useful Plants Society, Våre Nyttevekster (Our Useful Plants). Link to […]
Birds
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Large brambling flock
A large flock of bramblings (bjørkefink) in the garden this afternoon, at least 120! This is double the highest winter flock ever recorded in Malvik, but small compared […]
Birds
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First day of spring sign!
The first day of spring, snow showers and, right on the dot, I heard my first yellowhammer singing this morning whilst I was in the outhouse….managed to capture […]
Perennial vegetables / Photography
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Hector and the Disobedient Gardener!
Héctor is from Spain.and is teaching art and photography at the folkhøgskole (folk high school) in Skogn. He is working on a photo-project about vegetable gardens featuring “disobedient […]