I love chicories, a huge diversity of vegetable and wild forms, some perennial, hearting types, dandelion like types, various colour forms often like this one splashed with colour, […]
Birds / Fruit
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Waxwings everywhere
Part of the biggest flock of waxwings (sidensvans) in the garden today, around 350 birds!….seriously distracted all day by these photogenic arctic “parrots”! Feeding on yew (barlind), hawthorn […]
Birds / Fruit
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Waxwing dribbling…
Yew / barlind fruit is rather gooey….the picture is taken from the video of a flock of waxwings / sidensvans on the neighbour’s yew tree (Taxus baccata). Post […]
Birds / Fruit
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Yew with waxwing
My first waxwings (sidensvans) of the autumn…this one feeding on a yew tree laden with berries in the neighbour’s garden! Post Views: 147
Birds
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Aerial heroics
Always a joy to watch the aerial heroics of jackdaws (kaie) over the house in the evenings before flying into the roost….did I tell you I’m coming back […]
Perennial vegetable shoots / Perennial vegetables / Root crops
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Skirret harvest 2017
A good skirret (sukkerrot) harvest again…I don’t grow much as this perennial root and shoot vegetable is not totally hardy here. I have a few plants along the […]
Onions
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New study of old Norwegian roof onions!
I’m just passing the mountain village Otta in Gudbrandsdalen on the train . In 2009, I visited several old farms in this area to witness first-hand the old […]
Uncategorized
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Diagonally planted garlic and parsnip
Planted my garlic and sowed parsnip today on my 33 year old raised beds. No wooden edges, just raised using the soil where the paths are and adding […]
Ecohouses / Fruit / Nursery / Perennial vegetables
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Eco-sense
After our visit to the Government House garden, Solara Goldwynn took me on a visit to an amazing inspiring ecohouse, gardens and perennials nursery in the Highlands area […]
Talks
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Arche Noah at Seeds for the Future seminar
I made a presentation about my visit to Austria and Arche Noah in June at the “Seed for the future” seminar in Oslo last week! The presentation can […]
Edimentals / Garden tour
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Governor’s House Garden in Victoria BC
Continuing with another garden I visited in Victoria BC, Canada! My host Solara Goldwynn took me on a quick visit to the Government House Garden (from 1911) on […]
Aurora / Sun
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Daytime Aurora?
…and we get daytime auroras too in the same colours, originating in the same place ;) Post Views: 178
Aurora
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Glaurious!
More wows were uttered as I noticed the northern lights were back just as I was about to go to bed…and later I fell asleep to the flashing […]
Botanical Garden / Garden tour
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Edibles in the Abkhazi Gardens in Victoria BC
The next garden I visited in Victoria BC on 1st April 2017! The Abkhazi Gardens were created by Prince Nicholas Abkhazi from Georgia and his wife from 1947, […]
Heirlooms / Perennial vegetables
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Kvann foredrag i Trondheim
Ingerid Angell-Pedersen holdt et kort innlegg om kvann (en fast “månedens art” innlegg) under kveldens medlemsmøtet hos Trøndelagsavdelingen av Norsk Botanisk Forening i Trondheim! Ingerids onkel, hagebruker Jens […]
Botanical Garden
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Oak Bay Native Plant Garden
The owner of the Airbnb I was staying at in Victoria, BC kindly took me on a tour of gardens on 2nd April 2017! This was the first […]
Edimentals / Perennial vegetables
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EdimAsters
There are many Asters that are foraged and cultivated in the Far East. This includes Aster scaber (Korean Aster) which is one of the 80 in my book […]
Root crops
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Oca on the move!
My oca (Oxalis tuberosa) plants (grown in large pots) have now been moved inside to be finished off for Xmas. A couple were still in flower!! It should […]
Birds
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Autumn bird song gives hope
I’m full of hope! The autumn songs of the European robin (rødstrupe), heard in the video from the garden this morning and wren (gjerdesmett) always puts me in […]
Insects
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Dancing winter gnats
A common sight on warm autumn / winter days are the swarms of what I’ve always called winter gnats…however, I know little more about who they are or […]
Foraging / Fungi / walks
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Forbord to Malvik bike push!
Pushed the bike along a path through the woods with protrubing tree roots looking for some late edible fungi… Post Views: 140
Botanical Garden / Edimentals / Garden tour
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Walk and talk at the Horticulture Centre of the Pacific
So much has happened this year that I haven’t had time to blog about several places I’ve visited this year….with a bit more time now I’m returning to […]
Botanical Garden
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Visit to the Botanics in Oslo
A few pictures from a short lunch time visit to the Oslo Botanical Garden at Tøyen this week with my little girl! Post Views: 581
Talks
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Perennial vegetables and edimentals for cities
This week I gave a couple of talks for the first time on the subject of “Perennials: Attractive and climate friendly city vegetables” ….covering everywhere from roof gardens […]