Taraxacum rubifolium, the red-leaved dandelion now flowering in the garden and a curly-whirly dandelion spotted on a walk yesterday… Post Views: 100
Perennial vegetables
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Monster ground elder
My ground elder breeding efforts are paying off…. ;) …just kidding…I’m really not trying to breed a monster ground elder, but this one was growing next to my […]
Edible flowers / Food / Perennial vegetables
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Hablitzia-Ramsons-Nettle quiche
Tonight’s dinner was a Hablitzia-Ramsons-Nettle quiche with oregano, poppy and celery seeds on top with cowslip-violet-Allium zebdanense-Arctic bramble flowers….wholegrain barley-oat-rye pastry…. not at all bad :)Anyone else have […]
Garden tour
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Tour d’Edimentals HQ
Wonderful shot from last night’s guided tour around the garden taken by WW (my Wonderful Wwoofer this week) who climbed onto the roof for what could have been […]
Fjord views / Sun
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End of May sunrise
2:50 sunrise yesterday, just 3 weeks from midsummer :) Post Views: 99
Birds / Fjord views
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Blackcap in my dreams?
I woke at 4am to the familiar song of the blackcap (munk) which had no doubt arrived with the warmer weather during the early hours…this is very late […]
Onions / Perennial vegetables
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Geirlauk
Sand leek (rocambole) or Allium scorodoprasum gives bigger yields here than leeks, so it’s not surprising to learn that this perennial onion was probably cultivated by the Vikings […]
Fjord views
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Changes
A series of pictures taken from 8 am to 12:30 am this morning from beautiful clear skies to equally beautiful heavy rain…love the variability of our climate! Post […]
Garden tour
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The Edible Garden on 9th July 2009
A tour around my garden in pictures early July 2009 Post Views: 122
Edible flowers / Perennial vegetables / Salad
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Extreme May salad
Yesterday, 19th May 2017, I spent several hours being filmed in the garden collecting and preparing a multi-species salad, predominantly perennials…and this was the result! How many? The […]
walks
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Homla ostrich fern tour; 17th May 2017
Yet another wondrous walk along the Homla canyon in Malvik , this time with Berit Børte, Marit By and Ane Mari Aakernes Post Views: 181
Food
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OstrichDandyHeartOmelette
Thanks to my visitors Berit Børte and Ane Mari Aakernes for this “lovely” omelette this evening….dandelion flower buds and fiddleheads, ramsons, chili and Heracleum persicum spice (golpar) in […]
Forest Gardening / Perennial vegetables
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In the forest garden on 16th May 2017
Just a few pictures of udo, ostrich fern, devil’s walking stick, giant bellflower today in the forest garden.. Post Views: 171
Birds / walks / Wild Edibles
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Vikhammer plants and birds
Pictures of plants and birds taken on 15th May 2017 on a walk along the beach from Vikhammerløkka to Vikhammer. Oystercatcher and nest Common sandpiper Common sandpiper Common […]
Fjord views
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Glittering fjord
Beautiful warm windy day with the fjord glittering …and dust or smoke over Stjørdal in the background! There are a number of wild fires in this area at […]
Root crops
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Burdock in Japanese Supermarkets
I’ve grown burdock in my garden, originally mainly as a root vegetable, since the 80s when Japanese varieties such as Takinogawa Long and Watanabe Early began to appear […]
House plants
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Horseradish Tree
Horseradish tree (Moringa oleifera) is one of 13 species in the genus Moringa from Africa. The genus name is derived from the Tamil word for drumstick, one of […]
Garden tour / Halophytes / Talks
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Alton
I was very pleased to be invited to give a talk organised by the Curtis Museum in Alton, Hampshire, UK, not far from where I grew up in […]
Plant sale
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Plant sale at the botanical garden in Oslo
KVANN/ Norwegian Seed Savers will have a stand and be selling plants at this year’s “Vårtreff” on 28th May at Oslo’s Botanical Garden (Tøyen) (see http://foreninger.uio.no/botaniskhagesvenner/arrangementer/2017/vartreff-2016.html) Steering committee […]
Edimentals / Garden tour
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Edimental spotting in the Oxford Botanical Garden
I finished my last day of work as an oceanographer by visiting head office in Wallingford, UK. We were finished by lunchtime, so I visited the University of […]
Beverages / Fruit
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Would you like a cuppa?
One of the first plants to harvest from in my indoors forest garden this year….familiar? It’s also one of the best indoors edimentals.. See also http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=436 Post Views: 133
Annuals
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From Malta to Japan and back again
The article below, published in Grobladet in 2006 is the story (in Norwegian) of how one of the commonest spring flowers in the Mediterranean countries became one of […]
Talks
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Nabolagshager
Another great lively knowledgeable crowd with much interaction at Nabolagshager last night and in a real classroom!! Post Views: 96