Around 25 years ago I started reading scientific papers written by various ethnobotanists on the back of the discovery of the traditional Mediterranean diet – people in mountain […]
Butterflies and moths
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Largest numbers of red admirals
This morning, red admiral butterflies were everywhere in the garden and I counted at least 70 on both Buddleja davidii (butterfly bush / sommerfuglbusk) and Eupatorium cannabinum (hemp […]
Onions
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Grand opening of the Onion Garden
The long delayed (by COVID) opening of the Onion Garden Chicago took place at the Ringve Botanical Gardens in Trondheim on Friday. Here we grow over 400 different […]
Magazine article
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Intervju i Gatemagasinet Sorgenfri
Jeg var veldig fornøyd med resultatet av intervjuet med journalisten Gunn Merete Roll fra Trondheims Gatemagasin Sorgenfri.Artikkelen (vedlagt) kom med i juli-nummeret til Sorgenfri som ikke lenge kan […]
Butterflies and moths
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Fleet of Admirals
The numbers of red admiral butterflies have been building up over the last week and today with my large Buddleja davidii in full flower and warm summer weather, […]
Butterflies and moths
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Impaled moth?
Yesterday, I noticed a small micromoth flapping its wings vigorously on a spear thistle (veitistel) in the garden. It had somehow got caught on one of the spears […]
Uncategorized
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Green blackcurrant
Despite trying green blackcurrants (grønn solbær) from different sources over several years, this is the first time they have fruited for me (others have died)! Green blackcurrant? These […]
Food
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Green pasta
This is what I had for dinner last night: a Mediterranean-diet style green (wholegrain spelt) pasta dish with wild fungi, annual greens, broad beans, weeds, golpar, chili and […]
Bees
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Disturbance Leg-lift Response
Don’t come any closer indicates this tree bumblebee (trehumle) by lifting a leg! Known apparently as Disturbance Leg-lift Response (DLR)! The plant is Ligularia japonica. Post Views: 107
Birds
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Robin joined me for breakfast
No, not my son Robin (he arrives tomorrow).Robins (rødstrupe) have over the years I’ve lived here changed from a shy forest bird to the tame inquisitive bird I […]
Food / Salad
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50 and 20 year celebrations
To celebrate our good friends’ Jurgen Wegter and Ingvild Haga’s 50th birthdays together with Meg’s 50-year anniversary of arriving in Europe for the first time (in Southampton near […]
Onions / Perennial vegetables
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Meanwhile in the Onion Garden Chicago
I don’t often post here about my other two gardens, the community garden at Væres Venner and the Onion Garden Chicago at the Ringve Botanical Garden in Trondheim. The […]
Food / Perennial vegetables
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Hablitzia, Laportea and Nettle Gnocchi
What to do with the very last Sarpo Mira potatoes from the cellar? Last night’s dinner was Gnocchi made with Hablitzia leaf, Laportea canadensis (Canadian wood nettle tops) […]
Annuals / Salad / Seed pods
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A diversity of rat’s tails
I remember years ago ordering seed of a special heirloom heritage radish “rat’s tail” (Raphanus sativus var caudatus) through the Heritage Seed Library in the UK. I remember […]
Edientomental / Perennial vegetables / Root crops
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Rampions for the hungry gap
The rampions (vadderot in Norwegian, Phyteuma in Latin) has been naturalizing in my garden but so far keeping to the cultivated beds. I needed to dig up a […]
Birds / Butterflies and moths / Nettles
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Don’t cut those nettles, share them with wildlife
We may know that some of are most spectacular butterflies like red admiral (admiral), painted lady (tistelsommerfugl), comma (hvit C), small tortoiseshell (neslesommerfugl) and peacock (dagpåfugløye) may lay […]
Garden tour
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Visit from the National Museum and Credo
Continuing a series of visits and projects where art meets my perennial vegetables. Yesterday, I had the pleasure of welcoming a delegation from the National Museum (Nasjonalmuseet), https://www.nasjonalmuseet.no/enThanks […]
Art / Perennial vegetables
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Artist in Residence Elin Eriksen
We’ve had a lovely 3 day visit this last weekend from artist Elin Eriksen from Nesodden starting a project based on my perennial vegetables. She sketched and photographed […]
Food / Perennial vegetables
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Garden foraged perennial veggies: 28th June 2023
Tonight’s perennial vegetables from the garden, used in a stir-fry:Top right and clockwise:Sochan / Cherokee greens tops (Rudbeckia laciniata); Norsk: Kyss-meg-over-gjerde (picture at the bottom)Sorrel (Rumex acetosa) “Skomvær”; […]
Brassica / Pollinators
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Orange tip and seed saving
Growing your own seed often has a positive impact on pollinating insects as here with a female orange tip butterfly (aurorasommerfugl) sitting on flowers of mustard greens / […]
Perennial vegetables
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This year’s udo picture!
Presenting this year’s udo (Aralia cordata) almost fully extended 🙂Thanks to Elin Eriksen for the picture (she has been Artist in Residence at the Edible Garden the last […]
Biennial / Edimentals
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Two new salsify relatives for the Edible Garden!
There are two new salsify/havrerot relatives flowering in the garden! Presenting:Tragopogon coloratus (first 3 pictures) ranges in the mountains of Turkey to IranTragopogon balcanicus (Balkan goatsbeard) (last 3 […]
Food / Perennial vegetables
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Turkish brockets
This week, the tastiest part of turkish rocket / russekål (Bunias orientalis), the broccolis (affectionately known as brockets here!), were ready to harvest! Although considered an unwanted invasive […]
Perennial vegetables
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Mountain cultivation of Udo in Nagano
On 9th April 2016 I was staying with my new friend Tei Kobayashi in the mountains in a lovely village, Nogura, above Ueda in Nagano Prefecture. I was […]
Breeding
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Local runner bean landrace
I’ve started work on a local landrace of runner beans / blomsterbønner (Phaseolus coccineus). I sowed yesterday 15 varieties that are the earliest varieties I could find from […]