Here are a few of my Allium victorialis pictures from the 2014 onion safari to the Lofoten Islands! The aim was to see the naturalised stands of viking onion / seiersløk on […]
Foraging / Permaculture
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Skomvær 2014
Here is my report from the second permaveggies / foraging weekend on the wonderful arctic island Skomvær outermost in the Lofoten Islands off north west Norway. I spent […]
Foraging / Permaculture
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Skomvær Fyr / Lighthouse: 2-4 August 2013
The first magical long weekend on the island Skomvær outermost in the Lofoten Islands. I was contributing at a permaculture / wild food workshop there in August 2013, […]
Garden tour / Onions / Pesto
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Løksafari til Lofoten / Onion safari to the Lofoten Islands
The document below is in Norwegian but contains many pictures from my first visit to Vestvågøy in the Lofoten Islands to see the stands of naturalised victory onion […]
alpine plants / Perennials
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The Youngs of Aberdeen
On my way up north from Edinburgh by train I stopped off to visit Scottish Rockers ( Scottish Rock Garden Forum luminaries) Ian and Maggi Young’s wonderfully diverse […]
Foraging / Garden tour / Perennial vegetables
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Edimentals talk at the Royal Botanical Gardens
Fun day collecting edimentals from the garden’s collections, making a multi-species salad followed by my talk and walk! Thanks to all who came and to Sabina Knees for […]
Edimentals / Garden tour
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Edimentals in Edinburgh’s Royal Botanical Gardens
On Monday 12th September 2016 I visited the botanical gardens in Edinburgh, and I wandered around the collections looking for edimentals (edible ornamentals), many of which are also […]
Talks
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Edimentals Evening at the Teeny Weeny Farm!
What a lovely evening in good company of local (to Dyke by Forres) permaculture folk, forest gardeners and a van load from Findhorn! Thanks to my hosts Kirsty Reid […]
Garden tour
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Milde garden tour 10th September 2016
I didn’t take many pictures on Sunday’s guided garden tour at the botanical garden in Bergen at Milde, but here are a few! I was very impressed in […]
Fjord views / Malvik / Sun
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Sunrise wake-up
8th September and I woke to the sun’s rays shining into my bedroom (the door to the balcony was open) and another spectacular sun-rise it was. Sun-rise will […]
Halophytes
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Norwegian articles on edible halophytes and biosaline agriculture
Here are scans of two articles I wrote published in 2004 (in Norwegian) in Våre Nyttevekster. The first one is about great edible salt tolerant plants (halophytes) such […]
Annuals
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A Sonchus oleraceus variety?
It would be a great project to select Sonchus oleraceus…for new improved yielding and special forms like was done with wild chicory aIt would be a great project […]
Garden tour / Insects / Perennials
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Weekend garden pictures 3rd – 4th September 2016
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Berries
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Black raspberries 2016
Why is it that black raspberries (Rubus occidentalis) aren’t more grown in Europe? They started ripening two weeks earlier than last year, see http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=2368 During the garden tour at […]
Fjord views / Sun
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Cold but stunning!
Cold but stunning view to wake up to…unusual to see fog on the other side of the fjord at Skatval.. Post Views: 108
Annuals / Salad
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Joke plants
I read some 15 years ago (but would love a proper reference*) that the Victorians (and some more recent jokers too) were […]
Food / Onions / Perennial vegetables / Root crops / walkabout onion / weeds
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A green medley pasta sauce for dinner!
Mostly annuals and biannuals tonight, but still 1/3 of the 41 ingredients are perennials! Post Views: 163
Forest Gardening / Garden tour
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Climate Festival garden tours!
Lovely bunch of people on the two tours of my garden today! Forgot to take any pictures during the first tour, so just a couple from the second […]
Edible flowers / Edimentals / Onions / Tubers
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Nepalese feast in Malvik
A couple of weeks ago, I finally got round to inviting botanist Kamal Acharya and his wife Sharmila Phuyal to see my garden!! They were amazed to see […]
Onions
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Allium rosenbachianum, a new edimental from Tajikstan and Uzbekistan
ADDED: Mark McDonough has commented on the Alliorum Facebook forum (https://www.facebook.com/groups/575374019245196) that the plant I have isn’t rosenbachianum, but probably Allium stipitatum “Album”, one of the Alliums eaten as […]
Uncategorized
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My very first garden in Edinburgh!
My very first garden in Balerno, on the outskirts of Edinburgh, probably 1978-1979! I was renting a flat and living in with the landlady. She didn’t use the […]
Garden tour
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Edinburgh guided edimentals walk
It’s confirmed that I’ll be doing a guided edimentals (=edible ornamentals) walk at the Royal Botanical Garden in Edinburgh’s Harvest Festival at 2 pm on Saturday 17th September […]
Plant sale
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Garden plant sale /plantesalg
Plants on sale in my garden during open days during autumn 2016! Many are in my book Around the World in 80 plants and, in this case, the […]
Edible flowers / Salad
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Wedding salad
3 years ago, I was at a LETS Trondheim meeting at Manuela Panzacchi’s place. I had forgotten, but we had been asked to bring some food and I […]
walks
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Sunday’s forest tour in Malvik with Naturvernforbundet
As part of Trondheim’s climate festival, which runs all this week, Naturvernforbundet (Friends of the Earth Norway) arranged a tour to experience first-hand a couple of remnants of […]