So, is this a world record, Guinness? Oh, sorry you can’t even ID a dandelion can you, so no point asking you ;) My claim is at 2.3m. […]
Foraging / walks
Posted on:
Central Park with Leda Meredith
I’ve “known” forager Leda Meredith since 1999 on the Edible Wild email list run by Melana Hiatt! I was very happy when I was passing through New York […]
Perennial vegetables / Root crops
Posted on:
Adenophora transforms into invasive bellflower
On the corner of a bed I planted Adenophora “Amethyst” over 10 years ago. I remember that creeping bellflower / ugressklokke (Campanula rapunculoides) was growing in the grass […]
Slug
Posted on:
Leopard slugs in love…
I think two of my favourite slugs are in love, spotted on the path up to the house last night….the more the merrier I say! There’s so much […]
Edible flowers / Onions
Posted on:
Sherpa and Swedish Norrland onions
My favourite Himalayan onion is now coming into flower in the garden. This is what I call Sherpa onion (Allium wallichii), it’s a beauty and the bees and […]
Berries / Drying / Fruit
Posted on:
Drying berries
A bit of a glut of fruit in my garden. I’ve therefore been drying raspberries and currants :) At the bottom are the dried fruit, also bilberries and […]
Coastal plants / Perennial vegetables / Seaweed
Posted on:
New Zealand Celery and Porpoise Bay
I haven’t shown many pictures from my fantastic tour of New Zealand in March / April 2015. I was transplanting some plants of New Zealand Celery at the […]
Perennial vegetables / Pot plants
Posted on:
Plant backlog…
The backlog of plants waiting for their space in the garden is getting longer by the minute…where will it all end? …and yes, that’s my oldest Hablitzia on […]
Annuals / Biannuals / Edimentals / Perennials
Posted on:
Weekend garden pictures
A diverse selection of pictures from last weekend in the Edible Garden :) Post Views: 161
Forest Gardening
Posted on:
New edible woodland garden beds
I planted a couple of new edible woodland garden beds with some 40 new plants on the north side of my house at the weekend!! The last picture […]
Fungi
Posted on:
End of July fungi foray
A collection of pictures from 3 hours in the woods….about 30 minutes to cycle up to the start of the trail and 15 minutes down again.. Post Views: […]
Fungi
Posted on:
Strawberries and cream
I was out in the woods looking for fungi yesterday….the last thing I’d expected to find in the dark coniferous woods was strawberries and cream ;) No, I […]
Food
Posted on:
Barl-ryotto
Last night’s dinner: risotto made with rye and barley grain instead of rice with wild and cultivated vegetables and wild fungi: Parsley, coriander, golpar (Heracleum maximum seed spice), […]
Edimentals / Onions
Posted on:
Allium flavescens?
This is a nice new edimental Allium, although its identity is still being discussed by the experts! I received seed of this a few years ago from my […]
Birds
Posted on:
Oystercatcher family
Oystercatcher / tjeld family at Grilstad, taken on my bike ride back from work! ;) Aster tripolium (syn Tripolium vulgare) / sea aster / strandstjerne bottom right in […]
Berries / Foraging / Fungi
Posted on:
Cycle home forage!
Pictures from my cycle home from work with a large detour up into the woods to pick bilberries and fungi! The video that comes first is the magical […]
Birds
Posted on:
Wheatfield swifts
I passed this large flock of mainly swifts over a wheat field at Være on my bike ride yesterday :) Click on the link to see the video! […]
Brassica
Posted on:
Sparrows working hard removing diamond backs
Here’s more evidence for the importance of having sparrows in our gardens! In the video can be seen both house and tree sparrows (gråspurv og pilfink) feeding on […]
House plants
Posted on:
Taro: an excellent edimental house plant
While we’re on the subject of taro (Colocasia esculenta), I’m reminded that it can make an excellent edimental house plant which I put out in the garden in […]
Root crops
Posted on:
The Lotus effect on taro leaves
I remember posting an article about a new material that had been developed inspired by the water repellent leaves of Lady’s Mantle (Alchemilla spp.). Another species with very […]
Foraging / Garden tour / Onions / Salad / Seaweed
Posted on:
Day 1 of Naturplanteskolen’s Malvik visit
Some pictures from Saturday 16th July in my garden and forage on the shoreline below the house! Post Views: 184
Garden tour
Posted on:
Naturplanteskolen at Ringve Botanical Garden
On the final morning of the Naturplanteskolen visit to Norway, we visited the Ringve botaniske hage in Trondheim. We started with the Renaissance garden, comprising a collection of […]
walks / Wild Edibles / wild flowers
Posted on:
Danish walk down the Homla canyon
On the 2nd day of the Malvik permaveggies course, we walked the Homlastien (path along the mighty Homla river) from the waterfall down to the station at Hommelvik! […]
Onions
Posted on:
Garlic scape armband
One of many ways to use onions…here’s a garlic scape used as an armband to keep “wild” animals, trolls and mosquitos away…perhaps? Post Views: 168
Birds
Posted on:
Posing Heron
A very tame heron hunting in the Copenhagen botanical garden in June: Post Views: 150