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Fjord views / Sun
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Tonight’s view, 23rd July 2016
Tonight’s view, a few minutes ago at 22:35…it will be a nice day tomorrow! Post Views: 101
Food / Fungi / Perennial vegetables / Spice
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Soba with stir-fried Golpared veggies
I made soba with stir-fried golpared veggies and wild fungi for tonight’s dinner. Soba is buckwheat noodles. Golpar is the Turkish spice usually made from the ground seed […]
Edible flowers / Forest Gardening / Perennial vegetables
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Giant purple throat bellflower
Noticed this rather attractive purple throated Giant Bellflower, reminiscent of Codonopsis! This patch came from AGS (Alpine Garden Society) seed, received as a cultivar “Gloaming” although pictures of […]
Perennial vegetables / Wild Edibles
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Persian Cornflower
There are several knapweeds (Centaurea spp.) that have been used as wild vegetables in the Mediterranean countries. I haven’t yet found and evidence of this beauty (Centaurea dealbata […]
Birds / Nut trees
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Scruffy Siberian Nutcracker
There’s always something to distract me here. This morning it’s a Siberian Nutcracker (sibirsk nøttekråke) sitting atop a pine tree in my Hazel woodland (the reason it’s here), […]
walks / wild flowers
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Alys’ Pool
Almost exactly 6 years ago (is it really that long ago?) I was delighted to have a visit from BBC gardening presenter and Guardian writer Alys Fowler. After […]
Fjord views / Sun
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Sunrise on 22nd July
Sunrise at 04:18 this morning, 22nd July! It’s now a month away from the solstice! The temperature was 18-19C. Yesterday, a few places recorded over 30C yesterday in […]
walks / Wild Edibles / wild flowers
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Danish invasion of Vennafjellet
On Sunday of the Danish Malvik permaveggies course, we drove to near the top of the closest mountain from home to see the views and the rich flora: […]
Moon / Sun
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Moonrise and sunrise
A few pictures of moon and sunrise in Malvik last night :) Post Views: 111
Birds
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Swift attack
I heard a few swifts (tårnseiler) yesterday evening, so put on my swift attracting CD (I have a nest box on the house) and in no time they […]
Forest Gardening
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Yuki-no-shita
Saxifraga stolonifera is a lover of dark, wet, rocky places in Japan, Korea and China. I saw it several places in Japan during my March / April visit […]
Beans
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Black-flowered broad bean
In July 2011, I noticed that a beautiful black-flowered broad/fava bean had appeared amongst my Crimson-flowered broad beans (a UK heritage variety that I’ve grown for some years)! In […]
Bulbs / Edimentals
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Edimental-cacomitls
The best tasting vegetable of the rhizosphere I’ve had the pleasure of eating is Cacomitl, one of the lost crops of the Aztecs, also known as Tigridia (pavonia) […]
Magazine article
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Öfgasalatmaðurinn Stephen Barstow
I like the sound of Öfgasalatmaðurinn ;) Here is an article in the Icelandic magazine Kvennablaðið (Women’s Magazine) prior to my Iceland visit last year :) [gview file=”http://www.edimentals.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Kvennabladid_Iceland_me.pdf”] Post Views: 163
Talks
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Portåsen and Norwegian Plant Heritage
I get invited to talk in some wonderful places! On 27th April 2014 I visited Portåsen and gave a shortened version of my Around the World in 80 […]
Cycling
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Hedgehog crossing
In all the 35 years I’ve been cycling to work from Malvik to Trondheim, I’d never seen a living hedgehog (pinnsvin)…until yesterday when this little one decided to […]
Food
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Nodding onion flower green pasta sauce
To celebrate the arrival of my daughter Hazel and helpers Charlotte and Maj-Britt from Denmark, I knocked up this green pasta sauce which, from memory, contained common sow […]
Allium cernuum / Onions / Slug
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Slimax maximus
Mr. Leopard Slug (S)Limax maximus admiring my Allium cernuum “Pink Giant” Post Views: 137
Beverages / House plants
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Daina discovers secret life of coffee
Daina Binde from Latvia doesn’t drink coffee but has a nose for a coffee flower…as she discovered that my coffee plant was in flower, unnoticed by me, in […]
Fasciation / Herbs
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Cresting on Sweet Aztec Herb!
Noticed this fasciated (crested) Lippia dulcis (sweet aztec herb) flower stem in the living room. Post Views: 181
Birds
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The next generation: white wagtail
White wagtail (linerle) is a common bird throughout Norway. Last week I took these shots in the garden…the adults were finding food on my veggie plots and feeding […]
Birds / Perennial vegetables
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Chiffchaff enjoys diamond backs
I was taking a picture of my second Crambe cordifolia (heartleaf crambe / buskstrandkål) flowering for the first time in the garden from my bedroom balcony. I noticed […]