Edible & ornamental
Well, not only Mandy’s plot, a group of local people in Ashburton, Devon got together to buy The Field a few years ago to grow vegetables communally! It is […]
Some additional pictures from the Ringve Edimentals tour taken by Lorna O’Lynn, many from the second of the two tours, several showing the grand tulip flower tasting :) […]
A reminder of my mini tour of southern England next week: 12th June 2016: Hellens Garden Festival, UK: Talk based on my book Around the World in 80 […]
My two garden helpers left today. Lorna is from Belfast and was recommended to me by the Head Gardener of Mount Stewart in Northern Ireland, Neil Porteous, who […]
Just a few weekend shots from the garden and kitchen during a hard working gardening weekend with my helper, Kia from Fosen Folkehøgskole Post Views: 167
I grew up in Eastleigh only a few miles from Southampton, so it’s a bit special for me to be invited to talk to some groovy growers in […]
Apple trees in full bloom are a wonderful sight, aren’t they? I’ve seldom seen so many flowers on them as this and the rowans are also flowering well […]
The rate of growth of Udo (Aralia cordata) from Japan is phenomenal in cool spring weather, even outgrowing Hablitzia tamnoides (Caucasian spinach)! The first picture was taken by […]
It’s difficult to believe that these tiny seedlings can grow into something as big as Aralia cordata, Udo…currently germinating in the garden! (that’s a knife handle in the […]
Can you see your Hablitzia grow?? I must measure mine next year! http://backyardlarder.blogspot.hu/2016/05/how-fast-can-climbing-spinach-climb.html… Thanks, Alison Tindale! Post Views: 219
One of the worst invasions of diamond back moth / kålmøll happened a couple of days ago….here is a video showing hundredds swarming over one of my Lily […]
We are nearing midsummer and there was a magical light in the northern skies last night dominated by reds and blues… Post Views: 143
15 minutes from garden to table must qualify as fast food, but unlike its namesake this is highly nutritious and with a few flowers becomes gourmet edimental food… […]
On 13th August I’ll be doing an edible wander at Grennessminde, the organic nursery just outside of Copenhagen. A large number of edible flowers are also produced here […]
I’ve had a couple of meetings in Copenhagen over the last couple of days and I visited Naturplanteskolen again. The nursery was looking really good and plants had […]
On 2nd May 2016 I finally got to visit Camilla Plum and Fuglebjerggaard. Camilla is one of Scandinavia’s best known authors and broadcasters on edible gardening and cooking. […]
Here are all 3 Primula veris (cowslip) forms to be found in my garden!! Post Views: 147
I call Allium humile (syn A. nivale) the snowy onion, and is my favourite spring flowering Allium! I saw it flowering first in the Tromsø Botanical Garden and […]
Ostrich fern pie was the culinary high this week…made with cooked ostrich fern, Allium scorodoprasum, garlic, chili and standard quiche ingredients and a 100% whole grain barley / rye […]
Ha ha!! My helper Lorna used to work in the walled garden at the National Trust garden Mount Stewart in Northern Ireland….I’d joked about the fact that she […]
Originally introduced by Alan Kapuler of Peace Seeds, who gave them to me during my visit last September and sowed in my garden today! This a large-seeded tall […]
Perennial seeds are all germinating together, so a lot of work this week pricking them into larger pots before a permanent place in the garden! Post Views: 132
Primula veris “Red Strain” (red cowslip / rød marinøkleblom) is a favourite spring edible flower and is looking good just now! * Post Views: 139
Last night’s almost full moon…and the sun was going down, now in the north west and reflecting in my office window, folk in the background fishing on Malvikodden […]