Benjamin Bro-Jørgensen, who together with Irja Frydenlund have started an edible perennials nursery in Tingvoll, Norway, was profiled in today’s Adresseavisen (Hjem magazine) in an article “Den evige […]
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Octobasters
There are some great autumn flowering edimentals (or edible ornamentals) in the Asteraceae, and this is my favourite of the lot, Korean Aster or Chwinamul (Aster scaber)….and it’s […]
Fruit / Perennial vegetables / Trees
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Autumn in my forest garden
My forest garden continues to be super-productive, my udo is on its way back to the soil and is preparing for next year as are my three devil’s […]
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The Many Uses of Udo
For the first time freely available is my article in Permaculture Magazine about my largest and most exciting vegetable Udo (Aralia cordata)! See the link near the bottom of the […]
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 […]
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: 140
Forest Gardening / Fruit / Perennial vegetable shoots / Perennial vegetables
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Homegrown watermelon berries
Streptopus amplexifolius is a shade loving woodland plant known, amongst others, as twistedstalk, wild cucumber and watermelon berry and has an extensive wild range including North America, Europe […]
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Longest dandelion leaf?
This is my longest dandelion leaf so far at 95cm. Any better? Post Views: 224
Edible flowers / Edimentals / Food / Perennial vegetables
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“Have you eaten a flower”
Some pictures from the Grennessminde (Copenhagen) “Have you eaten a flower” event on Saturday 13th August 2016. Thanks for inviting me :) Post Views: 156
Edimentals / Perennial vegetable shoots / Perennial vegetables
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Korean Aster on Edimentals
Two years ago, I posted this picture of Aster scaber, commonly wild foraged in Korea and nowadays cultivated for markets in Korea and exported dried to Koreans in […]
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The tallest skirret challenge
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. […]
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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 […]
Coastal plants / Perennial vegetables / Seaweed
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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
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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 […]
Edible flowers / Food / Perennial vegetables / Salad
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Naturplanteskolen Malvik salad
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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 / 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 […]
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Pakora hasn’t met this selection of veggies before!
I gave myself a little treat this week and made Indian pakora! Pakora are basically fried vegetable fritters, often sold as a starter in Indian restaurants. The vegetables […]
Book / Interview / Perennial vegetables
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An interview at Holma Forest Garden in Sweden
An interview with yours truly at Holma Forest Garden in Southern Sweden during my visit in early May. Filmed and produced by Jim Nilsson who did an excellent […]