It’s always a nice surprise to discover a plant in flower in the garden that I thought long dead! Yesterday I discovered a plant that I’m pretty sure […]
Bulbs / Garden tour / Winter shoots
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Edibles in the January Bulb Garden at the Gothenburg Botanics
On my way north from Vienna to Oslo, I found myself unexpectedly with a 4 hour wait in Gothenburg in Sweden, and there was no hesitation to visit […]
Bulbs
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Latest ever garlic planting
It seemed that it was going to be spring before I could plant my garlic this year after the soil froze solid at the end of October, taking […]
Bees / Bulbs
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The bee and the crocus
It’s a beautiful sunny day here and a patch of Crocus tommasianus opened up in response. Making this film, my first 2019 bumble bee emerged from one of […]
Bulbs / Edible flowers / Edimentals
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Oriental and asiatic hybrid lilies
This is an asiatic hybrid lily growing in the garden of the flat I stayed in in Jondal during the Nordic Permaculture Festival! According to wikipedia, asiatic hybrids […]
Bulbs / Edible flowers / Edimentals
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Edimentalilies
I’ve been enjoying my edimental lilies this week and eating the flowers, both as salad and in last night’s tempura! More about edible lily bulbs in the following […]
Bulbs / Tubers
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Dog’s tooth violet
I got this as Erythronium dens-canis “Snowflake” but the petals aren’t pure white, presumably seed propagated.. Leaves, flowers and bulbs of Erythroniums have been used traditionally… Post Views: […]
Bulbs / Cellar vegetables / Food / Fungi / Tubers
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Lily-chufa-parsley stir fry
Tonight’s dinner was a lily – chufa – parsley stir-fry (chinese style) with buckwheat noodles… Lily = bulbs of Lilium martagon (Martagon lily), an important forest garden source […]
Bulbs
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Tigridia flowering again!
Tigridia flowering again,,,something else clearly enjoys eating flowers! Post Views: 136
Bulbs / Edimentals / Fasciation
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Fasciated Martagon Lily
From Wikipedia : “Fasciation (pronounced /ˌfæʃiˈeɪʃən/, from the Latin root meaning “band” or “stripe”), also known as cresting, is a relatively rare condition of abnormal growth in vascular […]
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) […]