Toad lilies (Tricyrtis sp.) are great edientomentals from the Far East; i.e. both food for us to eat (the edi bit), eye food (the mental bit ;) […]
Edible flowers / Perennial vegetables / Salad
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Snow onion salad
After yesterday’s video post about the snow onion (Allium humile) I had to make a snow onion lunchtime salad, so here it is; see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mOcQ4aUQVIIngredients below the pictures. […]
Edible flowers / Forcing
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Happy Easter with a floriferous oxlip
Happy Easter 2023 with this floriferous forced Primula elatior (oxlip / hagenøkleblom) in the kitchen window. Unlike England where oxlip is a rare native plant, it was introduced […]
Edible flowers / Edimentals
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First 2023 Edimental Flowers
Despite the fact that the soil is frozen solid apart from the top couple of cms, I was surprised to discover the year’s first flowers in the garden: 1. […]
Edible flowers / Edimentals / Root crops / Salad
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“Over the top” Flowery Whopper Carrot Salad
I was going to post an album of pictures showing off all the late flowers in the garden this record-breaking mild autumn still without any frost, but as […]
Edible flowers / Salad
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The first 2022 outside salad
Sorry for the silence here on the Edimentals blog. I’ve been busy preparing to produce signs and plant labels for the Allium garden and the World Garden as […]
Edible flowers / Salad
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20 years of Extreme Salads
20 years ago on 19th August 2001, the Extreme Salad (Man) was born when I made my first (of two) world record salads with 363 different plants and […]
Edible flowers / Food / Salad
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Celebration 40 genera salad
40 years ago this month I came to Norway to find a place for us to live as I was to start work at Institutt for kontinentalsokkelundersøkelser (IKU; […]
Dandelions / Edible flowers / Edientomental / Edimentals
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Swirly Late Dandelion
“WHY IS IT SWIRLY WHEN IT’S LATE?” (MMA, 2020)Probably the last dandelion to flower in the edible garden in 2020! The temperature didn’t drop below +12C last night, […]
Annuals / Biannuals / Edible flowers / Edimentals / Perennials
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Indian summer flowers
There were unusually many plants still flowering in the garden in October this year as we experienced a bit of an Indian summer. We’ve now had our first […]
Edible flowers / Food / Perennial vegetables
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A Taste of Myoga
After many years trying, I finally had a taste of home grown myoga or Japanese ginger (Zingiber mioga) this week!I think it was in the garden of my […]
Edible flowers / Edimentals / Salad
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Extreme salad man strikes again
The first 100 plant salad for 2020: Post Views: 110
Edible flowers / Edimentals / Ethnobotany / Onions / Perennial vegetables
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Allium atroviolaceum?: Caucasian Turkish garlic
(Note that there is a comment suggesting that this isn’t atroviolaceum and is probably rotundum, although accessions I’ve received as that species are much lower plants; will check […]
Dandelions / Edible flowers / Perennial vegetables
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Japanese white dandelion
My Taraxacum albidum is looking good at the moment!The seed for this came from the Scottish Rock Gardening Club seed list 2016/17 (SRGC3660) and I planted two plants […]
Brassica / Dandelions / Edible flowers / Ferns / Food / Onions / Perennial vegetables
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A 65 Veggie Pakora at 65
To celebrate my 65th we made indian pakora with 65 (or so) different perennial vegetables. Going for a new title, this time EPM (Extreme Pakora Man)! Any better? […]
Edible flowers / Perennials
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Early May Edible Flower Bouquet
A posey of edible flowers:Primula denticulata Primula elatior (oxlip / hagenøkleblom)Primula vulgaris hybrid (primrose / kusymre)Claytonia virginica (spring beauty)Arabis alpina (Alpine Rock Cress / Fjellskrinneblom)Arabis caucasica (Wall Rock Cress […]
Edible flowers / Food / Salad
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The year’s first extreme salad
Half an hour “foraging” in the garden and half an hour in the kitchen and I can present the year’s first multi-species salad….54 different plants! Notable additions were […]
Blanching / Cellar vegetables / Edible flowers / Food / Perennial vegetable shoots / Root crops / Salad
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The winter’s first salad shoot salad
The first winter shoots were harvested from the cellar today. It is almost totally dark in the cellar and currently about +6C. The blanched shoots in the picture […]
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Edimental of the Day is Malva alcea
Malva alcea (greater musk-mallow, cut-leaved mallow, vervain mallow or hollyhock mallow / Norw: rosekattost) is a mallow native to southwestern, central and eastern Europe and southwestern Asia, from Spain north to southern Sweden and east to Russia and Turkey. It is easy to confuse […]
Edible flowers / Edimentals / House plants / Root crops / Tubers
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Oxalis triangularis, the False Shamrock….an edimental tuberous house plant
I used to grow Oxalis triangularis, also known as the False Shamrock for the leaves and flowers. It’s also a perfect edimental house plant here as it likes […]
Bees / Birds / Dandelions / Edible flowers / Insects / Perennial vegetables
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Dandelions for bees, beetles and birds
Before my D.A. (Dandelion Awakening) I would religiously remove and cut down as many dandelions as I could, but nowadays my garden perennial beds are full of them. […]
Edible flowers / Edimentals
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Dandelion time
Dandelion time has come around again! This is the only dandelion field I can see from the house! Is this the most productive field in the area? Post […]
Edible flowers / Edimentals
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Primula veris mutants
Hybrids can also occur in gardens. I’ve several strains in my garden from seed, including “Sunset Shades” and “Red Strain”. I also grow the earlier flowering subspecies macrocalyx […]
Edible flowers / Edimentals / Foraging / Walk and talk
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Edible plants of the Sintra Natural Park
In the morning of the masterclass on permaveggies on 1st November 2018 organised by the Janas Ecovillage, we visited Jardim da Condessa D’Edla in collaboration with the Sintra […]
Edible flowers / Perennials
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Mid-October flowers in the Edible Garden
No frost thus far in October and it looks like it could be a frost free month! That and record high temperatures and there are a lot of […]