Scorzonera hispanica in full flower at the moment!! The flowers are good in salads… Post Views: 55
Edible flowers / Edimentals / Salad
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Filmed extreme salad!
This weekend, I have a film crew in the garden (more later) and a multi-species salad was of course on the agenda. We made this last night and […]
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Allium bouquet
I collected this bouquet of Alliums in the garden today :) Post Views: 152
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Training my granddaughter
3 years ago in July 2014…. Post Views: 74
Edible flowers / Edimentals / Shrub
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Red is the rose
A real beauty is Rosa moyesii from 2700-3800 m in the mountains of Sichuan and Yunnan in China and loving sea-level in Malvik! The petals are deliciously edimental […]
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Hablitzia-Ramsons-Nettle quiche
Tonight’s dinner was a Hablitzia-Ramsons-Nettle quiche with oregano, poppy and celery seeds on top with cowslip-violet-Allium zebdanense-Arctic bramble flowers….wholegrain barley-oat-rye pastry…. not at all bad :)Anyone else have […]
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Extreme May salad
Yesterday, 19th May 2017, I spent several hours being filmed in the garden collecting and preparing a multi-species salad, predominantly perennials…and this was the result! How many? The […]
Berries / Cellar vegetables / Edible flowers / Food / Foraging / Forcing / Fruit / Leafy greens / Onions / Perennial vegetable shoots / Perennial vegetables / Root crops / Salad / Seed sprouts / Snow / Sprouts / Vegetarian
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Extreme winter record salad
Proof one more time that north is best for growing a diversity of tasty salad greens ;) Presenting (and claiming) my new world winter salad diversity record, a […]
Edible flowers / Edimentals / Forest Gardening / Wild Edibles
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Around the world with Erythroniums
As an introduction to two soon to be published blog posts concerning visits to two nature reserves in Japan during the mass flowering of katakuri (Erythronium japonicum) in […]
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A bunch of nodding edimental onions
Two pictures from the end of June 2014 of possibly my favourite onion, the nodding onion (Allium cernuum) from North America in some of its myriad of forms…beautiful […]
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Nepal Exhibition at RBGE
When I visited the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh (RBGE) in September 2016 I was pleased to find an exhibition of portraits of Nepalese plants, many of which […]
Edible flowers / Edimentals
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Needle and Thread salad!
Yucca filamentosa is at the top of my list of plants that I’ve grown and never expected would survive one winter let alone over 10 and finally flower, […]
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Terje Visnes’ salad photo on show!
Last week, I blogged about the opening of an exhibition in Trondheim by a photographer Terje Visnes who must have taken thousands of pictures for the local newspaper […]
Edible flowers / Edimentals / Onions / Tubers
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Nepalese feast in Malvik
A couple of weeks ago, I finally got round to inviting botanist Kamal Acharya and his wife Sharmila Phuyal to see my garden!! They were amazed to see […]
Edible flowers / Salad
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Wedding salad
3 years ago, I was at a LETS Trondheim meeting at Manuela Panzacchi’s place. I had forgotten, but we had been asked to bring some food and I […]
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: 143
Edible flowers / Onions
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Sherpa and Swedish Norrland onions
My favourite Himalayan onion is now coming into flower in the garden. This is what I call Sherpa onion (Allium wallichii), it’s a beauty and the bees and […]
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Naturplanteskolen Malvik salad
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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 […]
Edible flowers / Garden tour / Salad
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Daina and Martina
My latest garden helper is Daina Binde from Latvia (recently: UK) and has impressed me by her plant knowledge! Like my last helper Lorna Marie O’Lynn, she was […]
Climbers / Edible flowers
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Hablizzoli
If Hablitzia, the Caucasian Spinach, had been discovered in Italy these unopen flower clusters would no doubt be known as Hablizzoli…Hablitzia broccolis or Broccoli di Hablizzias….Although small, they are […]
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Fast Slow Edimental Lunch!!
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… […]
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Grennessminde and the fantasy salad beds
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 […]
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Visiting Camilla Plum
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. […]
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Cowslip cultivars
Here are all 3 Primula veris (cowslip) forms to be found in my garden!! Post Views: 127