I noticed a fasciated scape on my Allium nutans “Lena”…a plant that featured in my book, found in a vegetable garden in Russia by Swedish author Lena Israelsson… Post Views: […]
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More planting in the Allium garden
The last 3 days I’ve been documenting which Alliums at the Ringve Botanical Garden collection didn’t make it from last autumns plantings, finding replacements and also collecting many more […]
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Pink wallichii
This beautiful pink whirly flowered form of Allium wallichii was sown as yellow flowered Allium hookeri var muliense…not a bad replacement! Post Views: 129
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Allium “Chacha”
Allium “Chacha” is a new bulbilliferous selection of common chives (Allium schoenoprasum)… I hadn’t heard of it when I was offered bulbils by a member of KVANN (Norwegian […]
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The Chicago onion garden at Ringve on 23rd July 2018
I spent the afternoon weeding and deadheading (to stop seed spreading)! There are at least 10 different Chicago onions (Allium cernuum) still in flower! Here’s a little video […]
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Status of the Granvin victory onion location
In June 2009, I was shown the only naturalised stand of victory onion (Allium victorialis) in south western Norway (away from Lofoten Islands – Vestvågøy – and Bodø […]
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Norwegian report on my 2009 Victory Onion safari to North Norway and Granvin!
In 2009, I travelled to Lofoten to see the naturalised stands of victory onion (seiersløk) / Allium victorialis in Lofoten, the collection of this species at the botanical […]
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Accidental companions
Accidental companions: a Sherpa onion (Allium wallichii) has set up home in the middle of my greek mountain tea (Sideritis syriaca) with a few self-sowed dandelions for good […]
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The perennial bed onions
A little video showing various Alliums about to burst into flower on a bed I’ve always called the Perennial Bed as it was the first bed devoted to […]
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The Allium (Chicago) garden at Ringve at the end of June 2018
The Allium garden at Ringve has grown well as have the so-called weeds (mostly very young birch trees!). I spent the afternoon weeding and documenting the right hand […]
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The Allium garden at Ringve on the last day of May 2018
I spent 3-4 hours this afternoon weeding the new Allium garden at Ringve Botanical Garden in Trondheim! It now seems pretty certain that many plants didn’t make it […]
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My new “job” and office: a dream come true!!
I always dreamed of working in a botanical garden and somehow my wish has come true only 7 months after retiring from job as an ocean wave climatologist! […]
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New study of old Norwegian roof onions!
I’m just passing the mountain village Otta in Gudbrandsdalen on the train . In 2009, I visited several old farms in this area to witness first-hand the old […]
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Nervous Onions or Magic Wren?
I certainly didn’t think I would make a blog post with this name today! This is possibly my strangest post ever…. To explain, I was cleaning and packing […]
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The Roof Onions of Gudbrandsdalen in Norway
On 3rd July 2009, local historian Geir Neverdal invited me on a tour to witness first hand the old traditional onion roofs of Gudbrandsdalen near the town of Otta. […]
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THE ALLIUM GARDEN AT RINGVE #3
I carried out the final day of planting of the new Allium garden at the Ringve (Trondheim) botanical garden this week giving a total of 265 different perennial […]
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The Equinox Garlic Dance
….is an annual celebration of garlic, king of the tasty Alliums! First, some pictures from the 2012 event: …and a few pictures from today’s (2017) event: Post Views: […]
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The Allium Garden at Ringve #2
Just finished two and a half pretty intensive focused days working on the new Ringve (Trondheim) Botanical Garden Allium beds, digging up, cleaning, planting and documenting…..these two beds […]
Drying / Edible flowers / Edimentals / Nursery / Onions / Perennial vegetables / Talks
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Around the world in 80 Alliums
Yesterday, I gave my first talk about my (second) love of onions (alternative title All you wanted to know about Alliums but were afraid to ask!)….fittingly in the […]
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Alliums 28th August 2017
A few more Allium pictures from the garden :) Post Views: 92
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The Allium garden at Ringve
A little secret I’ve had since last autumn (apart from a select few) when I was told that I would get my very own Allium bed at the […]
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Welsh comet
Impressive Welsh onion (pipeløk) bed formed as a comet tail at Hurdal CSA / Ecovillage this week! Post Views: 105
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Recent Alliums in the garden; August 2017
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