It’s always a pleasure to spend time with students from the Fosen Folk High School from the other side of the fjord. Despite the dreadful weather, we visited […]
Botanical Garden / Edimentals / Medicinal plants / Talks
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Edimentals and other useful plants in the Atlanta Botanical Garden
A year ago I was scheduled to give the Alston lecture at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens. Before the lecture, my host Cornelia Cho showed me round the botanical […]
Botanical Garden / Onions
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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 […]
Botanical Garden / weeds
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Weeding Vermont!
Yesterday was my most intensive weeding day of the year so far, first 2-3 hours finishing the weeding of KVANN’s bed at Væres Venner community garden followed by […]
Botanical Garden / Garden tour
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Giardini Botanici Villa Taranto
This follows on from my early blog posts from my April visit to Northern Italy. Matthias Brück had invited me to Switzerland to take part in the Perennials […]
Botanical Garden / Garden tour
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Lake Maggiore and Giardini Botanici dell’Isola Madre
On day two of our visit to Piedmont in NW Italy, Pius Leutenegger took us on a botanical trip over the hills to Lake Maggiore and the first stop […]
Botanical Garden / Onions
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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! […]
Botanical Garden / Garden tour
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Edibles in the Abkhazi Gardens in Victoria BC
The next garden I visited in Victoria BC on 1st April 2017! The Abkhazi Gardens were created by Prince Nicholas Abkhazi from Georgia and his wife from 1947, […]
Botanical Garden
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Oak Bay Native Plant Garden
The owner of the Airbnb I was staying at in Victoria, BC kindly took me on a tour of gardens on 2nd April 2017! This was the first […]
Botanical Garden / Edimentals / Garden tour
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Walk and talk at the Horticulture Centre of the Pacific
So much has happened this year that I haven’t had time to blog about several places I’ve visited this year….with a bit more time now I’m returning to […]
Botanical Garden
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Visit to the Botanics in Oslo
A few pictures from a short lunch time visit to the Oslo Botanical Garden at Tøyen this week with my little girl! Post Views: 481