Thanks to Elena Katarina for showing me Parkens Grøde at short notice on Sunday evening before I took the train home! The other gardener Marcia Kyle and a newly arrived Swedish guy, Marcus Ivarsson also joined us!
I was very impressed….in a similar way to the first time I visited Holma Skogsträdgård in Sweden….
Parkens Grøde is a permaculture inspired urban farming project in Oslo with many interesting elements including forest garden, hugel beds, insect friendly plants and habitat.
See http://www.xn--parkensgrde-ogb.no/ for more details..
The first plant I saw was this Fourberry (Ribes aureum / odoratum) full of fruit. I hadn’t seen this in fruit in Norway before (mine are still too young). There’s been a breeding program in Russia for some years and some fantastic looking varieties have been developed with fruit in different colours. Use Google translate, for example, on the following page: http://sadsemena.ru/index.php/zolotistaya-smorodina.html
The name Fourberry (some are clusters of 4) comes from a Swiss breeding programme.
Goji…only one fruit so far
Aronia
Showing the swales
Walking the swales
Marshmallow
Decaisnea
A Russian blackberry
Marcia Kyle is the other main gardener, here with the Angelica (kvann)
See a separate post about the swallowtail butterfly larvae (they hadn’t seen the adult butterfly)
Jostaberry
Asparagus grows well
Schisandra
A hugel bed!
Chorogi on the hugel bed
Malva moschata…could be harvested a lot more :)
A dwarf cherry from Finland
A walnut!
This kale had perennialised!
Daylilies
Insect habitat
There’s a large old apple tree in a neighbouring garden…Elena said they hoped to take cuttings for grafting
Salsify (havrerot)
Goldfinches (stillits) eat the seeds, even before the pods open!
The forest garden area
Welsh onion (pipeløk)
Perennial vegetables, Edimentals (plants that are edible and ornamental) and other goings on in The Edible Garden
