There’s no better gift than a few onions: Allium cernuum / Nodding onion / Chicago Onion / Prærieløk Post Views: 93
Fibre plant / Forest Gardening / Leafy greens / Perennials
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Himalayan Nettle
Girardinia diversifolia (Himalayan Nettle; Allo) is a potentially useful plant for the forest garden. The young leaves, inflorescenses and seeds (roasted) are eaten). It’s a large clump-formimg perennial […]
Dandelions / Leafy greens / Onions / Perennials / Tempura / Tubers
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Perennial vegetable tempura
April 2014 and Yngvil (aka Ms. Saladdy) was helping out in my garden, her practical experience for her education to become a gardener! I’ll let her tell her […]
Edimentals / Perennials / Talks
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Pictures from my talk for Sumarhúsið og garðurinn in Reykjavik on 5th September 2015
Pictures from my talk for Sumarhúsið og garðurinn (Summerhouse and Garden magazine) in Reykjavik on 5th September 2015….. During the talk it was decided that edimentals should be known […]
Edimentals / Forest Gardening / Perennials
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Japanese woodlanders
I love these weird and wonderful hard to get woodlanders from Japan and elsewhere in the Far East, many of which are edible. Here are three that […]
Climbers / Perennials / Permaculture / Trees
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Perennials vs. annuals
Picture taken by journalist Heidi Løkken in my garden this week showing my straggling tree climbing Hablitzia together with a French dandelion cultivar “Vert de Montmagny Ameliore”. Before […]
Perennials / Tubers
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More edible companions
Hosta sieboldiana “Mira” (the leaves are wavy edged) and an unknown Lilium Post Views: 120
Perennials / Root crops
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Giant Perennial Buckwheat and Skirret
I had no idea that perennial buckwheat (Fagopyrum acutatum syn. F. dibotrys) and skirret (Sium sisarum) could be 2.5m ( 8 feet) tall! Probably a result of our […]
Climbers / Edimentals / Perennials
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Hablitzia seen from the kitchen window after heavy rain
Flowering Hablitzia tamnoides / Caucasian spinach / stjernemelde seen from the kitchen window… Post Views: 89
Edible flowers / Onions / Perennials
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Hemerocallis lilioasphodelus
Hemerocallis lilioasphodelus (from seed sown in 2004) is a good midsummer flowering species, here together with Allium scorodoprasum, possibly the Vikings’ garlic (garlic = geirlauk which means “spear […]
Edible flowers / Edimentals / Perennials
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White clustered bellflower
Campanula glomerata “Alba” / Clustered Bellflower / Toppklokke is a beautiful edimental Post Views: 174
Perennials
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Giant sow thistle
My Sonchus palustris is now known as giant sow-thistle, soon over twice my height. It has clearly loved the cool weather :) Post Views: 225
Edimentals / Onions / Perennials
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Allium cernuum “Dark Scape”
There are many great edimental forms of Allium cernuum / Nodding onion or Chicago onion. I call this one “Dark Scape” because of the dark flower shoot / […]
Edimentals / Perennials
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My first Korean Aster flower
7 years ago on 27th July 2008 and the first flower on Aster scaber / Korean Aster opened in the garden :) Post Views: […]
Climbers / Edimentals / Forest Gardening / Perennials
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Hablitzia anno 2001!
I just discovered that Hablitzia was one of the ingredients in my first world record salad in 2001…. I had received both cuttings and seeds from Mona Hellberg […]
Edimentals / Perennials / Trees
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Hablitzia overwhelming an olive tree
This Hablitzia tamnoides / Caucasian spinach / stjernemelde self-sowed in this olive tree pot and is now intent on taking over :) Post Views: 175
Perennials
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Tonight’s greens 24th July 2015
Tonights greens included Sonchus oleraceus, Scorzonera, Diplotaxis, Chicory tops, purple mitsuba. daylilies, perennial buckwheat, Atriplex hortensis. Pea tops (including parsley pea), broad bean tops and Allium nutans flower […]
Perennials / Wild Edibles
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Siberian Hogweed en masse
When Heracleum sibiricum (siberian hiogweed / sibirbjørnekjeks) is in flower, you get a good impression of how much free food there is on the streets of Trondheim :) […]
Perennials
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Hablitzia intertwined with Good King Henry
Hablitzia flower shoots entwined with Good King Henry in the Oslo Botanics Post Views: 109
Brassica / Perennials
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Incredible Vegetables Blog!
Visit Mandy Barber’s great Incredible Vegetables blog, you won’t regret it!! The last two items have been on perennial brassica, including this one: http://www.incrediblevegetables.co.uk/daubentons-kale-giving-everlasting-greens/#more-777 Thanks for the Taunton […]
Edimentals / Perennials / Uncategorized
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Kamikaze Horseradish?
Is my variegated horseradish in the process of committing suicide? No green in any of the leaves… Post Views: 247
Edimentals / Perennials
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Resonating with asparagus in Oslo…..
Just before the start of my first course for MAJOBO on Tuesday, I decided to change my first picture to something of local […]
Climbers / Edimentals / Forest Gardening / Ornamentals / Perennials
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Hablitzia tamnoides in Oslo
Hablitzia tamnoides/stjernemelde/Caucasian Spinach in the botanical gardens in Oslo 3rd July 2015! Post Views: 91
Perennials
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Hablitzia running rampant
Having breakfast this morning, I noticed this Hablitzia (Caucasian Spinach) flowering shoot peeping in the window at me, as if to say “Look what I’m doing”… This plant […]