I’ve been growing Siberian Ginseng / Russisk Rot (Eleutherococcus senticosus) since I was given a cutting in May 2010. Although flower buds appear each autumn, flowers have never […]
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Goat willow “rotvelt”
In the wild part of the garden, one of my goat willow (selje) trees, important for the garden’s biodiversity, is halfway down after yesterday’s storm 🙁 This is […]
Autumn leaves / Trees
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Norway Maple Fall
With cold nights down to -5C currently, most trees are now shedding their leaves and there’s a carpet of leaves under the Norway maple (spisslønn), a tree that […]
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Norway spruce in my garden
This is a long post to document the importance of Norway spruce, gran in norwegian (Picea abies) in my garden. All pictures shown are taken in the garden.Milder […]
Birds / Trees
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Singing Brambling
Bramblings (bjørkefink) are common breeding birds at higher elevations, but it’s just possible that they will breed here one day. This is the closest I’ve got with a […]
Food / Tree leaves / Trees
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Easter decorations
Easter is a big holiday here and it’s a tradition to decorate your home with various decorations (påskepynt) and the cheapest decoration is just to bring in some […]
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Curry Leaf House Plant
The leaves of Murraya koenigii (Curry tree or curry leaf plant) are commonly used in curries and in chutneys in India. Although it’s a small tropical tree (<6m), […]
Shrub / Trees
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First leafing again
When I was away in January, the mildest ever recorded in this part of the world, this bird cherry that I received as Padus asiatica leafed out for […]
Seed / Trees / weather
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Snow covered with storm blown debris and seed
After the storm some days ago now, it was interesting to see how evenly the seed from Norway maple / sycamore and birch (spiss- og platanlønn og bjørk) […]
Berries / Birds / Trees
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Yew berry year and the vine
There are an enormous number of yew berries on the tree next to the kitchen window this year and this video shows how a vine (probably Vitis coignetiae) […]
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Rowan, birch and lime
The trees are full of fruit / seeds this year, so it looks like we are going towards a good winter for the birds! Post Views: 161
Conifers / Trees
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Pine flowering
The only pine tree in the garden, Scots or Norwegian Pine (Pinus sylvestris) is in full flower at the moment! I posted a couple of films of siskins […]
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Salad leaves
Every year I bring in twigs of lime / lind (Tilia), birch / bjørk (Betula), rowan / rogn (Sorbus), hawthorn (Crataegus), currants (Ribes) etc. and put them in […]
House plants / Nut trees / Trees / Tubers
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Kurrajong: a house tree with edible roots!
Kurrajong is an Australian tree, Brachychiton populneus, which along with other species of the genus make interesting house plants due to their interesting leaves. Kurrajong leaves resemble poplar […]
Garden tour / Nut trees / Trees / Uncategorized
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Balestrand and the journey to Sogn
Andrew McMillion kindly picked me up early on Friday morning from the night train at Oslo airport and we drove together to the location of the KVANN / […]
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Grow your own Christmas tree
There’s been a lot of talk recently that we should return to real Xmas trees from the plastic trees which were once touted as being more environmentally friendly […]
Butterflies and moths / Trees
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For Helge Finnøy
I was very saddened yesterday to learn that my friend Helge Finnøy has passed away after a very long illness :cry: Helge was a gentle, modest, intelligent man […]
Berries / Bushes / Garden tour / Perennial vegetables / Trees
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Walk with Bosse in the Gothenberg Botanics
I visited Bo “Bosse” Blomquist last year outside of Gothenburg and despite it being a bit late in the day and almost dark at the end, I was really […]
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The old Elm
A little glimpse from one of the best permaculture courses ever that only a selected few attended, Perennialen III i Fykse, Hardanger :) Rebecca J Smith warns me in […]
Birds / Seed / Trees
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Siskins and birch
Birch seed scales are currently falling in the garden thanks to the feeding of siskins (grønnsisik)…. Added videos of a siskin feeding on fallen birch seed next to […]
Parasitic / Trees
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Misteltoe on Sorbus
I’m not sure how I missed this last summer, but one of the misteltoes (Viscum album) I “planted” about 3 years ago succeeded :) It’s on a Sorbus […]
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Spring is here?
If spring comes with the first flowers, then it’s here already. Hazel (hassel) and the first oxlip (hagenøkleblom) are just about in flower! Post Views: 71
Spring / Trees
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First spring leaves
As usual, mild winter weather makes Padus asiatica think it’s spring! Post Views: 122
Autumn leaves / Fjord views / Trees
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Autumn leaves
Back home from my visit to south western Norway and this is probably THE autumn of all autumns I will ever experience here…..high pressure weather with clear skies […]