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A tour of the lower parts

Posted on: May 14, 2020May 14, 2020

I thought I’d take you for a tour of the lower parts of the garden including the forest garden. No commentary, let’s just listen to the birds and […]

Edimentals / Ferns / Garden tour

In the gardens at the Gothenburg Botanics in January

Posted on: February 2, 2020February 2, 2020

I also walked around the outside gardens during my visit to the Gothenburg Botanical Gardens on Saturday 25th January 2020. In the mild weather, there were many people […]

Bulbs / Garden tour / Winter shoots

Edibles in the January Bulb Garden at the Gothenburg Botanics

Posted on: January 30, 2020January 30, 2020

On my way north from Vienna to Oslo, I found myself unexpectedly with a 4 hour wait in Gothenburg in Sweden, and there was no hesitation to visit […]

Garden tour / Nut trees

A weekend in paradise: arrival and the Celo Inn

Posted on: December 4, 2019September 21, 2020

In April 2018 both myself and Joe Hollis were invited as speakers at The Potential of Perennials for Food System Resilience Symposium in Stans,  Switzerland. I also had […]

Garden tour / Perennial vegetables / Walk and talk

With Joe Hollis in Paradise!

Posted on: September 23, 2019

What an amazing place, at Joe Hollis’ Mountain Gardens in North Carolina yesterday! My favourite forest garden anywhere!! At 77, Joe is still expanding having purchased more land […]

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KVANNs Åpne Hager / Norwegian Seed Savers Open Gardens

Posted on: September 3, 2019September 3, 2019

Norsk: Det arrangeres åpne hager i KVANN’s (Norwegian Seed Savers) nettverk denne uken. Mine to hagevandringer er dessverre utsolgt, men du kan se hva vi holder på med […]

Course / Garden tour / Salad

BINGN Student Visit to the Edible Garden

Posted on: August 26, 2019August 27, 2019

It was a busy weekend. On Sunday, a group of 6 third year BINGN students, a three year biodynamic apprenticeship program in the Nordic countries were here for […]

Garden tour

Visit from Austrian Hobbits!

Posted on: August 26, 2019August 27, 2019

Saturday was a great day with the garden full of Austrians and to make them feel at home I took them to the steepest parts of my garden […]

Garden tour / Salad / Talks / Walk and talk

The Edible Garden Land Centre Opening

Posted on: August 26, 2019August 26, 2019

During KVANN’s (Norwegian Seed Savers) annual meeting weekend in Trondheim we had an official opening ceremony for my garden, The Edible Garden (Den Spiselige Hagen), as a Permaculture […]

Garden tour

Tante Grusom and Edvin “Fallskjerm” Trygg visit

Posted on: August 2, 2019August 2, 2019

I haven’t laughed so much during a garden tour for a long time! I had the pleasure to show Cathrine Johnsen, who operates a wild foraging company (Fru […]

Garden tour / Talks

Valbjør Gård and Nordigard Aukrust!

Posted on: June 23, 2019June 23, 2019

On 1st June, I gave a talk at one of Norway’s oldest herb farms, Nordigard Aukrust, run organically by Ola Aukrust since the 1980s.  This was my first […]

Arctic Gardening / Garden tour / Mountain Gardening

Beredskapshagen (Preparedness Garden) i Valdres

Posted on: May 16, 2019May 16, 2019

Følgende artikkel ble først publisert i KVANNs Nyhetsbrev #9 fra desember 2018 . English: An article about Anders Nordrum’s Beredskapshagen (Preparedness-garden) in the Norwegian mountains in Valdres (see […]

Garden tour / Garden views

2019 Fosen visit

Posted on: April 30, 2019

I got home from my trip at 8am this morning! At 10:30 a great group of students studying self-sufficiency (sjølbergerlinja) at Fosen folkehøgskole (Fosen Folk High School) visited […]

Edimentals / Garden tour

Edibles in Dunedin Botanics

Posted on: March 28, 2019April 11, 2019

At long last,  an album of pictures of edible plants spotted in the Dunedin Botanic Garden during my late summer visit on 26th March 2015, as part of […]

Edimentals / Garden tour

Wisley Gardens March 2019

Posted on: March 18, 2019April 6, 2024

An album of pictures from my visit to RHS Wisley Gardens on 11th March 2019  just outside of London, one of my favourite gardens for edimental spotting which […]

Garden tour / Permaculture

Kim Tyner’s wonderful “permaculture” garden in Wicklow!

Posted on: January 7, 2019January 11, 2019

Continuing my tour of Wicklow gardens which Orlaith Murphy had arranged for me! After a great lunch at Wendy Nairn’s house I was unprepared for the amazing garden […]

Garden tour / Organic gardening

Wendy Nairn’s for lunch!

Posted on: January 4, 2019January 5, 2019

After visiting the Kilmacurragh botanical garden (http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=20724), my next visit in Wicklow, Ireland was to one of the founders of the organic movement in Ireland now with over […]

Garden tour

Visit to the Kilmacurragh Botanical Garden in 2018

Posted on: December 26, 2018December 26, 2018

Back in September again and I was in Ireland and my friend Orlaith Murphy had set up a diverse tour of great local gardens for me! Day two, […]

Garden tour

Other edible plants in the Dublin Botanical Gardens in 2011

Posted on: December 26, 2018December 26, 2018

In early October 2011, I was on a work trip in Ireland (Cork) and stopped off to see the city’s botanical garden for the first time! Here’s an […]

Garden tour

Medimental border in Dublin 2011

Posted on: December 24, 2018December 26, 2018

In early October 2011, I was on a work trip in Ireland (Cork) and stopped off to see the city’s botanical garden for the first time! I found this […]

Fruit / Garden tour

Berberis and other unusual fruit at the botanics in Dublin

Posted on: December 24, 2018February 24, 2021

In early October 2011, I was on a work trip in Ireland (Cork) and stopped off to see the city’s botanical garden for the first time! Here’s a series […]

Garden tour

The Vegetable Garden at the National Botanic Garden in Dublin in 2011

Posted on: December 24, 2018December 26, 2018

In early October 2011, I was on a work trip in Ireland (Cork) and stopped off to see the city’s botanical garden for the first time! All posts […]

Garden tour

Protected: Derek Halpin’s garden in Roundwood

Posted on: December 19, 2018December 26, 2018

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Garden tour

A Cool Windy Planet Experience at Powerscourt

Posted on: December 3, 2018December 4, 2018

Back in September again and I was in Ireland and my friend Orlaith Murphy had set up a diverse tour of great local gardens for me! My first […]

Garden tour / water plants

Jorge’s edible water garden

Posted on: November 17, 2018November 17, 2018

I’ll always be grateful to my friend Jorge Carona as without him I would never have been invited to Portugal. The story of how we met is told […]

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  • The last Allium
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  • The new Edimentals seed trade list for 2015-2016
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  • The Oslo Viking Garden
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  • The Surroundings of the Nordic Permaculture Festival 2018
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  • Two more bee plants
  • Udo fruit harvest
  • Ultimo September Alliums
  • University of Washington
  • Unusual edibles at Kew
  • Update from Mum and Dad’s Garden in Chandlers Ford
  • Updated flyer for the book
  • Vagn J. Brøndegaard
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  • Variegated wintercress
  • Vegetable diversity seminar, Oslo, November 2015
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  • Vennafjellet July 2015
  • Vermont and Ottawa; September 2014
  • Very green fish soup
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  • Volcanic Alliums
  • Walled garden gardeners meet at Croome
  • Walsall Road Allotments in Birmingham
  • Washington Park Arboretum, Seattle
  • What the DNA of old Norwegian potatoes reveal
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  • World record ferment competition results
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