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Mostly Edibles in the UBC Botanical Garden, Vancouver

Posted on: January 22, 2018January 22, 2018

On 4th April 2017 I visited the University of British Columbia botanical garden in Vancouver, Canada. It was more dfficult to find by public transport as I had […]

Forest Gardening / Garden tour

Indigenous plant walk in Victoria BC

Posted on: January 5, 2018

On 1st April 2017, I visited the Compost Education Centre in Victoria BC, Canada, where I’d enrolled on an indigenous plant walk around the grounds, lead by Ashley […]

Garden tour

Jondal, the Hardanger Academy and the Nordic Permaculture Festival 2018

Posted on: January 2, 2018January 2, 2018

It’s been announced that this year’s Nordic Permaculture Festival will be arranged between 12th and 15th July 2018  in Jondal at the Hardanger Academy for Peace, Development and […]

Edimentals / Garden tour

Baroniet Rosendal

Posted on: January 1, 2018February 28, 2021

Barony Rosendal (Baroniet Rosendal) is a historic estate and manor house on the Hardangerfjord going back to the 1650s. As part of Perennialen III, on our way to […]

Edimentals / Garden tour

Governor’s House Garden in Victoria BC

Posted on: November 8, 2017December 7, 2017

Continuing with another garden I visited in Victoria BC, Canada! My host Solara Goldwynn​  took me on a quick visit to the Government House Garden (from 1911) on […]

Botanical Garden / Garden tour

Edibles in the Abkhazi Gardens in Victoria BC

Posted on: November 7, 2017December 7, 2017

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 / Edimentals / Garden tour

Walk and talk at the Horticulture Centre of the Pacific

Posted on: November 3, 2017

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 […]

Garden tour / Permaculture / Salad

Annual meeting of Norwegian Permaculture Association in Trondheim

Posted on: October 1, 2017

Pictures from the Norwegian Permaculture Association’s Annual Meeting in Trondheim in June 2011 including design of the new Permabed at Svartlamoen and visit to the Edible Garden in […]

Course / Garden tour / Perennial vegetables / Permaculture

Having permafun in Porsgrunn

Posted on: September 28, 2017September 29, 2017

Back in Nesodden (family visit) after two great days celebrating økouka (national organic week) in Porsgrunn! Thanks to Gunn Marit and Anne Sofie for inviting me and for […]

Garden tour

Edibles at the Gothenberg Botanical Garden

Posted on: September 11, 2017September 11, 2017

A picture album of edible species spotted in the Gothenberg Botanical garden on the last day of August 2017! Thanks to Johan Nilson for showing me around! Post […]

Berries / Bushes / Garden tour / Perennial vegetables / Trees

Walk with Bosse in the Gothenberg Botanics

Posted on: September 7, 2017July 16, 2024

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 […]

Garden tour

Royal Botanic Garden Edible Garden Award

Posted on: September 4, 2017

Thanks to Robin Allan for sending me this link. The Royal Botanical Gardens in Edinburgh has won an award for its Edible Garden and look at the picture […]

Garden tour / Talks

Talk at the Gothenburg Botanical Gardens

Posted on: September 1, 2017September 3, 2017

It was a great honour to finally get to talk at the Gothenburg Botanical Gardens last night….not just once but twice as the first talk (picture) was sold […]

Garden tour / Talks

Valdres

Posted on: August 9, 2017August 9, 2017

Pictures from my visit to Valdres….. Pictures from my visit to Valdres….. Post Views: 137

Garden tour / Permaculture

Permakultur samling Oikos Nord Trøndelag

Posted on: July 31, 2017August 1, 2017

Pictures from a great day last Sunday in the company of a great group of permaculture interested folks from Oikos Nord Trøndelag (Oikos = Organic Norway) We started […]

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Planter i Hurdal prestegårdshagen

Posted on: July 28, 2017October 20, 2021

Her er min bilde-dokumentasjon av plantene i Prestegårdshagen i Hurdal funnet under to besøk i juli 2017 før evt restaurering / nyplanting kommer i gang! Se også bildene av nøttekråkene, […]

Garden tour

Knut Langeland was here!

Posted on: July 13, 2017

It was a thrill to suddenly find Knut Langeland on my door step, on the way to Tromsø! We spent a pleasant couple of hours chatting and looking […]

Garden tour / Perennial vegetables / Polyculture

Kerstin’s polyculture gardens!

Posted on: July 12, 2017

I was blown away by Kerstin Lye’s garden in the Hurdal Ecovillage….a great example of a naturalistic polycultural mix of perennials and annuals and a great inspiration for […]

Edimentals / Garden tour

Utrecht Edimentals

Posted on: June 26, 2017December 21, 2017

Utrecht in the Netherlands has one of the great botanical gadens in Europe alongside Royal Botanical Gardens in Edinburgh, Gothenburg and Kew Gardens​! I had a stopover for […]

Garden tour / Talks

City farm and Wolfgang Palme

Posted on: June 21, 2017June 24, 2017

One of the great things of travelling and doing these talks is all the fantastic people you meet. Wolfgang Palme (and his lovely wife Angelika who also acted […]

Garden tour / Talks

Salzburg and the end of the Tour d’Austria

Posted on: June 18, 2017July 19, 2017

Mission accomplished! I arrived here in Austria over a week ago! 3 garden tours and two seminars on and I’m now sitting with some porcini pasta and some […]

Garden tour / Talks

Arche Noah’s Show Gardens

Posted on: June 12, 2017December 23, 2017

A few pictures from my first three days in Schiltern and Austrian Seed Savers organisation Arche Noah’s amazing show gardens. The main show gardens are in the village […]

Garden tour

Tour d’Edimentals HQ

Posted on: June 1, 2017June 17, 2017

Wonderful shot from last night’s guided tour around the garden taken by WW (my Wonderful Wwoofer this week) who climbed onto the roof for what could have been […]

Garden tour

The Edible Garden on 9th July 2009

Posted on: May 21, 2017March 18, 2019

A tour around my garden in pictures early July 2009   Post Views: 105

Garden tour / Halophytes / Talks

Alton

Posted on: May 12, 2017December 12, 2020

I was very pleased to be invited to give a talk organised by the Curtis Museum in Alton, Hampshire, UK, not far from where I grew up in […]

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  • Permaveggies courses 2012, 2013, 2016 and 2019 overview
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  • Pink-flowered ground elder
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  • Planteklubbens Årbok 2016 (Norwegian Seed Savers Yearbook for 2016)
  • Planteklubbens høstkatalog 2015 (Norwegian Seed Savers Autumn catalogue)
  • Portland odds and ends
  • Powell Butte Nature Park, Portland, Oregon
  • Prairie Turnip, Psoralea esculenta
  • Purple flowered caraway?
  • Puss moth
  • Red clover in white and white clover in red
  • Ren Mat article
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  • Review in Norwegian organic magazine Ren Mat
  • Review in The American Gardener
  • Review of Around the World by Samuel Thayer!!!!!
  • Review of ATW by Alys Fowler in the Guardian!
  • Review of ATW by SRGC’s Maggi Young
  • Review of ATW in Icelandic Sumarhúsinu og garðinum
  • Review of ATW in Reforesting Scotland
  • Ringve Botanical Garden Edimentals Tour
  • Rita Amundsen in Malvik and the day’s first world record?
  • Schübeler on Hablitzia
  • Schübeler on Ulluco and Anredera
  • Seed seed and more seed
  • Sesam Nytt ATW review
  • Shakespeare’s Avon Way Edibles
  • Sherpa onion
  • Shungiku article
  • Sintra Foraging with Fernanda Botelho
  • Skomvær permacourses in 2013 and 2014
  • Small blue onions
  • Steffen Fleischhauer’s “Enzyklopädie der essbaren Wildpflanzen”
  • Steigen Permaveggies course June 2015
  • Stockholm University Forest Garden
  • Strandzha Mountain Tea (Sideritis syriaca)
  • Strandzha mountains seminar and field trips
  • Swamp onions don’t like swamps
  • Sweet potato harvest in mid-March
  • Talks and courses : 2014-2023
  • Taraxacum albidum
  • Taraxacum pseudoroseum, the pink flowered dandelion
  • Tasmanian water ribbons
  • Taunton Deane Perennial Kale at Knightshayes Court
  • The 99 a day keeps the doctor away Ås salad
  • The First World Fantasy Salad Competition – Fantasilater
  • The Forest Garden on 2nd August
  • The Hampshire Perennial Vegetable Triangle
  • The Herbal Garden of Nes, Seltjarnarnesbær
  • The Land Gardeners of Wardington Manor
  • The last Allium
  • The legendary moss-leaved dandelion
  • The new Edimentals seed trade list for 2015-2016
  • The Nordic Permaculture Festival at Stjärnsund
  • The Oslo Viking Garden
  • The Skálholt herb garden, Iceland
  • The Surroundings of the Nordic Permaculture Festival 2018
  • The tuberous asparagus
  • The Walled Garden at Knightshayes Court
  • This Swedish Hablitzia could be as old as me….
  • Today’s veggies; 11th July 2015
  • Trachystemon orientalis, a new Edimental for the dry forest garden
  • Tromsø’s Arctic-Alpine Botanical garden
  • Tuberous thistle / Cirsium tuberosum
  • Turkish rocket in Oslo: a Thai speciality vegetable!
  • 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
  • Variegated lighthouse keeper’s toilet paper
  • Variegated wintercress
  • Vegetable diversity seminar, Oslo, November 2015
  • Veggies at Vår Gård
  • Vennafjellet July 2015
  • Vermont and Ottawa; September 2014
  • Very green fish soup
  • Vidar-Rune Synnevåg and Stussvik
  • Video from the Arctic Food Festival in September 2014
  • Visit from Ås 16-17th May 2015
  • Visit to Feral Farm
  • Visit to the largest Allotment area in the UK – Uplands
  • Vitosha mountain alpine walk, Sofia, Bulgaria
  • Vitosha Mountain Dragalevtsi monastery walk
  • 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
  • Where to buy the book?
  • With John Kallas at home in Portland
  • World record ferment competition results
  • Yampah Yield and a Twisp of Fate
  • Кокалянски манастир / Kokalyanski monastery