I finished my last day of work as an oceanographer by visiting head office in Wallingford, UK. We were finished by lunchtime, so I visited the University of […]
Fruit / Garden tour
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The Hampshire Walled Vineyard
Late April 2017 and I finally got round to visit some folks in South Hampshire who I’d met at the Walled Kitchen Garden Forum weekend at Croome in […]
Garden tour / Seed
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Kamouraska and La société des plantes
Thank you to Charles “Mr. Accordion Pissenlit” Frandelion for asking me over to Saint-Pascal (in the Kamouraska municipality) east of Quebec City and entertaining me with a great […]
Garden tour / Talks
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Article about my visit to Sogn Jord- og Hagebruksskule
A Norwegian article about my visit and lecture at Sogn Jord- og Hagebruksskule i March 2017! http://sjh.no/2017/04/01/ein-ode-til-dei-fleirarige-vekstane Post Views: 157
Garden tour
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Visit from Stjärnsund
Lovely overnight visit and little garden tour with co-author of Fleråriga grönsakerwith Philipp Weiss (Swedish Perennial Vegetables) Annevi Sjöberg with her Carlo and my new friend little Albie […]
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Fosen Folkehøgskole winter visit to the Edible Garden
Pleasant winter garden visit this week from a students at Fosen Folkehøgskole curious about permaculture, forest gardening and foraging……I don’t think I’ve shown folks around the garden in […]
Forest Gardening / Garden tour / Talks
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A visit to Riverton in March 2015!
At the end of March 2015, I visited the small town of Riverton (Maori: Aparima) (population 1,430) in New Zealand to give a talk at the Riverton Heritage […]
Garden tour / Permaculture
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Earth Ways and Ludwig Appeltans
Ludwig Appeltans and Suzanne de Waard of Earth Ways turned out to be fairly close neighbours to Teeny Weeny Farm in Forres where I was staying in September […]
Garden tour
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Unusual edibles at Chelsea Physic Garden
Last Monday I arrived in London for a work /family trip and despite a 2-3 hour delayed flight due to fog, I was able to have two hours […]
Garden tour / Uncategorized
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Norrland visits Norrland Onion
A pleasant visit today from Angelina Hjelm from a little place called Lillpite (pop. 429 in 2010!) in Norrland in Sweden and a friend, traveller from Brisbane in […]
Forest Gardening / Garden tour
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Geir Flatabø’s forest garden: Torblålia, Ulvik, Hordaland
A visit to Geir Flatabø’s forest garden which is located high above the picturesque village of Ulvik at the end of an arm of the Hardangerfjord was an […]
Garden tour / Onions / Pesto
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Løksafari til Lofoten / Onion safari to the Lofoten Islands
The document below is in Norwegian but contains many pictures from my first visit to Vestvågøy in the Lofoten Islands to see the stands of naturalised victory onion […]
Foraging / Garden tour / Perennial vegetables
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Edimentals talk at the Royal Botanical Gardens
Fun day collecting edimentals from the garden’s collections, making a multi-species salad followed by my talk and walk! Thanks to all who came and to Sabina Knees for […]
Edimentals / Garden tour
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Edimentals in Edinburgh’s Royal Botanical Gardens
On Monday 12th September 2016 I visited the botanical gardens in Edinburgh, and I wandered around the collections looking for edimentals (edible ornamentals), many of which are also […]
Garden tour
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Milde garden tour 10th September 2016
I didn’t take many pictures on Sunday’s guided garden tour at the botanical garden in Bergen at Milde, but here are a few! I was very impressed in […]
Garden tour / Insects / Perennials
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Weekend garden pictures 3rd – 4th September 2016
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Forest Gardening / Garden tour
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Climate Festival garden tours!
Lovely bunch of people on the two tours of my garden today! Forgot to take any pictures during the first tour, so just a couple from the second […]
Garden tour
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Edinburgh guided edimentals walk
It’s confirmed that I’ll be doing a guided edimentals (=edible ornamentals) walk at the Royal Botanical Garden in Edinburgh’s Harvest Festival at 2 pm on Saturday 17th September […]
Garden tour
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Norway/ Chile / Sweden visit
Thanks for the visit today, Marius Flak and friends from Chile / Sweden! Post Views: 161
Fjord views / Garden tour
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Hegra bygdekvinnelag garden visit
Pleasant visit from Hegra bygdekvinnelag* this evening, so distracted I forgot to take any pictures! However, as they left, this view opened up with a “rainbow over Skatval”….a topic […]
Foraging / Garden tour / Onions / Salad / Seaweed
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Day 1 of Naturplanteskolen’s Malvik visit
Some pictures from Saturday 16th July in my garden and forage on the shoreline below the house! Post Views: 151
Garden tour
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Naturplanteskolen at Ringve Botanical Garden
On the final morning of the Naturplanteskolen visit to Norway, we visited the Ringve botaniske hage in Trondheim. We started with the Renaissance garden, comprising a collection of […]
Edible flowers / Garden tour / Salad
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Daina and Martina
My latest garden helper is Daina Binde from Latvia (recently: UK) and has impressed me by her plant knowledge! Like my last helper Lorna Marie O’Lynn, she was […]
Garden tour
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Ringve Edimentals tours : more pictures
Some additional pictures from the Ringve Edimentals tour taken by Lorna O’Lynn, many from the second of the two tours, several showing the grand tulip flower tasting :) […]
Garden tour / Permaculture
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Visiting the Koster Islands
Really looking forward to visiting the beautiful tranquil Koster Islands again at the end of April and Helena von Bothmer‘s permaculture centre and gardens there. See the following […]