Plants on sale in my garden during open days during autumn 2016! Many are in my book Around the World in 80 plants and, in this case, the page number is given! Pris kr 30-60.
NB! I don’t have the time to send, sorry!
Species
Page in book
English
Norwegian
Acanthopanax henryi (not edible)
Aegopodium podograria variegata
231
ground elder, bishop’s weed
skvallerkål
Agastache foeniculum
anise hyssop
anisisop
Alliaria petiolata
garlic mustard
løkurt
Allium “Norrland Onion”
125
Norrland onion
Norrlandsløk
Allium cernuum (two types)
191
nodding onion
prærieløk
Allium fistulosum
247
welsh onion
pipeløk
Allium macranthum
Allium “Norrland Onion”
125
Norrland Onion
Norrlandsløk
Allium nutans
122
Siberian garlic chives
sibirsk nikkeløk
Allium obliquum
118
twistedleaf onion
tvistebladløk
Allium oleraceum
214
field garlic
vill-løk
Allium ramosum
130
fragrant onion
Allium sativum
114
garlic
hvitløk
Allium schoenoprasum “Dwarf White”
226
Siberian chives
sibirgressløk
Allium scorodoprasum
216
sand leek, rocambole
bendelløk, skogløk
Allium senescens
122
broad-leaved chives
sibirsk kantløk
Allium splendens
Allium thunbergii
Allium tuberosum
130
garlic chives, chinese chives, chinese leek
kinagressløk, kinesisk gressløk
Allium ursinum
50
ramsons
ramsløk
Allium victorialis
218
seiersløk, alpeløk
Allium wallichii
119
Himalayan onion, Sherpa onion
Himalayaløg, Sherpa-løk
Allium x proliferum
255
Egyptian onion, tree onion
luftløk, etasjeløk
Apium nodiflorum
82
fool’s watercress
vannselleri
Aquilegia caerulea (edible petals only)
Rocky mountain columbine
himmelakeleie
Aralia cordata
135
udo, Japanese asparagus
udo
Aralia elata / spinosa
133
Oni’s walking stick, devil’s walking stick, Japanese Aralia,
Japanese Angelica tree
fandens spaserstokk
Armoracia rusticana
53
horseradish
pepperrot
Barbarea vulgaris variegata
238
common wintercress
vinterkarse
Camassia esculentus
small camas
Campanula latifolia
229
giant bellflower
storklokke
Campanula trachelium
81
nettle-leaved bellflower
nesleklokke
Carum carvi
250
caraway
karve
Chamaenerion angustifolium “Album”
white rosebay willowherb
hvit geitrams
Chenopodium bonus-henricus
91
good king henry
stolt henrik
Cirsium oleraceum
55
cabbage thistle
kåltistel
Crambe maritima (Lindesnes)
5
sea kale
strandkål
Cryptotaenia japonica “Atropurpurea”
146
mitsuba, Japanese parsley
mitsuba, japansk persille
Hablitzia tamnoides
102
hablitzia, Caucasian spinach
stjernemelde, hablitzia
Helianthus tuberosus
Jerusalem artichoke
jordskokk
Hemerocallis fulva “Kwanso Double”
153
orange daylily
brun daglilje
Hosta sieboldiana
141
hosta
hosta, bladlilje
Hosta “August Moon”
141
Hosta “Chinese Sunrise”
141
Houttuynia cordata “Cameleon”, “Double” and ordinary
3 years ago, I was at a LETS Trondheim meeting at Manuela Panzacchi’s place. I had forgotten, but we had been asked to bring some food and I took a flowery salad along. One of the other participants, Svanhild Anita Vågsvær, contacted me a few weks back as she was getting married, remembered the salad and wanted something similar at her wedding! Would I sell her some tasty edible flowers? Of course she could have some! Late the evening before the wedding, groom Christian Berg arrived and we picked a good selection! The pictures show the salad put together by their chef with goat cheese, caper vinaigrette and foccacia! Congratulations!
As part of Trondheim’s climate festival, which runs all this week, Naturvernforbundet (Friends of the Earth Norway) arranged a tour to experience first-hand a couple of remnants of old forest in Malvik! We learned more about the need to preserve more old forest in Norway, to extend the size of existing reserves and the importance to change the way we manage the forest as soon as possible to bind as much carbon as possible! Today’s clearfelling practices need to be changed to more ecologically sound methods.
We learned how to spot old forest remnants from afar, that about 80% of the carbon is below ground level and that only about 3% of the forest in Norway is over 160 years old, although the amount of old forest is now on the rise. We also visited Storfossen on the Homla river and talked about the spray zone around the waterfall where several rare lichens and mosses can be found. The forest along the river in this dramatic canyon-like landscape was finally protected by law last year: http://malviknytt.no/2015/12/11/homla-naturreservat-vernet-i-dag
It was a very interesting day thanks in particular to biologist Arnodd Håpnes from Naturvernforbundet in Oslo who lectured and asked questions from the well attended tour participants together with Martin Stuevold from the local group who are pushing the plans for protecting the forest locally and also Jan Erik Andersen from Fylkesmannen who also informed about the complicated process of trying to protect more forest…
Martin Fagerheim Stuevold, leader of Naturvernforbund in Malvik (and neighbour) started with an introduction on the new plans being pushed by the local group for creating more forest reserves in Malvik
Arnodd Håpnes showed how we could see old forest from a distance. An uneven skyline like here on Jervfjellet demonstrates a mix of ages and species of trees.
Entering the first forest area that is proposed protected. This area is close to the ski trails in Malvik (on the road from Jervskogen to Hønstad) and an area that I’ve passed many times in winter. I’ve registered different woodpecker species in this area including Grey woodpecker / gråspett.
The uneven age of the trees is evident here.
Arnodd’s lecture on forest and climate
The second walk was the steep walk down to the mighty Storfossen on the Homla..
The waterfall was impressive after all the rain on Saturday
Lars Refseth from the local group
Martin Stuevold, Arnodd Håpnes and Jan-Erik Andersen (from Fylkesmannen)
We were in the spray zone!!
Telling about the importance of the spray zone around the waterfall for the diversity of the plant life and the strong gradients caused by the humidity
Arnodd and Steinar Nygaard of the Trondheim group of Naturvernforbund
My favourite dried fruit is sour cherry / surkirsebær. A good yield this year, untouched by the birds!
050916: Added a picture of the dried fruit…trying hard not to eat them all straight away…so delicious!
Last week 15 years ago, the extreme salad man was created…and he is upset that Facebook completely missed this event…so let’s make up for it in this thread, please leave your gree(n)tings :)
Ably supported by this week’s garden helper Josefine Marie Dichmann from Odense in Denmark, and another of a stream of quality ex-students from Fosen Folkehøgskole, a salad of some 140 ingredients was put together in about an hour last night with marigold petals forming ESM’s age!
Josefine Marie Dichmann shows off the birthday salad with that view (ESM was too shy to be photographed, hair turning green already at 15)
Assembling the salad
Josefine’s ingredients notes!
Only two pictures of the “half-eaten” 2001 salad have been found so far!
Only two pictures of the “half-eaten” 2001 salad have been found so far!
The moment I discovered my lust for devouring flowers. Rarotonga, the Cook Islands, November 1989 ;) More here: http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?page_id=3903
Heracleum persicum is a giant umbellifer, very closely related to Giant Hogweed another very closely related invasive of more southerly latitudes. We call it Tromsøpalme here as these giant plants might resemble palm trees from afar where they grow in large quantities in the arctic city of Tromsø. I today harvested seed of one last plant remaining after the kommune had strimmed a small coastline stand of this plant, presumably spreading seed everywhere….
The seed is used as an important spice in Iran, something I learned from my friend Saideh Salamati who I credited in my book (she also made an excellent dish of the young shoots at a gathering of foragers here in June). I nowadays use more golpar in my cooking than any other spice…delicious and free!
I harvested Heracleum persicum seed today
Seed
Grinding the seed
Golpar seed as sold in Iranian shops in Norway!
Golpar used here to spice up potatoes
Golpar used as an alternative to cumin in broad bean falafel!
It was actually bilberries that were the evening’s objective, but when you see several ceps / steinsopp in the woods and hedgehogs/piggsopp and saffron milk caps / matriske (almost all surprisingly in good condition without fly larvae) and chantarelles / kantarell, then there’s a change of plan….and there was still time to pick more than enough bilberries for drying another ovenfull!
Steinsopp / porcini / cep
Steinsopp / porcini / cep (but I can’t see any characteristic net / reticulation on the stipe)?
Amanita rubescens / rødnende fluesopp / the blusher
Amanita rubescens / rødnende fluesopp / the blusher
Most people into permaculture in Scandinavia know of Lars Westergaard’s nursery in Denmark as one of the best sources of a range of hard to get (and unique, from Lars’ own selection work) fruit and nut trees. Lars has been working with production of organic plants for many years and commercially since 2009. It seems much longer! He specialises in walnuts, heartnuts, hazel, sweet chestnut, peach, mulberries, figs, haskaps and many more! I’ve been wanting to visit for some years and an opportunity finally arose after I’d given a couple of courses near Copenhagen in August 2016. It was a pity that Lars was “distracted” by several customers during our visit, so we didn’t have too much time to talk together…..but I was impressed by what I saw. Thanks to Aiah Noack for taking me…and looking forward to his plants becoming available in Norway soon :)