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 […]
Bulbs / Edimentals / Fasciation
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Fasciated Martagon Lily
From Wikipedia : “Fasciation (pronounced /ˌfæʃiˈeɪʃən/, from the Latin root meaning “band” or “stripe”), also known as cresting, is a relatively rare condition of abnormal growth in vascular […]
Edimentals / Perennial vegetable shoots / Perennial vegetables
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Korean Aster on Edimentals
Two years ago, I posted this picture of Aster scaber, commonly wild foraged in Korea and nowadays cultivated for markets in Korea and exported dried to Koreans in […]
Perennial vegetables / Root crops
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The tallest skirret challenge
So, is this a world record, Guinness? Oh, sorry you can’t even ID a dandelion can you, so no point asking you ;) My claim is at 2.3m. […]
Foraging / walks
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Central Park with Leda Meredith
I’ve “known” forager Leda Meredith since 1999 on the Edible Wild email list run by Melana Hiatt! I was very happy when I was passing through New York […]
Perennial vegetables / Root crops
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Adenophora transforms into invasive bellflower
On the corner of a bed I planted Adenophora “Amethyst” over 10 years ago. I remember that creeping bellflower / ugressklokke (Campanula rapunculoides) was growing in the grass […]
Slug
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Leopard slugs in love…
I think two of my favourite slugs are in love, spotted on the path up to the house last night….the more the merrier I say! There’s so much […]
Edible flowers / Onions
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Sherpa and Swedish Norrland onions
My favourite Himalayan onion is now coming into flower in the garden. This is what I call Sherpa onion (Allium wallichii), it’s a beauty and the bees and […]
Berries / Drying / Fruit
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Drying berries
A bit of a glut of fruit in my garden. I’ve therefore been drying raspberries and currants :) At the bottom are the dried fruit, also bilberries and […]
Coastal plants / Perennial vegetables / Seaweed
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New Zealand Celery and Porpoise Bay
I haven’t shown many pictures from my fantastic tour of New Zealand in March / April 2015. I was transplanting some plants of New Zealand Celery at the […]
Perennial vegetables / Pot plants
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Plant backlog…
The backlog of plants waiting for their space in the garden is getting longer by the minute…where will it all end? …and yes, that’s my oldest Hablitzia on […]
Annuals / Biannuals / Edimentals / Perennials
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Weekend garden pictures
A diverse selection of pictures from last weekend in the Edible Garden :) Post Views: 144
Forest Gardening
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New edible woodland garden beds
I planted a couple of new edible woodland garden beds with some 40 new plants on the north side of my house at the weekend!! The last picture […]
Fungi
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End of July fungi foray
A collection of pictures from 3 hours in the woods….about 30 minutes to cycle up to the start of the trail and 15 minutes down again.. Post Views: […]
Fungi
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Strawberries and cream
I was out in the woods looking for fungi yesterday….the last thing I’d expected to find in the dark coniferous woods was strawberries and cream ;) No, I […]
Food
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Barl-ryotto
Last night’s dinner: risotto made with rye and barley grain instead of rice with wild and cultivated vegetables and wild fungi: Parsley, coriander, golpar (Heracleum maximum seed spice), […]