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 […]
Sun
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Thunder and rainbows
Some light thunderstorms today giving some spectacular views :) With Angelica atropurpurea and Gunnera tinctoria… […]
Garden tour
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Planter i Hurdal prestegårdshagen
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, […]
Bees / Edimentals
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Bees and other pollinators on edimentals
I’ve been observing edimentals liked by the bees over the last week…and the winners are the following genera: Allium, Cirsium, Papaver, Trifolium, Dictamnus, Knautia, Campanula, Codonopsis and Aquilegia […]
Slug
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Leopard slug sex
My wonderful leopard slugs are feeling it….and I’m happy there will soon be even more of them!! At night, when fertile leopards meet they begin to court, circling […]
Bees / Edimentals / Onions
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Nodding onion season
I love my nodding onions (Allium cernuum) as you can read in my book and the diversity of forms increases as each year passes, both as I introduce […]
water plants
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My pond is back
I finally got my Tiny pond back it into life today after 5 years trying to get rid of the Equisetum (water horsetail?) I foolishly planted many years […]
Onions
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Alliums 24th July 2017
Allium amplectans, Allium wallichii and ultra-slow Allium tricoccum… Added today to my large nearly 800 picture Allium album: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150966880345860.471791.655215859&type=1&l=6e2cfcfba0 Post Views: 251
Dandelions
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Weeded “Pissenlit Coeur Plein Ameliore” is back!
It’s not easy being a Wwoofer at my place as this spring when I discovered two of my prize dandelions had been weeded ;) She was devastated when […]
Uncategorized
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Redback in the garden?
Red-back in the garden? Well, it has a red back but it’s Enoplognatha ovata (Candystripe spider / rødstripet kule-edderkopp) and it’s not at all dangerous!! It seems it’s […]
Climbers / Perennial vegetables / Propagation
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Dividing 1-year old Hablitzia plants
Hablitzia roots have an astonishing number of shoots waiting to grow if you cut them down…I like to think that this is an adaptation to human grazing pressure, […]
Perennials
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66 today!!
Congratulations to my dear Mum and Dad on their 66th wedding anniversary today!! And 66 has a special significance in my family, as heard at 0:58 in this […]
Birds
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Nutcracker and greenfinch
Breakfast in the garden, and a Siberian Nutcracker landed in the tall spruce tree, followed by a greenfinch… Today is forecast to be the year’s warmest, 27C, already […]
Edible flowers / Edimentals / Perennial vegetables
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Scorzonera in full flower
Scorzonera hispanica in full flower at the moment!! The flowers are good in salads… Post Views: 86
Butterflies and moths / Edimentals
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Ligularia japonica and the Admiral
Ligularia japonica flowering for the first time in the garden and an Admiral checked it out :) Eaten in Japan, I haven’t tried it yet… Post Views: 161
Birds / Breeding
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Breeding swifts?
Working in the garden today and I was surprised by two swifts flying low behind the house and one entered an old starling box on the outhouse…. I’ve […]
Course / Permaculture
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Permakultur Grunnkurs /PDC Malvik
Permakultur Grunnkurs (PDC) Trondheim/Malvik , 3 helger sommer/høst 2017 Permaculture Design Certificate Course (PDC) in Trondheim/Malvik over 3 weekends this summer/autumn See also https://www.facebook.com/events/808432835979618/ [gview file=”http://www.edimentals.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Trondheim-PDC-Info-lang1.docx”] Post Views: 208
walks / weeds / Wild Edibles
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On the rocks
Some pictures taken on the beach and rocks below the house while being filmed yesterday harvesting seaweed! Post Views: 132
Birds / Seed / Trees
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Siskins and birch
Birch seed scales are currently falling in the garden thanks to the feeding of siskins (grønnsisik)…. Added videos of a siskin feeding on fallen birch seed next to […]
Edible flowers / Edimentals / Salad
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Filmed extreme salad!
This weekend, I have a film crew in the garden (more later) and a multi-species salad was of course on the agenda. We made this last night and […]