Spent the day with assorted Væres Venner (Friends of Være) weeding the KVANN (Norwegian Seed Saver) gardens. The good news is that almost all the couch grass has been […]
Onions
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The Allium (Chicago) garden at Ringve at the end of June 2018
The Allium garden at Ringve has grown well as have the so-called weeds (mostly very young birch trees!). I spent the afternoon weeding and documenting the right hand […]
Nutrition / Perennial vegetables
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Hosta nutrition
A nutritional analysis of Hosta is reported in the enclosed open access article from Japan (2017): “Analysis of essential macro-micro mineral content of twelve Hosta taxa” by Mehraj, […]
Forest Gardening / Garden tour / Urban farming
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Parkens Grøde
Thanks to Elena Katarina for showing me Parkens Grøde at short notice on Sunday evening before I took the train home! The other gardener Marcia Kyle and a […]
Forest Gardening
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Norwegian Seed Savers film
A film in Norwegian from Norwegian Seed Savers’ visit to my garden….udo and my forest garden :) Post Views: 147
Garden views
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Dagmar and the Destroyed Greenhouse!
Have a google street view image “peep” at my (red) house and edible garden and surroundings from 2010, with greenhouse the year before the major Boxing Day 2011 […]
Festival / Talks
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Dokka Garden Festival
Just a few pictures from the Dokka Hagefestival (Garden Festival) this weekend 23rd June! I gave a talk outside under the festival “sail” supported by some 20 different […]
Climbers / Edimentals / Perennial vegetables
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Variegated Hablitzia on Nesodden
I visited my son today on Nesodden (Oslo) and was impressed by how much growth his Hablitzia had put on and then I noticed that one of the […]
Birds
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Young Hoodie
Young hooded crow (kråke) on a spruce tree in the garden! Post Views: 118
Community Garden
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KVANN treff Day 1 at Væres Venner and Presthus Gård
The first evening of KVANN (Norwegian Seed Savers) weekend event in Trondheim and Malvik, we visited KVANN’s first “nyttevekstreservat” (inspired by Lawrence Hills’ proposal for vegetable sanctuaries across […]
Nut trees
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Monkey puzzles in Norway
Back in the pre-Facebook days, I remember there was a forum for unusual nut trees and the Norwegian monkey puzzle trees were considered to be the most hardy […]
Exhibitor / Walk and talk
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KVANN meet in Trondheim and Malvik; Ringve Open Day
Day 3 of the KVANN (Norwegian Seed Savers) meet was at the Ringve Botanical Garden Open Day in Trondheim. The day started early as I drove one of […]
walks
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KVANN meet 2018; Walk along the Homla canyon
Pictures from Saturday’s 5 km (almost 4 hours with all the stops) walk along the Homla river canyon from Storfossen (this area’s second highest waterfall) to the sea […]
Garden tour / Garden views / Salad
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KVANN meet in Trondheim and Malvik; tour of the Edible Garden
Some pictures from Day 2 of the KVANN (Norwegian Seed Savers) meet in Malvik in my Edible Forest Garden :) As usual, it was a great group!! Thanks […]
weather
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Rain on the way
There was a little sprinkling of rain in the night again (here on a pot grown Phormium from NZ)! Although everything is still green, another couple of weeks […]
Fjord views
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The S returns
It’s a good sign when the “S” is visible on the fjord :) Post Views: 81
Food
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Nettles and Ramsons Quiche
One of my favourite spring dishes is nettle and ramsons quiche, the ramsons cultivated on the north side of the house! Tonight’s dinner! Post Views: 170
Forager / Foraging / Garden tour / Salad
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Sunny Savage in Malvik
ALOHA all! Thanks to Leda Meredith for the introduction, we had a very enjoyable visit today from Sunny Savage, a foraging author from Hawaii. Sunny is author of Wild Food Plants […]
Edible flowers / Edimentals
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Beschorneria yuccoides
One of the world’s most spectacular edimentals was in flower at Mount Stewart in Northern Ireland where I was doing an edimentals walk and talk at the weekend! […]
Garden tour / Walk and talk
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Mount Stewart
An album of pictures from my visit to National Trust property Mount Stewart on the Strangford Lough in Northern Ireland! I return for the Planters Seminar in September! […]
Garden tour
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PROGRAMMET FOR KVANN-TREFFET I TRONDHEIM
PROGRAMMET FOR KVANN-TREFFET I TRONDHEIM (Program for the Norwegian Seed Savers weekend in Trondheim) Fredag 15. juni; kl 19 Vi besøker KVANNs planlagte første nytteplante-reservat hos Væres Venner […]
Botanical Garden / Garden tour
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Giardini Botanici Villa Taranto
This follows on from my early blog posts from my April visit to Northern Italy. Matthias Brück had invited me to Switzerland to take part in the Perennials […]
Botanical Garden / Garden tour
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Lake Maggiore and Giardini Botanici dell’Isola Madre
On day two of our visit to Piedmont in NW Italy, Pius Leutenegger took us on a botanical trip over the hills to Lake Maggiore and the first stop […]
walks / wild flowers
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Centro d’Ompio and Pettenasco
On 2nd April 2018, Matthias Brück who had invited me to Switzerland to take part in the Perennials for Resilience seminar in Stans asked me along on a […]