On my recent quick visit to my parents in Hampshire, UK, we did a walk from St Cross to Winchester along the River Itchen with Mum (89) and Dad (93) followed by a walk up St Catharine’s Hill on my own to do the mizmaze ;)
Video of Winchester from St. Catharine’s Hill:
Gingko tree at St Cross
Hayricks (scythed meadows)
Hayricks are good habitat for Kestrels (tårnfalk)
Kestrel tree and St Catharine’s Hill
Kestrel (tårnfalk)
Hogweed
Water forgetmenot
Watercress
Bulrushes (cattails)
Water mint and watercress
Gunnera in a Winchester park
Walnut tree
Walnuts (I already have Sorbus aria from Winchester in my garden and it’s proved hardy, so I’ll try Winchester walnut too)
Walnut
The mizmaze (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mizmaze)
A chance meeting on the train from Oslo to Trondheim yesterday with Mia Vaughnes who is project coordinator and founder of Good Neighbor Gardens in San Diego ! Despite our very different climates we had plenty to talk about during the last two hours of the journey from Røros and Trondheim and she recognised several of the plants in my book including dandelion, a favourite of Afro-Americans she told me..she joked that the building of railways in the US was fuelled by the dandelion :)
Mia’s Norwegian friend had visited my garden and recognised me :)
Perennial vegetables, Edimentals (plants that are edible and ornamental) and other goings on in The Edible Garden
