Botanical Garden

Visit to the Botanics in Oslo

November 3, 2017 Stephen Barstow Leave a comment

A few pictures from a short lunch time visit to the Oslo Botanical Garden at Tøyen this week with my little girl!

Eryngium maritimum (Sea holly) is an endangered species in Norway, so not encouraged to eat it. The next picture shows what Cornucopia II says of its use in the kitchen (I’ve never managed to grow it, so haven’t tried)

Eryngium maritimum (Sea holly) in Cornucopia II

Allium thunbergii is one of the latest onions to flower…it looked like there were two different forms here..

Allium thunbergii

Pinus wallichiana, Indian blue pine (tårefuru /tear pine). The seeds are sometimes eaten as pine nuts..

Photographing the tears of Pinus wallichiana…..Conucopia II: the tree exudes an edible manna from the leaves and twigs!

The tears of Pinus wallichiana…..Conucopia II: the tree exudes an edible manna from the leaves and twigs!

Pinus wallichiana

The Viking garden

An ex-Elm

Hazel with Turkish Hazel!

Turkish Hazel…all I’ve opened have been empty

Campanula rapunculoides, from the garden’s Korsmo weed chart exhibition!

Probably the oldest Gingko tree in Northern Europe, soon to reach 150!

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