My new life is as a “visiting onion researcher” at the Ringve Botanical Gardens in Trondheim where I’m developing an Allium garden to be officially opened later in the summer! One of the perks is to have access to collections in other botanical gardens on an exchange basis. I visited the Oslo Botanical Gardens last week (June 2019) and I was given a spade and given permission to take a few of whatever onions I wanted! Not having accession data available I took a few of most onions I found. On the way out of the gardens with bags of onions and rucksack with various Allium victorialis sticking out of the top, a couple approached me and the man says “Det var en god fangst!” (That’s a good catch!) ;)
I now have the accession data and am sorting out which ones are interesting enough to keep!
I’ve also promised to correct some of the mistakes as several were clearly wrongly labelled!
12th June: Added pictures of a few more edibles!
O, O, so the Onion
Fun on the ion
Barstow’s Botanical Onion Beds
Every one with different heads
Travel to Trondheim
And you too can know
The beauty in the Onion the Ohhh Ohh Oh
Her var det mye interessant – rene oppslagsverket, og flotte bilder.
Takk, Randi
Fantastic
The Onion
O, O, so the Onion
Fun on the ion
Barstow’s Botanical Onion Beds
Every one with different heads
Travel to Trondheim
And you too can know
The beauty in the Onion the Ohhh Ohh Oh
PP
You have talent for the onion rhyme :)