Hablitzia flower shoots entwined with Good King Henry in the Oslo Botanics
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In search of the purple caraway
I’m looking for an even more purple form of caraway. This is the deepest coloured one I’ve seen a picture of so far, found in Troms.
Very long dandelion leaf!
Any longer? About 95cm…..
Incredible Vegetables Blog!
Visit Mandy Barber’s great Incredible Vegetables blog, you won’t regret it!! The last two items have been on perennial brassica, including this one:
http://www.incrediblevegetables.co.uk/daubentons-kale-giving-everlasting-greens/#more-777
Thanks for the Taunton Deane cuttings Mandy!!
Kamikaze Horseradish?
Is my variegated horseradish in the process of committing suicide? No green in any of the leaves…
Dent-de-lion
Resonating with asparagus in Oslo…..
Just before the start of my first course for MAJOBO on Tuesday, I decided to change my first picture to something of local relevance! This is Oslo’s oldest asparagus bed, perhaps as old as 100 years as explained in the following article!
In another one of these resonant moments, who should be amongst the 20 participants than the owner of this very garden, Lars Mjøset :) He walked in just after I took this picture!
Hablitzia tamnoides in Oslo
Hablitzia tamnoides/stjernemelde/Caucasian Spinach in the botanical gardens in Oslo 3rd July 2015!
Hablitzia running rampant
Having breakfast this morning, I noticed this Hablitzia (Caucasian Spinach) flowering shoot peeping in the window at me, as if to say “Look what I’m doing”…
This plant has seeded itself from my original plant seen in the background in the second picture and is busily climbing up and smothering a grape (Vitis coignetiae)!
Midnight in Malvik
Red sky in the morning or night, shepherd’s confused!
