The Allium garden at Ringve

May 17, 2019 Stephen Barstow Leave a comment

(Norsk under)

The Allium garden at the Ringve Botanical Garden (Chicago) in Trondheim contains a collection of old Norwegian onions used for food from all over Norway including Allium fistulosum (Welsh onion), A. x proliferum (Egyptian and Catawissa onions), A. oleraceum, A. vineale, A. ursinum, A. scorodoprasum and A.victorialis (the last four are wild or naturalised species that have been moved into gardens in the past for food and, in the case of ursinum and victorialis are currently being domesticated in a big way!
In addition, a collection of wild species and ornamental cultivars have been planted to demonstrate the diversity of the Allium family!
I’ll be adding pictures to the album below on a regular basis.

See more pictures on my FB album here: https://tinyurl.com/y489yldy

Norsk:

Allium hagen ved Ringve Botaniske Hagen (NTNU) i Trondheim inneholder en samling av gamle norske matløk samlet fra hele Norge i perioden 2008-2019. Dette inkluderte Allium fistulosum (pipeløk), A. x proliferum (luftløk), A. oleraceum, A. vineale, A. ursinum, A. scorodoprasum og A.victorialis (de fem siste er vill- eller naturaliserte arter som har blitt flyttet til hager som matplante før i tiden, og dette er fortsatt gjort når det gjelder ursinum (ramsløk) og victorialis (seiersløk) i økende grad!
I tillegg kan man her se en samling av ville arter og pryvarianter plantet for å demonstrere mangfoldet av Allium-slekten!
Hagen er støttet finansielt av Landbruksdirektoratet, og Genressurssenteret.

The garden outline can be seen in this recent aerial picture (centre towards the right)

Concerning the Norwegian onions, we received 118 tips from the public, 92 were received and 57 of these have been planted (13 species and hybrids). About 90-100 species can be seen here. The garden was cultivated during Autumn 2016, 260 accessions were planted in 2017 and a further 76 in 2018!

The first Allium to flower in 2019 was this species from mountains in China, Allium humile.

270519: Allium chinense planted in the garden!

210519: With the director of the Ringve Botanical Garden, Vibekke Vange in the Allium garden!

11th June 2019: There’s been the biggest invasion of Painted Lady (Tistelsommerfugl) butterflies in Norway ever seen with an estimated 100 million and they are everywhere including mayn in the Ringve Botanical Gardens and they love Alliums to feed on, here on a chive (Allium schoenoprasum)

11th June 2019: Allium schoenoprasum “Pink”

11th June 2019: I’ve started making an accurate map of the Allium garden, plotting in the coordinates of each plant

200619: Stephen Barstow 2 hrs · Edited · 200619: One of the tall chives gressløk) had collapsed in the recent heavy rains!

200619: One of the Allium cernuum (nodding onion / prærieløk) accessions in bud

200619: One of the Norwegian roof onions (Knut Bryn) in bud (Allium fistulosum) – see my book

200619: The earliest Allium cernuum (nodding onion / prærieløk)

200619: Red-tailed bumblebee (steinhumle) were common on several Alliums.

200619: Allium brevistylum (there are two accessions of this in the garden from Utah and Wyoming)

200619: This Japanese Allum victorialis has dark flowers

200619: Red-tailed bumblebee (steinhumle) on chives (gressløk)

200619: Allium fistulosum (welsh onion / pipeløk)

200619: Painted Lady (tistelsommerfugl) on chives (gressløk)

200619: Egyptian / Catawissa onions (luftløk)

190619: Setting off cycling for the Ringve Botanical Garden this week with more onions for the Allium garden!

200619: Setting off cycling for the Ringve Botanical Garden this week with more onions for the Allium garden!

Nothing on these chaps, so-called Onion Johnnies, from Brittany in France, who sold onions from door to door in England up to about the 1960s (I remember them!!) Read more here: http://blog.holidayfrancedirect.co.uk/2013/02/last-of-the-onion-johnnies/

300719: Allium sphaerocephalon (it’s not often I’ve managed to overwinter this one, the round-headed leek); donated by Eirik Lillebøe Wiken

300719: First flowering of not hardy Tulbaghia violacea (Society garlic), indigenous to southern Africa (KwaZulu-Natal and Cape Province). I’m including a few plants within the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allioideae in the Chicago Garden!

300719: I’m a bit late dead-heading Allium fistulosum…now done!

080819: Allium nutans from IPK Gatersleben

080819: Allium denudatum (syn. Allium albidum) from IPK Gatersleben

080819: Allium flavum “Minus” and Allium cyaneum

080819: This is a spectacular Allium which I received from my friend Hristo in Bulgaria. He was sent it from Kazakhstan. It is maybe a hybrid between Allium flavescens and nutans. It has white flowers and masses of satellite (secondary) flowers

230819: Allium tuncelianum (Tunceli garlic or Ovacik garlic) is endemic to the Munzur Valley in Tunceli, in eastern Turkey. It has a garlic odor and taste and is used locally like garlic. It is more closely related to leek than garlic, but is hardier than leek.

060919: Allium carinatum pulchellum (rosenløk) flowers for a long time. There are still a few open flowers at the bottom of the inflorescense

060919: Allium ericetorum is one of the last Alliums to come into flower, often in October in my garden; see alsohttp://www.edimentals.com/blog/?page_id=2584

Garlic bulbils maturing…this is a variety with masses of small bulbils that I call Cledor from Ingrid, who was a forum friend from Sweden, which she gor from Törnvik Frö (http://tornvik.se). I’m not sure if this really is 060919: Cledor as the description on the website (they still sell it) states that it produces many cloves, but mine only produce a few, sometimes only two.

060919: Eristalis rupium (Blank droneflue)?

060919: For completeness, I planted a few Allium cepa, common bulb onion! A white skinned variety called Snowball at the front.

060919: Spring onions / Allium cepa and Allium fistulosum.

300819: A brown hawker, brunlibelle (Aeshna grandis) landed in the garden while I was working!

300819: Red admiral on late flowering Allium spirale from Nordgen (Alnarp)

300819: Collecting and documenting topset onions on 15 or so accessions of Allium x proliferum (luftløk)

300819: There’s a big difference in the resprouting of the Allium x proliferum (luftløk) accession

130919: Seed heads (frøstander) of Allium macranthum

130919: Stephen Barstow 3 mins · 300919: Allium pskemense is a close relation of Allium cepa (bulb onion / kepaløk)…this accession has been grown at Ringve for some years (see http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?page_id=1940 and http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=22827)

130919: Stephen Barstow 3 mins · 300919: Allium pskemense topset onions (right) compared with Allium x proliferum (Egyptian or Walking onions / luftløk)

101019: Allium “Millenium” still going strong

101019: Allium sacculiferum, still in bud and unlikely to open in time before winter!

101019: Allium fistulosum having another go!

101019: Allium tuberosum “Sibbo”, a Swedish heirloom from Erik de Vahl

101019: Allium schoenoprasum and Allium fistulosum

101019: Allium tuberosum with flat-leaved shoots from bulbils!

3 videos of Painted Ladies (Tistelsommerfugl) on Allium schoenoprasum on 11th June 2017

300719:

160819: Allium cernuum x stellatum?

160819: Allium wallichi

Arctic Gardening, Garden tour, Mountain Gardening

Beredskapshagen (Preparedness Garden) i Valdres

May 16, 2019 Stephen Barstow Leave a comment

Følgende artikkel ble først publisert i KVANNs Nyhetsbrev #9 fra desember 2018 .

English: An article about Anders Nordrum’s Beredskapshagen (Preparedness-garden) in the Norwegian mountains in Valdres (see also Anders’ Norwegian blog datsja.no), first published in Norwegian Seed Savers’ (KVANN) Newsletter in December 2018.

Beredskapshagen

Som jeg har nevnt tidligere har gartnerlærer (fra Gjennestad) Anders Nordrum i Valdres sammen med Torstein Jæger Dalen (en pensjonert hvitløks dyrker på hele 1050 moh også i Valdres!) sagt seg villig til å lede KVANNs hvitløk-laug, noe vi er svært glad for! Anders er den mest kunnskapsrik grønnsaksdyrker jeg har møtt de siste årene. I forbindelse med at jeg holdt foredrag hos Valdres Sopp og nyttevekstforening tidlig i august 2017 på Vaset var det flere som snakket varmt om Anders og hans engasjement og ikke minst en spesiell hvitløk som han og Barbro fikk fra en hviterussisk munk tidlig på 2000-tallet. Hvitløken viste seg å være svært robust og ga gode avlinger hos Anders og Barbro, de begynte å dele den med andre og med forsker-gener satt han i gang på eget hånd å lære mer om hvor i Norge denne sorten kunne dyrkes og, lokalt, a sammenligne dyrking i forskjellige høyder! Til dette formålet startet Anders opp en FB gruppe «En hvitløks vandring høyt og lavt i Norge» (se https://www.facebook.com/groups/126595354640631). Jeg elsker en god plantehistorie og hadde lyst til å besøke Anders, men han var dessverre ikke hjemme den helgen jeg var i Valdres. Anders har også en spennende blogg DATSJA (https://www.datsja.no) med undertittelen «Fra jord der du bor: Kjøkkenhagen som matvareberedskap». På en Russisk datsja (kolonihage) lærte man av hverandre hvordan man kunne få mest mulig ut av hver kvadratmeter jord, og hvordan man best kunne lagre, tilberede og konservere markens og naturens grøde…og det samme kan sies om Anders sin DATSJA! Barbro og Anders mener at matvareberedskap i Norge er skremmende dårlig og gjennom DATSJA ville de prøver å hjelpe folk til selv-hjelp gjennom bloggen og andre tiltak! Nå har de kommet med i et NRK TV program: https://tv.nrk.no/serie/innafor/2018/MDDP12100318 (fra ca. 14:30)

Etter mitt besøk i Valdres reiste jeg videre til Voss hvor styremedlem Eirik Lillebøe Wiken hadde arrangert et besøk hos et av de siste gårdene som dyrker Vossakvann, Olde i Bordalen (Eirik Lillebøe Wiken). Etter det var vi Hardanger for det årlige Perennialen (nr 3 i rekke) hvor vi besøkte Alvastien Permakultur LAND senter, Baroniet Rosendal og Hardanger Akademiet i Jondal, hvor årets Nordisk Permakulturfestivalen ble arrangert! Etter Perennialen skulle Eirik og jeg reiser til Hurdal (KVANN styremøtet!). Jeg kom på ideen at vi kunne kanskje besøke beredskapshagen i Valdres på veien…og, ja, Barbro og Anders var hjemme og hadde lyst til å vise oss hagen der de bor (nær Fagernes) ved 400 moh og også, om vi hadde tid, et annet felt på stølen hvor han også hadde plantet hvitløk (og potet). Ja takk svarte vi! Beredskapshagen var stappfull av fantastiske grønnsaker som var gjødslet av neslevann fra planter samlet fra skogskantene i nærheten…her var det virkelig kortreist mat! Etterpå var vi en tur opp til stølen og her har Anders oppdaget at hvitløk trives veldig godt!

Men, høydepunktet for meg var feltet av hvitløk med potet på stølen på nær 960 moh! Jeg skrev følgende etter besøket «Jeg var imponert over de høytliggende hvitløkplantene i Valdres, men dette er med å bekrefte det jeg har sagt under alle mine foredrag de siste årene at jeg mener at vi kunne dyrke mye mer mat i Nord-Norge og fjellbygdene ved å bruke flerårige grønnsaker…de kommer raskt igang på våren og utnytter sesongen optimalt…!»….det er bare å se hvor godt rabarbra og kvann vokser i god jord på fjellet! Både hvitløk og potet er egentlig flerårige i at vi ikke starter fra frø hvert år. Flere av oss i KVANN ønske å etablere forsøksfelt for en rekke andre flerårige grønnsaker i fjellet og arktiske strøk og stølen til Anders kan bli et av dem! Vi diskuterer også å organisere dette i et Fjell-laug! Jeg satt hvitløken fra Hviterussland for første gang i høst!

Det er ikke bare hvitløk og datsja kulturen i Russland Anders henter inspirasjon fra. Han har også kommet i kontakt med flere av våre nye landsmenn som har tatt med seg spennende planter og teknikker, noe han også blogger om!

Figur 8 Besøk på beredskaphagen til Barbro og Anders i Valdres med skogshage gartneren Eirik.

Figur 9 Hvitløk og potet på stølen i nær 960 moh i Valdres!

Meeting

KVANN’s Annual Meeting Weekend: Days 1 and 2

May 14, 2019 Stephen Barstow Leave a comment

During the first weekend in May 2019, about 30 members of KVANN (Norwegian Seed Savers) assembled in Trondheim for our Annual meeting weekend!

Thanks to Kjell Hødnebø, Bell Batta Torheim, Lone Dybdal, Berit Børte, Ane Mari Aakernes and Anders Nordrum for providing pictures!

On the Friday evening, we showed the film Seed: The Untold Story, a thought provoking film about the importance of diversity, the tragedy of industrial agriculture and multinational seed companies and hope! The picture on the screen shows one of the most important seed savers in the history of Seed Savers Exchange (SSE) in the US, Will Bonsall! In my 2003 SSE Year Book, he offers a staggering 2,133 different grains and vegetables including 80 Jerusalem Artichokes, 503 potatoes, 76 radishes, 55 barley and 279 beans! This is Mr. Diversity (see below for his full listings in 2003)!

Saturday morning was KVANN’s Annual Meeting, again in the meeting room of the Administration building at the Ringve Botanical Garden (Trondheim) where I have an office:

After lunch, we had a series of talks, first from Vibekke Vange, leader of the Botanical Garden, a general introduction to the garden and work done on conservation of plant genetic resources.

After a great veggie lunch delivered by Persilleriet,
Bell Batta Torheim from Landbruks- og matdepartementet (Ministry of Agriculture and Food) gave an informative talk about international work in FAO with the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture and the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture:

Next up was Anders Nordrum of datsja.no, who gave an engaging talk about the almost total lack of food preparedness in Norway and what each of us can do about this. To learn more about Anders who lives in the Norwegian mountains in Valdres, I’ve written about his Preparedness garden here (in Norwegian): http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=22065

Anders is one of two leaders in KVANN’s group (laug) working on garlic and has also just started testing how well a selection of perennial vegetables grow at his mountain summer farm at over 900m above sea level (he has successfully grown garlic here).

The final talk was by Morten Rasmussen of the Norwegian Genetic Resource Centre who KVANN collaborate closely with…in fact it was they that founded the movement back in 2005 (Planteklubbene; a series of plant clubs dedicated to saving old traditional varieties of useful plants). He gave an update on national work on plant genetic resources.

After the talks, Vibekke guided us around the botanical garden with focus on their work on plant genetic resources including the collection of old ornamentals and herbs from mid-Norway, the Renaissance Garden, containing only plants mentioned in Norway’s first gardening book Horticultura from the 1690s and the new Allium garden which I have the responsibility for and gave an introduction to in just about the worst weather our area can provide at this time of year, see https://www.facebook.com/beritboslo/videos/10219078174126065/

After the walk, the Annual meeting dinner was also provided by Persilleriet and for many of us the “short” presentations made by each of the participants after dinner was the highlight of the day! What was planned to be a quick half an hour around the table presentation turned into two hours, illustrating what an amazing diverse group of people that were present!

Fjord views, Sun

7 am, 13th May 2019

May 13, 2019 Stephen Barstow Leave a comment

Edimentals, Perennial vegetables

Appalachian Greens

May 12, 2019 Stephen Barstow 1 Comment

I can go out into my garden and “forage” spring greens from anywhere in the temperate Northern Hemisphere! This week I foraged possibly the top two traditional spring greens of the Appalachian mountains, one of them, known as Sochan (so cha ni) by Native Americans, for the first time! Sochan has also now entered my all time top ten perennial vegetable list and would definitely have been in my book if I had discovered it before as it’s also a fantastic edimental! It is Rudbeckia laciniata, known as Cut-leaf (or Green-headed) coneflower or Golden Glow!

Kyss meg over gjerdet (Kiss me over the fence) in the “Oldemorshagen” (Grandmother’s Garden) in the Oslo Botanical Garden

Here in Norway, the double-flowered cultivar “Hortensis” (also sold in the UK as “Golden Glow”) is a common ornamental known as “Gjerdesolhatt” or “Kyss meg over gjerdet” (Kiss me over the fence) reflecting on the fact that it’s often planted next to fences.

Rudbeckia laciniata “Hortensis” (Photo: Wikicommons)

I’m not sure where I first heard of its edibility, but another Norwegian gardener sent me a plant 10 years ago and it’s since spread slowly where I placed it in a shady spot (sunny in spring before the leaves of an apple tree shade it out!):

It is well documented as probably the most important spring vegetable of the Cherokee in the Southern Appalachians in Moerman’s Native American Ethnobotany, which is probably where I first noted its edibility. It’s missed in Cornucopia II. The Cherokee ate the tender young leaves and stems cooked alone or with other greens such as poke (Phytolacca americana), Ramps (Allium tricoccum), Rumex spp. (docks) and eggs. They were also fried with fat and were also dried for later use and also eaten as a cooked spring salad or as celery (presumably raw). Unlike some other Native American veggies, this one doesn’t seem to have been adopted by the Europeans and remained a closely kept Cherokee secret!

I didn’t know of others who had eaten this plant and it wasn’t until I read Samuel Thayer’s glowing account of this plant (11 pages) in his gem of a book “Incredible Wild Edibles” (2017) that I was encouraged to give it a go! I also missed Mountain Gardener Joe Hollis’ video on this plant (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBJncaj1ZPM; also from 2017).

It is believed to have similar medicinal properties to closely related Echinacea (also known as coneflower).

I finally got round to trying it for the first time last week and, wow, I hadn’t expected it to taste that good, slightly sweet and aromatic similar to other Asteraceae like Korean Aster scaber. We served it with probably the No. 1 North Appalachian spring edible, Ostrich Fern (Matteuccia struthiopteris).

The RHS Plant Finder in the UK lists 12 different ornamental cultivars available from UK nurseries!

In Norway, this species has escaped from gardens and is established in some places, but is not considered to have an ecological risk (low risk on the national invasives list). It is very hardy. My double-flowered clone doesn’t seem to produce seed.

ENJOY!

Perennial vegetables

Forsøk med flerårige grønnsaker i fjellet

May 11, 2019 Stephen Barstow Leave a comment

English summary: We believe that we could grow a lot more food in the Arctic and Norwegian Mountains buy using perennials rather than annuals. These are the first plants to be tested, leaving my garden last weekend!

Sansai-lauget i KVANN er igang med å teste flerårige grønnsaker i fjellene. Dette er den første forsendelsen som Anders Nordrum skal teste i over 900m på stølan hans i Valdres hvor han allerede dyrker hvitløk med hell!

Jeg tror at vi kunne dyrke mye mer mat i fjellbygdene og i Nord Norge ved å utnytte mulighetene flerårige grønnsaker gir oss! Man kan bare se hvor godt rabarbra og Kvann vokser i fjellet og Tromsøpalme i Nord Norge for å forstå dette! Flerårige planter kommer i vekst tidlig på våren og utnytte den tilgjenglige solenergi optimalt gjennom sesongen og kan levere mat i mange år! Det blir spennende å se hvordan dette forsøket går!!

Sansai: Fjell grønnsaker i Japan som nå selges i alle supermarkedene i byene!

Andrew McMillion og Stephen Barstow er laug-lederne!

Seaweed

IKEA Seaweed Bags!!

May 11, 2019 Stephen Barstow Leave a comment

I finally discovered a useful IKEA product :) The 38th consecutive year moving seaweed from beach to garden!

Edimentals, Perennial vegetables, Permaculture, Salad, Walk and talk

Grand Opening of The Edible Garden Permaculture LAND Centre

May 11, 2019 Stephen Barstow 1 Comment

Grand Opening of The Edible Garden Permaculture LAND Centre

(Thanks to Berit Børte, Kjell Hødnebø, Lone Dybdal, Elin Mar, Bell Batta Torheim, Inger Line Skurdal Ødegård and Margaret M. Anderson for the pictures )
Sunday 5th May was a cold showery day here in Malvik and the 3rd day of KVANN’s (Norwegian Seed Savers) annual meeting weekend in Trondheim and Malvik. This was also the day of the official opening of my garden as a Permaculture LAND centre, which was celebrated by a primula ribbon cutting ceremony and the LAND multi-species salad (how many ingredients? See below!). Meg had decorated the gate for the occasion, now a permanent feature:

25 participants from all over Norway met in the garden at 10:30. Due to the weather, we moved inside where I gave an introduction to how the garden had developed into a permaculture Forest Garden despite the fact that I knew nothing of permaculture principles! The rain eased off, so we moved outside for a walk and talk around the garden with focus on the plants. The album below shows some of the plants we talked about:

Lily White and blanched wild sea kale (strandkål)

Hogweed has self-sown and is co-existing happily with some of my Hablitzias!

My collection of perennial kales, including my 6 year old Daubenton cross with Early sprouting broccoli producing masses of small broccolis! broccoli ee

My 16 year old Chinese walnut (Juglans cathayensis)

In the most Forest Garden-like part of the garden!

I had got up at 6 am to pick the ingredients for the multi-species salad we made for lunch (all 146 ingredients) to celebrate the garden’s LAND status!
LAND: Learning And Network Demonstration network – a network of permaculture sites. Sites are set up to show permaculture in practice to visitors and volunteers in a safe, accessible and inspiring way. There are a number of requirements to receive LAND certification, one of which was that I had to have a PDC (Permaculture Design Certificate) which I took in 2017, sharing the teaching with Jan Bang (yes, I taught myself the plants part of the course!)

In Norway – http://www.permakultur.no/land (Læring, Aktivitet, Nettverk og Demonstrasjon)
In the UK – https://www.permaculture.org.uk/land-centres

Before lunch, we had the official LAND opening ceremony for the Edible Garden, introduced by Eirik Lillebøe Wiken
of the Norwegian Permaculture Association,

See Berit’s FB video: https://www.facebook.com/beritboslo/videos/10219097282043751 followed by our living ribbon-cutting ceremony!

The ribbon had been expertly made by Meg Anderson from flower shoots of Primula hybrids (cowslip, primrose, oxlip / marianøkleblom, kusymre, hagenøkleblom) :-)

David and Eirik presented me with two Sweet Chestnut trees and two cider apples. Thanks guys!

There was then a joint effort in my kitchen to put the salad together:

THE LAND SALAD (146 ingredients)
Aegopodium podograria
Agastache foeniculum
Alchemilla mollis
Alium carolinianum
Alliaria petiolata; Flower Tops
Allium “Summer Beauty”
Allium ampeloprasum
Allium amphibolum
Allium caeruleum
Allium cernuum
Allium cernuum “Pink Giant”
Allium cernuum x stellatum “Hammer”
Allium cyaneum
Allium douglasii
Allium fistulosum
Allium fistulosum “Gribovskiy 21”
Allium flavescens
Allium flavum “Blue Leaf”
Allium flavum “nana”
Allium hymennorhizum
Allium hymenorhizum (var truncatifolium?)
Allium jajla
Allium karataviense
Allium nutans “Caroline”
Allium nutans “Slizun”
Allium oleraceum
Allium oreophilum
Allium paradoxum var normale
Allium paradoxum var paradoxum
Allium sativum (garlic)
Allium schoenoprasum “Black Island Blush” ; Flower buds
Allium schoenoprasum “Black Island Blush” ; Leaves
Allium schoenoprasum #1
Allium schoenoprasum #2
Allium schoenoprasum #3
Allium schoenoprasum #4
Allium schoenoprasum #5
Allium schoenoprasum #6
Allium scorodoprasum
Allium splendens
Allium validum
Allium victorialis “Granvin”
Allium x cornutum
Allium x proliferum “Bergstua”
Allium x prolifrum “Amish Topset”
Allium zebdanense
Angelica “Vossakvann”
Angelica spp.
Arabis alpina
Arabis alpina
Arabis caucasica “Pink”
Artemisia dracunculus sativa “German”
Asparagus officinalis
Atriplex hortensis “Rubra”
Barbara vulgaris
Barbarea vulgaris variegata
Begonia heracleifolia; Flowers
Beta vulgaris flavescens “Swiss Chard”
Brassica napa “Turnip tops”
Brassica oleracea “Walsall Allotments perennial kale”
Brassica oleracea Perennial Kale #1
Brassica oleracea Perennial Kale #2
Brassica oleracea Perennial Kale #3
Brassica oleracea Perennial Kale #4
Brassica oleracea Perennial Kale #5
Brassica oleracea Perennial Kale #6
Brassica oleracea Perennial Kale #7
Brassica oleracea Perennial Kale #8
Brassica oleracea x (Bed 7) #1 sort
Brassica oleracea x (Bed 7) #2
Campanula rapunculoides
Campanula trachelium
Cardamine pentaphyllos
Carum carvi (caraway)
Chamerion angustifolium
Cichorium intybus #1
Cichorium intybus #2
Cichorium intybus #3
Cichorium intybus #4
Claytonia virginica; Flowers
Claytonia virginica; Leaves
Coriandrum sativum; Leaves
Crambe martima
Hablitzia tamnoides
Hemerocallis dumortieri; Flower buds
Honckenya peploides
Hosta sieboldiana Ex- Mira
Houttuynia cordata #1
Houttuynia cordata #2
Houttuynia cordata #3
Hydrophyllum virginianum
Hylotelephium var.
Leucanthemum vulgare
Levisticum officinale
Ligularia fischeri
Lunaria annua
Lunaria rediviva Flor
Malva alcea
Malva moschata
Melissa officinalis
Mentha #1
Mentha #2
Meum athamaticum
Myrrhis odorata
Olea europaea (oliven)
Origanum vulgare #1
Origanum vulgare #2
Origanum vulgare #3
Oxalis acetosella
Oxalis tuberosa “Oca”; Leaves
Phyteuma spicata
Primula denticulata
Primula veris Red
Primula vulgaris
Primula x ; Flowers
Primula x ; Leaves
Rhodiola rosea
Rhododendron mucronulatum; Flowers
Ribes spp. #1; Flowers
Ribes spp. #2; Flowers
Rumex acetosa
Rumex patientia
Rumex scutatus
Rumex scutatus “Silver Shield”
Rumex acetosa Russian #1
Rumex acetosa Russian #2
Rumex acetosa Russian #3
Rumex acetosa Russian #4
Rumex acetosa Russian #5
Rumex acetosa Russian #6
Rumex acetosa ssp vinealis
Scorzonera hispanica
Sedum “Carl”
Sium sisarum
Sonchus oleraceus
Taraxacum “Moss-leaved”
Taraxacum #1
Taraxacum albidum
Tragopogon pratensis
Trillium erectum “Burgundy”
Trillium grandiflorum ’Pink’
Tulipa fosteriana purissisima; Flowers
Tulipa viridiflora “Esperanto”
Tulipa x gesneriana “Pilot” (syn Tulipa norvegica); Flowers
Viola canadense
Viola hybrida “Yellow” ; Flowers
+ (not grown locally!):
Olea europaea (olive)

Fjord views, Sun

Changing fjord views

May 3, 2019 Stephen Barstow Leave a comment

A change in the weather from summer temperatures with dirty air from the south and Saharan dust has been replaced by fresh Arctic air and snow showers and very different fjord views!

Perennial vegetables, Salad

Hail and Kale salad!

May 2, 2019 Stephen Barstow Leave a comment

A collection of edibles in the garden today which had been hailed on—and my first hail salad…..but nothing on this one: https://twitter.com/farmingainteasy/status/889675766526509056