Allium dispersal?Well, this week was the week when vegetatively propagated onions from the Allium Garden Chicago in Trondheim were dispersed to members of the Norwegian Seed Savers organisation […]
Food / Onions
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MAC 69 ONION CHEESE
Thanks everyone for all the birthday greetings! I spent my 69th by visiting the Onion Garden Chicago that I look after at the Ringve Botanical Garden, worked for […]
Onions / Perennial vegetables
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Meanwhile in the Onion Garden Chicago
I don’t often post here about my other two gardens, the community garden at Væres Venner and the Onion Garden Chicago at the Ringve Botanical Garden in Trondheim. The […]
Butterflies and moths / Onions
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Diamonds on Allium
I hope diamond back moths (kålmøll) haven’t taken a liking to onions ;) Post Views: 105
Butterflies and moths / Edientomental / Entomental
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Butterfly prefers onion to butterfly bush!
The warmth has encouraged the Buddleja (Butterfly bush / Sommerfuglbusk) into flower, but this small tortoiseshell (neslesommerfugl) still prefers Alliums! Buddleja isn’t edible, but it is one of […]
Onions
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The Allium garden at Ringve
(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 […]
Onions
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The Allium garden at Ringve on the last day of May 2018
I spent 3-4 hours this afternoon weeding the new Allium garden at Ringve Botanical Garden in Trondheim! It now seems pretty certain that many plants didn’t make it […]
Botanical Garden / Onions
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My new “job” and office: a dream come true!!
I always dreamed of working in a botanical garden and somehow my wish has come true only 7 months after retiring from job as an ocean wave climatologist! […]
Onions
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The Allium Garden at Ringve #2
Just finished two and a half pretty intensive focused days working on the new Ringve (Trondheim) Botanical Garden Allium beds, digging up, cleaning, planting and documenting…..these two beds […]
Garden tour / Talks
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Talk at the Gothenburg Botanical Gardens
It was a great honour to finally get to talk at the Gothenburg Botanical Gardens last night….not just once but twice as the first talk (picture) was sold […]
Edimentals / Malvik / Perennial vegetables
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Edimentals in the garden; early August 2017
Here’s the first batch of Edimentals pictures from the garden this week :) More to come! 030817: More added 040817: More added 050817: …and even more added! Post […]
Bees / Edimentals
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Bees and other pollinators on edimentals
I’ve been observing edimentals liked by the bees over the last week…and the winners are the following genera: Allium, Cirsium, Papaver, Trifolium, Dictamnus, Knautia, Campanula, Codonopsis and Aquilegia […]
Edible flowers / Edimentals / Onions
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Allium bouquet
I collected this bouquet of Alliums in the garden today :) Post Views: 148
Onions
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Alliums in the Gothenburg Botanical Gardens
Alliums in the botanical gardens in Gothenburg, Sweden on a visit on 16th June 2014. The first batch are from the under cover bulb garden, where watering regimes […]
Edimentals / Onions
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The Utrecht Allium Border
Probably the best display of Alliums I’ve seen, a special project this year at the Utrecht Botanical Garden, showing off the diversity in the onion family! Quite a […]
Award
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The S.A.G.E. Award!
I was honoured and very proud yesterday to receive the one-off S.A.G.E: award for smelliest garden(er)? of the century!! :) Thank you Avellana Wood! 1. The Award 2. […]
Onions / Perennial vegetables / Wild Edibles
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More seed for stratifying
An early Xmas present from Alexander Naumenko! Thanks! Several new very interesting Alliums, Taraxacum lilacinum (lilac flowered dandelion…hope they will germinate!), Hyssopus tianschanicus, Tragopogon capitatus, Angelica brevicaulis and […]
Edimentals / Onions / Perennials
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Allium cernuum “Dark Scape”
There are many great edimental forms of Allium cernuum / Nodding onion or Chicago onion. I call this one “Dark Scape” because of the dark flower shoot / […]