Thank you once again to all the amazing Wild Hive Collective team for organizing my talk in Chandlers Ford, my home town, on 19th November 2023. It attracted […]
Food / Perennial vegetables
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Garden foraged perennial veggies: 28th June 2023
Tonight’s perennial vegetables from the garden, used in a stir-fry:Top right and clockwise:Sochan / Cherokee greens tops (Rudbeckia laciniata); Norsk: Kyss-meg-over-gjerde (picture at the bottom)Sorrel (Rumex acetosa) “Skomvær”; […]
Edimentals / Onions / Perennial vegetables
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Chiugok, Small Bird’s Garlic, a hardy Himalayan edimental
Like Sherpa onion or Nepalese onion Allium wallichii, which features in my book Around the World in 80 plants, chiugok (small bird’s garlic) as Allium macrantum is known […]
Butterflies and moths / Edientomental / Pollinators
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Buddleja Butterflies
By chance, the best two plants in the garden for pollinating insects in late summer are growing together in the garden. The Clematis vitalba (old man’s beard / […]
Food / Onions / Perennial vegetables
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SO/TR Pizza
I have a feeling that no one else had this pizza last night! SO/TR? Sherpa Onion/Turkish Rocket of course, better known (to the botanist) as AW/BO or Allium […]
Food / Herbs / Onions / weeds
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Sonchus and Basil Pesto
Common sow thistle (Sonchus oleraceus) is now in season in my garden another plant categorised by most as a weed, but for me one of the most important […]
Onions
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Pink wallichii
This beautiful pink whirly flowered form of Allium wallichii was sown as yellow flowered Allium hookeri var muliense…not a bad replacement! Post Views: 125
companion plants / Herbs / Onions
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Accidental companions
Accidental companions: a Sherpa onion (Allium wallichii) has set up home in the middle of my greek mountain tea (Sideritis syriaca) with a few self-sowed dandelions for good […]
Onions
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The perennial bed onions
A little video showing various Alliums about to burst into flower on a bed I’ve always called the Perennial Bed as it was the first bed devoted to […]
Onions
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Alliums 24th July 2017
Allium amplectans, Allium wallichii and ultra-slow Allium tricoccum… Added today to my large nearly 800 picture Allium album: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150966880345860.471791.655215859&type=1&l=6e2cfcfba0 Post Views: 208
Onions / Seed
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Allium wallichii seed harvest
Illustrating the beauty of this plant even in fruit in early October and the large differences of different accessions of the same species.. Post Views: 107
Edible flowers / Edimentals / Onions / Tubers
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Nepalese feast in Malvik
A couple of weeks ago, I finally got round to inviting botanist Kamal Acharya and his wife Sharmila Phuyal to see my garden!! They were amazed to see […]
Edimentals / Onions
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Jimmu
This is what my new friends from Nepal called Allium wallichii, also known as Jimbu, Dunda, Yang, Himalayan onion, Nepal onion or Sherpa onion! They had actually never […]
Climbers / Onions
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Nepalese meet their onion in Malvik
A lovely visit this evening from botanist Kamal Acharya and his wife Sharmila Phuyal and daughter. They taught me several new uses for my old plants! For instance, […]
Edible flowers / Onions
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Sherpa and Swedish Norrland onions
My favourite Himalayan onion is now coming into flower in the garden. This is what I call Sherpa onion (Allium wallichii), it’s a beauty and the bees and […]
Onions
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Sherpa basil pesto
Sherpa onion (Allium wallichii) and basil pesto for tonight’s dinner! Delicious! I’ve been growing basil in my office at work since I was a student in Edinburgh in […]