Last night’s simple winter omelette with ingredients I had on hand:Wapato tubers (Sagittaria latifolia)Potato “Blue Congo”Swiss chard (mangold)Shallots “Finland” (an old Finnish / Norwegian variety of sjalott)Barberry (vill […]
Berries
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Lemon Berberis
Norwegian: for en norsk oversettelse av denne artikkelen (Norwegian translation), se KVANNs (Norwegian Seed Savers) Nyhetsbrev #15 There’s always been a barberry (Berberis vulgaris) in my garden, in […]
Fruit / Garden tour
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Berberis and other unusual fruit at the botanics in Dublin
In early October 2011, I was on a work trip in Ireland (Cork) and stopped off to see the city’s botanical garden for the first time! Here’s a series […]
Birds
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Waxwing videos
Today there were around 200 waxwings / sidensvans in the garden most of the afternoon and I saw them eating berries on Sambucus nigra, Viburnum opulus, Berberis, Crataegus […]