A new video on my youtube channel, the wonderfully exclusive SNOW ONION from the China and the Himalaya https://youtu.be/5mOcQ4aUQVIWe’re back in the Onion Garden Chicago at the Ringve […]
Annuals / Salad / Seed pods
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A diversity of rat’s tails
I remember years ago ordering seed of a special heirloom heritage radish “rat’s tail” (Raphanus sativus var caudatus) through the Heritage Seed Library in the UK. I remember […]
Edimentals / Perennial vegetables
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Megacarpaea delavayi
This is one of the most exclusive vegetables and finest edimentals out there, Megacarpaea delavayi (Brassicaceae), a plant found in the high mountains of southwest China at high […]
Food / Perennial vegetables
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Seven Vegetable Dishes
In Denmark’s major ethnobotanical work, Brøndegaard’s Folk og Flora (1978-80), ground elder (skvalderkål; Aegopodium podograria) is one of seven different greens used in a once common health-bringing springtime […]
Edible flowers / Edimentals / Shrub
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Red is the rose
A real beauty is Rosa moyesii from 2700-3800 m in the mountains of Sichuan and Yunnan in China and loving sea-level in Malvik! The petals are deliciously edimental […]
Biannuals / Brassica / Edimentals / oil seed / Seed
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The Edible Japanese Bluebell!
When I visited Japan in early spring 2016, I noticed a violet/purple flower growing as an ornamental in some gardens and also escaped as a weed. I finally […]
Forest Gardening
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Yuki-no-shita
Saxifraga stolonifera is a lover of dark, wet, rocky places in Japan, Korea and China. I saw it several places in Japan during my March / April visit […]