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An interview at Holma Forest Garden in Sweden

An interview with yours truly at Holma Forest Garden in Southern Sweden during my visit in early May. Filmed and produced by Jim Nilsson who did an excellent job I think :) The interviewer is Eric Karlsson!

Click here: https://vimeo.com/172589400

Below are a few pictures I took of early spring in the this great Forest Garden:

 

A few weekend plants and salads!

Just a few weekend shots from the garden and kitchen during a hard working gardening weekend with my helper, Kia from Fosen Folkehøgskole

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Lunch – red tongue salad ;) with Allium zebdanense, Viola canadensis, Barbarea vulgaris, Claytonia sibirica and Viola pubescens (yellow) flowers
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My Clintonia borealis or bluebead lily is now forming a nice clump….next spring I will test eat the young shoots!
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Flowering Rheum moorcroftianum, Moorcroft’s rhubarb grows at 4,500 to 5,300m in China and other mountain ranges from China to Tajikistan including Nepal
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Molopospermum peloponnesiacum has a disappointingly unpleasant taste….
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Allium victorialis “Anja” is one of my Lofoten victory onions / seiersløk, seemingly snaking its way through the garden….


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