My first day in Victoria and Vancouver Island, BC was a mixed one. As this was probably my only chance I decided to go to the Butchart Gardens, […]
Edible flowers / Edimentals / Forest Gardening / Wild Edibles
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Around the world with Erythroniums
As an introduction to two soon to be published blog posts concerning visits to two nature reserves in Japan during the mass flowering of katakuri (Erythronium japonicum) in […]
Edimentals / Foraging / Leafy greens / Perennial vegetables / Root crops
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Wild Japanese Katakuri #1
My trip to Japan in early spring 2016 was perfectly timed to witness one of the wonders of the Japanese spring, the mass flowering of katakuri (Erythronium japonicum; Japanese: […]
Wild Edibles / wild flowers
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Katakuri at Mt. Iimoriyama
This post documents my visit with Aiah Noack of Naturplanteskolen in Denmark to the historical town of Asuke in Aichi Prefecture near to Toyota, where we’d spent the […]