On my way back from the Future Heirloom event in Copenhagen, I had a few hours between trains to visit one of my favourite Botanical gardens in Gothenburg, […]
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 […]
Edimentals / Onions
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Allium ulleungense: a new vigorous edimental
In 2019, a very interesting paper was published giving a very good case for splitting the geographically widespread Allium victorialis species complex, at the same time describing a […]
Edimentals / Root crops / Tubers
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Rice lily
Rice lily or riceroot (Fritillaria camschatensis) is a great hardy edimental, and exclusive root vegetable, although don’t expect large yields. The small (but many) sweet tasting tubers often […]
Edimentals / Ferns / Garden tour
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In the gardens at the Gothenburg Botanics in January
I also walked around the outside gardens during my visit to the Gothenburg Botanical Gardens on Saturday 25th January 2020. In the mild weather, there were many people […]
Bulbs / Garden tour / Winter shoots
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Edibles in the January Bulb Garden at the Gothenburg Botanics
On my way north from Vienna to Oslo, I found myself unexpectedly with a 4 hour wait in Gothenburg in Sweden, and there was no hesitation to visit […]
Fruit
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Papaws – Asimina triloba – in Norway?
I was asked if it is possible to grow papaws (Asimina triloba) in Norway. I don’t think it’s impossible, but I suspect they need warmer summers than most […]
Garden tour
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Edibles at the Gothenberg Botanical Garden
A picture album of edible species spotted in the Gothenberg Botanical garden on the last day of August 2017! Thanks to Johan Nilson for showing me around! Post […]
Berries / Bushes / Garden tour / Perennial vegetables / Trees
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Walk with Bosse in the Gothenberg Botanics
I visited Bo “Bosse” Blomquist last year outside of Gothenburg and despite it being a bit late in the day and almost dark at the end, I was really […]
Garden tour / Talks
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Talk at the Gothenburg Botanical Gardens
It was a great honour to finally get to talk at the Gothenburg Botanical Gardens last night….not just once but twice as the first talk (picture) was sold […]
Perennial vegetables / Talks
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Talk in the Gothenburg botanical gardens
Tomorrow evening, I’ll be giving two talks in the botanical garden in Gøteborg (Gothenburg) in Sweden, the first at 1700 is sold out, but there are I think […]
Onions
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Alliums in the Gothenburg Botanical Gardens
Alliums in the botanical gardens in Gothenburg, Sweden on a visit on 16th June 2014. The first batch are from the under cover bulb garden, where watering regimes […]