The year’s first taste of Hosta and Udo shoots (dug in the autumn, stored in the cellar and forced in the living room in the dark), used in […]
Blanching / Perennial vegetables / Salad
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Hosta and Seri salad
I’ve been making a little blanched Hosta salad for lunch this week. Just cover your plant before the shoots appear in spring, cut and serve with a Japanese […]
Talks
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Wild Hive Talk at Home in Chandlers Ford: Resonating with Hampshire!
Thank you once again to all the amazing Wild Hive Collective team for organizing my talk in Chandlers Ford, my home town, on 19th November 2023. It attracted […]
Garden tour / Perennial vegetables
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God Save the King’s Hostas!
My only post on last weekend’s big news item. This memory came up on my feed this morning. In October 2015 I talked about my book Around the […]
Ethnobotanist
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RIP Stephen Facciola
I was very saddened to hear yesterday evening that Stephen Facciola, author of Cornucopia II: A Sourcebook of Edible Plants, the most useful reference work in my journey […]
Edimentals / Food / Perennial vegetables
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Hostas, scapes and broccolis
Last night’s greens included all my 16 Hostas, Allium scorodoprasum (sand leek / bendelløk) scapes; broccolis from sea kale (strandkål), ornamental sea kale (Crambe cordifolia) and Turkish rocket […]
Bulbils / Foraging / Perennial vegetables
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Foraging the Viviparous Bistort
It’s a rare event that I forage outside the garden at this time of year and almost never for leafy greens. I’m trying to find time at least […]
Edible flowers / Edimentals / Salad
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7th August multisalad
A little composition put together last night together with my daughter and artist friend from UK and wwoofer Kristina from Czech…including Allium macranthum (centerpiece), Allium carinatum pulchellum “Album”, […]
Food
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Emmer multispecies tempura
Tonight’s dinner was the first tempura of the year, made with Emmer wheat….delicious! With Mustard “Giant Red”, dandelion, Hosta flower shoots, assorted lily flowers, ground elder, Daubenton and […]
Nutrition / Perennial vegetables
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Hosta nutrition
A nutritional analysis of Hosta is reported in the enclosed open access article from Japan (2017): “Analysis of essential macro-micro mineral content of twelve Hosta taxa” by Mehraj, […]
Edimentals / Garden tour
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Edibles in Bergen’s Muséhagen
I spent a couple of hours in Muséhagen (the old botanical garden) in the centre of Bergen before taking the train to Oslo on Sunday and spent the […]
Book / Perennial vegetables
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New Norwegian Fruit and Vegetable Encyclopedia with Hablitzia and Hosta
Published this month is a new Norwegian Fruit and Vegetable Encyclopedia written by Kari Vetlesen Among its pages you will find both Hablitzia and Hosta (mentioned for the first […]
Talks
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Perennial vegetables and edimentals for cities
This week I gave a couple of talks for the first time on the subject of “Perennials: Attractive and climate friendly city vegetables” ….covering everywhere from roof gardens […]
Forest Gardening / Perennial vegetables
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Food abundance in the Utrecht Botanical Garden
Just look at the abundance of food in the Utrecht Botanical Garden :) Post Views: 214
Forest Gardening / Perennial vegetables
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Hosta Superstar and Host in Vienna
The genus Hosta is just about my favourite vegetable as you can read in my book Around the World in 80 plants, productive, tasty and perfect for a […]
Book / Edimentals
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Tor Smaaland’s “Your Dream Garden” from 2004
The first time my garden was featured in a book was in former Norwegian TV gardener and gardener for the King, Tor Smaaland’s 2004 book “Din drømmehage”. The […]
Foraging
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Trip to the Japanese mountains in April 2016
Each day on the trip to Japan had been equally amazing as the day before with new plant and food discoveries all the way!! The venue for my talk […]
Forest Gardening
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New edible woodland garden beds
I planted a couple of new edible woodland garden beds with some 40 new plants on the north side of my house at the weekend!! The last picture […]
Edible flowers / Edimentals / Perennials
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Fast Slow Edimental Lunch!!
15 minutes from garden to table must qualify as fast food, but unlike its namesake this is highly nutritious and with a few flowers becomes gourmet edimental food… […]
Forest Gardening / Perennials
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Letter from the Prince
It’s not every day one finds a letter from Prince Charles in the mailbox :) I met two of the gardeners at Highgrove after my talk at Croome […]