My latest book has been published on Monday (with 199 co-authors 😉 ). This is the 300 page Arctic Encyclopaedia and the good news is that it can be downloaded for free at ARCTIC ENCYCLOPAEDIA.
The book explores a wide array of themes—from adventure, aquaculture, food production as well as mining, myths and mental health—with entries spanning the letters A to Ø. Each contributor was assigned a word to define in under 350 words through a short text, poem, photograph, or drawing. My word was GARDEN! You can read my contribution in the picture.
Tag Archives: Oslo Botanical Gardens
Treecreeper at Tøyen
On my visit to the botanical gardens in Oslo (at Tøyen) last week, a treecreeper (trekryper) landed right next to me on a tree trunk and I made this little video. I didn’t know they were such a beautiful green colour??
Korsmo’s Dandelion Print
I asked most people for a donation for disaster relief for a Xmas present, but when I visited the botanical garden in Oslo in the autumn with my daughter (see http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=14674), she saw my eyes light up at this fantastic original print of dandelions in all their beauty from a series of drawings by weed artist and agrobotanist Emil Korsmo in the 1930s!
Norsk Hydro had financed the printing of the drawings in the 1930s in Leipzig. During World War II, the original plates were destroyed in a bomb attack. It is therefore not possible to print more.
Once in the 1990s, Norsk Hydro decided to dispose of the original prints they still had in store. Fortunately, a small group of employees were allowed to take them over and they have been stored in a barn until now. The natural history museum in Oslo have now been allowed to sell them in their shop…and, YES, I got that dandelion print for Xmas and it’s now hanging proudly on my wall! Thank you, thank you, thank you, Hazel
