I enjoyed myself last Tuesday evening talking about onions with Marianne Meløy and Amund Storløkken Åse, surrounded by some amazing art at Atelier Ilsvika, in an eclectic acoustic […]
Study visit
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Besøk fra (visit from) Arche Noah
Engelsk tekst nederstI løpet av 17.-19. juli var jeg glad for å kunne returnere gjestfriheten gitt av KVANNs søsterorganisasjon Arche Noah (Austrian Seed Savers) under mine 2 turer […]
Garden tour / Onions
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The Onion Garden Chicago on 3rd July 2024
The Onion Garden Chicago at the Ringve Botanical Garden in Trondheim, Norway contains over 100 Allium species and over 400 different accessions including a collection of old Norwegian […]
Onions / Perennial vegetables
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Meanwhile in the Onion Garden Chicago
I don’t often post here about my other two gardens, the community garden at Væres Venner and the Onion Garden Chicago at the Ringve Botanical Garden in Trondheim. The […]
Art / Perennial vegetables
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Artist in Residence Elin Eriksen
We’ve had a lovely 3 day visit this last weekend from artist Elin Eriksen from Nesodden starting a project based on my perennial vegetables. She sketched and photographed […]
Forest Gardening / Garden tour / Perennial vegetables
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Fact-finding mission: promoting perennial vegetables
On Tuesday 23rd May I spent a great few hours together with Eva Johansson and Annevi Sjöberg from Sweden in my 3 gardens. They were on a […]
Botanical Garden / Community Garden / Garden tour / Perennial vegetables
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Garden visits with Fosen students
It’s always a pleasure to spend time with students from the Fosen Folk High School from the other side of the fjord. Despite the dreadful weather, we visited […]
Onions
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Twisted-leaf garlic for lunch
I’d sent a few bulbs of twisted-leaf garlic (Allium obliquum) to members of Norwegian Seed Savers’ (KVANN) guild for Alliums and had a few left overover, so I […]
Edible flowers / Edimentals / Ethnobotany / Onions / Perennial vegetables
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Allium atroviolaceum?: Caucasian Turkish garlic
(Note that there is a comment suggesting that this isn’t atroviolaceum and is probably rotundum, although accessions I’ve received as that species are much lower plants; will check […]
Garden tour / Onions
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The Allium garden at Ringve
19th June 2020: Video update from the Allium (Chicago) garden at the NTNU Ringve Botanical Gardens in Trondheim. The heat wave has brought many species into flower and […]
Birds / Onions
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Redpoll workers
Today at the Ringve Botanical Gardens I found the Allium garden was full of little workers eating the masses of birch seeds that had fallen during the winter….saving […]
Birds
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Tawny owl in the botanical garden
I was walking through the garden yesterday towards the office at the Ringve in Trondheim and I heard a lot of noise coming from a group of conifers, […]
Drying / Edimentals / Fruit
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Cornelian Cherries and Polish Olives in Trondheim
I’ve long had a Cornelian cherry (Cornus mas) in the garden without a partner. The oldest is maybe 20 years old. I’ve several times tried to propagate more […]
Nut trees
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American chestnut at Ringve in Trondheim
There’s a great little American chestnut tree (Castanea dentata) just outside the office building at Ringve Botanical Garden in Trondheim where I work. This one has bloomed almost […]
Onions / Perennial vegetables
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Johannes’ Shallot
Yesterday was St. John’s Day and many Norwegians (and other Scandinavians) celebrated the evening before what is known here as Sankthans or Jonsok with communal bonfires, the big […]
Plant sale / Stand
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KVANN at the Ringve Botanical Garden Open Day
On Sunday 16th June 2019, KVANN (Norwegian Seed Savers) had a stand at the open day at the Ringve Botanical Garden in Trondheim! There were record crowds and […]
Onions
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Oslo Allium Raid
My new life is as a “visiting onion researcher” at the Ringve Botanical Gardens in Trondheim where I’m developing an Allium garden to be officially opened later in […]
Onions
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The Allium garden at Ringve
(Norsk under) The Allium garden at the Ringve Botanical Garden (Chicago) in Trondheim contains a collection of old Norwegian onions used for food from all over Norway including […]
Meeting
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KVANN’s Annual Meeting Weekend: Days 1 and 2
During the first weekend in May 2019, about 30 members of KVANN (Norwegian Seed Savers) assembled in Trondheim for our Annual meeting weekend! Thanks to Kjell Hødnebø, Bell […]
Onions
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More planting in the Allium garden
The last 3 days I’ve been documenting which Alliums at the Ringve Botanical Garden collection didn’t make it from last autumns plantings, finding replacements and also collecting many more […]
Botanical Garden / Onions
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The Chicago onion garden at Ringve on 23rd July 2018
I spent the afternoon weeding and deadheading (to stop seed spreading)! There are at least 10 different Chicago onions (Allium cernuum) still in flower! Here’s a little video […]
Botanical Garden / weeds
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Weeding Vermont!
Yesterday was my most intensive weeding day of the year so far, first 2-3 hours finishing the weeding of KVANN’s bed at Væres Venner community garden followed by […]
Onions
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The Allium (Chicago) garden at Ringve at the end of June 2018
The Allium garden at Ringve has grown well as have the so-called weeds (mostly very young birch trees!). I spent the afternoon weeding and documenting the right hand […]
Exhibitor / Walk and talk
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KVANN meet in Trondheim and Malvik; Ringve Open Day
Day 3 of the KVANN (Norwegian Seed Savers) meet was at the Ringve Botanical Garden Open Day in Trondheim. The day started early as I drove one of […]
Garden tour
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PROGRAMMET FOR KVANN-TREFFET I TRONDHEIM
PROGRAMMET FOR KVANN-TREFFET I TRONDHEIM (Program for the Norwegian Seed Savers weekend in Trondheim) Fredag 15. juni; kl 19 Vi besøker KVANNs planlagte første nytteplante-reservat hos Væres Venner […]