Tonight’s perennial vegetables from the garden, used in a stir-fry:Top right and clockwise:Sochan / Cherokee greens tops (Rudbeckia laciniata); Norsk: Kyss-meg-over-gjerde (picture at the bottom)Sorrel (Rumex acetosa) “Skomvær”; […]
Food / Onions / Perennial vegetables
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SO/TR Pizza
I have a feeling that no one else had this pizza last night! SO/TR? Sherpa Onion/Turkish Rocket of course, better known (to the botanist) as AW/BO or Allium […]
Food / Herbs / Onions / weeds
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Sonchus and Basil Pesto
Common sow thistle (Sonchus oleraceus) is now in season in my garden another plant categorised by most as a weed, but for me one of the most important […]
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Pink wallichii
This beautiful pink whirly flowered form of Allium wallichii was sown as yellow flowered Allium hookeri var muliense…not a bad replacement! Post Views: 125
companion plants / Herbs / Onions
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Accidental companions
Accidental companions: a Sherpa onion (Allium wallichii) has set up home in the middle of my greek mountain tea (Sideritis syriaca) with a few self-sowed dandelions for good […]
Onions
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The perennial bed onions
A little video showing various Alliums about to burst into flower on a bed I’ve always called the Perennial Bed as it was the first bed devoted to […]
Edimentals / Onions
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Jimmu
This is what my new friends from Nepal called Allium wallichii, also known as Jimbu, Dunda, Yang, Himalayan onion, Nepal onion or Sherpa onion! They had actually never […]
Edible flowers / Onions
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Sherpa and Swedish Norrland onions
My favourite Himalayan onion is now coming into flower in the garden. This is what I call Sherpa onion (Allium wallichii), it’s a beauty and the bees and […]
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Sherpa basil pesto
Sherpa onion (Allium wallichii) and basil pesto for tonight’s dinner! Delicious! I’ve been growing basil in my office at work since I was a student in Edinburgh in […]