{"id":18255,"date":"2018-06-30T20:44:48","date_gmt":"2018-06-30T18:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=18255"},"modified":"2018-07-07T10:24:56","modified_gmt":"2018-07-07T08:24:56","slug":"the-allium-chicago-garden-at-ringve-at-the-end-of-june-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=18255","title":{"rendered":"The Allium (Chicago) garden at Ringve at the end of June 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 d<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">ocumenting the right hand (easternmost bed)&#8230;.now known as the New Hampshire bed (I&#8217;m told the two beds resemble a map of Vermont and New Hampshire)\u00a0<span class=\"_47e3 _5mfr\" title=\"smile emoticon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img\" role=\"presentation\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/fa5\/1.5\/16\/1f642.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span>\u00a0(As it looks like the garden will be known as Chicago-hagen due to the fact that the native american name Chicago means onion)!!<br \/>\nThis is the link to the last album I made from 31st May:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=a.10156051646095860.1073743203.655215859&amp;type=1&amp;l=cbacd0612e\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/<wbr \/>media\/set\/<wbr \/>?set=a.10156051646095860.10<wbr \/>73743203.655215859&amp;type=1&amp;<wbr \/>l=cbacd0612e<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-18255 gallery-columns-1 gallery-size-large'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=18256'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"790\" height=\"593\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/P1840393.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/P1840393.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/P1840393-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/P1840393-768x577.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 790px) 100vw, 790px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=18257'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"790\" height=\"593\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/P1840394.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-18257\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/P1840394.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/P1840394-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/P1840394-768x577.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 790px) 100vw, 790px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-18257'>\n\t\t\t\tThe collection of old chives (gressl\u00f8k) plants (from gardens around Norway) and various reference cultivars are almost finished flowering&#8230;.apart from a couple of Japanese \/ Far East varieties which are now in bud: Allium schoenoprasum ssp sibiricum (from Hokkaido in Japan) and Allium schoenoprasum var. yezomonticola\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=18258'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"790\" height=\"593\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/P1840395.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-18258\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/P1840395.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/P1840395-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/P1840395-768x577.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 790px) 100vw, 790px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-18258'>\n\t\t\t\tA sea of birch seedlings and a lone opium poppy!\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=18259'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"790\" height=\"593\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/P1840399.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-18259\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/P1840399.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/P1840399-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/P1840399-768x577.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 790px) 100vw, 790px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-18259'>\n\t\t\t\tOne of the gardeners had told me that someone had harvested the green tops of shallots growing in the Renessanse-hagen and wondered if they had taken anything from the onion garden. Right enough I found that one plant, Allium x cornutum &#8220;Croatia&#8221; had been clipped down&#8230;this is a plant similar to walking onion \/ luftl\u00f8k but with different parent species!\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=18260'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"769\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/P1840404-769x1024.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-18260\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/P1840404-769x1024.jpg 769w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/P1840404-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/P1840404-768x1022.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/P1840404-300x399.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/P1840404.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 769px) 100vw, 769px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-18260'>\n\t\t\t\tThe first yellow flowering onion is out &#8211; Allium moly from the mountains of Spain and Southern France with additional populations in Italy, Austria, Czech Republic, Algeria, and Morocco.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=18261'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"790\" height=\"593\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/P1840406.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-18261\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/P1840406.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/P1840406-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/P1840406-768x577.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 790px) 100vw, 790px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-18261'>\n\t\t\t\tWeeding\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=18262'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"790\" height=\"593\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/P1840407.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-18262\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/P1840407.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/P1840407-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/P1840407-768x577.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 790px) 100vw, 790px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-18262'>\n\t\t\t\tI thought I&#8217;d lost this onion, the old Norwegian chives (gressl\u00f8k) from the highest altitude, at the mountain farm belonging to Nina Bakken&#8217;s family at Dovre (near Hjerkinn). See also the next two pictures!\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=18265'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"790\" height=\"593\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/935525_10151336705837242_168205554_n.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-18265\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/935525_10151336705837242_168205554_n.jpg 960w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/935525_10151336705837242_168205554_n-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/935525_10151336705837242_168205554_n-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 790px) 100vw, 790px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-18265'>\n\t\t\t\tThe moment I&#8217;d sniffed out Allium schoenoprasum &#8220;Nina Bakken&#8221; on Dovre! Picture by Josan McDermott\u200b: As she put it &#8211; &#8220;No rare antique onion can hide from the expert stealth of celebrity plant-hunter&#8221;\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=18263'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"790\" height=\"593\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/P1840408.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-18263\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/P1840408.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/P1840408-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/P1840408-768x577.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 790px) 100vw, 790px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-18263'>\n\t\t\t\tAllium schoenoprasum &#8220;Nina Bakken&#8221; from Dovre\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=18264'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"790\" height=\"593\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/P1840410.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-18264\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/P1840410.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/P1840410-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/P1840410-768x577.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 790px) 100vw, 790px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-18264'>\n\t\t\t\tThe clipped shallots in the Renaissance garden\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Allium garden at Ringve has grown well as have the so-called weeds (mostly very young birch trees!). 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