{"id":22018,"date":"2019-05-12T12:24:10","date_gmt":"2019-05-12T10:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=22018"},"modified":"2021-08-13T13:47:50","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T11:47:50","slug":"appalachian-greens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=22018","title":{"rendered":"Appalachian Greens"},"content":{"rendered":"

I can go out into my garden and “forage” spring greens from anywhere in the temperate Northern Hemisphere! This week I foraged possibly the top two traditional spring greens of the Appalachian mountains, one of them, known as Sochan (so cha ni) by Native Americans, for the first time! Sochan has also now entered my all time top ten perennial vegetable list and would definitely have been in my book if I had discovered it before as it’s also a fantastic edimental! It is Rudbeckia laciniata<\/em>, known as Cut-leaf (or Green-headed) coneflower or Golden Glow!<\/p>\n

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Kyss meg over gjerdet (Kiss me over the fence) in the “Oldemorshagen” (Grandmother’s Garden) in the Oslo Botanical Garden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here in Norway, the double-flowered cultivar “Hortensis” (also sold in the UK as “Golden Glow”) is a common ornamental known as “Gjerdesolhatt” or “Kyss meg over gjerdet” (Kiss me over the fence)\u00a0 reflecting on the fact that it’s often planted next to fences.<\/p>\n