{"id":30974,"date":"2023-04-09T10:38:48","date_gmt":"2023-04-09T08:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=30974"},"modified":"2023-04-09T11:10:12","modified_gmt":"2023-04-09T09:10:12","slug":"happy-easter-with-a-floriferous-oxlip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=30974","title":{"rendered":"Happy Easter with a floriferous oxlip"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Happy Easter 2023 with this floriferous forced <em>Primula elatior<\/em> (oxlip \/ hagen\u00f8kleblom) in the kitchen window. Unlike England where oxlip is a rare native plant, it was introduced to Norway in the 1800s from further south in Norway and has commonly escaped from gardens naturalising mainly in my area and further north, right to the very north of Norway. This is the first of the three Primulas to flower here, followed by <em>Primula vulgaris<\/em> (primrose \/ kusymre) and finally <em>Primula veris<\/em> (hagen\u00f8kleblom).<br \/><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30977 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/P1077397.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/P1077397.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/P1077397-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/P1077397-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/P1077397-640x480.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30975 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/P4080706-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/P4080706-scaled.jpg 2560w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/P4080706-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/P4080706-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/P4080706-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/P4080706-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/P4080706-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/P4080706-640x480.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30979 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Primula_elatior.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"414\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Primula_elatior.png 414w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Primula_elatior-274x300.png 274w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 414px) 100vw, 414px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>All 3 species which also commonly hybridise where they grow together, as in my garden, are considered to be edible. I mostly use them in mixed salads, the flowers decorating early spring salads. This is what Cornucopia II says about their edibility:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30978 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Primula_CornucopiaII.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Primula_CornucopiaII.png 512w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Primula_CornucopiaII-300x185.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Another one flowering currently in the window are the forced dandelions which we&#8217;ve been eating for since January most days:<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30976 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/P1077404.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/P1077404.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/P1077404-300x185.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/P1077404-768x474.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/P1077404-640x395.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30981 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/P1077407.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/P1077407.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/P1077407-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/P1077407-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/P1077407-640x480.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-30982\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/P1077405.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"577\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/P1077405.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/P1077405-300x216.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/P1077405-768x554.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/P1077405-640x462.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Easter 2023 with this floriferous forced Primula elatior (oxlip \/ hagen\u00f8kleblom) in the kitchen window. Unlike England where oxlip is a rare native plant, it was introduced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[225,1937],"tags":[925,2330,125,4784,4762,4786,1110,2186,4785,1185,2288,3878],"class_list":["post-30974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edible-flowers","category-forcing","tag-cornucopia-ii","tag-cowslip","tag-dandelions","tag-easter","tag-hagenokleblom","tag-hybrid-primula","tag-lovetann","tag-oxlip","tag-primrose","tag-primula-elatior","tag-primula-veris","tag-primula-vulgaris"],"views":2235,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30974"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30984,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30974\/revisions\/30984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}