{"id":31309,"date":"2023-06-30T10:27:06","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T08:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=31309"},"modified":"2023-06-30T11:35:58","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T09:35:58","slug":"rampions-for-the-hungry-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=31309","title":{"rendered":"Rampions for the hungry gap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The rampions (vadderot in Norwegian, <em>Phyteuma<\/em> in Latin) has been naturalizing in my garden but so far keeping to the cultivated beds. I needed to dig up a few this week as it was outcompeting some other plants I wanted to keep. I cooked the roots and they were delicious and almost fibre-free and used in a salad. Along with other plants in the <em>Campanulaceae<\/em> this is a very useful root crop for the root hungry gap! And just look at the bumble bees swarming over the flower tops, always the most popular plant for the white-tailed bumblebees (jordhumler), one of the most useful plants to grow, both tasty (I use also spring leaves and flower buds), nice to look at and a pollinator friendly, ticking all 3 boxes required to categorise it as an edi-ento-mental!<br \/>Thr film shows bumble bees on a white-flowered patch of <em>Phyteuma spicatum <\/em>(spiked rampion)<em>.<br \/><\/em>See also these posts about Phyteuma:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=21018\">https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=21018<\/a> (an article I wrote on the ethnobotany of Phyteuma \u201cThe perennial rampions: Shade tolerant edientomentals\u201d)<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=18624\">https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=18624<\/a> (Rampions for dinner)<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=11910\">https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=11910<\/a> (Rapunsel)<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 790px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-31309-1\" width=\"790\" height=\"444\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Bumblebees-on-Phyteuma.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Bumblebees-on-Phyteuma.mp4\">http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Bumblebees-on-Phyteuma.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31313\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/P1088192.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"786\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/P1088192.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/P1088192-153x300.jpg 153w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31314\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/P1088181.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1043\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/P1088181.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/P1088181-230x300.jpg 230w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/P1088181-785x1024.jpg 785w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/P1088181-768x1001.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/P1088181-640x834.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31312\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/P6271696.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"934\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/P6271696.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/P6271696-257x300.jpg 257w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/P6271696-768x897.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/P6271696-640x747.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31310\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/P6281760.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"622\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/P6281760.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/P6281760-300x233.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/P6281760-768x597.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/P6281760-640x498.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rampions (vadderot in Norwegian, Phyteuma in Latin) has been naturalizing in my garden but so far keeping to the cultivated beds. 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