Those that have read my book and follow my blog will know how much I love the stories that follow edible plants around the world and discovering those […]
Edientomental / Edimentals / Magazine article
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Edimentals and Perennial Veg in the RHS The Garden magazine
I have some great news to share! My word edimentals, “invented” some 17 years ago to describe those amazing plants that are both edible and ornamental – has […]
Edientomental / Edimentals
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Asteraceae: valuable autumn flowering edientomentals!
When giving talks I like to renew myself and talk about something different each time. For my talk in Copenhagen at the Future Heirloom event last weekend I […]
Edimentals / Garden tour
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PEAK PERENNIAL VEG TIME AT RHS WISLEY
A series of pictures taken of edible plants that I spotted in the “ornamental collections” at RHS Wisley Gardens on 11th April 2024. Admittedly, some will be obscure […]
Dandelions / Edimentals / Perennial vegetables
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Dandelions in pink, white and yellow
16th May 2024: Dandelions in white, pink and (self-sowed) yellow in the Asian part of the World Garden at the Væres Venner Community Garden in Trondheim. I planted […]
Biennial / Edimentals
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Two new salsify relatives for the Edible Garden!
There are two new salsify/havrerot relatives flowering in the garden! Presenting:Tragopogon coloratus (first 3 pictures) ranges in the mountains of Turkey to IranTragopogon balcanicus (Balkan goatsbeard) (last 3 […]
Article / Edimentals
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EDIMENTALS REACH MAINSTREAM HORTICULTURE
My attention was drawn today to two articles in which my word Edimentals featured (made up in the late 2000s):EDIMENTALS AT CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW “Edimental plants that are […]
Edimentals / Perennial vegetables
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Megacarpaea delavayi
This is one of the most exclusive vegetables and finest edimentals out there, Megacarpaea delavayi (Brassicaceae), a plant found in the high mountains of southwest China at high […]
Edible flowers / Edimentals
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First 2023 Edimental Flowers
Despite the fact that the soil is frozen solid apart from the top couple of cms, I was surprised to discover the year’s first flowers in the garden: 1. […]
Edible flowers / Edimentals / Root crops / Salad
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“Over the top” Flowery Whopper Carrot Salad
I was going to post an album of pictures showing off all the late flowers in the garden this record-breaking mild autumn still without any frost, but as […]
Edimentals / Perennial vegetables / Pollinators
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Flowering Aster scaber
September is the month when several Asteraceae are in flower including one of my favourite perennial vegetables and edimentals Aster scaber (yes, I know it’s officially Doellingeria scabra) […]
Edientomental / Edimentals / Food / Pollinators
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Sweet Gigas stalks
Somebody asked me a few days ago if one could eat Angelica gigas (Korean Angelica) as you can Angelica archangelica (see my book Around the World in 80 […]
Edimentals / Onions / Perennial vegetables
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Chiugok, Small Bird’s Garlic, a hardy Himalayan edimental
Like Sherpa onion or Nepalese onion Allium wallichii, which features in my book Around the World in 80 plants, chiugok (small bird’s garlic) as Allium macrantum is known […]
Edimentals / Onions
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Allium ulleungense: a new vigorous edimental
In 2019, a very interesting paper was published giving a very good case for splitting the geographically widespread Allium victorialis species complex, at the same time describing a […]
Edientomental / Edimentals / Onions / Pollinators
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Keeled garlic, a useful winter Allium and edimental in summer
There are Allium species that can be harvested year round in the garden, notably nodding onion / Norw:prærieløk (Allium cernuum) which I’ve blogged about before. In autumn, new […]
Beans / Edientomental / Edimentals
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Broad Bean Diversity contributes to Resilience
Broad beans (favas / bondebønner) will easily cross with other varieties that are growing nearby. In order to keep a variety pure, you need to isolate them physically. […]
Dandelions / Edible flowers / Edientomental / Edimentals
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Swirly Late Dandelion
“WHY IS IT SWIRLY WHEN IT’S LATE?” (MMA, 2020)Probably the last dandelion to flower in the edible garden in 2020! The temperature didn’t drop below +12C last night, […]
Edientomental / Edimentals / Perennial vegetables / Root crops
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Scorzonera harvest
This is the harvest of 6 varieties of Scorzonera at our community garden (Væres Venner) last week two years after I sowed seed (I was surprised by an […]
Edientomental / Edimentals / Tubers
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Queen Anne’s Thistle: a multi-purpose ediavientomental*
Two years ago I accidentally dug up one of my Queen Anne’s Thistles (Cirsium canum) and I discovered the tubers were quite like the tuberous thistle (Cirsium tuberosum). […]
Annuals / Biannuals / Edible flowers / Edimentals / Perennials
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Indian summer flowers
There were unusually many plants still flowering in the garden in October this year as we experienced a bit of an Indian summer. We’ve now had our first […]
Botanical Garden / Edimentals / Medicinal plants / Talks
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Edimentals and other useful plants in the Atlanta Botanical Garden
A year ago I was scheduled to give the Alston lecture at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens. Before the lecture, my host Cornelia Cho showed me round the botanical […]
Edimentals / Food / Forest Gardening / Perennial vegetables / Root crops
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Nettle-leaved bellflower
Nettle-leaved bellflower (Campanula trachelium) has a more southwesterly distribution in Europe than my favourite giant bellflower C. latifolia and replaces the latter species in the south of England, […]
Climbers / Edimentals / Food / Fungi / Legumes
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Runner Bean harvest
As I wrote earlier, it looks like we may have a glut of runner beans (Phaseolus coccineus) this year, the first time for many years. Runner beans are […]
Beans / Edimentals
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Edimental Runner Beans
My Dad (95) has always grown Runner Beans, so I have them in my blood. Moving to Norway, I was surprised to find that they were mostly grown […]
Edimentals / Root crops
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Edimental Cacomitl Flowering Time
Currently flowering in the Edible Garden are these beautiful Tigridias! Read more about my tastiest root crop here: https://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=5470 Post Views: 179