I think it was Nathan Shannon who sent me seed of the white-flowered variant of common sow thistle (Sonchus oleraceus), now blooming for the first time!There are 10+ […]
Beans / Breeding / Edientomental / Edimentals / Seed sAVING
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Broad Bean Mix
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. […]
Book / Edimentals / Garden views
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Alys meets the Modern Monk in the Edible Garden
10 years ago today I had my first celebrity visit, from the UK! On 10th April 2010 I received the following email message entitled Permaveggies:“I am a garden […]
Bees / Edientomental / Edimentals / Insects / Onions
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Red-tailed bumblebee: new species for the garden
Yesterday, I registered red-tailed bee / steinhumle (Bombus lapidarius) for the first time at the community garden (Væres Venner), the first time in this part of Trondheim. This […]
Annuals / Edimentals
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A diversity of garden orach
I’ve grown numerous forms of garden orach (Atriplex hortensis; hagemelde) over the years as they are useful and decorative (edimental) annuals for the summer garden. Even though they […]
Edimentals / Garden tour / Garden views
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A visit from Oslo and Kirkenes
With most Norwegians holidaying in different parts of Norway this year, there are a lot of folks passing Malvik both northwards and southwards and I’ve recently had several […]
Edible flowers / Edimentals / Salad
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Extreme salad man strikes again
The first 100 plant salad for 2020: Post Views: 155
Annuals / Dye Plants / Edible seed / Edimentals / Herbs / House plants / oil seed / wraps
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Red shiso
Perilla frutescens var crispa f. purpurascens (red or purple shiso) is looking good on the window sill in front of my desk! This is an important crop in […]
Edible flowers / Edimentals / Ethnobotany / Onions / Perennial vegetables
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Allium atroviolaceum?: Caucasian Turkish garlic
(Note that there is a comment suggesting that this isn’t atroviolaceum and is probably rotundum, although accessions I’ve received as that species are much lower plants; will check […]
Edientomental / Edimentals / Insects / Pollinators
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Bee beetle on the first Sanguisorba flower
It’s always nice to spot a bee beetle / humlebille (Trichius fasciatus) in the garden. I discovered this one on the first Sanguisorba flower of the year! Post […]
Annuals / Edimentals / House plants
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Devil’s claw as an edible house plant
Update 160121: The single plant produced many (over 20) fruits and masses of seed. I’ve added a few pictures at the bottom. I’ll be offering seed to members […]
Bulbs / Edimentals / Forest Gardening / Perennial vegetables
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Ornithogalum pyramidale
It’s always a nice surprise to discover a plant in flower in the garden that I thought long dead! Yesterday I discovered a plant that I’m pretty sure […]
Edimentals
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Viola canina subsp montana
Another new edible for the Edible Garden is Viola canina subsp. montana is one of the tall violets. Post Views: 124
Biannuals / Edimentals
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Samaritan’s Goatsbeard: new species for The Edible Garden
Samaritan’s Goatsbeard (Tragopogon crocifolius subsp. samaritanii) is currently flowering, a biannual species from Southern Europe (Italian: Barba di becco di Samaritani). and it’s a beauty! In Scandinavia, Tragopogon crocifolius […]
Edimentals / Food / Perennial vegetables
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Hostas, scapes and broccolis
Last night’s greens included all my 16 Hostas, Allium scorodoprasum (sand leek / bendelløk) scapes; broccolis from sea kale (strandkål), ornamental sea kale (Crambe cordifolia) and Turkish rocket […]
Edimentals / Root crops / Tubers
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Rice lily
Rice lily or riceroot (Fritillaria camschatensis) is a great hardy edimental, and exclusive root vegetable, although don’t expect large yields. The small (but many) sweet tasting tubers often […]
Edimentals / Perennial vegetables
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Naturalised Giant Bellflower
No doubt introduced by the previous owners here as an ornamental and despite the fact I spent a lot of time trying to eradicate it from parts of […]
Edimentals / Ferns / Garden tour
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In the gardens at the Gothenburg Botanics in January
I also walked around the outside gardens during my visit to the Gothenburg Botanical Gardens on Saturday 25th January 2020. In the mild weather, there were many people […]
Edimentals / Interview / Podcast
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Podcast on Roots and All
My latest podcast on Roots and All, Hear it here: https://tinyurl.com/whydg34 Mandy Barber and Aaron Parker both get nods…sorry to those I forgot! Post Views: 203
Drying / Edimentals / Perennial vegetables
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Dried Aster Scaber
One of my favourite perennial vegetables and a fantastic edimental is Aster scaber (nowadays Doellengeria scabra), here harvested in spring in my garden: In September, in a farmer’s […]
Drying / Edimentals / Fruit
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Cornelian Cherries and Polish Olives in Trondheim
I’ve long had a Cornelian cherry (Cornus mas) in the garden without a partner. The oldest is maybe 20 years old. I’ve several times tried to propagate more […]
Climbers / Edimentals / Perennial vegetables
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Floriferous Hablitzia
There couldn’t be more flowers on my oldest 17 year old Hablitzia tamnoides (Caucasian spinach / stjernemelde)! Post Views: 154
Edible flowers / Edientomental / Edimentals / Perennial vegetables
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Edimental of the Day is Malva alcea
Malva alcea (greater musk-mallow, cut-leaved mallow, vervain mallow or hollyhock mallow / Norw: rosekattost) is a mallow native to southwestern, central and eastern Europe and southwestern Asia, from Spain north to southern Sweden and east to Russia and Turkey. It is easy to confuse […]
Annuals / Edientomental / Edimentals
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Opium poppy season is here again
My annual vegetable beds are once again aglow with opium poppy (Papaver somniferum) flowers, my favourite annual edimentals. These are my favourite “weeds” that come up year after […]
Edimentals / Food / Salad
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The extreme salad collection
A collection of pictures of my extreme salads from the last 20 years can be seen in the gallery below! 8th July 2019: The first 10! To be […]