I used to grow Oxalis triangularis, also known as the False Shamrock for the leaves and flowers. It’s also a perfect edimental house plant here as it likes […]
Climbers / Edimentals / Perennial vegetables / Variegation
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Variegated Habby on Nesodden
A year ago, I reported on variegation on a Hablitzia in my son’s garden on Nesodden near Oslo (see http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=18162). I gave him this plant a few years […]
Edible flowers / Edimentals
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Dandelion time
Dandelion time has come around again! This is the only dandelion field I can see from the house! Is this the most productive field in the area? Post […]
Edible flowers / Edimentals
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Primula veris mutants
Hybrids can also occur in gardens. I’ve several strains in my garden from seed, including “Sunset Shades” and “Red Strain”. I also grow the earlier flowering subspecies macrocalyx […]
Edimentals / Perennial vegetables
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Appalachian Greens
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 […]
Edimentals / Perennial vegetables / Permaculture / Salad / Walk and talk
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Grand Opening of The Edible Garden Permaculture LAND Centre
Grand Opening of The Edible Garden Permaculture LAND Centre (Thanks to Berit Børte, Kjell Hødnebø, Lone Dybdal, Elin Mar, Bell Batta Torheim, Inger Line Skurdal Ødegård and Margaret […]
Edimentals / Onions
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Allium atrosanguineum is back
I thought I’d lost this unusual onion, Allium atrosanguineum, but one flower head appeared again this week and there are two other plants, one of which is being […]
Edimentals / Garden tour
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Edibles in Dunedin Botanics
At long last, an album of pictures of edible plants spotted in the Dunedin Botanic Garden during my late summer visit on 26th March 2015, as part of […]
Edimentals / Garden tour
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Wisley Gardens March 2019
An album of pictures from my visit to RHS Wisley Gardens on 11th March 2019 just outside of London, one of my favourite gardens for edimental spotting which […]
Edimentals / Tubers
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Jack-on
My friend Jack-on (Polymnia edulis) enjoys a bit of company and you can see he’s happy! Post Views: 121
Edible flowers / Edimentals / Foraging / Walk and talk
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Edible plants of the Sintra Natural Park
In the morning of the masterclass on permaveggies on 1st November 2018 organised by the Janas Ecovillage, we visited Jardim da Condessa D’Edla in collaboration with the Sintra […]
Edimentals
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Edimental of the day
Updated complete list of links to my Edimental of the Day tweets on Twitter! 010818 Allium caeruleum (Blue-of-the-Heavens) pic.twitter.com/VhjAxsp9pC 020818 Monarda “Adam” pic.twitter.com/sbsygqHh7m 030818 Korean mint, Agastache rugosa […]
Edimentals / Forest Gardening
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Ligularia hodgsonii
Ligularia hodgsonii is a new edimental I’m trialling in a very shady part of the garden…ornamentally speaking it complements the 4-5 other species of Ligularias I’m growing by […]
Edimentals
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Edimental of the Day on twitter
Here are the first of my edimental of the day plants, both annuals, perennials, shrubs, trees and climbers! Enjoy! 0 010818 Allium caeruleum (Blue-of-the-Heavens) pic.twitter.com/VhjAxsp9pC 1 020818 Monarda […]
Edible flowers / Edimentals / Salad
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15 year record salad ingredients
A few months ago, I found an Excel file with a complete list of ingredients in my 537 plant species (including varieties) unofficial world record salad from 2003. […]
Edible flowers / Edimentals / Salad
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7th August multisalad
A little composition put together last night together with my daughter and artist friend from UK and wwoofer Kristina from Czech…including Allium macranthum (centerpiece), Allium carinatum pulchellum “Album”, […]
Edible flowers / Edimentals
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Chicory flower season
I let chicories self-sow in the garden and after introducing many vegetble cultivars and ornamentals I have a bit of a mix of flower colours and forms! Here […]
Bees / Edible flowers / Edientomental / Edimentals / Root crops / Uncategorized
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Rampions for dinner: one of the best edientomentals!
The most successful of the half dozen Phyteuma species I’ve tried in my garden has been a plant received as Phyteuma nigrum (syn. Phyteuma spicatum ssp nigrum), black […]
Bulbs / Edible flowers / Edimentals
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Oriental and asiatic hybrid lilies
This is an asiatic hybrid lily growing in the garden of the flat I stayed in in Jondal during the Nordic Permaculture Festival! According to wikipedia, asiatic hybrids […]
Edimentals / Perennial vegetables
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Earthquake proof Crambe!
An old stone wall collapsed below the house in the winter on top of one of my Crambe cordifolia (ornamental sea kale / buskstrandkål) plants….well, it bounced back […]
Bulbs / Edible flowers / Edimentals
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Edimentalilies
I’ve been enjoying my edimental lilies this week and eating the flowers, both as salad and in last night’s tempura! More about edible lily bulbs in the following […]
Climbers / Edimentals / Perennial vegetables
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Variegated Hablitzia on Nesodden
I visited my son today on Nesodden (Oslo) and was impressed by how much growth his Hablitzia had put on and then I noticed that one of the […]
Edible flowers / Edimentals
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Beschorneria yuccoides
One of the world’s most spectacular edimentals was in flower at Mount Stewart in Northern Ireland where I was doing an edimentals walk and talk at the weekend! […]
Edimentals / Garden tour
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Edibles in Bergen’s Muséhagen
I spent a couple of hours in Muséhagen (the old botanical garden) in the centre of Bergen before taking the train to Oslo on Sunday and spent the […]