The first pink dandelion emerged today, always a thrill. This one is about 11 years old now and hasn’t sowed itself much…I always leave dandeliond to flower on […]
Bees / Edimentals / Perennial vegetables
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Early May in Malvik
Just a random selection of pictures from the garden from the last few days! 130518: Added a few more 160518: Added some Trilliums now at their best Post […]
Edimentals
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Edimentals.com reaches 1,000 posts!!
I’ve just noticed that in the 3-4 years since I started this Edimentals web site / blog I’ve now (this week) reached 1,000 posts! Below is a screen […]
Edimentals / Garden tour
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Baroniet Rosendal
Barony Rosendal (Baroniet Rosendal) is a historic estate and manor house on the Hardangerfjord going back to the 1650s. As part of Perennialen III, on our way to […]
Biannuals / Edimentals / Food / Perennials
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Cicoria Fantastica!
I love chicories, a huge diversity of vegetable and wild forms, some perennial, hearting types, dandelion like types, various colour forms often like this one splashed with colour, […]
Edimentals / Garden tour
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Governor’s House Garden in Victoria BC
Continuing with another garden I visited in Victoria BC, Canada! My host Solara Goldwynn took me on a quick visit to the Government House Garden (from 1911) on […]
Edimentals / Perennial vegetables
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EdimAsters
There are many Asters that are foraged and cultivated in the Far East. This includes Aster scaber (Korean Aster) which is one of the 80 in my book […]
Botanical Garden / Edimentals / Garden tour
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Walk and talk at the Horticulture Centre of the Pacific
So much has happened this year that I haven’t had time to blog about several places I’ve visited this year….with a bit more time now I’m returning to […]
Edimentals
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Incredible Edimentals
I was invited to the opening of a new edimental bed at Incredible Edible Todmorden (West Yorkshire) in September, but sadly couldn’t make it :( It was designed […]
Drying / Edible flowers / Edimentals / Nursery / Onions / Perennial vegetables / Talks
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Around the world in 80 Alliums
Yesterday, I gave my first talk about my (second) love of onions (alternative title All you wanted to know about Alliums but were afraid to ask!)….fittingly in the […]
Annuals / Edimentals
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Poppy “weeds”
Added a few more overview pictures of my vegetable beds intertwined with poppies! No way are these weeds….so the other so-called weeds are just plants doing their job […]
Edimentals / Onions / Perennial vegetables
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Recent Alliums in the garden; August 2017
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Edible flowers / Edimentals / Food / Perennial vegetables / Polyculture / Salad
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Extreme salad film
On 19th May 2017, filmakers Ane Mari Aakernes and Berit Børte of Grow UP City filmed me in the garden collecting ingredients for an extreme salad, made with […]
Edimentals / Malvik / Perennial vegetables
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Edimentals in the garden; early August 2017
Here’s the first batch of Edimentals pictures from the garden this week :) More to come! 030817: More added 040817: More added 050817: …and even more added! Post […]
Bees / Edimentals
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Bees and other pollinators on edimentals
I’ve been observing edimentals liked by the bees over the last week…and the winners are the following genera: Allium, Cirsium, Papaver, Trifolium, Dictamnus, Knautia, Campanula, Codonopsis and Aquilegia […]
Bees / Edimentals / Onions
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Nodding onion season
I love my nodding onions (Allium cernuum) as you can read in my book and the diversity of forms increases as each year passes, both as I introduce […]
Edible flowers / Edimentals / Perennial vegetables
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Scorzonera in full flower
Scorzonera hispanica in full flower at the moment!! The flowers are good in salads… Post Views: 88
Butterflies and moths / Edimentals
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Ligularia japonica and the Admiral
Ligularia japonica flowering for the first time in the garden and an Admiral checked it out :) Eaten in Japan, I haven’t tried it yet… Post Views: 164
Edible flowers / Edimentals / Salad
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Filmed extreme salad!
This weekend, I have a film crew in the garden (more later) and a multi-species salad was of course on the agenda. We made this last night and […]
Edible flowers / Edimentals / Onions
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Allium bouquet
I collected this bouquet of Alliums in the garden today :) Post Views: 207
Edimentals / House plants / Root crops
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Tarua
Many years ago, I visited a Polynesian market in New Zealand and bought some tubers that were called Tarua in the South Pacific Islands…similar but different (and larger) […]
Edimentals
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Edimentals hits the Irish Times and Hampden Court Flower Show
Great article on edimentals in the Irish Times with my friend and edimentalist, Orlaith Murphy! https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/homes-and-property/gardens/petal-power-on-the-plate-eating-your-garden-flowers-1.3140874 ….and forest gardening and edimentals hits the Hampden Court Flower Show in […]
Edible flowers / Edimentals / Salad
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Training my granddaughter
3 years ago in July 2014…. Post Views: 109
Edible flowers / Edimentals / Shrub
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Red is the rose
A real beauty is Rosa moyesii from 2700-3800 m in the mountains of Sichuan and Yunnan in China and loving sea-level in Malvik! The petals are deliciously edimental […]