Probably the best display of Alliums I’ve seen, a special project this year at the Utrecht Botanical Garden, showing off the diversity in the onion family! Quite a […]
Edimentals / Garden tour
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Utrecht Edimentals
Utrecht in the Netherlands has one of the great botanical gadens in Europe alongside Royal Botanical Gardens in Edinburgh, Gothenburg and Kew Gardens! I had a stopover for […]
Edimentals / Salad
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58 Salad
Tonight’s salad is dedicated to all 58 year olds…for that is the number of ingredients! :) Post Views: 106
Edimentals / Garden tour
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Edimental spotting in the Oxford Botanical Garden
I finished my last day of work as an oceanographer by visiting head office in Wallingford, UK. We were finished by lunchtime, so I visited the University of […]
Edimentals / Perennial vegetables
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Tradescantia ohiensis
Attractive young and edible leaves of Tradescantia ohiensis… Post Views: 180
Climbers / Edimentals / Perennial vegetables
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Prestigious prize to Ronny Staquet for his work with Hablitzia!
Congratulations to my friend Ronny Staquet who recently won a prestigious prize for his efforts in popularising Hablitzia at the Fête des Plantes de Printemps at Château de […]
Edimentals / Forest Gardening / Perennial vegetables
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A sour woodland edimental
Another great edimental for the woodland garden is this form of common wood sorrel (gjøksyre)….received as Oxalis acetosella “Rosea” although I wouldn’t describe the colour as pink…sadly, it […]
Edimentals / Root crops / Tubers
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Rice lily
The smallest of the tubers in yesterday’s dinner (see http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=9577) was so-called rice lily or riceroot (Fritillaria camschatensis), small (but many) sweet tasting tubers that often lie right […]
Edible flowers / Edimentals / Forest Gardening / Wild Edibles
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Around the world with Erythroniums
As an introduction to two soon to be published blog posts concerning visits to two nature reserves in Japan during the mass flowering of katakuri (Erythronium japonicum) in […]
Edimentals / Foraging / Leafy greens / Perennial vegetables / Root crops
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Wild Japanese Katakuri #1
My trip to Japan in early spring 2016 was perfectly timed to witness one of the wonders of the Japanese spring, the mass flowering of katakuri (Erythronium japonicum; Japanese: […]
Edible flowers / Edimentals / Onions
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A bunch of nodding edimental onions
Two pictures from the end of June 2014 of possibly my favourite onion, the nodding onion (Allium cernuum) from North America in some of its myriad of forms…beautiful […]
Book / Edimentals
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Tor Smaaland’s “Your Dream Garden” from 2004
The first time my garden was featured in a book was in former Norwegian TV gardener and gardener for the King, Tor Smaaland’s 2004 book “Din drømmehage”. The […]
Edible flowers / Edimentals / Fibre plant
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Nepal Exhibition at RBGE
When I visited the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh (RBGE) in September 2016 I was pleased to find an exhibition of portraits of Nepalese plants, many of which […]
Edible flowers / Edimentals
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Needle and Thread salad!
Yucca filamentosa is at the top of my list of plants that I’ve grown and never expected would survive one winter let alone over 10 and finally flower, […]
Biannuals / Brassica / Edimentals / oil seed / Seed
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The Edible Japanese Bluebell!
When I visited Japan in early spring 2016, I noticed a violet/purple flower growing as an ornamental in some gardens and also escaped as a weed. I finally […]
Edible flowers / Edimentals / Salad
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Terje Visnes’ salad photo on show!
Last week, I blogged about the opening of an exhibition in Trondheim by a photographer Terje Visnes who must have taken thousands of pictures for the local newspaper […]
Annuals / Edimentals / Perennials
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Garden pictures 24th-25th September 2016
A collection of pictures from last weekend in the garden! Post Views: 275
Edimentals / Garden tour
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Edimentals in Edinburgh’s Royal Botanical Gardens
On Monday 12th September 2016 I visited the botanical gardens in Edinburgh, and I wandered around the collections looking for edimentals (edible ornamentals), many of which are also […]
Edible flowers / Edimentals / Onions / Tubers
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Nepalese feast in Malvik
A couple of weeks ago, I finally got round to inviting botanist Kamal Acharya and his wife Sharmila Phuyal to see my garden!! They were amazed to see […]
Edimentals / Foraging / Forest Gardening / Tempura
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Shidoke
On my trip to Japan in spring 2016, I found shidoke (シドケ / Parasenecio delphiniifolia syn. Cacalia delphiniifolia) leaves on sale in a supermarket in Ueda, Japan. This […]
Edible flowers / Edimentals / Food / Perennial vegetables
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“Have you eaten a flower”
Some pictures from the Grennessminde (Copenhagen) “Have you eaten a flower” event on Saturday 13th August 2016. Thanks for inviting me :) Post Views: 175
Edimentals / Onions
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Jimmu
This is what my new friends from Nepal called Allium wallichii, also known as Jimbu, Dunda, Yang, Himalayan onion, Nepal onion or Sherpa onion! They had actually never […]
Bulbs / Edimentals / Fasciation
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Fasciated Martagon Lily
From Wikipedia : “Fasciation (pronounced /ˌfæʃiˈeɪʃən/, from the Latin root meaning “band” or “stripe”), also known as cresting, is a relatively rare condition of abnormal growth in vascular […]
Edimentals / Perennial vegetable shoots / Perennial vegetables
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Korean Aster on Edimentals
Two years ago, I posted this picture of Aster scaber, commonly wild foraged in Korea and nowadays cultivated for markets in Korea and exported dried to Koreans in […]
Annuals / Biannuals / Edimentals / Perennials
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Weekend garden pictures
A diverse selection of pictures from last weekend in the Edible Garden :) Post Views: 168