This is a nice new edimental Allium, although its identity is still being discussed by the experts! I received seed of this a few years ago from my […]
Bulbs / Edimentals
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Edimental-cacomitls
The best tasting vegetable of the rhizosphere I’ve had the pleasure of eating is Cacomitl, one of the lost crops of the Aztecs, also known as Tigridia (pavonia) […]
Edimentals / Fruit
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Edimental apples
Apple trees in full bloom are a wonderful sight, aren’t they? I’ve seldom seen so many flowers on them as this and the rowans are also flowering well […]
Edible flowers / Edimentals / Perennials
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Fast Slow Edimental Lunch!!
15 minutes from garden to table must qualify as fast food, but unlike its namesake this is highly nutritious and with a few flowers becomes gourmet edimental food… […]
Edible flowers / Edimentals / Perennials / Salad
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Grennessminde and the fantasy salad beds
On 13th August I’ll be doing an edible wander at Grennessminde, the organic nursery just outside of Copenhagen. A large number of edible flowers are also produced here […]
Edimentals / Nursery / Perennials
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Naturplanteskolen looking good!
I’ve had a couple of meetings in Copenhagen over the last couple of days and I visited Naturplanteskolen again. The nursery was looking really good and plants had […]
Edible flowers / Edimentals
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Cowslip cultivars
Here are all 3 Primula veris (cowslip) forms to be found in my garden!! Post Views: 154
Edimentals
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Wendy Pillar on Edimentals
A nice blog entry from Wendy Pillar on the subject of Edimentals : http://www.wendypillar.co.uk/blog16.html Post Views: 185
Climbers / Edimentals
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Bay Hablitzia
I have two large pot grown bay trees (Laurus nobilis) which are moved into my porch for the winter. In the summer, they are outside quite near to […]
Dandelions / Edible flowers / Edimentals
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Pink dandelion: a new edimentaraxacum!
Looking forward to growing this dandelion….seed arrived today from China! http://www.plantarium.ru/d…/plants/3/376/207376_1271364a.jpg Post Views: 281
Birds / Edimentals / Seed
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Goldfinches on chicory
I’ve only ever seen goldfinches feeding on burdock seeds (Arctium) in the garden before. This morning I saw them both on nettle seed heads and then on these unharvested […]
Berries / Edimentals
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The Strawberry-Raspberry
Rubus illecebrosus Eng: Strawberry-Raspberry Norw: Jordbærhindbær This late maturing berry is rather bland tasting until it is absolutely ripe! The size of the flowers and the berries puts […]
Edimentals / Perennials / Talks
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Pictures from my talk for Sumarhúsið og garðurinn in Reykjavik on 5th September 2015
Pictures from my talk for Sumarhúsið og garðurinn (Summerhouse and Garden magazine) in Reykjavik on 5th September 2015….. During the talk it was decided that edimentals should be known […]
Edimentals / Forest Gardening / Perennials
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Japanese woodlanders
I love these weird and wonderful hard to get woodlanders from Japan and elsewhere in the Far East, many of which are edible. Here are three that […]
Annuals / Biannuals / Edible flowers / Edimentals
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Broad beans and chicory
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Climbers / Edimentals / Perennials
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Hablitzia seen from the kitchen window after heavy rain
Flowering Hablitzia tamnoides / Caucasian spinach / stjernemelde seen from the kitchen window… Post Views: 122
Edible flowers / Edimentals / Perennials
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White clustered bellflower
Campanula glomerata “Alba” / Clustered Bellflower / Toppklokke is a beautiful edimental Post Views: 207
Edimentals / Wild Edibles
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Wild food for 100 days so far
My friend Rita Amundsen in Oslo is soon one third of the way through her project vill365 (wild365) project in which she will every day for a year post […]
Edimentals / Onions / Perennials
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Allium cernuum “Dark Scape”
There are many great edimental forms of Allium cernuum / Nodding onion or Chicago onion. I call this one “Dark Scape” because of the dark flower shoot / […]
Edimentals / Perennials
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My first Korean Aster flower
7 years ago on 27th July 2008 and the first flower on Aster scaber / Korean Aster opened in the garden :) Post Views: […]
Climbers / Edimentals / Forest Gardening / Perennials
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Hablitzia anno 2001!
I just discovered that Hablitzia was one of the ingredients in my first world record salad in 2001…. I had received both cuttings and seeds from Mona Hellberg […]
Edimentals / Perennials / Trees
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Hablitzia overwhelming an olive tree
This Hablitzia tamnoides / Caucasian spinach / stjernemelde self-sowed in this olive tree pot and is now intent on taking over :) Post Views: 253
Biannuals / Edimentals / Herbs
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In search of the purple caraway
I’m looking for an even more purple form of caraway. This is the deepest coloured one I’ve seen a picture of so far, found in Troms. Post Views: […]
Edimentals / Perennials / Uncategorized
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Kamikaze Horseradish?
Is my variegated horseradish in the process of committing suicide? No green in any of the leaves… Post Views: 290
Edimentals / Perennials
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Resonating with asparagus in Oslo…..
Just before the start of my first course for MAJOBO on Tuesday, I decided to change my first picture to something of local […]