English text at the bottom! Jeg har opp gjennom årene prøvd å dyrke over 6000 spiselige planter i Malvik like øst for Trondheim. Dette har vært inspirert av […]
Garden tour / Wild Edibles
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The VanDusen Botanical Gardens in Vancouver BC
After visiting the UBC botanical garden on 4th April 2018, I bussed across town to Vancouver’s better known more formal VanDusen botanical garden, although it’s a younger garden […]
Forest Gardening / Fruit / Nut trees / walks / Wild Edibles
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Perennialen III: Alvastien Telste – from fjord to shieling
Documentation of yet another amazing day during last week’s Perennialen III in Hardanger!! Pictures taken on a fantastic 6-7 hour round trip from Eirik Lillebøe Wiken and Hege […]
walks / weeds / Wild Edibles
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On the rocks
Some pictures taken on the beach and rocks below the house while being filmed yesterday harvesting seaweed! Post Views: 89
Birds / walks / Wild Edibles
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Vikhammer plants and birds
Pictures of plants and birds taken on 15th May 2017 on a walk along the beach from Vikhammerløkka to Vikhammer. Oystercatcher and nest Common sandpiper Common sandpiper Common […]
Wild Edibles / wild flowers
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Fawn lilies and Camas in Victoria
My first day in Victoria and Vancouver Island, BC was a mixed one. As this was probably my only chance I decided to go to the Butchart Gardens, […]
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 […]
Wild Edibles / wild flowers
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Katakuri at Mt. Iimoriyama
This post documents my visit with Aiah Noack of Naturplanteskolen in Denmark to the historical town of Asuke in Aichi Prefecture near to Toyota, where we’d spent the […]
Onions / Perennial vegetables / Wild Edibles
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More seed for stratifying
An early Xmas present from Alexander Naumenko! Thanks! Several new very interesting Alliums, Taraxacum lilacinum (lilac flowered dandelion…hope they will germinate!), Hyssopus tianschanicus, Tragopogon capitatus, Angelica brevicaulis and […]
walks / Wild Edibles / wild flowers
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Danish walk down the Homla canyon
On the 2nd day of the Malvik permaveggies course, we walked the Homlastien (path along the mighty Homla river) from the waterfall down to the station at Hommelvik! […]
Perennial vegetables / Wild Edibles
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Persian Cornflower
There are several knapweeds (Centaurea spp.) that have been used as wild vegetables in the Mediterranean countries. I haven’t yet found and evidence of this beauty (Centaurea dealbata […]
walks / Wild Edibles / wild flowers
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Danish invasion of Vennafjellet
On Sunday of the Danish Malvik permaveggies course, we drove to near the top of the closest mountain from home to see the views and the rich flora: […]
alpine plants / Wild Edibles / wild flowers
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Vennafjellet: 3rd July 2016
A few pictures from a late evening visit to the nearest real mountain to home, Vennafjellet with my garden helper, Daina Binde! More pictures from a visit last […]
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 […]
Perennials / Wild Edibles
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Siberian Hogweed en masse
When Heracleum sibiricum (siberian hiogweed / sibirbjørnekjeks) is in flower, you get a good impression of how much free food there is on the streets of Trondheim :) […]
Onions / Ornamentals / Perennials / Wild Edibles
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Allium victorialis diversity
Brynhild Mørkved has over the years collected forms of Allium victorialis from over it’s range – the Alps, Caucasus, Japan and the Kola peninsula in North West Russia. […]
Wild Edibles
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Wild365
VILL365 (Wild365) – Wild Food each day for 1 year and so beautiful too! Rita Amundsen: WOWWWW!!! http://www.solskinnet.no/nytt/sesongens-godt-vilt-og-vakker Post Views: 212