Don’t come any closer indicates this tree bumblebee (trehumle) by lifting a leg! Known apparently as Disturbance Leg-lift Response (DLR)! The plant is Ligularia japonica. Post Views: 112
Birds
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Robin joined me for breakfast
No, not my son Robin (he arrives tomorrow).Robins (rødstrupe) have over the years I’ve lived here changed from a shy forest bird to the tame inquisitive bird I […]
Food / Salad
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50 and 20 year celebrations
To celebrate our good friends’ Jurgen Wegter and Ingvild Haga’s 50th birthdays together with Meg’s 50-year anniversary of arriving in Europe for the first time (in Southampton near […]
Onions / Perennial vegetables
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Meanwhile in the Onion Garden Chicago
I don’t often post here about my other two gardens, the community garden at Væres Venner and the Onion Garden Chicago at the Ringve Botanical Garden in Trondheim. The […]
Food / Perennial vegetables
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Hablitzia, Laportea and Nettle Gnocchi
What to do with the very last Sarpo Mira potatoes from the cellar? Last night’s dinner was Gnocchi made with Hablitzia leaf, Laportea canadensis (Canadian wood nettle tops) […]
Annuals / Salad / Seed pods
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A diversity of rat’s tails
I remember years ago ordering seed of a special heirloom heritage radish “rat’s tail” (Raphanus sativus var caudatus) through the Heritage Seed Library in the UK. I remember […]