Today’s veg! Names below the pictures (mostly top shoots and scapes).Plants:
Heracleum flower shoots (cow parsley / bjørnekjeks)
Urtica dioica (stinging nettle / brennesle)
Cryptotaenia japonica “Atropurpurea” (purple mitsuba)
Allium fistulosum (Welsh onion / pipeløk)
Myrrhis odorata (sweet cicely / spansk kjørvel)
Campanula trachelium (nettle-leaved bellflower / nesleklokke)
Campanula latifolia (giant bellflower / storklokke)
Diplotaxis tenuifolia (perennial rocket / flerårig rucola)
Hosta (2 varieties)
Allium wallichii (Sherpa onion / Sherpaløk); spring shoots
Hemerocallis dumortieri (flower buds)
Hemerocallis lilioasphodelus (flower buds)
Tragopogon pratensis (Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon / geitskjegg)
Monthly Archives: June 2025
Seasonal leafy greens
For a quick Mediterranean diet inspired scrambled egg, aka scrambled greens, these were the diversity of perennial greens I could quickly forage in my garden in about 5 minutes (names at the bottom):
Plus these St. George’s Mushrooms (vårfagerhatt) which are still available:
…and the scrambled greens (fast slow food!):
The 22 greens:
1. 3 different Hostas
2. Heracleum sibiricum (Siberian hogweed; sibirbjørnekjeks); flowering shoots
3. Heracleum maximum (cow parsnip); flowering shoots
4. Brassica oleracea (perennial kale; flerårige kål); broccolis
5. Lepidium latifolium (dittander; strandkarse); top shoots
6. Rumex acetosa “Abundance” (non-flowering sorrel; engsyre)
7. Allium scorodoprasum (sand leek; bendelløk)
8. Campanula latifolia (giant bellflower; storklokke); top shoots
9. Campanula trachelium (nettle-leaved bellflower; nesleklokke); top shoots
10. Campanula rapunculoides (creeping bellflower; ugressklokke); top shoots
11. Urtica kiovensis; top shoots
12. Urtica dioica (stinging nettle; brennesle); top shoots
13. Aster komena; top shoots
14. Oenanthe javanica (seri)
15. Bunias orientalis (Turkish rocket; russekål); broccolis
16. Allium nutans
17. Diplotaxis tenuifolia (perennial rocket; flerårig rucola)
18. Allium ochotense (asiatic victory onion; asiatisk seiersløk)
19. Phyteuma nigra (black rampion; svartvadderot)
20. Malva alcea (hollyhock mallow; rosekattost)
Edimental Apples
1st June 2025: The view is beautified this week by the amazing floriferousness of my two Aroma apple trees. Every year I say I’ve never seen so many flowers so I’ll say it again: “I’ve never seen so many flowers” 😉