Just a random selection of pictures from the garden from the last few days!
130518: Added a few more
160518: Added some Trilliums now at their best
150518: Trillium grandiflorum with Lilium martagon, Uvularia grandiflora…and at top right of centre a self-seeded Hablitzia
150518: Trillium grandiflorum
150518: Trillium erectum
150518: Trillium erectum
150518: Trillium erectum, Trillium grandiflorum and Primula denticulata
Caltha leptosepala (White marsh marigold) flowers earlier than the yellow-flowered native marsh marigold here (Caltha palustris). Both have been eaten in the past, but as Sam Thayer notes in the “Forager’s Harvest”, the taste of Caltha palustris “never becomes truly good” despite lengthy repeated boiling and throwing out the water (he prefers the flower buds, sometimes also pickled to the leaves). The one time I tried this, I didn’t want to give it a second go. Being in the buttercup family, it contains the poisonous protanemonin, destroyed by cooking. Neither I nor Thayer has tried Caltha leptosepala , but maybe it’s milder as Harrington notes in his Edible Native Plants of the Rocky Mountains that he ate the young leaves and buds raw or cooked….maybe I’ll give it a go next year!
Caltha leptosepala (White marsh marigold)
Caltha leptosepala (White marsh marigold)
Allium humile is a Chinese alpine species….I dug a few bulbs for the Allium garden at the botanics in Trondheim
Sad to find the loft room littered with dead bumble bees….I’d left the window open and they don’t seem to have found their way out again…a few were still alive and I gave them sugar water…
I dug up my oldest good king henry (stolt henrik) plants in a bed I need to clear of ground elder that was spreading faster than I could eat it!
I dug up my oldest good king henry (stolt henrik) plants in a bed I need to clear of ground elder that was spreading faster than I could eat it!
Bumble bee on Trillium grandiflorum
Claytonia virginica is looking great and slowly spreading
The local variety of ostrich fern in the garden has already come too far to eat, here in a sea of lesser celandine flowers
The local variety of ostrich fern has already come too far to eat, here in a sea of lesser celandine flowers with buckets over my udo plants!
This ostrich fern cultivar Jumbo is always significantly later!
A swarm of flies to the right of the top of this spruce in the garden!
Rhododendron mucronulatum v. taguettii (Manchurian Azalea; kara-genkai-tsutsuji); Cornucopia II notes: The flowers are eaten raw, made into dumplings and wineor used for decorating Korean rice cakes; I had a taste…nothing special, mild tasting..
Rhododendron mucronulatum v. taguettii (Manchurian Azalea; kara-genkai-tsutsuji); Cornucopia II notes: The flowers are eaten raw, made into dumplings and wineor used for decorating Korean rice cakes; I had a taste…nothing special, mild tasting..
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