The Allium garden at Ringve has grown well as have the so-called weeds (mostly very young birch trees!). I spent the afternoon weeding and documenting the right hand (easternmost bed)….now known as the New Hampshire bed (I’m told the two beds resemble a map of Vermont and New Hampshire) (As it looks like the garden will be known as Chicago-hagen due to the fact that the native american name Chicago means onion)!!
This is the link to the last album I made from 31st May: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10156051646095860.1073743203.655215859&type=1&l=cbacd0612e
The collection of old chives (gressløk) plants (from gardens around Norway) and various reference cultivars are almost finished flowering….apart from a couple of Japanese / Far East varieties which are now in bud: Allium schoenoprasum ssp sibiricum (from Hokkaido in Japan) and Allium schoenoprasum var. yezomonticola
A sea of birch seedlings and a lone opium poppy!
One of the gardeners had told me that someone had harvested the green tops of shallots growing in the Renessanse-hagen and wondered if they had taken anything from the onion garden. Right enough I found that one plant, Allium x cornutum “Croatia” had been clipped down…this is a plant similar to walking onion / luftløk but with different parent species!
The first yellow flowering onion is out – Allium moly from the mountains of Spain and Southern France with additional populations in Italy, Austria, Czech Republic, Algeria, and Morocco.
Weeding
I thought I’d lost this onion, the old Norwegian chives (gressløk) from the highest altitude, at the mountain farm belonging to Nina Bakken’s family at Dovre (near Hjerkinn). See also the next two pictures!
The moment I’d sniffed out Allium schoenoprasum “Nina Bakken” on Dovre! Picture by Josan McDermott: As she put it – “No rare antique onion can hide from the expert stealth of celebrity plant-hunter”
(As it looks like the garden will be known as Chicago-hagen due to the fact that the native american name Chicago means onion)!!
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