SAD = 39 new Alliums
In a moment when SAD* was hitting me particularly bad a week or so ago, I seem to have ordered 39 new Alliums :) *Seed Acquisition Disorder
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Fasciated Allium nutans “Lena”
I noticed a fasciated scape on my Allium nutans “Lena”…a plant that featured in my book, found in a vegetable garden in Russia by Swedish author Lena Israelsson…
More planting in the Allium garden
The last 3 days I’ve been documenting which Alliums at the Ringve Botanical Garden collection didn’t make it from last autumns plantings, finding replacements and also collecting many more new accessions! Yesterday was the first of two big planting days and as usual I underestimated the amount of time needed to plant and document and got … Continue reading More planting in the Allium garden
Allium “Chacha”
Allium “Chacha” is a new bulbilliferous selection of common chives (Allium schoenoprasum)… I hadn’t heard of it when I was offered bulbils by a member of KVANN (Norwegian Seed Savers)…it arrived today! See the picture here: https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/125889752055812367/
The Allium (Chicago) garden at Ringve at the end of June 2018
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 … Continue reading The Allium (Chicago) garden at Ringve at the end of June 2018
The Allium garden at Ringve on the last day of May 2018
I spent 3-4 hours this afternoon weeding the new Allium garden at Ringve Botanical Garden in Trondheim! It now seems pretty certain that many plants didn’t make it through the winter, perhaps planted a little too late to establish themselves!
THE ALLIUM GARDEN AT RINGVE #3
I carried out the final day of planting of the new Allium garden at the Ringve (Trondheim) botanical garden this week giving a total of 265 different perennial onions in the ground! Can’t wait to see the results next spring! See also http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=13525 and http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=13910
The Allium Garden at Ringve #2
Just finished two and a half pretty intensive focused days working on the new Ringve (Trondheim) Botanical Garden Allium beds, digging up, cleaning, planting and documenting…..these two beds now contain 188 different perennial onions of 66 species and running out of space for the last 50…. ;) See also http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=13525
Around the world in 80 Alliums
Yesterday, I gave my first talk about my (second) love of onions (alternative title All you wanted to know about Alliums but were afraid to ask!)….fittingly in the nursery with I believe the best selection of Alliums being sold as foodplants in Europe if not the world , my friend Aiah Noack’s Naturplanteskolen just outside … Continue reading Around the world in 80 Alliums
Alliums 28th August 2017
A few more Allium pictures from the garden :)