Painted lady | Edimentals !

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The Allium garden at the Ringve Botanical Garden (Chicago) in Trondheim contains a collection of old Norwegian onions used for food from all over Norway including Allium fistulosum (Welsh onion), A. x proliferum (Egyptian and Catawissa onions), A. oleraceum, A. vineale, A. ursinum, A. scorodoprasum and A.victorialis (the last four are wild or naturalised species that have been moved into gardens in the past for food and, in the case of ursinum and victorialis are currently being domesticated in a big way!
In addition, a collection of wild species and ornamental cultivars have been planted to demonstrate the diversity of the Allium family!
I’ll be adding pictures to the album below on a regular basis.

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Norsk:

Allium hagen ved Ringve Botaniske Hagen (NTNU) i Trondheim inneholder en samling av gamle norske matløk samlet fra hele Norge i perioden 2008-2019. Dette inkluderte Allium fistulosum (pipeløk), A. x proliferum (luftløk), A. oleraceum, A. vineale, A. ursinum, A. scorodoprasum og A.victorialis (de fem siste er vill- eller naturaliserte arter som har blitt flyttet til hager som matplante før i tiden, og dette er fortsatt gjort når det gjelder ursinum (ramsløk) og victorialis (seiersløk) i økende grad!
I tillegg kan man her se en samling av ville arter og pryvarianter plantet for å demonstrere mangfoldet av Allium-slekten!
Hagen er støttet finansielt av Landbruksdirektoratet, og Genressurssenteret.

The garden outline can be seen in this recent aerial picture (centre towards the right)

Concerning the Norwegian onions, we received 118 tips from the public, 92 were received and 57 of these have been planted (13 species and hybrids). About 90-100 species can be seen here. The garden was cultivated during Autumn 2016, 260 accessions were planted in 2017 and a further 76 in 2018!

The first Allium to flower in 2019 was this species from mountains in China, Allium humile.

270519: Allium chinense planted in the garden!

210519: With the director of the Ringve Botanical Garden, Vibekke Vange in the Allium garden!

11th June 2019: There’s been the biggest invasion of Painted Lady (Tistelsommerfugl) butterflies in Norway ever seen with an estimated 100 million and they are everywhere including mayn in the Ringve Botanical Gardens and they love Alliums to feed on, here on a chive (Allium schoenoprasum)

11th June 2019: Allium schoenoprasum “Pink”

11th June 2019: I’ve started making an accurate map of the Allium garden, plotting in the coordinates of each plant

200619: Stephen Barstow 2 hrs · Edited · 200619: One of the tall chives gressløk) had collapsed in the recent heavy rains!

200619: One of the Allium cernuum (nodding onion / prærieløk) accessions in bud

200619: One of the Norwegian roof onions (Knut Bryn) in bud (Allium fistulosum) – see my book

200619: The earliest Allium cernuum (nodding onion / prærieløk)

200619: Red-tailed bumblebee (steinhumle) were common on several Alliums.

200619: Allium brevistylum (there are two accessions of this in the garden from Utah and Wyoming)

200619: This Japanese Allum victorialis has dark flowers

200619: Red-tailed bumblebee (steinhumle) on chives (gressløk)

200619: Allium fistulosum (welsh onion / pipeløk)

200619: Painted Lady (tistelsommerfugl) on chives (gressløk)

200619: Egyptian / Catawissa onions (luftløk)

190619: Setting off cycling for the Ringve Botanical Garden this week with more onions for the Allium garden!

200619: Setting off cycling for the Ringve Botanical Garden this week with more onions for the Allium garden!

Nothing on these chaps, so-called Onion Johnnies, from Brittany in France, who sold onions from door to door in England up to about the 1960s (I remember them!!) Read more here: http://blog.holidayfrancedirect.co.uk/2013/02/last-of-the-onion-johnnies/

300719: Allium sphaerocephalon (it’s not often I’ve managed to overwinter this one, the round-headed leek); donated by Eirik Lillebøe Wiken

300719: First flowering of not hardy Tulbaghia violacea (Society garlic), indigenous to southern Africa (KwaZulu-Natal and Cape Province). I’m including a few plants within the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allioideae in the Chicago Garden!

300719: I’m a bit late dead-heading Allium fistulosum…now done!

080819: Allium nutans from IPK Gatersleben

080819: Allium denudatum (syn. Allium albidum) from IPK Gatersleben

080819: Allium flavum “Minus” and Allium cyaneum

080819: This is a spectacular Allium which I received from my friend Hristo in Bulgaria. He was sent it from Kazakhstan. It is maybe a hybrid between Allium flavescens and nutans. It has white flowers and masses of satellite (secondary) flowers

230819: Allium tuncelianum (Tunceli garlic or Ovacik garlic) is endemic to the Munzur Valley in Tunceli, in eastern Turkey. It has a garlic odor and taste and is used locally like garlic. It is more closely related to leek than garlic, but is hardier than leek.

060919: Allium carinatum pulchellum (rosenløk) flowers for a long time. There are still a few open flowers at the bottom of the inflorescense

060919: Allium ericetorum is one of the last Alliums to come into flower, often in October in my garden; see alsohttp://www.edimentals.com/blog/?page_id=2584

Garlic bulbils maturing…this is a variety with masses of small bulbils that I call Cledor from Ingrid, who was a forum friend from Sweden, which she gor from Törnvik Frö (http://tornvik.se). I’m not sure if this really is 060919: Cledor as the description on the website (they still sell it) states that it produces many cloves, but mine only produce a few, sometimes only two.

060919: Eristalis rupium (Blank droneflue)?

060919: For completeness, I planted a few Allium cepa, common bulb onion! A white skinned variety called Snowball at the front.

060919: Spring onions / Allium cepa and Allium fistulosum.

300819: A brown hawker, brunlibelle (Aeshna grandis) landed in the garden while I was working!

300819: Red admiral on late flowering Allium spirale from Nordgen (Alnarp)

300819: Collecting and documenting topset onions on 15 or so accessions of Allium x proliferum (luftløk)

300819: There’s a big difference in the resprouting of the Allium x proliferum (luftløk) accession

130919: Seed heads (frøstander) of Allium macranthum

130919: Stephen Barstow 3 mins · 300919: Allium pskemense is a close relation of Allium cepa (bulb onion / kepaløk)…this accession has been grown at Ringve for some years (see http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?page_id=1940 and http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=22827)

130919: Stephen Barstow 3 mins · 300919: Allium pskemense topset onions (right) compared with Allium x proliferum (Egyptian or Walking onions / luftløk)

101019: Allium “Millenium” still going strong

101019: Allium sacculiferum, still in bud and unlikely to open in time before winter!

101019: Allium fistulosum having another go!

101019: Allium tuberosum “Sibbo”, a Swedish heirloom from Erik de Vahl

101019: Allium schoenoprasum and Allium fistulosum

101019: Allium tuberosum with flat-leaved shoots from bulbils!

3 videos of Painted Ladies (Tistelsommerfugl) on Allium schoenoprasum on 11th June 2017

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160819: Allium cernuum x stellatum?

160819: Allium wallichi

After a very cold start to the summer, Malvik has had record warm weather over the last month which has helped the populations of butterflies! They love my edible garden and, in particular, peacock (dagpåfugløy) has been recorded more times than anywhere else in this area, half of the total of 15 observations were made here between 2006-2010. Hoping for the first peacock since then! The favourite plants at the moment are my two Buddleja davidii (sommerfuglbusk, sadly only edible for insects as far as I know), one of which is bigger than ever as I didn’t prune it last winter. In the last few days I’ve noted up to 20 small tortoiseshell (neslesommerfugl), 1 painted lady (tistelsommerfugl), up to 7 red admirals (admiral), 1 dark green fritillary (aglajaperlemorvinge; I think, a first here) and 2 comma butterflies (hvit C).