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Onions
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Allium dispersal
Allium dispersal?Well, this week was the week when vegetatively propagated onions from the Allium Garden Chicago in Trondheim were dispersed to members of the Norwegian Seed Savers organisation […]
Edimentals / Onions
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Allium ulleungense: a new vigorous edimental
In 2019, a very interesting paper was published giving a very good case for splitting the geographically widespread Allium victorialis species complex, at the same time describing a […]
Edientomental / Edimentals / Onions / Pollinators
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Keeled garlic, a useful winter Allium and edimental in summer
There are Allium species that can be harvested year round in the garden, notably nodding onion / Norw:prærieløk (Allium cernuum) which I’ve blogged about before. In autumn, new […]
Edible flowers / Edimentals / Ethnobotany / Onions / Perennial vegetables
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Allium atroviolaceum?: Caucasian Turkish garlic
(Note that there is a comment suggesting that this isn’t atroviolaceum and is probably rotundum, although accessions I’ve received as that species are much lower plants; will check […]
Garden tour / Onions
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The Allium garden at Ringve
19th June 2020: Video update from the Allium (Chicago) garden at the NTNU Ringve Botanical Gardens in Trondheim. The heat wave has brought many species into flower and […]
Butterflies and moths / Onions
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Diamonds on Allium
I hope diamond back moths (kålmøll) haven’t taken a liking to onions ;)
Onions / Sowing
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Pricking out Alliums
It was warm enough to sit outside yesterday and “prick out” (i.e., transplant into bigger pots) all the spring onions and leeks I’d sown a week ago inside. […]
Bees
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Bumblebees love Allium pskemense
The bumblebees love Allium pskemense, the largest onion in my garden, probably the closest perennial onion tastewise to the common bulb onion Allium cepa and it can be very […]
Onions
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Oslo Allium Raid
My new life is as a “visiting onion researcher” at the Ringve Botanical Gardens in Trondheim where I’m developing an Allium garden to be officially opened later in […]
Onions
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The Allium garden at Ringve
(Norsk under) 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 […]
Edimentals / Onions
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Allium atrosanguineum is back
I thought I’d lost this unusual onion, Allium atrosanguineum, but one flower head appeared again this week and there are two other plants, one of which is being […]
Onions
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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
Fasciation / Onions
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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…
Onions
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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 […]
Onions
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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 […]
Onions
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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 […]
Onions
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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 […]
Onions
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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
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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 […]
Drying / Edible flowers / Edimentals / Nursery / Onions / Perennial vegetables / Talks
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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 […]
Onions
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The Allium garden at Ringve
A little secret I’ve had since last autumn (apart from a select few) when I was told that I would get my very own Allium bed at the […]