I’d sent a few bulbs of twisted-leaf garlic (Allium obliquum) to members of Norwegian Seed Savers’ (KVANN) guild for Alliums and had a few left overover, so I fried them up for lunch and ate them with cheese on toast. A delicious sweetish taste after heating in olive oil. The onions are also a good size! This was one of the 80 in my book Around the World in 80 plants!
On 2nd May 2016 I finally got to visit Camilla Plum and Fuglebjerggaard. Camilla is one of Scandinavia’s best known authors and broadcasters on edible gardening and cooking. It was such a beautiful day that the formal talk was abandoned in favour of an edible tour of the organic nursery and farm lead by myself and Camilla. A great crowd of knowledgeable folk, some of whom had travelled quite a long way including one couple from Norway! Thanks for inviting me Camilla!! A great place and many must-have plants :)
Camilla in front of a large bed of emerging Ostrich Ferns which were obviously thriving in this open location as shoots were popping up in the grass around the bed!
Wool mulch
Perennial kales
One of the 80 in my book is Allium obliquum, twistedleaf garlic from Siberia! I’d never seen it growing on this scale before.
This form of Allium obliquum had beautiful purple stems and was also on sale on the nursery.
Nursery
Edible perennials
What was happening here? Camilla had asked staff to go down into this swampy pit to collect rhizomes and young shoots of a plant known in North America as the Supermarket of the swamps…
Harvesting salad ingredients :)
Large selection of chilis!
Large selection of chilis!
Yellow flowered Allium moly is a great edible onion for partiual shade in the forest garden! Not often you see this one on sale, although supermarket chain Lidl were selling bulbs this autumn!
Hop clones after Danish breeder Øyvind Winge, now made available in the nursery. I remember seeing these in the hop collection at Årslev…
DAHLIAS!
Hop-Asparagus!
Perennial kales
…and Lathyrus tuberosus
Scorzonera
Tulbaghia or Society Garlic from South Africa
Wonderful lunch with ostrich fern, fried dandelion flower buds with salt and a lovely salad with tulip petals!
Mushroom plant, Rungia klossii from Papua New Guinea is a novel salad plant
Perennial vegetables, Edimentals (plants that are edible and ornamental) and other goings on in The Edible Garden
