A posey of edible flowers:
Primula denticulata
Primula elatior (oxlip / hagenøkleblom)
Primula vulgaris hybrid (primrose / kusymre)
Claytonia virginica (spring beauty)
Arabis alpina (Alpine Rock Cress / Fjellskrinneblom)
Arabis caucasica (Wall Rock Cress / Hageskrinneblom)
Allium paradoxum (Few-flowered leek)
Tag Archives: Claytonia virginica
Spring beauty time in the garden!
My spring beauties are flowering in the garden, appearing a little before wood anemones (hvitveis).
The one I grow is Claytonia virginica and last summer I found this monster tuber:
(see http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=18443)
I still haven’t got round to eating the tubers (Euell Gibbons was a fan!), but I regularly eat the spring leaves and flowers in mixed salads. I would love also to try other tuberous species like Claytonia caroliniana and C. tuberosa but have never seen a source :-(
More about spring beauties in Green Deane’s article here: http://www.eattheweeds.com/spring-beauty
Monster spring beauty tuber!
I was transplanting some Allium canadense bulbs today and disturbed this large spring beauty (Claytonia virginica) tuber only just below the surface! I’ve tried growing this species from different sources and in different parts of the garden, but it’s only in this shady place has it grown well, sourced from a woman in Marathon, Wisconsin in 2004! It has been spreading slowly in recent years and is totally hardy! So this tuber could have taken 14 years growing to this size! Must have a taste this autumn!
Fast Slow Edimental Lunch!!
15 minutes from garden to table must qualify as fast food, but unlike its namesake this is highly nutritious and with a few flowers becomes gourmet edimental food…
The greens were boiled and then stir fried quickly in olive oil with chili and garlic.