I spent a couple of hours in Muséhagen (the old botanical garden) in the centre of Bergen before taking the train to Oslo on Sunday and spent the time edimentals spotting amongst all the sun-worshippers, a strange experience in a town best known for its rain…
Sweet cicely (spansk kjørvel) is a “noxious weed ” (svartelistet), but also one of the best edible introductions to our flora, only invasive as we eat too little of it ;)
Hostas
My favourite formal part of Muséhagen is this bed with Hostas and Gunnera tinctoria from South America, both in my book Around the World in 80 plants!
One of Norway’s tallest Ginkgo trees, but alone it will have a hard job producing ginkgo nuts!
A splendid clump of Allium victorialis (victory onion / seiersløk)
A splendid clump of Allium victorialis (victory onion / seiersløk) towering over Egyptian onion to the left
Camassia cusickii
Camassia cusickii
A large clump of hybrid Trillium
Hemerocallis dumortieri is an early flowering species
A hybrid day lily to the left with much smaller Hemerocallis dumortieri to the right
Marshmallow (legestokkrose)
Asparagus, asparges
Gaultheria shallon
Rudbeckia (a vegetable used by native americans)
Tropaeolum polyphyllum
Darmera peltata
Hosta planted with conifers
An area with Myrrhis odorata, sweet cicely
Invasive claytonia sibirica
Hostas
Hostas
Hostas
Hostas
Pignut / jordnøtt was also growing wild in the garden
Ramsons (ramsløk) with ostrich fern (strutseving)
Ramsons (ramsløk)
Hostas
Cardamine bulbifera
Cardamine bulbifera bulbils
Butcher’s broom (Ruscus)
Patrinia are used in Japan
Allium flavum
Roseroot & rosenrot
Rosa hugonis?
Sorbus alnifolia
Gunnera tinctoria
Typha angustifolia
Hosta with carp
Gunnera
Another large clump of Allium victorialis
Alliums
Alliums
Viola
Vuola and Fig
Museum building with tall ginkgo to right
Perennial vegetables, Edimentals (plants that are edible and ornamental) and other goings on in The Edible Garden