Daily Archives: June 6, 2016

Perennials, Salad

A few weekend plants and salads!

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Just a few weekend shots from the garden and kitchen during a hard working gardening weekend with my helper, Kia from Fosen Folkehøgskole

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Lunch – red tongue salad ;) with Allium zebdanense, Viola canadensis, Barbarea vulgaris, Claytonia sibirica and Viola pubescens (yellow) flowers
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My Clintonia borealis or bluebead lily is now forming a nice clump….next spring I will test eat the young shoots!
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Flowering Rheum moorcroftianum, Moorcroft’s rhubarb grows at 4,500 to 5,300m in China and other mountain ranges from China to Tajikistan including Nepal
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Molopospermum peloponnesiacum has a disappointingly unpleasant taste….
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Allium victorialis “Anja” is one of my Lofoten victory onions / seiersløk, seemingly snaking its way through the garden….


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Talks, walks

Coming home to talk to some groovy growers

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I grew up in Eastleigh only a few miles from Southampton, so it’s a bit special for me to be invited to talk to some groovy growers in that town on Wednesday 15th June 2016!

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