A bit of a glut of fruit in my garden. I’ve therefore been drying raspberries and currants :) At the bottom are the dried fruit, also bilberries and saskatoons!
The red variety is a tasty disease resistent variety we found escaped from the old Malvik railway station garden below the house. There are two yellow varieties, one just received as gulbringebær (yellow raspberry), the lighter coloured one that is almost white when unripe is called “White Russian”The red variety is a tasty disease resistent variety we found escaped from the old Malvik railway station garden below the house. There are two yellow varieties, one just received as gulbringebær (yellow raspberry), the lighter coloured one that is almost white when unripe is called “White Russian”
Redcurrants / ripsRedcurrants / rips
Dried bilberries / blåbær
Dried saskatoon berries (Amelanchier) / søtmispel
Dried red raspberries / bringebær
Dried redcurrants /rips
Dried yellow raspberries….White Russian are the lighter coloured berries
I haven’t shown many pictures from my fantastic tour of New Zealand in March / April 2015. I was transplanting some plants of New Zealand Celery at the weekend, the seed of which I collected on rocks at Porpoise Bay in Southland! A good excuse then to show a few pictures from Porpoise Bay :)
New Zealand Celery ready to plant in my garden!
Waves from the Southern Ocean…
Salicornia australis /Glasswort / salturt
Salicornia australis /Glasswort / salturt
Salicornia australis /Glasswort / salturt
New Zealand Celery
New Zealand Celery
New Zealand Celery
The bay is home to endemic Hector’s Dolphins and several people were swimming with them..
Beach spinach? Tetragonia implexicoma? A relation of New Zealand Spinach
Beach spinach? Tetragonia implexicoma? A relation of New Zealand Spinach
Gentiana saxosa likes it damp and salty
Gentiana saxosa likes it damp and salty
Gentiana saxosa likes it damp and salty
Black or variable oystercatchers were shot for food up until 1922 when they were protected Different colour morphs (black, intermediate and pied) are found.
