Thanks to Elena Katarina for showing me Parkens Grøde at short notice on Sunday evening before I took the train home! The other gardener Marcia Kyle and a newly arrived Swedish guy, Marcus Ivarsson also joined us!
I was very impressed….in a similar way to the first time I visited Holma Skogsträdgård in Sweden….
Parkens Grøde is a permaculture inspired urban farming project in Oslo with many interesting elements including forest garden, hugel beds, insect friendly plants and habitat.
See http://www.xn--parkensgrde-ogb.no/ for more details..
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The first plant I saw was this Fourberry (Ribes aureum / odoratum) full of fruit. I hadn’t seen this in fruit in Norway before (mine are still too young). There’s been a breeding program in Russia for some years and some fantastic looking varieties have been developed with fruit in different colours. Use Google translate, for example, on the following page: http://sadsemena.ru/index.php/zolotistaya-smorodina.html
The name Fourberry (some are clusters of 4) comes from a Swiss breeding programme.
Goji…only one fruit so far
Aronia
Showing the swales
Walking the swales
Marshmallow
Decaisnea
A Russian blackberry
Marcia Kyle is the other main gardener, here with the Angelica (kvann)
See a separate post about the swallowtail butterfly larvae (they hadn’t seen the adult butterfly)
Jostaberry
Asparagus grows well
Schisandra
A hugel bed!
Chorogi on the hugel bed
Malva moschata…could be harvested a lot more :)
A dwarf cherry from Finland
A walnut!
This kale had perennialised!
Daylilies
Insect habitat
There’s a large old apple tree in a neighbouring garden…Elena said they hoped to take cuttings for grafting
Salsify (havrerot)
Goldfinches (stillits) eat the seeds, even before the pods open!
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