I also walked around the outside gardens during my visit to the Gothenburg Botanical Gardens on Saturday 25th January 2020. In the mild weather, there were many people out walking and running in the garden. Here’s an album of pictures of edibles and other interesting plants and a video of the large Actinidia arguta in the Asiatic woodland garden.
Hotell Krypinn: a great insect hotel 
Cornus mas flower buds swelling 
Hemerocallis shoots 
Hemerocallis fulva var littorea 
Ficaria verna (Lesser celandine / vårkål) 
Yucca filamentosa “Color Guard” is a great edimental! (Edible flowers, shoots and fruits) 
Magnolia stellata “Centennial” (the buds may be edible like other Magnolias) 
Flowering Hamamelis (witch hazel) 
Fertile fronds of ostrich fern (Matteuccia struthiopteris) 
Crambe cordifolia buds 
Eleutherococcus setchuenensis: A family / genus with many edible plants, but no ethnobotanical information on this one 
Eleutherococcus nodiflorus: A family / genus with many edible plants, the root is recorded stewed with chicken in China 
Serratula coronata var insularis (the young shoots of this species is recorded eaten in China, but the bitterness is first boiled / soaked away) 
Claytonia parviflora from North America (I haven’t tried this species) 
Smilax rotundifolia (edible shoots) 
Cardamine californica (all parts are edible) 
January flowering Rhododendron dauricum 
Zanthoxylum piperitum (Japanese pepper, sansho) 
Acanthopanax koreanum: A family / genus with many edible plants, but no ethnobotanical information on this one 
Lonicera caerulea var kamtschatica already in leaf 
Polypodium vulgare (sisselrot, sweet fern) 
The world famous Gothenburg Rock Garden 
Garden art on a dead oak tree which is also beneficial for insects by UK artist Stuart Ian Frost 
Garden art on a dead oak tree which is also beneficial for insects by UK artist Stuart Ian Frost 
Cyclamen (leaves of some species are eaten) 
I also visited the greenhouses for the first time, but that will have to be a separate post
Gymnospermium albertii 
Gymnospermium albertii 
Colchicum atticum 
Colchicum doerfleri 
Colchicum triphyllum 
Iris reticulata 
Colchcum atticum 
Iris danfordiae 
Crocus siehanus 
Crocus sieberi 
Hyacibnthus transcaspicus 
Corydalis ledebouriana 
Iris reticulata “Sunshine”C 
Colchicum mirzoevae
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