English: This is the Norwegian version of the story I published in my book Around the World in 80 plants about a wild onion (Allium oleraceum) that was taken to Iceland and returned almost 1,000 years later). Dette er historien om en viltvoksende løk, som kanskje er utgangspunkt for det engelske ordet garlic, som ble tatt til Island for snart 1000 år siden av en engelsk biskop og kom tilbake til Trøndelag til en annen engelskmann som jobbet med løk! Idag er denne løken å finne i den nye løkhagen på NTNU Ringve Botaniske Hagen i Trondheim ved siden av kanskje samme løk som ikke vandret til Island. Denne historien fortalte jeg om i min bok Around the World in 80 plants (se https://www.edimentals.com/blog/?page_id=30). En norsk artikkel er dessverre ikke lenge tilgjengelig på nettet. Artikkelen som kan leses nedenfor er tatt fra en større intern rapport fra en flerårig prosjekt “Innsamling og kartlegging av gamle matløk” som undertegnede gjennomførte, finansiert av Genressurssenteret.
My new life is as a “visiting onion researcher” at the Ringve Botanical Gardens in Trondheim where I’m developing an Allium garden to be officially opened later in the summer! One of the perks is to have access to collections in other botanical gardens on an exchange basis. I visited the Oslo Botanical Gardens last week (June 2019) and I was given a spade and given permission to take a few of whatever onions I wanted! Not having accession data available I took a few of most onions I found. On the way out of the gardens with bags of onions and rucksack with various Allium victorialis sticking out of the top, a couple approached me and the man says “Det var en god fangst!” (That’s a good catch!) ;)
I now have the accession data and am sorting out which ones are interesting enough to keep!
I’ve also promised to correct some of the mistakes as several were clearly wrongly labelled!
12th June: Added pictures of a few more edibles!
On the way out of the gardens with bags of onions and rucksack with various Allium victorialis sticking out of the top, a couple approached me and the man says “Det var en god fangst!” (That’s a good catch!!) ;)
On the way out of the gardens with bags of onions and rucksack with various Allium victorialis sticking out of the top, a couple approached me and the man says “Det var en god fangst!” (That’s a good catch!!) ;)
One of the roof onions (Allium fistulosum) found on old turf roofs in the Gudbrandsdalen valley, originally collected by Vibekke Vange, now leader of the Ringve Botanical Gardens!
New large beds displaying some Norwegian onions: Allium fistulosum (Welsh onion / pipeløk)
New large beds displaying some Norwegian onions: Allium ursinum ( ramsons / ramsløk)
New large beds displaying some Norwegian onions: Allium victorialis ( victory onion / seiersløk)
Wild onions found around Oslo on the “Oslorygg” garden – Allium vineale and Allium ursinum (both from the island Malmøya in the Oslo Fjord)
Allium vineale
One of several accessions of Allium victorialis
This one only had an accession number, but looks like Allium carolinianum (from the Himalayas)
Not Allium macranthum…this also looks like Allium victorialis (from Bhutan)
Not Allium macranthum…this also looks like Allium victorialis (from Bhutan)
One of two accessions labelled Allium ochotense (synonymous with Allium victorialis subsp. platyphyllum)
Allium nutans (originally from Hortus Botanicus Austro-Sibiricus in Barnaul, which is in the Altai Krai, Russia)
Allium nutans (originally from Hortus Botanicus Austro-Sibiricus in Barnaul, which is in the Altai Krai, Russia)
Another victorialis
This looks like Allium karataviense
In the Systematic garden are two nice specimens of Allium victorialis and Allium fistulosum growing next to each other …. The fistulosum features in my book (Fig. 421)
Allium victorialis in the systematic garden
This fistulosum in the systematic garden features in my book (Fig. 421)
Allium lusitanicum (previously Allium senescens ssp. montanum) collected as seed at one of the few Norwegian sites! This is the only Norwegian wild species accession missing in the Ringve garden!
Tøyen’s sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa) is now in flower
Nice combination of ground elder (skvallerkål) and ostrich fern (strutseving)e
Nice combination of ground elder (skvallerkål) and ostrich fern (strutseving)e
Newly planted Gunnera tinctoria
Yucca glauca with flower buds. Is this the time that they are eaten (in salads)?
Yucca glauca with flower buds. Is this the time that they are eaten (in salads)?
Tøyen has a nice specimen of Sakhalin-udo (Aralia cordata var. sachalinensis)
Tøyen has a nice collection of Triliums:Trillium lutea
Trillium lutea
Trillium sessile
Cornus canadensis
Variagated Camassia quamash
Camassia
Nice collection of Hosta
Hosta and Hemerocallis
Aralia cordata (udo / staudearalia) in the systmatic garden
Hablitzia with (behind) a large specimen of Chenopodium bonus-henricus
I’ve never seen sprouting bulbils on hardnecked garlic before!
I’ve never seen sprouting bulbils on hardnecked garlic before!
Allium flavum
Allium hookeri var muliense
Allium cyaneum
Allium “Hammer” (Allium cernuum x stellatum?) This plant was found at Hammer Planteskole (nursery) in Stjørdal….I selected this one from Aliium cernuum sales plants as it looked different from the normal flowered plants
Allium “Hammer” (Allium cernuum x stellatum?) This plant was found at Hammer Planteskole (nursery) in Stjørdal….I selected this one from Aliium cernuum sales plants as it looked different from the normal flowered plants
A second Allium wallichii
This broad-leaved selection came from a seednmix of Allium senescens x nutans from Mark McDonough
Norrlands Onion (Norrlandløk) – Allium nutans x angulosum was found in gardens in northern Sweden in the 1970s (one of the 80 in my book)
An article in Norwegian about my first experiences with ostrich fern (strutseving). From the magazine of the Norwegian Useful Plants Society, Våre Nyttevekster (Our Useful Plants). Link to download below:
