A few years ago I wrote an enthusiastic article about the different mountain ash hybrids and sötrönnarna I knew then. On paper, they are of course very exciting. Rowan hybrids with its diverse genetics, some of which are triple junctions between rowan, apples and pears, as well as the fact that most of those said to be designed by the legendary Russian plant parents successor […]
As you know, I have a fondness for the many interesting hybrids as rowan and its relatives can form with other genera within the family Rosaceae. A favorite among these is the plant called Shipova and that is a hybrid between whitebeam (Sorbus aria) and pears (Pyrus communis) or snöpäron (Pyrus nivalis) with the botanical name x […]
I have long been fascinated by the variety of rowan hybrids that sometimes you can encounter in both literature and reality. Sorbus (Sorbus) comprises many very resistant members that are easily hybridize with other species in the family Amygdaloideae which is part of the family Rosaceae (Rosaceae). Especially in the former Soviet Union, it has […]
Havtorn (Hippophae rhamnoides) is one of my absolute favorite crops in forest garden. It fits perfectly in the still relatively young forest garden, because the love lots of sun, fix nitrogen from the air and thus improves soil productivity. In addition, it produces the fantastic fruit, which is the exception rather than the rule for kvävefixerare in our climate. In the Swedish countryside […]
In early August, I participated in the Nordic permakulturfestivalen in Finland and took the opportunity to visit the arboretum Mustila, that might have been one of Scandinavia's most interesting collections of trees. Arboretum located outside the small town of Elimäki and is on the border between the cultivation zone II and III according to the Finnish system, corresponding to zone IV-V of the […]
With us tend bärtry (Lonicera caerulea var. edulis) be the absolute earliest berries produced in the forest garden. As the earliest we have reaped the first berries by the end of May,, but normally ripen fruits in June. Today I tasted the first of this year and will mature as in the next […]
Every spring, I think I now have collected the most edible going to grow in our climate, and every autumn, When I start looking through nurseries catalogs or talking to other plant geeks will be the brand new plants on my wish list. This year, it added many strange plants get […]
I do not usually able to keep me from taking every trip as an opportunity to collect plant material. Oddly enough was a trip to Jämtland in December just such an occasion. Of an old participants from Östersund I was told that there were viable specimen of the American chestnut (American chestnut) as far up as […]
A week ago we had the first night frost in the forest garden and it usually means the end of the fruit- and bärsäsongen. The only fruit that lingers now is black and red chokeberry (Aronia melanocarpa och A. arbutifolia). Especially black chokeberry is said to be an incredibly healthy fruit, thanks to their dark color. Before the first frost could […]
It may be difficult to imagine how even the forest garden will evolve over time. To get a better sense of how different plants behave and how big they can get, I usually take the opportunity to visit the botanical gardens when I am traveling. Most of these gardens have quite a few trees […]
