As I wrote in the first post of nötjakten in Medelpad, we had the really came into the Västernorrland to check the status of the various Loiko-walnut trees, which is considered the hardiest trees of real walnut (Juglans regia) in the world. In the end, we looked only at Ove Johansson's two trees, but we found out […]
"I'm not working with nature, I'm working against nature. ", says Ove me after breakfast. It is roughly the opposite of what we forest horticulturists believe about ourselves, so I ask him develop and he explains: "Nature strives course in a different direction than I. I would not have removed all trees and many birch trees […]
Expectations were from the beginning quite high when I and three other plants interested Stjärnsundsbor would go to Medelpad in search of the elusive Loiko-walnut. We would visit Ove Johansson, who in the early 2000s somehow managed to get 100 hardy walnut seedlings from Belarus to Sweden. We knew that he was also interested in […]
All plant orders is the long awaited, but none has been as exciting as this year's delivery from Westergaard's nursery in Denmark. The nursery specializes in nut trees and other edibles from shrubs and trees. After a visit there in autumn 2013 we ordered a number of exciting plants to Stjärnsund. Lars Westergaard who runs the nursery has high hopes for hybridhasslar […]
