Today, Campanula, as a pretty (and edible plant pot.
Tag Archives: Campanula
365 Frankendael day 330
Edible Campanula, creeping around the edge of someone’s home. A very successful and attractive weed in Amsterdam. It has pretty blue flowers later in the year.
365 Frankendael day 314
Not edible violets but edible Campanula, beneath a bike rack.
Grape hyacinths, just in flower.
Edible flowers (and later fruit) of Japonica / Japanese Quince.
Wormwood – the first time I’ve seen it outside of my street!
Viola, edible and medicinal just like their wild sisters the Violets.
365 Frankendael day 280
Today a perky frost tolerant Chickweed,
A Hedge mustard (Sisymbrium officinale) plant (I think, I haven’t smelled or tasted this one yet), in a crack beneath a house entrance,
And another plant I’m seeing lots of at present, Campanula. It has pretty blue flowers in the summer and winter hardy foliage which is seen as edible (if harvested from an appropriate location). It grows very well in tiny cracks, here in Amsterdam. I’ll be encouraging it’s use in the River of Herbs project.
In contast, this Winter Jasmine looks very washed out by the recent cold snap.
Urban Herbology 