Daffodil Garlic zing, zing, zing

#BloomScrolling #wildlife #gardening #WildlifeGardening #ForestGarden #FoodForest

There is a glorious rose, 'Gertrude Jekyll', growing up the back of the pergola. Behind it is a line of Meadowsweet, to the left is an Aronia bush.

#gardening #GardenDesign #ForestGarden #NativePlants #WildlifeGarden #WildFlowers

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And at the heart of the garden is this chonking great pergola! Again, made by David Carter from The Coppice Plot, it is *so darned sturdy*. He set the main uprights on padstones. This pergola is going to last longer the new build house in the background, and that’s the truth.

The pergola looks down the wooded valley, and it really is a magical place.

#gardening #GardenDesign #ForestGarden #NativePlants #WildlifeGarden #WildFlowers

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Also, near this point I experimented with using crushed concrete as a growing medium, following John Little’s lead (see https://www.tiktok.com/@grassroofco )

The idea is, low nutrients favour plants other than grass, and the alkaline conditions favour alkaline loving plants, like Creeping Thyme.

Works an absolute treat, I wish I had more crushed concrete 😉

#gardening #GardenDesign #ForestGarden #NativePlants #WildlifeGarden #WildFlowers

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Back on the ground, looking back at the house, you can see how the beds are filling up. Sweet Woodruff has turned out to be a champion ground cover in the conditions (the inner curved bed is very wet in the winter, dries out in the summer), and there’s Silverweed too, under the 'Harlow Carr' rose I think.

#gardening #GardenDesign #ForestGarden #NativePlants #WildlifeGarden #WildFlowers

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I have taken some photos of the Clifftop garden, kind of a wildlife-ornamental-#ForestGarden, lots of edibles in the mix. plenty of #NativePlants & #UK #WildFlowers

Here’s a thread of the pics.

First up, David Hunter’s really rather lovely rustic Larch fencing sets off the garden against the lush wooded valley. The rose is 'Harlow Carr' from David Austen. Geranium’s client’s own

David’s website https://thecoppiceplot.com/

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A #ForestGarden is a #WildlifeGarden, to find out more, have a look at my free 10 minute online class

https://store.natureworks.org.uk/l/primer

I gave a talk on #Gardening in a #Climate #Crisis on Saturday 9th, at the #ClimateMatters event organised by #Cardigan/#Aberteifi #ExtinctionRebellion.

I talk about life, #ForestGarden, importance of #NativePlants in a #ForestGarden, and hope.

You can see the slides here: https://www.natureworks.org.uk/talks/crisis/

I am an ornamental, #Wildlife & #ForestGarden designer.

Yes, you *can* have all three!

#gardening #GardenDesign

https://www.natureworks.org.uk/portfolio/

A Nuthatch chips in, a Buzzard mewls, a Buzzard comes to sit in the dying Ash tree near to me. I scare it off with my worst Buzzard impersonation ever. A dragonfly scouts the perimeter, hunting. A Hornet flies through Bramble, bumping, hunting also. Thousands of grasshoppers, I mean, thousands. It's warm, humid, hazy, the weather will break.

#wildlife #gardening #WildlifeGardening #ForestGarden #FoodForest

A pre-production taster class (only 10 minutes) giving the low-down on #NativePlants and why you should grow them in your #ForestGarden

TL;DW #ecosystem

https://store.natureworks.org.uk/l/native

My full #ForestGarden #FoodForest #gardening online course, over 3½ hours of concentrated content. 50% off with this link, only £24.99

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I have a bi-weeklyish #ForestGarden #FoodForest newsletter, with jolly photos mostly of plants and insects, plus the latest Hot Links on #WildlifeGardening, #NativePlants and edibles
Subscribe yerself here:
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I made a #CAD for #GardenDesign course, a right proper romp through setting up free CAD software and the basic functions needed for creating a CAD garden plan.

I’m a #ForestGarden designer by trade but this is applicable to all garden design

50% off with this link, only £9.99

https://store.natureworks.org.uk/l/cad/FiftyFifty

Curious about #ForestGarden and #FoodForest? I made a *free* primer class, going through the basics

https://store.natureworks.org.uk/l/primer

#Wildlife #ForestGarden #GardenDesign is my thing. I am actively looking for #GardenDesign work.

I am based in the UK and my focus is on using #NativePlants, edible crops & #PerennialVeg in ornamental settings, weaving wildlife habitat into the very fabric of the garden. Remote design a speciality.

Thank you 🙏 🌳

#FediHire

Doing some maintenance in my #forestgarden over the weekend and was so pleased about the progress in the #herbaceous and #shrub layer that I decided to take this wide angled shot. Really benefited from two months' of cooler wetter conditions. Only two years with anything of significance growing ...

These layers (and others not in shot) work together to protect & fertilise the soil, attract beneficial insects, and resist extreme weather.

#permaculture #gardening #resilience #uk #organic

Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare) flowers about to bloom

#NativePlants #WildFlowers #BloomScrolling #wildlife #gardening #WildlifeGardening #ForestGarden #FoodForest

Field Thistle (Cirsium arvense) in a Kent wild flower patch. I'd like to find out more about UK native thistles, Stephen Barstow has information about Cirsium tuberosum as an edible.

#NativePlants #WildFlowers #BloomScrolling #wildlife #gardening #WildlifeGardening #ForestGarden #FoodForest

Monkey Puzzle Tree (Araucaria araucana) seed heads, on a fairly small tree (4-5m?) in a Kentish coastal village

#ForestGarden #FoodForest #gardening