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Category Archives: forest garden development
The ‘Garden Room’ border
In permaculture edges are regarded as valuable spaces, having the properties of the two areas they border. Most of my growing spaces could be regarded as edges, but in particular those round the house. All the way round the sides … Continue reading
Thinking about strategies
That is to say, thinking about what strategies the plants are using in the garden and how I can appropriately respond. Yesterday I was tidying up the edge of the lawn working my way along the ‘long border’. As I … Continue reading
My favourite flowers – for me, for bees and for lots of other lovely insects
I may have many other ‘favourite’ plants beside these, but these three are if you like, my favourite of favourites for being utterly lovely, attracting bees and many, many other insects and they need as many as we can possibly … Continue reading
Posted in Borderland Garden, Flowers, forest garden development, Relationship with nature
Tagged angelica, bees, carrot flowers, fennel, insects, parsley, sweet cicely
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Forest gardens are natural systems
From the outset a forest garden is designed as a natural system. We provide the physical structure – various edible trees, climbers, shrubs, herbaceous perennials and some annuals – to make the best use of the physical space and ensure … Continue reading
Review of spring polyculture patch
This bed was started in the spring of 2014. Originally I just needed somewhere to transplant a number of perennial vegetables from my first bed in this garden (below) which was about to be covered over with an extension to … Continue reading
Review of ‘The Long Border’
This review of the bed I call ‘The Long Border’ is the second of a number of reviews I am undertaking to assess how the garden is changing and developing. My previous post on ‘The Triangle Bed’ gives further details … Continue reading
The ‘Triangle Bed’
This is the first of a number of reviews I am undertaking this year. In previous years I have always made a note of the time spent working in the garden and the amount of produce I have harvested as … Continue reading
Ivy – nature’s larder
Years ago when I began to get to grips with the garden where we previously lived there was a mass of ivy growing up a fence post. The post was completely swamped by the ivy and it had made what I … Continue reading
Plants on the move
I don’t do much in the way of interfering in my garden and as a result plants can move about in unplanned ways that often make lovely combinations. Some are vegetables, some herbs and others are flowers, but they all … Continue reading
Biomass
I wanted a lot of growth this year, mostly for biomass to eventually decompose into humus to enrich the very stony and clay soil in my long bed. On 6th June the cardoon which is at the centre of the … Continue reading
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