Blog posts
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The meaning of Latin plant names
Handy reference for finding out what scientific plant names mean, via The Seed Site
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State of Nature report 2019
Links to the State of Nature report 2019 from the British Trust for Ornithology @_BTO. Because the mainstream media really doesn’t seem that interested.
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Inter-disciplinary forest garden
A forest garden is a niche that falls between “traditional” gardening disciplines
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One screenshot to change the way you think about native plants
Do you know how many bugs the Common Oak supports? This screenshot from the ‘Database of Insects and their Food Plants’ took my breath away
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If we don’t change direction, we’ll end up where we’re going
I gave a talk to Llangwm Gardening Club about The Smaller Forest Garden. I digressed onto Native Plants and the Climate Emergency. Oops.
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My favourite place
I like being in forest gardens & living places. You can give it a name (biophilia) if you like. But I just like being there.
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Overwhelmed by Vegetables
I’m in transition to perennial vegetables but whatever the crop, it is easy to be overwhelmed by vegetables!
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Overview of my forest garden design process
A bird’s eye view of my approach to designing a forest garden, in the form of a slideshow and screencast
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Bruce Slark Forest Garden Talk
Bruce Slark has been growing a forest garden for nigh on 20 years and his talk at Moylgrove Hall was full of tasty nuggets
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More or less politics
Time to redirect my politically charged radical sentiments elsewhere methinks