Blog posts
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Creating a forest garden plan with a satellite background image
As part of my online forest garden course, I’ve been looking at how to use a screenshot of a satellite photo as the basis of a forest garden plan. If you’re comfortable with computers, the process is relatively straightforward.
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Pretty forest garden pictures
Despite my ambivalence toward aesthetics, a pretty picture can connect a wildlife forest garden with a wider audience
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Recording Online Course
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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!