Forest Garden News — Gallery

Forest Garden News — Gallery

November 17, 2020

Forest Garden Livestream

Wednesday 18th November, 10am GMT

Forest Garden Gallery

When I started out, I wish I’d had a decent photograph of an Autumn Olive to hand, as I planted my windbreak hedge far too close to the path! Four metres is more than you think…

This Wednesday’s livestream, I’m introducing the ForestGardenGallery.uk and how you can help out with assembling an extensive and useful photo gallery of forest garden plants.

I’ve been collaborating on a spreadsheet of all the plants in Martin Crawford’s Creating a Forest Garden, using data from Plants For A Future website.

There are about 435 plants, and the idea is to find 8 different photos of each plant (leaf, fruit, seedling etc). That’s 3,480 photos to find 😲!!! So, I’m looking to build up a network of volunteers for this rather mammoth task 🐘.

Screenshot of image gallery

Livestream

Zoom Q&A

  • Zoom link

  • Time: 10.30—11:00am

  • Zoom password: painting

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On my second favourite gardening podcast is a fantastic episode with Robert Kourik, from way back when in November 2019 (remember those pre-Covid days?). It’s so good, I’ve listened to it twice. He talks about the hidden world of roots and how they’re overlooked. Tree roots extend further than you think, feeding roots often point upwards, and a “donut mulch” is a more efficient way to distribute nutrients. Fascinating.

Screenshot of online course

I must confess, my paid garden design work has taken precedence over my extra walkthroughs for my online forest garden course. All I can say is, well, bills!

It is tricky to get over that “income hump”, so that I can afford to spend more time on new material. Possibly I need to do the thing I swore I’d never do, namely write articles for free in exchange for promotion 🤔

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