Forest Garden Wales

Podcast appearance

I was a guest on Sarah Wilson’s Roots and All podcast, unsurprisingly talking about forest gardens. As it’s my favourite gardening podcast, it is quite the honour and mildly terrifying, appearing alongside a glittering roster of gardening luminaries. I hope I’ve conveyed the potential of forest gardening but I still haven’t plucked up the courage to listen to myself! Please do subscribe to the podcast (Apple or Android), each & every episode worth listening to 🙂Episode 46: Introduction to Forest Gardening with Jake Rayson

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Forest garden articles galore

I have been hard at work converting my old blog posts into proper reference material, with short and bookmarkable names like

forestgarden.wales/definition

To save you even more brain ache and finger typing, I’ve created an index of all the articles fit for public consumption:

forestgarden.wales/articles/

Greenfield garden design

I finished a design for a client in Poland, 1 acre site with new build Passivhaus and outbuildings. Hardest part was figuring out the paths, which flow from how the garden functions in relation to the house. Hi-res image.

QCAD is brilliant

I also designed a small forest garden in Northants, great fun 😀 using QCAD, awesome Free Software. I have a free mini-course if you’re interested in learning how to make your own plan. Hi-res image.

Give me plants!

That’s enough computer screens for one newsletter. On the plant front, I’ve been planting loads of trees that my neighbour gifted to me (Stone Pine, Sweet Chestnut & Pecan). It is very sad, he has left the UK because of Brexit 😢. But what I am really looking forward to is flowers, UK native flowers. I have a modular planting experiment on the go, inspired by Benjamin Vogt’s A New Garden Ethic. Flowers! Colour! Life! See you in Spring 😎