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Nature Works news — Forest garden design from scratch!
Nature Works
Wednesday 28th July, 10am BST
Design from scratch
Apologies for late posting of the newsletter, things slowly getting back to some sort of normal. Join me on Wednesday 28th July 10am BST where I’m discussing my latest design job, and describing the different factors to consider when creating a design.
I am just starting the most exciting wildlife forest garden design and landscaping job. It’s for a client with an interest forest gardening, wildlife and foraging. Their 0.4 acre north-facing garden is in Carmarthenshire, Wales, and forms part of a smallholding of a few acres.
There is an existing garden, with some mature trees, a large patio by the house, raised beds, a greenhouse and compost bins. The exciting part is the chance to create a forest garden focussed on wildlife and UK native wild flowers in an ornamental setting, to complement a family home in a traditional Georgian Welsh farmhouse.
As always, at 10.30am, there is a Zoom seminar, all welcome for a general forest garden social.
Site of a half acre back garden, to be transformed into a wildlife forest garden
Livestream
Date: Wednesday 28th July
Time: 10—10.30am
Livestream: twitch.tv/natureworks
Zoom Seminar
Password: begin
Time: 10.30—11:10am
Last week’s livestream: Low-key moochings
The video is up on my Nature Works YouTube channel.
Absolutely spot on by Anni Kelsey, from her book The Garden of Equal Delights, and very much how I viewed plants when I first started forest gardening. Function, use and value (sic) underpin our economic systems, culminating in an attitude that eviscerates our very nature, with disastrous consequences.
I really enjoyed the book, particularly because Anni is not afraid to name the joy and wonder of gardening in general and forest gardening in particular.
Anni has also appeared on the Roots and All podcast, and has written the well-received Edible and Perennial Gardening.