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[Re-sent] Livestream — Wild Flowers
Forest Garden News — Wild Flowers
Forest Garden Livestream
Wednesday 24th February, 10am GMT
Wild flowers in a forest garden
A forest garden is a way to grow food with nature, and what can be more natural than native wild flowers? I’m fascinated by the potential of wild flowers to bring together different horticultural worlds: ornamental, wildlife and edible.
To that end, I’ve set up a project called Garden Wild which aims to promote the use of native wild flowers in all forms of gardening. I’ll be introducing the project in this week’s livestream!
Afterwards, there’ll be an informal Zoom chat at 10.30am, all welcome.
Demo of a wild flower gallery website
Livestream
Date: Wednesday 24th February
Time: 10—10.30am
Livestream: twitch.tv/forestgardenwales
Zoom Q&A
Time: 10.30—11:00am
Zoom password: teasel
Recording of Community Forest Garden livestream
WLast week’s livestream about Community Forest Gardens is now on YouTube.
Here are some handy links:
Complete forest garden course still only £99
3.5 hours of condensed forest garden knowledge, showing you how to create an edible ecosystem in your own backyard, each step of the way. There’s also a supportive WhatsApp group to help answer any questions you may have.
The slides are freely available on backyardforest.uk and this is the course structure:
Intro Why growing edible crops with nature is so important
Plan Observations to make, wishes to list & mapping your patch
Design How to put things in the right place
Protect Windbreaks & other tricks to protect your precious plants
Perennial Veg Resilient & low maintenance veg are on the menu
Canopy Plant the big trees, the canopy layer
Ground Prep Ways to clear the ground, so as to plant your plants
Shrubs & Cover Shrubs away & keep the ground covered
