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[Re-sent] Livestream—Design
Forest Garden Livestream — Design your garden
Nature Works
Wednesday 18th August, 10am BST
Design your forest garden
Following on from last week’s livestream, this week I will be looking at how to design your forest garden using the Open Source QCAD software. I will cover creating basic shapes, adding features, observations and paths.
For those allergic to technology or without the time to learn yet another software package (I feel your pain), I will also be showing how to go through the same process using pen and (5mm grid) paper.
If I have time, I will look at how to incorporate trees into the design, always remembering that tree spacing is key to a forest garden.
As always, at 10.30am there is an informal Zoom chat, all welcome. Please do bring along any plans, maps or questions about your own forest garden.
Simple shapes in CAD, including a couple of tree circles
Livestream
Date: Wednesday 18th August
Time: 10—10.30am
Livestream: twitch.tv/natureworks
Zoom chat
Password: cad
Time: 10.30—11:10am
Beautifull scented UK native Honeysuckle Lonicera periclymenum
Last week’s livestream: Measure up
The video is up on my Nature Works YouTube channel.
Plant Atlas of the British & Irish flora
As I’ve mentioned quite a few times, native plants are a natural fit for a forest garden. Pretty much every single native wild flower that I’ve considered for an ornamental aspects of a forest garden has an entry in the fantastic Plants For A Future database. If you can guess which flower I couldn’t find on PFAF, I will send you a free Good King Henry plant!
The main resources I use for researching native plants are the BRC Plant Atlas website, PFAF.org and the excellent guide book Harrap’s Wild Flowers. Occasionally I’ll use the native plant filter on the RHS online plant finder as well.
The Plant Atlas is a good botanical reference and it has huge coverage but the search facility isn’t very generous, as it doesn’t cover all common names. Having said that, it’s definitely a tool to add to your UK native plant toolbox. Also take at look at the Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland.
