A cut flower garden – a few notes from a talk by florist Jonathan Moseley
This post isn’t a ‘how to make’ a cut flower garden, rather it’s tips that Jonathan shared at a South Pennine Hardy Plant Society talk, 6th March 2019, based on his over 20 years experience. My first attempt of some …
Creating a mini forest garden border
For some years I’ve been enamoured of the idea to create a forest garden, an edible and fairly low maintenance way to grow food. It’s only with this garden that I realised that I had the right conditions to finally …
Plants for pollinators in late Winter
Having visited Hodsock Priory on the weekend (mid February), where they not only have a woodland carpeted with snowdrops, but also an ornamental garden, it reminded me of just how many plants are flowering in late winter. So I thought …
Small greywater system: a step-by-step guide of how to set up a small greywater system.
At the moment I have two blogs. This is my 10+ year gardening blog but I’ve also set up a permaculture/solarpunk blog on the new blogging site, Plume. Hopefully once Plume develops more features I’ll be able to move off …
Describing solarpunk: for those new to solarpunk, or looking for ways to describe it
Bosco Verticale, Milan. Credit Ale Desiderio. This has been cross-posted from my Plume Solarpunk blog. If you are new to solarpunk as I am, it might help to have some descriptions of what solarpunk means. So here are a few …
Seed viability: will my packet of old seeds still germinate?
L-R: Broad bean, Fennel and Pumpkin seeds This is an update of a 2015 post. I’ve done some new searching for seed viability info and have found two more. So I’ve added those, tidied up the post, and fixed some …
Back garden – the first six months
Back in June I introduced the interim design for the back garden, but I haven’t yet got around to showing you how it looked during the rest of the year. Now it’s the end of the year, it seems like …