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Forest Garden Livestream

Wednesday 31st March, 10am BST

Forest Garden Rescue!

It’s been one hell of a year, to be sure. I started the Forest Garden Lockdown Livestream, made my online course The Backyard Forest and embarked on forest garden landscaping a local eco-home development. Oh yes, and home educated two children.

In the midst of all this, our own forest garden has been sorely neglected. Now that the landscaping job is easing to a close, I am spending the rest of the year rejuvenating the garden, updating the online course, and doing a bit of design work for clients.

Join me for a possibly rather maudlin tour on the livestream Wednesday 31st March at 10am BST, with some bright notes and plans for the future.

There will be an informal Zoom chat afterwards at 10.30am, all welcome.

The forest garden as a pristine field. Tidy.

Livestream

Zoom Q&A

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Garden Wild Gallery update

The grant application for the Garden Wild photo gallery of UK native wild flowers is in, so hopefully by July we can start growing and photographing our very own wild flowers in a spot in southern England. The aim is for the project to cover two years, and encourage all gardeners to use native plants. 

As well as bespoke photographs, we’re also cataloguing other Creative Commons licensed photos from places like Wikimedia Commons, which will be a very useful reference (in the same vein as the Forest Garden Gallery). And there’s an accompanying Garden Wild Spreadsheet, now up to 48 UK native wild flowers.

For the computer-tech minded of you, the project is using the excellent Cloudinary image hosting service to organise the photos and add meta-data, which is then collated and used in a simple image gallery. There will be a page for each species, collections for different conditions, and seasonal collections too. For a sneak preview of the gallery work in progress, see gardenwild.org.uk/agrostemma-githago

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