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Realtime forest garden workshop

I’m introducing a realtime workshop on the first two Monday evenings of the month, from 7pm to 9pm. The inaugural session is Monday 1st November all about planning, a livestreamed one hour public lecture, followed by 10 minutes public Q&A on the chat, followed by a private, paid-for Zoom session with a limit of 6 students.

The second session is on Monday 8th November 7-9pm and is all about the planting. For more details, see natureworks.org.uk/courses/realtime

As a thank you to my newsletter subscribers 🙏🏾 you can book the two sessions for just £14.99+VAT (normally £29.99+VAT). Simply click on the button below or use the discount code newslettery at the checkout.

Forest Garden Livestream

Wednesday 3rd November, 10am BST

Forest garden paths

This month I am revisiting paths in the forest garden. 

Paths are great. They provide access to different areas (the very essence of path-ness), they define areas by providing an edge and they can control plantings of overly ambitious plants like mint.

I’ll be a taking a look at using paths in the design process, different path materials and some handy hints and suggestions.

There will be a Zoom meeting at the end of the livestream to talk about all things forest garden and pathy. Everyone welcome 🙂.

Geranium macrorrhizum is a good boundary plant to combat Grass Creep

Livestream

Zoom chat

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Forest Garden Plant of the Moment

Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare) is an aromatic herbaceous perennial growing to 2 metres tall. At this time of year, you catch wafts of the aniseed flavour as you walk past, leaves crunching underfoot. Easy to grow, edible UK native. Lovely 😍

October’s livestream: Almanac 

The video is up on my Nature Works YouTube channel.

Gardening with UK Native Wild Flowers on Facebook 

Is it okay to relentlessly promote your own projects in your own newsletter?! Following on from the Garden Wild project (see the latest Wild Angelica gallery), I was looking for a gardening with wild flowers group on Facebook. There wasn’t one, so I made one.

Welcome to the Gardening with UK Native Wild Flowers Facebook group!

Native plants are a natural fit for a forest garden, as they encourage greater biodiversity by being a host plant for a broader spectrum of native insects (see Database of Insects and their Food Plants for specific species). I don’t know much about wild flowers, so creating photo galleries is part of my education. 

I also wanted to share these galleries on Facebook and ask about suggestions for planting combinations as well as propagation tips. Hence the creation of the group. Please feel free to join 🙂

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