Nature Works | View this email in your browser | | Win 'Create a Forest Garden' | Years ago, I bought my Mum, an avid "traditional" gardener, a copy of Martin Crawford's 'Creating a Forest Garden', in the hope of kindling a shared interest. I have inherited all of her gardening books, and I've found many of them dog-eared and peppered with scribbled notes. Martin Crawford's book, alas, is pristine! | Even though it is such a good book, I really don't need two copies, so I am putting it up for grabs in this year's Nature Works Festive Raffle! All you have to do to enter is send me an email to hello@natureworks.org.uk | I'll pick the winner at random from the emails I receive and post it forthwith. | | | Wednesday 8th December, 10am BST | Dead hedges | Dead hedges are brilliant - habitat, windbreak, rubbish tip. Find out more on Wednesday 8th December, with a friendly forest garden Zoom chat afterwards. | Apologies for this month's livestream not being on the first Wednesday of the month as usual. A bad case of Donut Brain 🍩🧠 meant I muddled up the dates. | | A sturdy dead hedge in the Forest Garden Nuttery, topped with Camellia cuttings | Livestream | | Zoom chat | Zoom chat Password: stacking Time: 10.30—11:00am
| | Share | | | Forward | Forest Garden Plant of the Moment | | Tarentum Myrtle (Myrtus communis ssp. tarentina) is a smaller subspecies of the Common Myrtle. It grows to about 1.5m high by 1.5m diameter. An evergreen, the leaves and flowers are scented and I'm planning to use it as a low hedge in my wildlife scented Clifftop Garden. | | | Share | | | Forward | | |
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