This week I thought we would take a break from vegetables and look instead at the flowering garden. Some of you may remember my ambitious plans earlier in the year to create ….Read more
Tag: wildlife garden
New Perennial Style Planting Plans
Right then. For the last while I have been both adding to our list of flowering perennial plants and working on planting plants and corresponding plant packs. As the year ….Read more
Creating a Perennial Wildlife Garden – Part 1
The vegetable garden is still pretty quiet this week so I thought we would return to ornamental gardening and look at some of the plans for my garden and some ….Read more
2020 Quickcrop Garden Plan
Like you, I am itching to get outside and can’t wait for the season to get started. This year I will be spending more time in the garden as my ….Read more
The Knepp Castle Re-Wilding Project
I spent most of last weekend loafing around Kent and Sussex as I was keen to visit a few gardens while the season still has some life left in it. ….Read more
Top Pollinator Plants – Phacelia tanactetifolia
Green Manures Green manures are ‘crops’ which are sown to cover bare soil and do a number of jobs depending on the species like protecting soil, storing nitrogen or mining ….Read more
The Fabulous Solitary Bee
I don’t know whether you know this already but of the 267 species of bee in the U.K. and Ireland, 90% of them are solitary bees. Solitary bees don’t produce ….Read more