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Alex has created a garden about 50 metres long and about 8-10 meters wide along the West side of a factory unit. It has created a great microclimate on 2 terraces and after 5 years it’s already quiet prolific with an effective forest garden / permaculture mix of fruit trees, bushes, eleagnus to fix nitrogen and also to provide fruits, asparagus and some prominent cordons of japanese wineberry [...] 
Sissinghurst is probably my all time favourite garden to visit. I it was a dull afternoon but the bulbs were just outstanding. – particularly in the areas of woodland garden they have [...] 
Sometimes it’s good to step back and enjoy the seasons and spring is probably the most exciting of all. National Trust gardens are a great way to see some really stunning mature gardens and planting ideas and Nymans in West Sussex is no exception. [...] Well we’re certainly doing some of that here. Haven’t mowed the lawn yet but we’ve been dividing up perennials and sticking them into the new hedge. And the potatoes are chitting at the moment ready for their role in the pincer movement against weeds – sheet mulch, compost , potatoes – around the new fruit trees. [...] 
This looks like an early spring. Watch out for bugs, non vernalised and confused plants but enjoy the daffs snowdrops etc as they get underway early [...] Instead I’m going to give you a few pictures of some beauties that we saw. If you’re interested in a little trippette across the channel there’s both a nursery and a garden that you can visit dedicated to these subtle and beautiful flowers. Within striking distance of Dieppe. You have to endure the shame of embarking from Newhaven but well, one can’t have everything. [...] While we were in Normandy the other week we went round this amazing Hydrangea nursery about which more later. Out the back were many beds that had clearly been used for display in the past but were now a bit overgrown. In the middle of this fertility was one bed which had been fenced off and was being used for Geese who were busily engaged in clearing the land back to the point where it could be re used. N’importe quoi. Here are the Geese for your amusement and delight. Permaculture French Style Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post [...] 
The Jardin d’Agapanthes is a stunning garden in Normandy, between Dieppe and Rouen. Well worth a visit. [...] I’ve written before about the strange “mainstreaming” of some organic approaches – particularly the use of predators instead of sprays and away from NPK towards farmyard manure – at least by some of the field vegetable growers. Probably a case of the public being ahead of the political classes as per usual and the RHS being more closely in touch with its constituents than the average MP. [...] |
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