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 [...]
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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. [...] This was created by artist Angela Palmer who incredibly got permission to export 9 bases of giant rainforest trees and mount them as an exhibition to demonstrate what destroying the rain forests means. They were secured from a sustainable forest in Ghana and the exhibition was originally staged after enormous logistical problems in Trafalgar Square and then at the Copenhagen climate change conference. [...] This garden has plenty of tranquillity near the house but as you get down the deep end there are pigs, chickens and some highly productive veg. They even have one of the intelligent seats from the last post – so it’s not all digging and delving. [...] One of the things that really struck me when we went round the Fletching Gardens was how many different types of seating had been constructed – some used a grass bank, others had frameworks of willows around them. Here are some of the ones I particularly liked. Mr Burchall's Hammock and Woodstore Willow Bower in production Peace in the Orchard A secluded Nook Turf Bench Clinton Lodge Shady Bower – Clinton Lodge I hope you find some of these interesting and inspiring. I’m going to have a crack with doing something intelligent with Willows [...] Down here in the soft underbelly of the nation we have a tradition of village garden openings. We’re smack in the middle of the season at present. Last weekend we were at Fletching which is about a mile away. On the 27th our home village, Newick has its own one. We will be supporting them with a veg and plant store on the Green. The standard is generally pretty high and at Fletching we have enough material for for several posts. So over the next few days I’m going to show things that range from what is practically a stately [...] But others, like this little gem fit so well – we again saw it on a dull afternoon and it captures perfectly the essential secretiveness of the traditional English Garden.What I particularly liked about it was the feel that it had been laid out to fit it’s environment and it combined beauty and practicality in the way that we should be striving to achieve if we want to work within a permaculture orientated framework. [...] |
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