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An amazing year for mushrooms
This is perhaps slightly off topic but this has been a really strange year down here in Sussex. We had no rain for nearly three months and it was noticeable that the behaviour of the wild life really...
View ArticleI’ve been looking at #Permaculture in wonder recently.
Here’s a remarkable video clip from Geoff Lawton – I think it speaks for itself about how powerful this approach can be in greening the desert. It looks a better bet for feeding the world than handing...
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Land regeneration – permaculture in action?
One of the principles of permaculture is to regenerate the land following the sequence in which ultimately climax forest vegetation develops in nature – after say a forest fire where the land is...
View ArticleWhy plants need cold.
Of course annual plants don’t. However for perennial and especially biennial plants it’s often a necessary pre condition for flowering – we’ve just been hearing from the pundits in the fruit world...
View ArticleHow to Deer Proof You Garden using plants
Down here not a million miles away from the Ashdown Forest we have packs of wild deer roaming the countryside looking for things to munch. As part of the development of the Forest garden we have been...
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Magnolia Heaven at Nymans
Spring Hellebores Wow – what a glorious afternoon at Nymans National Trust garden… you can’t beat a bit of spring sunshine. I was surprised there weren’t more people out and about enjoying the show...
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Humming Bird Hawk Moth
This is a little video I shot last autumn on my iPhone in the garden of our villa in Gundogan, near Bodrum. This creature looks and behaves like a humming bird but is actually a moth!. You can actually...
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