January – Native Plants and Trees
Trees in pots On a sunny day, have a look at any trees you have grown in pots. Give them some attention! Re-pot any trees into bigger pots if they need it, giving them some fresh compost and generally giving them some attention and care. Make sure that the root collar – the point from […]
February – Native Plants and Trees
Guerrila Gardening – Planning for the Spring Febuary is a good time for looking ahead, for visioning and dreaming, planning what you want to do once the growing season returns. While it is still fresh in your mind do a review of your gardening, foraging and guerrilla gardening year. What worked and why? What changes […]
March – Native Plants and Trees
Today I have emptied my mini greenhouse to see how everything has been doing over the winter. Most things are looking very healthy and will be ready to plant out anytime now Time to order seeds and begin sowing for the summer months. The following plants are all native wild flowers that […]
April – Native Plants and Trees
Guerrila Gardening – Digging up and Planting out There are so many wild native plants coming up randomly all over my garden – a celebration of the Spring’s great fertile abundance. The conditions are perfect for a spot of guerrilla gardening in my local environment – the earth is damp from all the rain and […]
May – Native Plants and Trees
Woods in May At this point in the year, there is the greatest profusion of native plants growing everywhere, in the woods, along field edges, sprouting out of cracks between wall and pavement, and of course in our gardens. Everywhere they proclaim their assertive joyful presence and remind us that they live here too! […]
June – Native Plants and Trees
Healing Area Archway Glastonbury Festival Travelling between Derbyshire and Glastonbury Festival (where myself, family and friends create the Earth garden in the Healing Fields), I find myself on the M42 and the M5. I am struck by how many wild flowers and native trees I can see and identify growing along those wild edges […]
July – Native Plants and Trees
Harebell ~ Campanula rotundifolia A few years ago I had the good fortune to spend some time travelling along the tiny lanes of Cornwall. We constantly marveled at the rich variety of native plants that grew along them, burgeoning with health, a mass of insects and bees, a wild colourful gorgeousness of the everyday humble […]
August – Native Plants and Trees
Mandala by Vicki Smith Green Gathering August is the beginning of the fruit harvest and begins that wonderful time of roaming the hedgerows looking for fruit to gather and make produce from. The fruit seems to be ripening early this year and there seems to be an abundance of it. My partner […]
September – Native Plants and Trees
Common Hemp Nettle – Galeopsis tetra hit Guerilla Gardening It seems to me that Autumn is the right time for growing native plant seeds, not the Spring. Now is when the seeds naturally ripen and fall to the ground, where they lay dormant for the winter months, get a blast of that […]
October – Native Plants and Trees
As the Autumn mists begin and the leaves whither and fall, a great sense of the end of the year begins to descend. I have been gently cutting back and clearing beds ready for their winter rest, letting many of my native plants seed and leaving areas to grow wild in their own way. […]
November – Native Plants and Trees
So now as the great growth cycle ends for another year, I am aware that I too need to shut down, to rest and regenerate, to go deep and seek guidance for my new path forwards. So for now this blog will not have any new additions until I begin again with my journey […]
December – Native Plants and Trees
This is a lovely time of year I always think, when the days can change at the whim of temperature, air pressure, sun and wind, and new delights like ice formations can amaze and surprise us. A good time for winter walks with the camera. Not all plants have died back and in the […]