If you want to design lots of gardens, I can recommend learning CAD.
It’s brilliant for quickly working out tree spacing and calculating lengths & areas, as well as dcoumenting planting, plus CAD plans are easy to share as PDFs.
The software is free (QCAD or LibreCAD) and my introductory, info-packed 1 hour class is half price with this link, only £9.99
nostr:npub1zey925rvkaxxkl8y0sn9t5m639gm5z724lrf8fmkjt2wrvd5qsdqu9ruva thank you ☺️ I like the curves and the full planting, can really help open up a small space rather than seeing everything at once. Intrigued by more geometric designs for a #WildlifeGarden with #NativePlants -- does wildlife care if you have geometric shapes and straight lines in your garden?
nostr:npub18w02qu95yrwty4r6hrprdf2wf9md5rc5d76svscdezvm89de7pdq084458 I'm intrigued by how ecology is taught, a kind of overview, and how that could fit in to a gardener's experience. Thanks for recommendation of The Garden Jungle, I'll have a look at that :)
nostr:npub1uvm5glcz2w2466caf7e04t80ep2ph967k0ytrucx3h85glejpzvs0clw8a if only I had seen two weevils, a big one and a little one
#Mosstodon, quiet in the valley
Some sort of weevilly Weevil. There are many types of Weevil in the World.
#weevil #beetle #Coleoptera #gardening
I am a #WildlifeGarden & #ForestGarden designer by trade.
I weave #NativePlants & #WildFlowers into #ornamental designs.
Remote design a speciality, get in touch for a free online consultation hello@natureworks.org.uk
https://www.natureworks.org.uk/design
#SilentSunday
nostr:npub1cgcds0a6gaenuz0dd73dqdqjhmremry40v5d54f590mcqs9kttcs900zk7 will do, I'll post it here
Just thinking that industrialisation favours homogeniety
Is there such a thing as a *UK* Ecology for Gardeners book? Would love to start wading in to ecology
Something like this:
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/ecology-for-gardeners-steven-b-carroll/445101?ean=9781604694451
#gardening #ecology #EcologicalHorticulture #RadicalHorticulture
nostr:npub18ljjwuh8vt0lrh3fe3vsefddt40u297gtsk3d4v4ywhjnvms9zfqy480hq that is so sweet, thank you ☺️
Should only get greener and better, the plastic fences will be covered in espaliered fruit trees ftw
nostr:npub17d76katrwykn8fd9xmc64psv0chjpjt77lh223uyvr36acarh5vqsstm9a I'm guessing the birds are faster?! Morello cherries are _supposed_ to be the least susceptible, on account of being near-black. But I guess birds don't read
Rep. Matt Gaetz, Praising "Force," Goes Full Fascist at the Iowa State Fair
by Ruth Ben-Ghiat
https://lucid.substack.com/p/rep-matt-gaetz-praising-force-goes
Do you like #wildlife? Into #gardening?
Then consider a #ForestGarden, essentially an Edible Ecosytem.
Martin Crawford has a brilliant book ‘Creating a Forest Garden’ https://www.agroforestry.co.uk/product/creating-a-forest-garden-2/
And I helped make a free online spreadsheet of *all* the plants in the book
https://bit.ly/forest-garden-spreadsheet
nostr:npub1qg48cy9nkrm0pkeuz7e9zrzeq2n6lnlwyn30u9zd0xe07g9qvras00augv capitalists gonna capitalise
nostr:npub18ljjwuh8vt0lrh3fe3vsefddt40u297gtsk3d4v4ywhjnvms9zfqy480hq I was talking about cuddlefish with my 7yo yesterday! And I was thinking about making Plum Cobbler tonight. Synchronicity innit
Here's a garden I've been working on, gradually getting greener :)
If you are creating a garden, please design for the wildlife.
It’s not “Humans vs. Nature”, we *are* nature, so we can design for everybody. The more diversity of life in your garden, the more joy there is.
I’ve compiled a list of free resources https://natureworks.org.uk/resources
and made a free taster class about #NativePlants in the #ForestGarden
“ everything, like the ocean, flows and enters into contact with everything else: touch one place, and you set up a movement at the other end of the world”
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
via Maria Popova