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One bed completed without a compost delivery. Just went a little more lasagna on the top of the bed.

Currant and peas planted with transplants waiting in the wings to finish hardening off. First bed at our actual home. Feels pretty amazing.

It's been fun to weave years of health into something. The lower half of the bed is mostly hugelkultur, with upper layers of compost and homemade biochar, then lasagna of bedding straw and compost/soil mixture.

It's a 30" deep bed, so a lot to fill.

Not a pic, but I just ordered a big mix of native and bee friendly seeds for the garden and some liatris bulbs which the bees go absolutely wild for. Can't wait to have some beds.

Purple alyssum is still by far my favourite ground cover because it's so effortless and well behaved and will still give some space for the native seeds to come up, cuz a few of them can take a couple of years to establish. Excited to try to establish some yellow monkey flower and farewell to spring as well.

A few garden design thoughts:

-Masses of plants look more orderly than multiple one-off plants
-Tall, floppy plants can look weedy, so consider Chelsea chopping them in June, this will make them shorter and bushier
-Avoid Common milkweed and Canada goldenrod for small gardens, they can be aggressive.

Photos from summer 2024

-Coreopsis, spotted bee balm, purple coneflower, pearly everlasting
-Wild bergamot
-Black eyed Susan, blanketflower
-Purple coneflower

Last week I was a guest on my favourite #gardening #podcast talking about #ForestGarden & #WoodMeadow and the #ClimatEmergency & #NatureEmergency.

Talking about #GardenDesign & leaving options open for future scenarios (responsive garden design I call it), I actually managed to namecheck my favourite web designer @beep

He's proper inspirational & the reason how I came across the 2 seminal books How Buildings Learn & The Real World of Technology. Thank you Ethan 🙏

rootsandall.co.uk/podcast/wood

Roots and All · Episode 284: Wood Meadows

National Wildlife Federation®: Attracting Birds, Butterflies, and Other Backyard Wildlife, Expanded Second Edition by David Mizejewski, 2019

Invite songbirds, butterflies, bees, and more by nurturing a wildlife habitat garden. With stunning photography, lists of the best plants to support wildlife, and 17 projects the whole family can enjoy, this is a must-have resource for nature enthusiasts, gardeners, and animal lovers.

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