Category: creative garden
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A Private Art Class
I had a thoroughly delightful morning at Mill Meadows delivering a 2 hour art class that had been gifted as a birthday present. The weather could have been kinder, starting with high, blustery winds and ending in driving rain bursts, but we were fairly sheltered on the covered veranda. My students for the morning are…
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A Fermented Forage
A friend came over to learn how to make a simple veggie ferment (Kimchi or Sauerkraut), which I thought would be nice to base around wild food. So we had a short walk around the block gathering a variety of tasty specimens to add to our bowl of sliced carrots, leek, peeled root ginger, sweet…
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Beltane Labyrinth
A gloriously sunny day, filled with blue skies, bird song, woodpecker wooing and the burgeoning beauty of bluebells in the surrounding ancient woodlands of Alfoxton Park, Holford, at the foot of the Quantock Hills. This was the sitting of our Beltane celebrations for the Somerset Nature Connections, part of the Somerset Wildlife Trust. We met…
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Recycled Courtyard
The courtyard had been the general builders yard dump for anything we couldn’t store in the workshop. The ground was uneven and sloping, a mixture of bare earth, rubble, concrete and weeds. Having dug up patches of old concrete, I sledge hammered them into smaller usable rubble, together with any other useful hardcore lying around…
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Bespoke Topiary frames
This cockerel topiary frame was commissioned for a country house in Longdown. The client required a frame that would act as a garden sculpture whilst the box plant takes it’s time to grow through it, and needed to be seen from a distance. I started with a prototype, 2 feet high by 4 feet long, made…