Sustainable Garden
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The blog Sustainable Garden is a personal blog written by Rob Carlyle, who is passionate about creating a sustainable garden. Carlyle discusses the principles of sustainable garden design, such as using native plants, creating wildlife habitats, and minimizing water use. And shares tips on how to grow food in a sustainable way, such as using no-dig gardening methods, composting, and companion..
Sustainable Garden
7h ago
Day 312 #365DaysWild
It took us seven months to clear the area we discovered to be an orchard.
Within the jungle of bramble, nettle, sycamore and blackthorn we discovered an invalid ward of strangled apple trees planted after WWII.
We’ve taken the old gardeners rule and removed one branch from each apple tree a year to bring them back to health.
They’ll never achieve the classic goblet shape of perfect orchard specimens. But, in a good year they yield apples to eat until May.
Apple trees are wonderful for invertebrates and birds. As is their dead wood which we stack, hoping one day fo ..read more
Sustainable Garden
21h ago
Day 312 #365DaysWild
Grass mowed yesterday.
Rain this morning.
The garden, wet, and fresh green.
Demonstrating that one colour need not be monotonous ..read more
Sustainable Garden
2d ago
Day 311 #365DaysWild
A recycled sheet draped
over a bramble increases
the reflective area for
attracting moths..
A cold spring evening for garden mothing. And quite a clear night which often reduces numbers coming to the light.
Sited in the Cedar Walk.
Very few moths on the wing - at the time of the year when the early season moths are not in flight and the late spring moths haven’t stirred.
Angle shades
Brindled beauty 3
Hebrew character 3
Spruce carpet 2 (pictured)
So
We’ll perhaps get chance to go again tonight ..read more
Sustainable Garden
4d ago
Day 309 #365DaysWild
Kedleston Hall, Derby.
Go there for veteran trees.
And bluebells ..read more
Sustainable Garden
5d ago
Day 307 365DaysWild
Don't ever give up hoping.
The last record of a hedgehog here was in 2017. Seven years ago.
Readers of this blog will know I've got my hopes raised before but to no avail..........
Then this little fellah appeared on the camera in the Woodland Garden last night!
Just about as excited as a man can get!!!!
Welcome home spiky ..read more
Sustainable Garden
6d ago
Day 307 #365DaysWild
On our national day - our national bird photographed in the garden.
Little stunner ..read more
Sustainable Garden
1w ago
Day 306 #365DaysWild
Around 2012 I was clearing brambles on the boundary and discovered a little clump of native bluebells.
One small clump of four flower spikes in a six-acre site!
I had seen bluebells growing abundantly in areas within Bestwood Country Park so decided to buy plants ‘in the green’ for planting near our one existing clump.
Twelve years in and you can see the progress.
I added further bulbs for a few years.
And then began casting seed.
The results are satisfying ..read more
Sustainable Garden
1w ago
Day 304 #365DaysWild
Down at George’s Pond …
Another day, another stag-do for mallard drakes.
How many can you count..?
Granddaughter (4) says 2
Grandson (6) says 3
Daughter says 4
Son-in-law says 5.
The judges decision is final ..read more
Sustainable Garden
1w ago
Day 302 #365DaysWild
Can a poo not be a thing of beauty?
Approx one inch (2.5cm) long..
No idea from which creature’s bottom it emerged ..read more
Sustainable Garden
1w ago
Day 302 #365DaysWild
Bluebells at Skellingthorpe, Lincolnshire today..
Also through this azure celebration we’re white to soft mauve wood anenome, butter-yellow celandine and understated but pretty-white stitchwort.
A wonderful mixture of our woodland understory flora.
I struggle to imagine anything more natural - and beautiful!
Thanks to our wonderful friends Mike and Gill for sharing this with us on a walk this morning ..read more