Gwenfar's Garden and other musings
Notes on growing ornamentals and edibles, and musings on other matters that interest me.
Monday 1st April – Pulmonaria ‘Blue Ensign’ Pulmonaria are commonly known as lungwort. This species has the deepest blue of all Pulmonaria and is my favourite, but you can also get them in blue-pink, pink and white. The leaves are …
Thursday 28th March – Chionodoxa forbesiiFor my first #DailyPerennial I give you: Chionodoxa forbesiiwhich is also known as ‘Glory of the Snow’. It’s a fabulous Spring blue, though it’s only 10 cm tall. It looks good at the front of …
Crocus ‘spring beauty’ I love Hardy Perennials and most of the ornamental plants I grow fall into this category. On Mastodon (the great alternative to Twitter), I’ve been posting Daily Perennial photos and information, and also sharing everything under …
This post isn’t a ‘how to make’ a cut flower garden, rather it’s tips that Jonathan shared at a South Pennine Hardy Plant Society talk, 6th March 2019, based on his over 20 years experience. My first attempt of some …
For some years I’ve been enamoured of the idea to create a forest garden, an edible and fairly low maintenance way to grow food. It’s only with this garden that I realised that I had the right conditions to finally …
Having visited Hodsock Priory on the weekend (mid February), where they not only have a woodland carpeted with snowdrops, but also an ornamental garden, it reminded me of just how many plants are flowering in late winter. So I thought …
At the moment I have two blogs. This is my 10+ year gardening blog but I’ve also set up a permaculture/solarpunk blog on the new blogging site, Plume. Hopefully once Plume develops more features I’ll be able to move off …
Bosco Verticale, Milan. Credit Ale Desiderio. This has been cross-posted from my Plume Solarpunk blog. If you are new to solarpunk as I am, it might help to have some descriptions of what solarpunk means. So here are a few …