Putting it all together. Healthy soil growing an array of beautiful edible & useful plants growing harmoniously. Who wouldn’t want that?
Pippa Chapman, garden designer and author of The Plant Lover’s Backyard Forest Garden will be at the Midlands Permaculture Festival with us on 21 September.
Joining Pippa on the programme are 12 other people using permaculture ethics to inform and inspire their lives and work. There are a limited number of tickets left for this exciting day long event.
Pippa will lead a session to share her knowledge of designing, creating and maintaining perennial plant guilds.
Top tips to get started
Observation is key. Permaculture teaches that paying attention to how things are and what there is already is a vital first step. How is your garden space? What effect does Sun, wind, rain and water have? What grows well already?
People are integral to the garden. There’s no garden without its gardeners. What do you want from the garden? What’s going well for you, are there issues, what skills do you have and can build on? Take this into consideration in your garden planning.
Start small with one decision and move on from there. If you’re designing a guild with a tree as the centrepiece, decide on exactly which tree that will be. From there, you can start to build up a tapestry of other plants one at a time.
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