Thriving Drives and sharing-front gardens
Put your best front forward! Let’s get those front yards and driveways thriving. Most of Britain’s back gardens are concealed from passers-by, be it a garden of a terraced home or maisonette; leaving the front yard (a place to put the bins) a second thought, when it’s the thing that people see first. Why should back gardens get all the attention? If you’re unable to garden-share if you’re shielding or your back garden is inaccessible, front gardens are spaces that can be shared and gardened too! We’re teaming up with National Park City to give front gardens some love.
Small but mighty, Rajul Shah shares how gardening builds resilience and how she became The Small Gardener.
Greening driveways, pathways into a gardening career and how gardening helped when she was Postpartum. In our post-lockdown chat, Rajul also shared what made her own childhood garden so special and how you can help your children enjoy the garden so they too, grow up to be nature lovers.
How to create an *Entirely Edible Garden, even if you’re #NotaHorticulturist
notahorticulturist.com is science and gardening educator, Mama and singer Jessi Wong, based in South London. Jessi talks about feeding her family, how gardening boosts our mindfulness and how growing food and foraging got her through lockdown. As well as talking about food, we talked about fertilisers and how we might get more schools into gardening.
A potted history of the Garden Room, Garden-Sharing in Britain and why we love house plants with Advolly Richmond.
How did garden-sharing start in Britain and who in history might be responsible for our obsession with houseplants? Garden, landscape and social historian and BBC Gardeners World presenter, Advolly Richmond gives some fascinating insight and top tips to recreate elements of her favourite garden styles from the Edwardian and Renaissance eras.
There's no better time to try a No-Dig vegetable patch.
Joyce from Lend and Tend chats to No-Dig garden guru Charles Dowding in lockdown. Charles explains the benefits of a No-Dig vegetable garden and how Lend and Tend gardeners can start a No-Dig in their #PatchMatch and grow with fewer pests and weeds, water less and harvest faster with the No-Dig method in a shared garden.
A shower of gratitude from me to you.
Things I'm grateful for: We’re past the peak, we're at midpoint between spring and summer, you're still signing up and with me on the Garden-Sharing mission. Thank you all so much. I hope you're gifted by Flora, the goddess of spring and flowers, with visions of nature bursting back to life, amazing weather, peace and birdsong into your windows.
Keep Calm and Garden-Share, albeit from a safe social-distance
We’re still going to be able to mutually benefit from the joys that garden-sharing can bring. However, we must all take extra precautions at the moment as the current uncertain situation unfolds.
Travelling with Lend and Tend: How do people share gardens globally?
Looking at how people garden share across the globe, the answer to a lack of garden space could be under our nose!
Remembering Esiah Levy.
In the spirit of Garden-Sharing, I’d like to dedicate a post to my late friend, founder of Seeds Share; Esiah Levy who gently, kindly and compassionately took a stand for what he believed in; took practical actions and helped mobilise people, not just individual growers, but whole community groups to have sustainable healthier happier lives.
Garden-Share at Summer Pop-Up: The Beautiful Allotment
Open from Wednesday 25th July, until 26th August. Bourne and Hollingsworth have become the latest public space to get involved with Garden-Sharing.