Category Archives: The beginning
Weekend 2 – bees and worms
Saturday/Sunday 16th/17th May I was very happy to see bees buzzing around the lavander, and a baby blackbird hopping around catching juicy worms in its beak while the cat just lay lazily in the sun. Andy went to read in … Continue reading
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The first weekend
Monday 11th May 2009, after a trip to B&Q and a weekend of hard graft I think we’ve successfully claimed the front garden as ours!! The guerilla sunflowers have all been planted along with a mystery assortment of other plants … Continue reading
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Rubbish tip
It seems that the garden has been a rubbish tip for years. Underneath the trees was a bank of earth, rubble and a wide range of rubbish from 70s glass milk bottles to an old rusty record player. It took … Continue reading
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Guerilla gardening
The catalyst was my meeting Richard Reynolds on a ‘Play’ course at the School of Life in London. He took us out to Guerilla Garden a small patch of dirt in Bloomsbury, explaining that if there was a patch of … Continue reading
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The trees
The 4 fir trees in the garden had been there for 20 years or so and were gradually taking over. We also had another 3 trees growing against the wall of the house which squirrels were using as their personal … Continue reading
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