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l and interesting is not something we actually want to grow and i will remove it and plant something else next spring this is with a somewhat heavy heart as i almost never do this but it is not native and therefore cannot offer anything to wildlife either blue sausage fruit perennial leek bulbils perennial leeks are a member of the onion family that produce flowers followed by spherical heads of tiny bulbils sometimes hundreds per head new plants can be grown from the bulbils and you can also eat them given the numbers produced and that i already have plenty of mature plants i have harvested the bulbils for imminent use and have stored them in a jar but not in the fridge i anticipate that they will keep well but time will prove or disprove this despite their tiny size they taste very strongly of onion garlic and just a few can be used in place of garlic to flavour cooking all the alliums onion family plants share similar health benefits two relatively small heads produced the bulbils in the photo below and i will be out in the garden later on today to collect the remaining bulbil heads and store them whole until they are needed perennial leek bulbil head perennial leek bulbils removed forest gardening principle whether in abundance or not harvest only enough share this share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on whatsapp opens in new window whatsapp like loading posted in eating from the forest garden forest gardening tagged aronia chokeberry blue sausage fruit bulbils health benefits perennial leek 5 comments autumn delights posted on october 18 2021 by anni kelsey whether it is flowers foliage fruit or seeds every part of every plant s life is precious with a unique place in the never ending cycle of life as forest gardeners we are here to watch as this marvel unfolds giving every plant the opportunity to live out its own life and to feed the lives of other beings the calendula has been flowering for months and is not finished yet it will no doubt re seed itself in situ and i have also collected some ripe seed and scattered it around the garden to multiply its loveliness calendula this fuschia lives in a shady part of the garden and is late to flower others in sunnier spots are bearing a few ripe fruits our five year old granddaughter who loves to scour the garden for edibles pronounced that fuschia fruits are lovely fuschia this chicory plant seeded itself this summer it must have grown from seed deposited by a plant that was close by several years ago a friend is eagerly awaiting this year s seed so she can grow some in her garden chicory i have long wanted autumn crocus and found a pack in the local garden centre a few weeks ago autumn crocus i planted several guelder roses in a new border about two years ago to provide autumn colour and berries for the birds and this resplendent bush is the reddest and berriest of them all guelder rose two years ago i visited the kitchen garden at chirk castle and fell in love with the brilliantly coloured crab apples crab apple never have i seen such a shiny apple the tree was positively luminous with them all glowing away however this year along with all the fruit it is late to mature it should have been ripe in september and the flavour is a bit disappointing i am blaming the cool and relatively sunless summer months nonetheless i am always profoundly grateful for every morsel of harvested food apple ellison s orange late frosts took a heavy toll on the pear trees which had been absolutely laden with blossom however one pear bore plenty of fruit which ripened whilst we were away in september but the neighbours enjoyed them there were about a dozen pears on each of the other two pear trees second part of the pear harvest plus ellison s orange apples and a test apple from each of sunset trwyn mochyn and newton wonder this is the first year the blue sausage fruit tree has flowered and fruited i am waiting until the pods are a little bit bluer before investigating their taste blue sausage fruit the acer came from our previous home where it grew in a pot and is unashamedly decorative and beautiful all year round acer tree with cariad cherry behind this is a wonderfully colourful kale plant and like all the others i have tried it is well able to resprout at this time of year despite being munched back to bare stalks by caterpillars taunton deane perennial kale resprouting after the annual munching of the caterpillars a medicinal herb with gorgeous yellow daisy headed flowers and ultra attractive to bees elecampane is spreading around the garden courtesy of these adorable fluffy seed heads elecampane seed head forest gardening principles as far as possible the trees and plants in a forest garden should live for their full life span and reproduce themselves naturally and unaided support nature s transformational magic whether in abundance or not harvest only enough demonstrate appreciation in meaningful and tangible ways we need to understand that forest gardens work because of their internal ecology and their links to the ecology of their neighbourhood via visiting insects birds and mammals everything about their structure their functions and their benefits derives from this fact therefore all aspects of their design their planting and subsequent care must link fundamentally to this ecology and allow for natural processes to do much of the work conventionally done by the gardener the forest garden principles guide support and enable the gardener to trust the garden and to make ecologically sensitive decisions the garden of equal delights page 59 share this share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on whatsapp opens in new window whatsapp like loading posted in ecosystem forest gardening fruit principles of forest gardening seeds and seed saving the garden of equal delights tagged ellison s orange apple taunton deane kale 4 comments applying the principles of forest gardening to a natural woodland posted on october 13 2021 by anni kelsey four years ago next month my partner and i were fortunate enough to be able to buy a small 3 acre woodland in shropshire it is a beautiful mixed wood which at that time comprised mainly mature oak and birch with one or two willow beneath this canopy layer there was alder holly hazel rowan hawthorn and blackthorn herbaceous plants included honeysuckle bramble bracken ferns wild raspberry and foxglove and there was a groundcover of mixed grasses mosses bugle tormentil primrose and bluebells the woodland is designated as a semi natural ancient woodland and it sits in an area of protected landscape in the south shropshire hills shortly after we purchased it and in order to enhance the level of protection still further the local council put a tree protection order tpo on the woodland the tpo means that we are not permitted to cut back or cut down any tree without first obtaining permission from the council all these designations mean that this particular wood is highly protected from the wrong kind of intervention but this perhaps begs the question as to whether or not these protections are likely to or even able to promote or encourage beneficial interventions or whether indeed there is even a need for beneficial intervention after all the wood contains a range trees and plants that are suited to the conditions and have been growing without any intervention for many years before i had any direct experience and in so far as i thought about it at all i thought that a natural woodland would be self maintaining and have no need for external support however with the destruction of so much of our natural environment and the severing of the interconnections between ecosystems i now consider that all uk landscapes are incomplete impoverished and as a result they are very much in need of tender loving care initially i did not think about what care the woodland would need as this post of january 2018 shows all thoughts were of what we would do in the wood rather than what we would do with or for it however over the past four years we have learned that despite the inherent advantages of being both semi natural and ancient our woodland has been experiencing setbacks and difficulties that work against it being able to function at its best as a result when pat and i have visited and cared for our lovely woodland we have continually had the principles of forest gardening in mind in a forest garden the aim is to guide the garden towards health fertility and ultimately abundance by encouraging and supporting it towards having the structure and function of a natural woodland and although it may sound strange the principles of forest gardening have helped guide us towards a deeper understanding of our wood and how we can best focus our support the first principle of forest gardening is forest gardening is based upon the structure composition and functioning of a natural woodland including the resultant ecosystem and its emergent properties in a forest garden biodiversity means health a living soil and increasing biomass mean increasing fertility and together health and fertility mean abundance this then is the over arching aim to guide the wood towards an even better state of health and fertility and the next three principles are first stop don t do anything until you need to and in that prolonged pause let go everything the forest gardener does takes full account of the whole of the forest garden ecosystem what has happened what is happening and what they intend for the future watch and wait and these are the means firstly stopping seeking to see every individual thing in the greater context of the whole and simultaneously exercising the restraint of patient watching and waiting whilst the necessary understanding and insight is attained in future posts about the woodland i will describe and explain how this has worked is working out in practice and more about the lessons that spring direct from nature when you take the time to watch and wait hope wood may 2021 share this share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on whatsapp opens in new window whatsapp like loading posted in forest gardening principles of forest gardening relationship with nature waiting watching tagged hope wood woodlands 1 comment all life is interdependent posted on october 12 2021 by anni kelsey all life is connected and therefore utterly interdependent and everything we do or do not do has an impact on the wider world a less wild world is a less stable world david attenborough speaking on bbc tv earthshot programme no 1 my take on forest gardening has always been on the wilder side this has been deliberate because i wanted to push that particular boundary and find out what would happen and clearly none of our growing landscapes would work without the wild elements both within and without their ecosystems my small forest garden on a welsh hillside fits into the larger ecology of the neighbouring gardens farmland and woods by virtue of the many and varied insects animals and birds that live and feed thereabouts uncontained by human boundaries they need a wider landscape to call home and to thrive in because in the actual real world it is not possible to draw a line around any single area or ecosystem that distinguishes or separates it from another one and life will be continually crossing any boundary we may arbitrarily draw so what happens or does not happen in my garden affects my neighbours gardens the woods across the road and the farms up and down the hill and vice versa what happens in those places affects my garden too but further afield across their farther boundaries their ecologies are interacting with yet others down in the valley across to the river amongst the distant hills or along the river and the canal to the town with its industrial estates and the nearby nature reserves along the roadside verges and the railway line and eventually reaching the very different terrain of the mountains the moors and the coast for more explanation and information about this please read my book the garden of equal delights the quote above is an excerpt from pages 155 6 share this share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on whatsapp opens in new window whatsapp like loading posted in forest gardening rewilding tagged bbc earthshot david attenborough 2 comments pear rust posted on october 8 2021 by anni kelsey for years the trees shrubs and other plants in my forest garden have been incredibly healthy with no sign of disease on them however this year pear rust gymnosporangium sabinae arrived and i only really became aware of it as a problem today when i noticed ugly galls protruding from the lower surfaces of certain leaves these leaves have had bright orange spots for several weeks and had i been aware of the disease this would have been a warning sign pear rust is unusual in that it needs both pear trees and juniper bushes to complete its life cycle this article has more details before looking this up i had been round the garden and collected a small bag of all the affected leaves i could find fortunately the trees are all small and easy to reach if i see the tell tale orange patches in future years i will take the affected leaves off immediately to save the trees the stress of playing host to this fungus underside of leaf affected by pear rust over recent years it has become my habit to reference the most relevant forest gardening principle s at the end of each blog post and this principle highlights just how being a forest gardener is a never ending journey of ever increasing learning and deepening understanding of what is unfolding before us forest garden principle polyculture learning is slow learning share this share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on whatsapp opens in new window whatsapp like loading posted in forest 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