It’s that time of year when it’s all about improving the soil. In horticultural terms, soil is everything. By getting the soil right, creating nutrient rich soil filled with well rotted manure, organic matter, homemade compost, or spent mushroom compost; … Continue reading
The start of February sees us busily bee-vering away on eleven really exciting projects – and this is meant to be the dormant season! From a client brief to create year-round scented planters for a school entrance, to creating a … Continue reading
We have started the year by taking on three very exciting new projects. Firstly, a wonderful large garden in the Islington area. The challenge is a classic one – the garden is very long and thin. To break this up, … Continue reading
We have been commissioned to design and create a wonderful new space outside the Kentish Town Health Centre. Called the ‘Well-beeinng garden,’ our concept will turn the over-grown area into a abundant, beautiful and beneficial space filled with plants and … Continue reading
In tandem with our local Transition groups in Belsize and Kentish Town, we are developing our very own beer: Belsize beer, Kentish town keg, and Hampstead Heath hop. Our bit is to advise how to grow the hops! We are … Continue reading
Just putting the finishing touches on the design of a very small but lovely back garden in Islington. The brief is to stick to a year round colour palette of purple and white – hues thereof. Thank goodness for Anemone … Continue reading
We have been busy, alongside Transition Belsize and Kentish Town, the last few weekends taking our apple press around to lots of local schools and events. We particularly enjoyed the event at the local forest/Montessori school in Camden whose grounds … Continue reading
We have been asked to come up with a design for a local NHS healthcare centre. The brief is to incorporate shrubs and plants which apart from looking beautiful, can be also used to create tinctures and herbal remedies – … Continue reading
We have been busy this week ordering thousand of wonderful, beneficial bulbs and plug plants on behalf of our clients to create that first flush of Woodland Spring… The wood is where flowers start their year. They have to get … Continue reading
Come and meet us on Saturday 28/9 at the annual Transition Belsize green fair. Kids, come and help us create a willow butterfly tree which we will fill with lots of lovely fluttering butterfly messages. Time: Midday to 4pm. Haverstock … Continue reading
As we approach the end of September it’s the last chance to be thinking about sowing any lawn seed before the Winter sets in. But why lay just a traditional grass lawn? We are urging all of our clients to … Continue reading
We are off this afternoon to pick up the following great awards for several of our school designs/campaigns: Fitzjohns Primary School – Greenest School in Camden 2012/2013 Fitzjohns Primary School – 1st prize in horticultural/eco links to the curriculum St … Continue reading
Last week we were delighted to be able to contribute a tasty amount of herbs from three of our community growing spaces to a fantastic new veg box scheme in NW5 – www.vegbox.org.uk. Our thanks go to the Year 3 … Continue reading
We love the clubs we run at local schools. Last week at Fitzjohns School we really enjoyed creating natural dyes from plants and veg and designing our own bamboo t-shirts. The madder plant we had grown in our natural dye … Continue reading
This week we are working on a great new job to transform a small, overgrown Belsize Park front garden into a wildlife habitat. Columns of herbs adding a formal edge to the design. A palette of whites and purples aiming … Continue reading
We have been invited by Swiss Cottage library/Camden Council to run a workshop this Saturday 18th May on ‘Attracting wildlife into your outside space.’ We’ll be outside the library between 2pm-4pm. Come and meet us and take home a free … Continue reading
We have just been given the go ahead on a truly inspiring project in Brent to bring a burst of colour and community engagement into an estate in Brent with the most wonderful grounds. This is our fave kind of … Continue reading
Last Autumn, we were given a brief at Fitzjohns school to plant an area of fruit bushes… With the aim of really engaging the kids we decided to turn it into a fruit salad patch, lotsa currant bushes, raspberries etc … Continue reading
We were invited by City farm to run a community workshop last weekend. Whilst the workshop was billed at being a nettle workshop, as the weather has been sooo cold, even the nettles have been slow in growing! What to … Continue reading
We have just been asked by a certain council to design for the grounds in one of their large libraries, a series of beds which look like opened books. The beds will be filled with flowers/plants referenced in books to … Continue reading