Hello crowd!
It has been ages, since I wanted to show you my garden, it's a diverse place and would take me ages to explain it all, so I'll start from a few things at a time
The plot of land that I own is about 3 acres. It's in a beautiful spot and is nearby a small woodland. You can see the woodland in the back and the tall birch is mine.
I have set up a summers camp here, have a few bee hives and started to build a small house, to host my, my wife and all the tools I need for daily use. The stone is used widely as I try to use as many natural building materials as I can.
I had a pond dug last year, so fresh water would be on site. It's a key element, as water is everything. I can distribute it to my garden easily, the bare minimum transportation required. I can fish, swim here, I can grow useful plants, and the most important, a huge variety of wildlife lives around it. I wish I had it bigger
Next to the pond in the shade of the birches I decided to fence off a little plot of land for tree nursery, where they would spend the first few years whend they need the most attention and the fence is to protect them from hungry rabbits and deer in winter. It's a gonna be chillout area too, next to the pond and also easy to keep an eye on baby trees...
HAVE YOU SEEN SOME STICKS????? As it took us thousands of them to complete this traditional willow fence I had to check miles of riverbeds to find enough of straight ones Finally I went to a willow farm and they kindly offered me to have a chop around! how cool???
Close up. The first few parts were made of hazel, I gathered a pile of it in winter...
And that's leftovers of my wood materials. Hazel and spruce gathered in winter. Had to cut them myself, but got it for free as a part of woodland management...
Some trees are already planted. In this spot mostly lime, ash, some oak and others. I also have willow coppice and will be planting hazel coppice too. A wide variety of trees is a lot better then monocultural because you get to much out of each species..
In my garden section, I have different plumps, apples, pears and so on and so on.. bushes in between, making the most of the land.
And these are beds of useful plants for the bees. In this case Agastache foeniculum. Makes a great tee also, smells incredible. My missus works with flowers
here bees dance on Globethistle. Alien looking plant
And a patch of lavender When the house is done, going to be next to the bedroom window. Smells great!
And this is a stone base for the house. It's gonna be a small house, with the basic of commodities.
Entrance of the house. A bit more detailed stone work, done by a friend of mine.
Only the early stages so far.. what do you think?
It has been ages, since I wanted to show you my garden, it's a diverse place and would take me ages to explain it all, so I'll start from a few things at a time
The plot of land that I own is about 3 acres. It's in a beautiful spot and is nearby a small woodland. You can see the woodland in the back and the tall birch is mine.
I have set up a summers camp here, have a few bee hives and started to build a small house, to host my, my wife and all the tools I need for daily use. The stone is used widely as I try to use as many natural building materials as I can.
I had a pond dug last year, so fresh water would be on site. It's a key element, as water is everything. I can distribute it to my garden easily, the bare minimum transportation required. I can fish, swim here, I can grow useful plants, and the most important, a huge variety of wildlife lives around it. I wish I had it bigger
Next to the pond in the shade of the birches I decided to fence off a little plot of land for tree nursery, where they would spend the first few years whend they need the most attention and the fence is to protect them from hungry rabbits and deer in winter. It's a gonna be chillout area too, next to the pond and also easy to keep an eye on baby trees...
HAVE YOU SEEN SOME STICKS????? As it took us thousands of them to complete this traditional willow fence
I had to check miles of riverbeds to find enough of straight ones Finally I went to a willow farm and they kindly offered me to have a chop around! how cool???
Close up. The first few parts were made of hazel, I gathered a pile of it in winter...
And that's leftovers of my wood materials. Hazel and spruce gathered in winter. Had to cut them myself, but got it for free as a part of woodland management...
Some trees are already planted. In this spot mostly lime, ash, some oak and others. I also have willow coppice and will be planting hazel coppice too. A wide variety of trees is a lot better then monocultural because you get to much out of each species..
In my garden section, I have different plumps, apples, pears and so on and so on.. bushes in between, making the most of the land.
And these are beds of useful plants for the bees. In this case Agastache foeniculum. Makes a great tee also, smells incredible. My missus works with flowers
here bees dance on Globethistle. Alien looking plant
And a patch of lavender
When the house is done, going to be next to the bedroom window. Smells great!
And this is a stone base for the house. It's gonna be a small house, with the basic of commodities.
Entrance of the house. A bit more detailed stone work, done by a friend of mine.
Only the early stages so far.. what do you think?
