My gardening services will continue to include essential tasks such as weeding, pruning and planting, while also actively encouraging and supporting clients to adopt more wildlife-friendly practices, including:
Advice on pollinator-friendly planting and design to enhance and encourage nature back into gardens
Sensitive pruning of ivy to restore brick and stone walls
Advice on how an ecosystem can be created
Advice on mulching and composting
Advice on creating wildlife havens such as logpiles, dead hedging, native hedging, hedgehog houses, ponds etc
Reducing waste by being creative in how to recycle it back into the garden
Becoming organic to protect our insects
Advice on trees and shrubs, with emphasis on how important they are to our birds
Fruit tree pruning
Keep an eye out for future blog posts on specific topics. I also plan to add to my repertoire, learning about complementary subjects such as growing food and agro-ecology, forest gardening, agro-forestry and hedgerow management, hedgelaying, hurdlemaking, green manures, use of biochar and mycorrhizal associations to name a few!
