thank you for sharing your garden with us. Really enjoyed this video. I'm 11 yrs in on my permaculture forest garden, and it's really nice to see a mature garden like yours and get inspiration and see where my garden is going. So inspiring. Thank you
@@PermacultureMagazine I also wanted to say how much I appreciate your beekeeping method and philosophy. It is 100% what I do with my bees too, and it's rare that I run across another beek who keeps with so much respect for the bees' wildness. Just a lovely garden and a really clear concise tour. Thank you again.
@@PermacultureMagazine Parkrose Permaculture has a fantastic permaculture example. She shares techniques and insights on well done, helpful videos on her Parkrose Permaculture youtube channel. . We both live in Portland, Oregon. I also love your gentle actions toward your bees. i only encourage wild bees.
@@ParkrosePermaculture My town does not allow beekeeping, but I have hundreds of many kinds of native bees in my yard now, plus, honey bees come from who knows where to my yard. (This is a town of only lawns except for me and one other person.) 14 years ago, I could only find two bumble bees, mother and daugther.
Truely beautiful. My foodforest/wildlife habitat is also blooming in white right now, in my case, wood anemones. Other areas have many different shades of pink thanks to the peonies. It's interesting how some times of the year, certain colors dominated and then after they are done, some other colors take over. 15 years ago, when I moved here, it was all lawn.
Loved your video. Thank you for inviting me in. I think what you have done to your space over the years is wonderful. It must be such a source of pleasure to both of you. Because of you and a couple of other permaculture gardeners on RUclips I totally changed my ways. My handkerchief sized garden (35’x30’) is split into 3 zones one of which is a mini food forest I planted out last autumn. I already had a couple of blueberry shrubs in there under wild cherry and the rest of that area was filled with perennial flowers. I had a rethink last summer after suffering health problems and decided to grow organically. My mantra is “if I can’t eat it, it doesn’t go in the forest”. I’m hoping this year to crop some gooseberries, black currents, raspberries, wine berries and the original blueberries. Under planting the bushes are bilberry, strawberry, nasturtium, tulip, calendula. This part of my garden is my favourite place to be and I share it with numerous garden birds, bees and hover flies. It is amazingly and satisfyingly noisy! The other zones are annual vegetables which I interplant including my salad bed, and a wild corner of nettle, briar rose, honeysuckle, container herbs and wild flowers. My bench is in that corner. I feel the good of gardening in this way and my little garden provides more interest to me now. I can walk through the wooden arch covered with rambling Rose and honeysuckle into my forest and I feel I’m in a different world. It’s the finest medicine I’ve ever had.
Thank you for sharing your garden and zoning, I am just getting into Permaculture and absorbing as much information as possible and the videos are a wonderful resource and inspiration.
Incredible garden! Actually kind’ve hard to believe that it’s the same space that was pictured in the beginning. I think adding vegetation to a lawn can make it look much larger rather than smaller, at least in my experience
Thank you. You are big inspiratons for our 1/4 acre food forest in the Pacific Northwest of the US. Thank you for your permaculture work for All Species and Mother Earth :)
@@PermacultureMagazine you are welcome. permaculture is the hope of the world and all species....i have been all in since reading “One Straw Revolution” in 1980 by candlelight in my trailer in the forest. :)
What a beautiful garden that you've created! I'm just starting out on our permaculture journey here in New Zealand and seeing your mature garden and permaculture values was so inspiring :) I'm just gutted I didn't start mine earlier!
Lovely film - thanks for sharing you garden again Tim and Maddy - I need to know more about "stacking" my greenhouse - can that be the next video please from Harlandia? Or come and visit us in North Norfolk for a beach holiday this summer - if you are not allowed to stay due to the pandemic - you can camp outside!! and give me some greenhouse ideas!! lots of love xx
This was excellent. I was impressed seeing the photo of your backyard before using permaculture to what it now looks like: what an amazing transformation, and I especially liked how clearly you explained and showed the five zones. Very informative. Thank you🌻🐝🦋
So beautiful and inspiring. I have a (much smaller) front garden blank canvas now we’ve removed a huge leylandii hedge. Could you possibly talk about a small section of your food forest in detail so I can get a sense of how to associate everything together. I think you’ve planted it more densely than I would dare. Or just a snapshot of part of your planting design maybe.
Thank you so much. We plan to make 1 a month on different aspects of forest gardening and permaculture design. Please let us know what subjects would be of interest.
Your garden is so beautiful and so inspiration!... I’m planning to do permaculture farming in Vietnam. I wish I could visit your garden to learn more experience from you two. Thank you for sharing this 🍀🌺🌻
I would love to do something like this on a MUCH smaller scale in my urban back garden. I have several mature (90 year old) shade trees and established shrubs. Do you have any advise about how to work with them? I'm particularly nervous about the placement of fruit trees.
This is beautiful. Just at soil building and design stage myself in something I/4 the size. Where did you get such a long season wild meadow mix? Did you have to keep resowing it initially? Im waiting for my first meadow flowers to emerge but still seems thin on the ground. What on earth do you do with all the fruit and nuts from 60 trees? Not to mention all your berries. Mine will be too close to the house and shade too much of the veg garden to have more than 5 but that still will be more than I can eat. I am copying your circular design for your veg beds 😁. Love it.
The meadow mix comes from Emorsgate Seeds in Glos. It was a mix of annuals and perennials. We have managed it so we only cut after the seeds drop. We lost Yellow Rattle in the early years due to inexperience and have resown it more recently with fresh seed. We also added Viper's Blugloss in plugs last year. Berries are no problem - we freeze them. We compete with squirrels for the nuts. We give away fruit and aim to make apple juice. Whatever we don't eat is taken care of by birds and small mammals.
Hello Would I be able to put a 18 cm deep raised bed on concrete/tarmac and fill it with multi purpose compost? Would that much be enough for potatoes, carrots salads etc? Thank you
@@okmmauh Huegelculture was the solution (20 years ago... sooo bad soil - after having built our house!) greetings from upper Austria, Gertrude Pumberger 🐞
Hello, my friend, Murray Brand, in Essex, and I have discussed my bringing my White Tiger Farms to the UK, to buy land for sale to turn it into forest gardens, with deep biodiversity, and to establish AgriHood (Agriculture + Neighborhood) communities with tiny homes on the sacred land for homeless, jobless, vets, to live and work together to help one another, while regenerating the land, and saving many rare species while we are at it. Can we dialog on collaboration in the UK to turn unused land into forest gardens for the future?
@@PermacultureMagazine waist I could I am still learning about mushroom. Am useing oak for shiitake chicken of the woods and oyster. Will be a while before I know if it works
The best thing you can do is study your local wild flowers. Then cut your lawn, scratch it to create bare soil and sow a local seed mix in it. You can also plant plugs grown on from seed. We do both. We will make a meadow video about how we planted it and how we add to the diversity, and how we manage it to ensure we keep the species in it.
Your garden is beautiful, great work. Just wished this wasnt one more case of video beginning with: the soil didnt exist, no earthworms, the soil was dead... Its almost impossible that you didnt had earthworms all around, and just seeing the vegetation in the pics at beginning its obvious the soil (and soil fertility) existed there. If there was no soil and no fertility there nothing would grow. If you did nothing, and just waited 20 years you would get a forest anyway. Maybe full of brambles, but you also would have many diferrent other flowers, bushes and trees. And insects, bees included. And birds and animals... in fact, many of them were there when you arrived already. We can garden just because we like and want it. No need to go to this "im a saviour of the world, everything was dead and then we arrived..." kind of vanity.
We only have one kind of venomous snake in Britain and it is unlikely it would come here. It is not deadly either - very different from Africa where this would be a problem.
thank you for sharing your garden with us. Really enjoyed this video. I'm 11 yrs in on my permaculture forest garden, and it's really nice to see a mature garden like yours and get inspiration and see where my garden is going. So inspiring. Thank you
Really our pleasure - to garden and then share it with others. Thanks for watching.
@@PermacultureMagazine I also wanted to say how much I appreciate your beekeeping method and philosophy. It is 100% what I do with my bees too, and it's rare that I run across another beek who keeps with so much respect for the bees' wildness.
Just a lovely garden and a really clear concise tour. Thank you again.
@@PermacultureMagazine Parkrose Permaculture has a fantastic permaculture example. She shares techniques and insights on well done, helpful videos on her Parkrose Permaculture youtube channel. . We both live in Portland, Oregon. I also love your gentle actions toward your bees. i only encourage wild bees.
Will check it out!
@@ParkrosePermaculture My town does not allow beekeeping, but I have hundreds of many kinds of native bees in my yard now, plus, honey bees come from who knows where to my yard. (This is a town of only lawns except for me and one other person.) 14 years ago, I could only find two bumble bees, mother and daugther.
Truely beautiful. My foodforest/wildlife habitat is also blooming in white right now, in my case, wood anemones. Other areas have many different shades of pink thanks to the peonies. It's interesting how some times of the year, certain colors dominated and then after they are done, some other colors take over. 15 years ago, when I moved here, it was all lawn.
Loved your video. Thank you for inviting me in. I think what you have done to your space over the years is wonderful. It must be such a source of pleasure to both of you. Because of you and a couple of other permaculture gardeners on RUclips I totally changed my ways.
My handkerchief sized garden (35’x30’) is split into 3 zones one of which is a mini food forest I planted out last autumn. I already had a couple of blueberry shrubs in there under wild cherry and the rest of that area was filled with perennial flowers. I had a rethink last summer after suffering health problems and decided to grow organically. My mantra is “if I can’t eat it, it doesn’t go in the forest”. I’m hoping this year to crop some gooseberries, black currents, raspberries, wine berries and the original blueberries. Under planting the bushes are bilberry, strawberry, nasturtium, tulip, calendula. This part of my garden is my favourite place to be and I share it with numerous garden birds, bees and hover flies. It is amazingly and satisfyingly noisy!
The other zones are annual vegetables which I interplant including my salad bed, and a wild corner of nettle, briar rose, honeysuckle, container herbs and wild flowers. My bench is in that corner.
I feel the good of gardening in this way and my little garden provides more interest to me now. I can walk through the wooden arch covered with rambling Rose and honeysuckle into my forest and I feel I’m in a different world. It’s the finest medicine I’ve ever had.
Sounds like a beautiful garden that makes the very best of the space. Thank you for telling us about it.
Hampshire really is a beautiful part of the world. With the South Downs and the New Forest ❤ love my home county.
OMG I am so inspired!! Thank you!
Sooooooo amazing!! Those beautiful birds providing the perfect soundtrack to your amazing forest.
A magical place that I hope one day to visit.
Cheers from this permaculture practicing Harland from down under.
Helen Harland
Best summary of zones! Just what I'd like to create
Thank you!
Thank you for sharing your garden and zoning, I am just getting into Permaculture and absorbing as much information as possible and the videos are a wonderful resource and inspiration.
Thanks for your encouraging comment. Glad the video was helpful.
Love the video! Keep them coming! Thank you!
Totally in love with what you have both created. Inspirational - and especially love the way you are looking after your bees!!!
Thank you - more updates soon!
I love your garden and your work! Thank you for being an inspiring and positive example and sharing your beautiful garden with us!
✨🌿🌸🌱💚🌱🌸🌿✨
What a beautiful oasis! Looking for some inspiration for my tiny, astroturf patch in Bristol. Thank you for sharing
Incredible garden! Actually kind’ve hard to believe that it’s the same space that was pictured in the beginning. I think adding vegetation to a lawn can make it look much larger rather than smaller, at least in my experience
We promise it is the same space!
Thank you. You are big inspiratons for our 1/4 acre food forest in the Pacific Northwest of the US. Thank you for your permaculture work for All Species and Mother Earth :)
Thank you for your encouraging comment - it means a lot
@@PermacultureMagazine you are welcome. permaculture is the hope of the world and all species....i have been all in since reading “One Straw Revolution” in 1980 by candlelight in my trailer in the forest. :)
inspiring! taking notes to create our own heston community garden!
Thank you both for sharing your beautiful creation
Swoon... My husband and I just watched, transfixed... This is a dream come true xxx
Thank you - it has been such a pleasure to help it grow.
Beautiful garden, your very own eden. Really enjoyed the video.
Many thanks
Beautiful and very inspiring, thanks guys ⭐️
Gorgeous, zone 5 made my day
Just dreamy and inspirational. Thank you for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it!
What a lovely couple and gorgeous garden. So lucky to have the opportunity and knowledge. Thank you for sharing it all. God bless.
So kind of you. Thank you. It is our pleasure to share - more permaculture videos demonstrated by this garden soon!
Thank you very much ! Wonderful !
What a beautiful garden that you've created! I'm just starting out on our permaculture journey here in New Zealand and seeing your mature garden and permaculture values was so inspiring :) I'm just gutted I didn't start mine earlier!
Thank you - it is never too late to start!
Mia Dowman * nature loves any time
So beautiful and inspiring! I can not wait to start my own!
It would be lovely to see a drone shot of the garden from above. Beautiful garden btw. :)
Great people. I love your videos. I love to grow more fruit trees to eliminate disease and hunger from this earth.
Lovely film - thanks for sharing you garden again Tim and Maddy - I need to know more about "stacking" my greenhouse - can that be the next video please from Harlandia? Or come and visit us in North Norfolk for a beach holiday this summer - if you are not allowed to stay due to the pandemic - you can camp outside!! and give me some greenhouse ideas!! lots of love xx
Yes that is on our list for this month in the garden.
Thanks! Very magical place.
This was excellent. I was impressed seeing the photo of your backyard before using permaculture to what it now looks like: what an amazing transformation, and I especially liked how clearly you explained and showed the five zones. Very informative. Thank you🌻🐝🦋
Thank you for commenting. Much appreciated.
@@PermacultureMagazine 🌻🐝🦋 : )
Very Beautiful we need more people to let nature take its course the days of the cut lawn is over. 😊👍🏻💞
Great source for inspiration and information. I've just subscribed to your channel.
So beautiful and inspiring. I have a (much smaller) front garden blank canvas now we’ve removed a huge leylandii hedge. Could you possibly talk about a small section of your food forest in detail so I can get a sense of how to associate everything together. I think you’ve planted it more densely than I would dare. Or just a snapshot of part of your planting design maybe.
Fantastic video of a forest garden very inspiring 👍
Thank you so much. We plan to make 1 a month on different aspects of forest gardening and permaculture design. Please let us know what subjects would be of interest.
Urban backyard permaculture. I am also doing Natural Korean Farming with fermented soil amendments.
I have an ex council house with a large garden, definitely going to do what I can..
What a wonderful explanation of how you created your garden, so inspiring!
So glad you enjoyed it!
Beautiful thank you 👍
Your garden is so beautiful and so inspiration!... I’m planning to do permaculture farming in Vietnam. I wish I could visit your garden to learn more experience from you two. Thank you for sharing this 🍀🌺🌻
Please come back and see more - we will film more permaculture principles at work in the forest garden each month.
very beautiful and eddible !
Very fabulous food gardan
You have created a beautiful garden 👍. God bless you
Thank you! You too!
Stunning! Thank you for sharing 😊
My pleasure 😊
beautiful!
Very inspiring 💚🐝🐝
Thank You for sharing your beautiful garden ♥
Our pleasure
Great video, thank you! And I love the music at the beginning and end - I'll have to check the artist out. Cheers!
Hey thanks. Please check out Tygermylk on Spotify. She’s awesome
Thank you.
very interesting & Inspiring!!
Beautiful garden, i like gardening
So great to have got that footage at the very beginning. :)
Yes we were lucky we had a video camera the size of a small baby at the time!
@@PermacultureMagazine And I bet you had a small baby to compare it to!
Thanks for sharing your garden , love it 😍😍😍
Thanks for visiting
Thank you for this video!
Beautiful!! An inspiration to a beginner forest gardener here in the States. Also, what is the name of the song included in the video?
Have you ever considered getting a wildlife pond? With a habitat like that, I’m sure it would be colonised very quickly. Lovely garden
Hi there are 2 bigger ponds and 3 smaller ones lower down the slope.
I would love to do something like this on a MUCH smaller scale in my urban back garden. I have several mature (90 year old) shade trees and established shrubs. Do you have any advise about how to work with them? I'm particularly nervous about the placement of fruit trees.
Do it! :D
Very interesting thank-you
Very welcome
"200 by 65 ft... so not a massive plot"
*Cries in inner London*
How did you start the meadow? Is there a video on that subject?
Coming soon! Thank you for asking.
So beautiful... thank you so much for sharing!
Ps. I loved the tent on spring medow. Would you mind telling us where did you get it?
Thanks a lot!
Yes it is from belltent.co.uk/
Loved it too...I wonder if mind shipping to Sweden 🤔
This is beautiful. Just at soil building and design stage myself in something I/4 the size.
Where did you get such a long season wild meadow mix? Did you have to keep resowing it initially? Im waiting for my first meadow flowers to emerge but still seems thin on the ground.
What on earth do you do with all the fruit and nuts from 60 trees? Not to mention all your berries. Mine will be too close to the house and shade too much of the veg garden to have more than 5 but that still will be more than I can eat.
I am copying your circular design for your veg beds 😁. Love it.
The meadow mix comes from Emorsgate Seeds in Glos. It was a mix of annuals and perennials. We have managed it so we only cut after the seeds drop. We lost Yellow Rattle in the early years due to inexperience and have resown it more recently with fresh seed. We also added Viper's Blugloss in plugs last year. Berries are no problem - we freeze them. We compete with squirrels for the nuts. We give away fruit and aim to make apple juice. Whatever we don't eat is taken care of by birds and small mammals.
@@PermacultureMagazine
Thanks very much for the info🙏
Love the ground cover, what the ID of the plant with flower?
Red Hot Poker
Hello
Would I be able to put a 18 cm deep raised bed on concrete/tarmac and fill it with multi purpose compost?
Would that much be enough for potatoes, carrots salads etc?
Thank you
Anomy . Check out Heugel culture for raised beds
@@okmmauh Huegelculture was the solution (20 years ago... sooo bad soil - after having built our house!)
greetings from upper Austria, Gertrude Pumberger 🐞
I thought you let the bees come naturally to your house hives, yet you catch them? Anyways nice video love the wildness
Hello, my friend, Murray Brand, in Essex, and I have discussed my bringing my White Tiger Farms to the UK, to buy land for sale to turn it into forest gardens, with deep biodiversity, and to establish AgriHood (Agriculture + Neighborhood) communities with tiny homes on the sacred land for homeless, jobless, vets, to live and work together to help one another, while regenerating the land, and saving many rare species while we are at it. Can we dialog on collaboration in the UK to turn unused land into forest gardens for the future?
Nice to see beehives. Do mushrooms
Oyster mushrooms on beech under the hedge in front garden ... What else do you recommend?
@@PermacultureMagazine waist I could I am still learning about mushroom. Am useing oak for shiitake chicken of the woods and oyster. Will be a while before I know if it works
Привет!
Have you any advice on how to convert my lawn to a wildflower meadow? Or if there are any companies that can design something for me?
The best thing you can do is study your local wild flowers. Then cut your lawn, scratch it to create bare soil and sow a local seed mix in it. You can also plant plugs grown on from seed. We do both. We will make a meadow video about how we planted it and how we add to the diversity, and how we manage it to ensure we keep the species in it.
@@PermacultureMagazine yes please!
How many acres do you have?
One third acre is back garden. Whole plot half an acre
Your garden is beautiful, great work.
Just wished this wasnt one more case of video beginning with: the soil didnt exist, no earthworms, the soil was dead...
Its almost impossible that you didnt had earthworms all around, and just seeing the vegetation in the pics at beginning its obvious the soil (and soil fertility) existed there. If there was no soil and no fertility there nothing would grow. If you did nothing, and just waited 20 years you would get a forest anyway. Maybe full of brambles, but you also would have many diferrent other flowers, bushes and trees. And insects, bees included. And birds and animals... in fact, many of them were there when you arrived already.
We can garden just because we like and want it. No need to go to this "im a saviour of the world, everything was dead and then we arrived..." kind of vanity.
I'm from Afrika, if your garden is fully grown iike this, prepare for snakes to live in your garden.
We only have one kind of venomous snake in Britain and it is unlikely it would come here. It is not deadly either - very different from Africa where this would be a problem.
I'm starting a permaculture demonstration farm in Africa and poisonous snakes are my big concern but I'm determined to find ways to handle somehow...
Ezra Kutama ... yes, in Australia, there are many of the most deadly in the world. We had a brown living in the back yard. It is the most dangerous
@@PermacultureSolutions this is something I havent thought about while being interested in permaculture
Why do you feel the need to blast peoples' ears off with the music at the beginning and end 👎