My current garden goals are:
1. Focus on habitat creation (including more plant biodiversity) and soil-building gardening practices
2. Increase our home grown food supply year on year (with abundance to share produce, seeds and propagated plants)
3. Increase the percentage of perennial foods grown each year.
4. Build and maintain seed and cutting supplies to further cultivate our land, and to share locally adapted plants in the community.
With these goals in mind, I inventoried our garden in 2020. Since the plants are split between several different growing patches, they do not all benefit from one another’s presence, but I’ve tried to build the layers in each area. We lost our gorgeous sycamore tree in a storm several years ago (it’s now a pile of logs and sticks for wildlife) and the two fruit trees are in pots, so only the shrub layer and down are directly in the soil.
*In pots, +seeds
CANOPY
(Norway) Maples: 4 mature and 3 in juvenile coppiced state
Rowan (sapling)*
SUB CANOPY
Apple tree (M26 rootstock, unknown variety)
Pear tree (dwarf)*, and another in the ground
Cherry tree (dwarf, Stella)*
Elder (baby cutting from 2019)*
SHRUB
Blackberry (Tay) *
Raspberry*
Gooseberry (Invicta)*
Perennial kale (Taunton Deane* & Daubenton’s*)
Rhubarb*- two varieties. One from the old house one from the new. Both unknown varieties.
Black currant (small plant from mother in law 2020)*
Lavender
Sage*
Rosemary*
Forcythia
Lilac
Azaela (tiny)*
Hydrangea (cutting from 2020)*
Wild rose x 2 (cutting from 2020)*
HERBACEOUS
Horehound*
Chamomile+
Oregano & marjoram
Zucchini – haven’t had much of a harvest in years
Nettle
Calendula+
Annual kale as living mulch+
Mint X2*
Lemon balm
Tomatoes (Latah) in greenhouse
Turnip greens
Mustard greens & hot mustard greens
Rocket+
Lettuces+
Chard
NZ spinach (new)+
Aztec broccoli (new)
Mallow (musk mallow)
Welsh Poppies- yellow, with occasional orange+*
Yarrow*
Honesty (white)+
Yellow loosestrife*
Asters
Lady’s mantle
Bergenia*
Lungwort*
Hardy geranium
Teasel
Columbine+
Comfrey*
Mullein+*
African daisy*
Perennial helianthus of some (gorgeous) sort*
Perennial cornflower*
Salvia*
Echinops*
GROUND COVER
Strawberry*
Wild strawberry*
White violets*
Dandelions, of course
Plantain*
VINES/CLIMBERS
Purple climbing beans (to save)
Scarlett runner beans +
Soup peas (Boddington’s)
Tall peas (Lord Leicester)
Mange tout
Honeysuckle
Wisteria*
Sweet peas (get perennial)
BULBS/RHIZOSPHERE
Annual garlic (a softneck variety)+
Chives*
Annual onions (from purchased seed- haven’t successfully saved seed)
Perennial onions (walking) (to save bulbils and dig up main bulbs)
Perennial leeks x2 types (building stock)*
Wild garlic (purchase for 2021)
Radish
Beets
Sunchokes*
Ornamental Alliums*+
Crocuses
Daffodils
Grape hyacinth
Hyacinth
Snowdrops
Tete a tetes
Tulips
Gladiolus (Byzantius) – very few because I weeeded it out every year thinking it was the larger crocosmia
Bluebells+
Glory of the snow (March bloom)
CURRENTLY in cuttings, hoping for the best: Red gooseberry, wisteria (purple & white), tea rose, other garden rose, golden raspberries, climbing hydrangea, hawthorn, fushia, broom, meadowsweet.
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