Wading through flowers at home. Recipe: Stripping soil back. Weeding Out grass. Throwing seed at it. And give it some years.
Lush May meadow at home. Full of all the plants we’ve been encouraging to take over and ‘go wild’.
Lily of the valley, Spotted dead-nettle and Myrtle cover the banks that surroundnthe new lawn in front of the renovated villa at the Hoorneboeg estate. This garden was planted just over a year ago and has flourishedbin this year. Now ferns and grass
The meadow is our garden and every year we add more plants and watch what happens. In areas there is almost no grass left. The Camassia flower alongside Red Campion. Cowslips spot across the grassy paths. Scabious, Lupins, Ox-eye daisies and poppies
Learning how to make vegan Frittata with foraged sorrel, wild garlic and mallow leaves. Lucy gives her recipe. “ In a bowl, whisk up a couple of desert spoonfuls of chick pea flour ( gram flour) and a couple of desertspoon fulls of vegan egg po
Foraging with Lucy. Delicious spring salad with dandelion and Lucy’s homemade kraut. @meonkraut @lucyogilviegrant #foragingwithlucy #foraging #wildfood
The wind and rain brought down so much Apple blossom. I find they last longest when floating in water.
Malus toringo ‘Scarlett’ espalier over a flint wall. The foliage emerges purple, matures to glossy green then produces red and yellow tints in autumn.
The scent of wisteria in sunshine...
Hello delicious. The Maggie’s greenhouse in FULL throttle ! Thank you Monty @maggiesoldham @alexderijke @so_ho_ko_ @montyrichardson2018
Model building is an important part of the design process for us. Testing how the light falls the colours change and how windows are apertures, framing a view. Here are some ideas for new corridor of colour for TiggColl. @tigg_coll_architects
Couple of hazel twig obelisks for the Raspberry’s and Sweet Peas to grow through.
One tree, one moment, showing all the phases of the chestnut-buds at the same time. A little hope in corona-time! #inspiredbynature #springtime
Fantastic composting at de Hoornebeog. A big three bay producing black gold for the garden. It’s all about the soil and micro organisms if you want to most tasty and vitamin rich fruit and veg. A delivery of rich organic matter we are adding to
The Team! Missing Imogen and Sophie from England. After a marathon design session we had a hands on Friday in the walled vegetable garden. @elegast_cidery @wesley_vd_ven @meeuwsen_muldoon @rupert_muldoon