Motherhen
Member since: Oct 09 | Last seen: Jun 13 | Years gardening: 0
Hello
I’ve just started to get back in the garden again after about 20 years off “growing” the children. You know how it is….I’ve just remembered the things I used to do!
I’ve always enjoyed wild flowers and the counrtyside, and in the dim and distant past I had loads of house plants. Plants interest me scientifically; I think that it is amazing how molecules produced by plants for their own survival, have such diverse uses in human medicine.
So, now is the time to see what could be in the garden (chickens permitting), fill the conservatory and remind my husband that I ‘have always wanted a green house’!
Gardens
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Zone 8b For spells, nostrums, potions and pharmacognosy. I have always been amazed how it is that molecules found in plants have pharmacological effects i...
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Zone 8b Well, it all started easily enough, but turned out to be quite a challenge that is not yet overcome! I had staggered back from Eton with two wister...
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Zone 8b It is actually the Chickens that are in control of my garden but I don’t mind! We bought the first four girls quite soon after we moved to K...
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Zone 8b I thought it would be nice to try a dry garden using plants that can, in the main, look after themselves. There was a sad little hot dry corner by ...
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Zone 8b This is on the nice table in the conservatory, and it contains a selection of seedlings, growing pips and stones; cuttings and things I need to kee...
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Zone 8b This has developed because there is not enough room to take all the vegetables I want to plant in the Smallholding. It is to be a container garden,...
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Zone 8b The ‘Garden in the Lane’ is the result of having the Chucks. Everyone who has chickens will know that they are very good gardeners. W...
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Zone 8b This part of the garden had a big make over at the weekend. The Chickens had got in and done more damage to the hostas than an army of slugs. Eve...
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Zone 8b This is a bit of a heirloom project; but I thought it would be a nice idea to grow a few trees from seed. Hopefully, it will not be too long before...
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Zone 8b I had an idea for this garden last year, but it has taken me almost 8 years to notice that chickens don’t eat or mess with Iris. We inherite...
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Zone 8b I have been watching the lichen grow on top of the front gate for quite a while. There seem to be many types and colours and I’m sure that th...
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Zone 8b This is a bit of a long term project, and while we decide what we can cope with and what we can afford, I’m putting in some potatoes!
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Zone 8b I started this garden as soon as we moved to Kent so it has been in production for about 12 years now. It is called ‘The Smallholding’ ...
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Zone 8b This is an old apple tree in the lawn at the end of the garden, the tree looks to be at least 50 years old and it still produces fruit at the end o...
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Zone 8b This is quite a sheltered spot, it faces south and is directly in front of the house wall. It is also protected from the worst of the south west wi...
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Windowsill and Conservatory garden
I used to have loads of indoor plants, but they could not cope with the changing temperature coming out of university halls of residence and then i...
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I love to grow
anything that you can eat; house plants; odd things from pips, stones and fruit; anything that does something odd or interesting; anything that is pretty to look at
Hobbies
keeping chickens; walking the dog; cooking; knitting; medicine and pharmacology
