Nature in a Permaculture Garden 1 - Spring Daffodils in Decaying Leaf Litter of the Oak Tree Coppice

Each day I work with nature in my permaculture garden is another day of peace and enlightenment.

The other day I was bringing some some lopped off branches from a tree that required cutting back, down to my decaying wood pile. If you haven't got one yet a decaying wood pile is a great home for so many of natures little creatures, from the over wintering hedgehog down to the microscopic creatures that climb out of the soil to feast on the woody offcuts I continually pile up for them. As time passes the lower layers are continuously turned into rich fertile soil.

My wood pile is in an oak coppice I planted twenty or so years ago, I planted it with some tiny bare root trees I found dying in a plastic bag thrown into an illegal dump at the side of a country lane, you just never know what treasures people will throw away. They took some time to recover but have since taken off very well. Beneath the trees along the edge of the coppice I planted up some daffodil bulbs I was given as a birthday present a few years after the trees were settled in.

As I wandered my way through the coppice this particular day, lopped branches in hand, I noticed this years daffodils were breaking through the leaf litter which the trees have been dropping year upon year improving the quality of the soil, as they in their turn are broken down into wonderful fertile soil. Each clump of daffodils you see in this short clip started out life as just one single bulb. Every year without fail they divid underground and produce more and more daffodils.

Through this series of #shorts I will be capturing scenes throughout the year in my #permaculture garden. As I slowly turn a couple of acres into a food forest I will film some moments that bring joy to my heart. I hope they serve as a reminder for you also how wonderful a garden is.

A garden can be shaped and adorned to suit many tastes, desires and needs. In my own case, I have an interest in growing food. Nowadays almost everything I plant produces food of some kind, secondly I grow plants with a medicinal value, others which add essential value to other plants or creatures, I also enjoy plants which have a positive psychological emphasis, plant which lift my own spirit and the spirit of those you visit my garden, plants which delight the eye but particularly the nose. For me a garden is a place of great beauty and peace.

I spend many hours in my garden. Time takes on a different meaning for me when I'm in the garden, it seems to disappear and loose it's relevance. The world outside takes on a different meaning when I am in the garden, it seems further away and yet it all seems right there in this garden. I too, take on a different meaning when I am in the garden, I become one with nature.

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