Category: The Garden Journal
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The Raised Beds: one weekend, changed plans and tonnes of effort
It was time to start putting the plan into action. Over the weekend I tackled the first part of the great raised-bed relocation and expansion project. This involved dismantling things I’d previously built, rebuilding them in a slightly different configuration, moving approximately a tonne of soil and generally discovering that nothing is ever quite as…
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Before: The Garden as it is right now
Every garden project needs a starting point, a moment where you stop, look around, and take an honest photograph before you get carried away with ideas. This is that moment. These pictures were taken on the same evening, walking every angle of the garden with my phone. No staging, no tidying. Just the garden as…
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Blooming Lovely Chaos: Real Garden Adventures
It started with a conversation with ChatGPT. A few questions about the garden turned into ideas. Ideas turned into planting schemes. Planting schemes turned into layouts, plant lists, colour palettes and increasingly ambitious plans. And somewhere along the way, I realised that ChatGPT wasn’t just helping me think about the garden. It was helping me…
