Category Archives: Barracks Lane Community Garden

Sweet Peas – ‘so very pretty, so very, very fragrant’

Posted on March 3, 2018 by

January, straight after Christmas, when the gales are gathering and the fireside beckons, that is the traditional time for snuggling up with the new year’s seed and nursery catalogues, daydreaming glorious growings for the year ahead. In my case this … Continue reading →

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Working with young asylum seekers at Barracks Lane Community Garden

Posted on December 13, 2017 by

  Since 2016 I’ve been helping Unaccompanied Young Asylum Seekers from Oxford Spires Academy to enjoy learning in the community garden just along the road from their school.  I work with the teachers and young people on the Academy’s ‘First … Continue reading →

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Meadows for gardens

Posted on May 31, 2017 by

  Now is probably the best time of year to go out looking for wildflower meadows – although you are as likely to find them in a garden or managed landscape as in the open countryside. By the year 2000 … Continue reading →

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The Heritage of Common Plants

Posted on March 17, 2016 by

              I’m very pleased to be working with Barrack’s Lane Community Garden again, and with The Nature Effect, to implement the new lottery-funded Heritage of Common Plants project. There are several strands to the … Continue reading →

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