Rewild your garden – ideas from Great Dixter, an inspiring semi-wild garden
Join me for a wander around the beautiful garden at Great Dixter, with the best rewilded ‘lawns’ I’ve seen. Could your lawn look like this!? (mine doesn’t, but I’m working on it).
We're going to be made to eat insects and barred from eating meat, in U.N. Agenda 2030, so, unless you can get the United Nations and the G7 counries to change course, the insects are done for, as are we! Lovely meadows in this video, anyway! 🙂
An incredible range of insects and they all look happy. The last time I visited Great Dixter is over ten years ago, and the film made me so nostalgic. The state of the planet is much more precarious than ever — I just want to do my bit not to harm our planet any further.
It was such a pleasure to "stumble" across this lovely glimpse of Great Dixter. I really appreciated the "insect friendly" view of the wild meadow garden. Really so very beautiful seeing the combination of flowers, grasses, shrubs and other plants and the insects and birds finding such a home! Thank you for posting this. My wife has recently enjoyed reading one of your lovely books too.
GD is great. Those big compost piles grow pumpkins etc on the top. Imagine the heat they generate. My pals front lawn is now the front paddock or meadow. Only about 4x5m 🙂 just mow a strip around edge to define it. The frogs love the long grass. I should make a small pond some day.
Beautiful! Putting tree cuttings in the ground will also attract diverse wildlife once the trees grow. We need to share our planet with wildlife. After all, without them we can't survive.
There is Campanula too .. one of my fav perennials .. I hope they make use of the compost as I don't see any grazers completing the fertilizing/ rambunctious species/"tilling" cycle….
Seeing places like this gets me so excited to go out into my own garden, though it is quite small, I'll be asking the landlord if I can extend it! Cheers from Canada!
Yes , I did enjoy the video…..and its put a few ideas into my head . If you had held the captions up on the screen for a second or two longer , I wouldn't have minded at all…….good for the sloooooow readers . Thank you .
Lovely to see, and hear. So lucky I grew up in a village that still had open areas of meadows to play and walk in. Even in a suburb of Detroit! Sad that most children don't have that experience anymore. Even in the small city lot where I rent my home, letting a few small areas 'rewild' with milkweed, queen Ann's lace and the like has shown a big difference in bees and butterflies. So much so that the old burn barrel I planted a tomato plant in is home to some type of bee colony in a hole near the base! The only time I got stung is when I poured smelly liquid fertilizer I made from comfrey on tomato plant. I forgot that they were there! Won't do that again, LOL. Last year it was wasps under the front porch. Again only stung when I picked basil and didn't realize a wasp was on it when I grabbed it. Agree it would be lovely to see more stately homes adopting this type of landscape. TFS
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We're going to be made to eat insects and barred from eating meat, in U.N. Agenda 2030, so, unless you can get the United Nations and the G7 counries to change course, the insects are done for, as are we! Lovely meadows in this video, anyway! 🙂
An incredible range of insects and they all look happy. The last time I visited Great Dixter is over ten years ago, and the film made me so nostalgic. The state of the planet is much more precarious than ever — I just want to do my bit not to harm our planet any further.
It was such a pleasure to "stumble" across this lovely glimpse of Great Dixter. I really appreciated the "insect friendly" view of the wild meadow garden. Really so very beautiful seeing the combination of flowers, grasses, shrubs and other plants and the insects and birds finding such a home! Thank you for posting this. My wife has recently enjoyed reading one of your lovely books too.
I love this idea. Wanna be friends
Thank you so much friend nice sharing
GD is great. Those big compost piles grow pumpkins etc on the top. Imagine the heat they generate. My pals front lawn is now the front paddock or meadow. Only about 4x5m 🙂 just mow a strip around edge to define it. The frogs love the long grass. I should make a small pond some day.
Love it!
Thank you for this beautiful video.
Dave, are you sure that’s an angelica? It looks more like some fennel to me, but I’m not an expert.
Thanks again!
Beautiful
One for the algorithm.
That’s a blackbird,not a starling 😂
Its glorious
Love the sound of the birds in the background.
The birdsong there is so admirable and gorgeous.
Visited Great Dixter in September 2017. Beautiful garden. Thanks for the tour.
LOVELY
Really beautiful and inspiring garden ❤️
💚🌱
Beautiful! Putting tree cuttings in the ground will also attract diverse wildlife once the trees grow. We need to share our planet with wildlife. After all, without them we can't survive.
This garden is beautiful, Can you tell us how long it has taken and are the seeds regularly replenished?
There is Campanula too .. one of my fav perennials .. I hope they make use of the compost as I don't see any grazers completing the fertilizing/ rambunctious species/"tilling" cycle….
So beautiful!!All that life is awesome!!
That was glorious, thank you. 😊
Seeing places like this gets me so excited to go out into my own garden, though it is quite small, I'll be asking the landlord if I can extend it! Cheers from Canada!
stunningly beautiful
Yes , I did enjoy the video…..and its put a few ideas into my head . If you had held the captions up on the screen for a second or two longer , I wouldn't have minded at all…….good for the sloooooow readers . Thank you .
That meadow is fabulous because it is "edged" by that magnificent hedge, IMO.
Thank you for this video.
Lovely to see, and hear. So lucky I grew up in a village that still had open areas of meadows to play and walk in. Even in a suburb of Detroit! Sad that most children don't have that experience anymore. Even in the small city lot where I rent my home, letting a few small areas 'rewild' with milkweed, queen Ann's lace and the like has shown a big difference in bees and butterflies. So much so that the old burn barrel I planted a tomato plant in is home to some type of bee colony in a hole near the base! The only time I got stung is when I poured smelly liquid fertilizer I made from comfrey on tomato plant. I forgot that they were there! Won't do that again, LOL. Last year it was wasps under the front porch. Again only stung when I picked basil and didn't realize a wasp was on it when I grabbed it. Agree it would be lovely to see more stately homes adopting this type of landscape. TFS
Good idea to put the commentary in writing so we could spend time enjoying the meadow and sounds!