Creating a successful fruit tree guild is so easy and surprisingly quick, and here’s how! In today’s episode, I teach you the 6 main plant groups that make for an abundant and beautiful fruit tree guild. And… it’s not just me because I have Maiju from @spudsandroses Let the two of us walk you through everything you need to know!
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0:00 Intro
0:48 My Fruit Tree Guilds
1:53 What is a Fruit Tree Guild
3:48 Attractor Plants in a Fruit Tree Guild
7:38 Fixer Plants in a Fruit Tree Guild
9:06 Dynamic Accumulator Plants in a Fruit Tree Guild
11:35 Mulchers and Suppressors in a Fruit Tree Guild
14:05 Repellent Plants in a Fruit Tree Guild
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26 Comments
Wonderful! I’ll try this out next year
Super colours and very interesting to learn. Will try myself
Love that your boots and chair matched the flower colours. Was that deliberate or coincidence?
It is looking stunning Niall, beautiful flower combinations 😍 The plants have really grown for you and it is unbelievable how guickly the beds have filled. Well done👏💚🌿
What do you think of my fruit tree guilds? Is it something you'd like to try? Or have you already got your own? 😃
Comfrey grows very readily on my farm in Japan. Unchecked, it will spread all over. It is, however, a fantastic attractor for bees, and is also a good organic compost.
Wow it looks amazing so colourful my dream veg garden
Cracking selections 🍃🌸🍃
Impressive! Like you I don’t know why this concept isn’t more widely know. I certainly hadn’t heard of it before so thanks to Maiju and yourself for explaining so clearly how it works and illustrating it so beautifully. I’m now thinking about how I can make a space in my wee garden to try it for myself. (Love the matching chair and wheelbarrow 🤣) Take care 😀
Fantastic video Niall, thank you!
Wonderful !
Such lovely selections, concepts and color palettes that yes, do "make my heart sing".
Delightful, thank you.
Enjoy !
Hi Niall and your dear friend,Just back from church, very hot here after our 2 hour storm last night,Sheffield was horrible, poor plants are really dashed,petals all over never mind,the lawn was very thirsty for rain.
Your gilds look amazing,so beautifully done with all the gorgeous colours,the wild life will have a good picnic for sure, my plants are now starting to burst into colour, marigolds, nicotiana,tagettes,godetia,cosmos, ageratum, the sunflowers are really doing good too,buds are showing,my hanging baskets with my begonias I'd saved from last year looking stunning beautiful oranges among the mixed lobelia, thanks for sharing your knowledge, happy gardening everyone bye for now stay safe 😊🌻🌺🌸x
Can you build these in large containers??? I have fruit trees that are dwarf rootstock and so so they are in large containers- like a size of a raised bed. But obviously there is a bottom to them.
As ever, I enjoy learning from your experience. Thank you for this episode!
That area must be becoming your favorite part of your yard, it's easy to see why you don]'t need any encouragement to go out there. It will be interesting to see the area in a few years when the trees start to develop some architecture and give the garden a whole new environment. I know I would go crazy trying to prune them to that exact right form.
So happy for you, Niall that you got this to work for you. It is truly beautiful and I bet it works too. I will have to get going myself . Is rhubarb a dynamic accumulator too ?
Your talk about fruit tree guilds made me want to make my own. Sadly my expensive plum tree died from a combination of travel and drought. I have a small seedling from a plum stone and I will be planting that to see what I can make of it. Hopefully, in a few years, I'll have the fruit tree guild of my dreams.
Another great beautiful video. Inspired by you and Mayu earlier this year I created a small flower guild around two apple trees on my allotment. Wishing to be frugal! I used oddments plants from around the plot so transplanted some borage and chive plants, some achillea cuttings from home, a stray sedum, a small perennial geranium, cosmos and nasturtiums. It is now a pretty little shady area where I sit with my coffee and enjoy the wildlife. Thank you both for introducing us to this idea.
So Wonderful!
How interesting (and so beautiful!), thank you so much !
Excellent & informative video! Love it
Great video as usual!
I really like the concept of the fruit tree guild and what to create some of my own next year
Thanks for sharing, I happened to have fruit tree guilds without knowing this concept 😊. I purely created it due to limited space and maximise productivity. With your wonderful suggestions, I can even improve it further. How about strawberries as a ground cover? Do you have to leave certain gap between the fruit tree and other plants? Many thanks 😊
Sorry Niall,i havent been on much,crazy busy this summer. You must have to pinch yourself walking through the beds. Your fruit tree guild is so beautiful,your vision from the day you went down west, has come true. Well done Niall. I can truly say you are a happy gardener for sure.
It would be great if you set up a playlist of this series for your fruit tree guilds. I want to see what you did in the order that you did it (so I can learn from you and make mine – a peach tree guild and a blueberry bush guild).😃
I really want to start doing this around our fruit trees! I have a question though, wouldnt we need to plant attractor flowers that will be in bloom early when the trees have their blooms? I dont have a green house so its difficult to get things started early. I have started calendula and cornflowers and they are not in flower yet. Any advice on early flowers that maybe are perennial?