Garden Photographer UK

Whilst in its infancy, it already is a joy. I fell for gardening after immersing myself in my friend Brigitte Girling's 'garden for nature, in 2022. My garden is also for nature, and secondary to provide me with a tranquil place in which to lose myself.

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Over the months I have been surprised by how simple changes to a garden can make a significant difference. There is still much to be done, but it almost feels as though in a blink of an eye nature has come to my corner of the world. 

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Birds flit from one food source to another, bees have their pollen fill, butterflies & moths bask in the sun, soil is full of earth loving creatures, plants and flowers mingle with random abandon.

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Whilst, a residential garden like mine, termed a 'sterile bubble', in-which colonisation will only be encouraged to take place if more of us create gardens & spaces for nature, there is hope.  Landowners local to me and throughout the UK are managing small to sizeable plots of land in the countryside and turning them into spaces that help to support nature, and some neighbouring land owners are doing the same. The more land owners that turn land into green spaces for nature, the greater the chance of colonisation, which in-turn will help improve biodiversity.

 

I hear in conversation with local farmers and farm shop owners, that have taken over from their parents, how they are managing land for the good of rebuilding its richness through regenerative farming, and as I visit friends, flower growers, flower farmers, estate owners & gardeners etc. their desire for supporting nature comes through in their conversations and actions.