What’s the one piece of advice you’d give to someone starting out with a new garden?
If you live in the countryside, look around you, draw the landscape into your garden, keep it simple and your garden will become part of the world around you rather than an island isolated from it. If you are in a town, spend some time reflecting on what landscape you are passionate about, what places evoke that feeling of connection with nature within you? Try and bring elements of those places into your space. If you are lucky enough to have a little piece of land you call your own, remember this is the one piece of the earth that you are directly responsible for. This is the one place you can come home to and feel the connection to the earth under your feet. So it is important to cultivate the life force there, don’t cover it up with concrete; don’t make it into an outdoor room. Make it your sacred space. Grow some food!
