#edibleflowerborder

Permaculture flower border: so this project is coming along quite quickly. I’ve been moving a few things across to the border from other parts of the veg beds and garden. Plants I’ve moved in so far are chamomile, garlic chives, onion chives, Welsh onion, rat tail radish, forgetmenots. I’ve sown flower seeds which are a combination of wild flower seeds and my favourites: borage, calendula, Californian poppy. I’ve got some metal grills over this section because the local pigeon population thought it was an all you can eat seed buffet! It’s been tough settling in the seeds in the current drought and all I’ve been doing is chucking the rabbit’s yesterday water when I give him fresh water in the morning. We have a water butt however water is such a precious resource at the moment. We’ll see how the flowers get on. Plan B will be to move borage, calendula and Californian poppies from other beds. #polyculture #permaculture #edibleflowerborder #ediblelandscape https://www.instagram.com/p/COF2v6kn3hM/?igshid=d7zf0udmtu9b

So I think this is going to be this years project (along with growing food for winter). An ornamental edible border. I was inspired by Mark Diacono’s book on the New Kitchen Garden as a starting point. So this border has cardoons and globe artichokes, an apricot tree for the tall plants. Middle plants are a baby blueberry bush and a Szechuan pepper (which move slightly as it scratches me often). There’s a red valerian, oregano, various thyme. I’ve moved a free lemon balm that found me. I wonder where this adventure will take me. Currently moving edible perennials in from other bits of the garden. I have lots of ideas from the seed sowing that I’m doing right now. Any reading suggestions for further inspiration? (I’m rereading alys Fowler’s Edible Garden and a Joy Larkcom book) #edibleflowerborder #beautifulvegetables #ornamentalediblegarden https://www.instagram.com/p/CNkBZZqHu42/?igshid=1vr8x3urjjvn