Fareham in Bloom 2024
Sustainable Garden
To vote for your favourite, look through the entries below and email inbloom@fareham.gov.uk with your choice, including the category of 'sustainable garden' and the number of the image.
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Sustainable Garden - 1
"Based on inspiration from Italian gardens with a water feature, cypress trees and topiary.
Choice of seating areas for both sun and shade.
Designed to be relatively easy to maintain and a space to relax in and enjoy with solar lighting for balmy summer evenings or brightening dull winter days."
Sustainable Garden - 2
"Our back garden is our escape, our place to be in nature. Over 19 years we've turned our blank canvas into a haven, with c150 feet of huge diversity of wildlife drawn by the pond, wildflowers and rewilding areas, with a 200 year old ''cathedral like'' oak. With bats, nesting birds, dragon/damsel flies, frogs, slow worms, stag beetles, a huge variety of moths and butterflies including the odd hedgehog it's our bit of the planet we call home. The shed, garden kitchen and pond are hand built from materials savaged from or destined for landfill; perennials, herbs, tomatoes, radishes, potatoes, beans, carrots etc all grown from seed, cuttings or nurtured plants destined for the bin. Using mulch to reduce water demand, our own compost regenerates the soil with coffee grounds and herb planting repelling pests, we spend all our free time outdoors. Welcome to our imperfectly perfect, very happy place."
Sustainable Garden - 3
"This is my wildlife sanctuary, disorganized to natures advantage. It has many areas where wildlife is undisturbed, encouraged and welcomed. It is an endless but enjoyable task to keep it relatively wild but not overgrown. To be enjoyed by all."
Sustainable Garden - 4
"When house-hunting, a big garden was one of our priorities; this is our second summer. I grow crops that my family enjoy eating; for the summer new potatoes, beans, onions, garlic, squash, tomatoes, sweetcorn, carrots, beetroot, broccoli and cauliflowers and for the colder months maincrop potatoes, brussels sprouts, pumpkins, cabbages and parsnips. Labels help us all to know what's growing!
Companion plants are interspersed to promote biodiversity and to help manage pests and weeds. I also have a flower cutting patch providing blooms to give away, for our house and attracting pollinators. Apple and pear trees provide a rich fruit harvest alongside blackberries, raspberries, currents, figs, rhubarb and blueberries.
Our patch provides us with produce that is fresh, nutritious and pesticide-free. Tending it is good exercise and therapeutic, supplying a daily dose of happiness and serenity and a connection with nature. This garden is most definitely my 'happy place'."
