Tag: calendula
Permaculture Cottage Daily ~ Water in the Well…
Continuing to collect windfall apples today. Making a lot of apple crumble. I use my own recipe that uses half and half wholemeal flour and oats, so it’s really heart healthy too.
Tomatoes and Calendula…knocked over by the wind, but continuing to grow and ripen…late, but sweet!
And there remains a long list of tasks to complete before the onset of Winter…which will come early this year…October/November.
Today, at Bealtaine Cottage. Still, sometimes sunny, mostly cloudy, but always very beautiful.
Plenty of water in the well…
Edith Piaf sings…The Autumn Leaves…
…with some beautiful images…enjoy!
Permaculture Cottage ~ Many Magical Trees
The Life Force of Trees
It was a common belief, long ago, that many conditions could be cured by bringing the patient into contact with the powerful life force or MANA represented by trees…
Nearly 800 trees have been planted here at Bealtaine and there is something so awesome about trees that makes me want to get more land and keep on planting.
Today has seen the transplanting of another 20 or so Birch trees, seedlings rescued from the road verge before the tractors mow the grass.
More Buddleias for FREE!
Managed to pull up 3 tiny Buddleias from the gravel around the cottage…gravel makes an ideal seeding ground for many plants and trees.
These too have been potted on and will make fine specimens for planting out next year.
Birch Trees
This is a little Birch sapling planted only a few weeks ago and already grown over a foot in height and spread.
Grass cuttings have been spread around the base to deter weeds and provide food for the fast growing tree.
Apple Trees and Verbascum
Apple trees under-planted with Blackcurrants and perennial flowers…here is the Verbascum in bloom with Geranium and Calendula amongst others.
Many Magical Trees…
Willow, Birch, Copper Beech, Twisted Willow, Oak and Pine, all planted in very close proximity to one another…this is the permaculture way and very quickly excludes weeds and provides an excellent source of coppiced wood for the stove.
Ash trees were traditionally used in Folk Medicine against poison and evil. Lightning runs to the Ash…’Avoid the Ash, it courts the flash!’
Long ago, in many parts of the Highlands of Scotland, on the birth of a child, the midwife would take a green stick from the Ash tree and hold it in the fire. As the heat worked on one end of the stick, the sap would ooze from the other. This was administered to the newborn baby as the first liquid to pass its lips!
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Sunny Permaculture Gardens at Bealtaine…June 1st.
Alder logs ready to be stacked in the barn and seasoned! Such a beautiful colour and such a fast- growing wood.
Spirea, ‘Bridal wreath,’…so-named for its arching habit which would make wreaths easily…beautiful in a bouquet too!
Calendula in the tunnel earlier today. Such a lovely, orangey scent from both the flowers and the foliage!
This gorgeous little Herb Robert is everywhere this year…conditions must be perfect for it!
Willow paths leading under willow arches that lead to other places in the garden…and yes…it was sunny for most of the day!