Martin Crawford’s invaluable introduction and reference for creating a forest garden
Recommended books, suppliers, websites and podcasts. Saving you time and enlarging your brain ðŸ§
Books
- Creating a Forest Garden by Martin Crawford
- A New Garden Ethic by Benjamin Vogt, the morality of gardening with natives
- The Wild Garden, by Violet Stevenson, 1985 but pretty much the only book covering the use of UK native plants
- Around the world in 80 plants by Stephen Barstow, a global romp around edible plants
- The Garden of Equal Delights by Anni Kelsey, forest gardening from the gardener’s perspective, delightful and intriguing
Suppliers
- Backyard Larder, Alison Tindale
- Incredible Veg, Mandy Barber
- Agroforestry Research Trust, Martin Crawford
- Cool Temperate, Phil Corbett
- Future Forests, for hedging
Websites
- Plants For A Future brilliant database of useful plants, essential
- Database of Insects & their Food intoxifying amount of info about which plants are hosts for which insects
- orangepippin.com for information on fruit varieties
- RHS Plant Finder, with checkbox for native plants filter
- fruitID fruit ID website!
- Edimentals.com by Stephen Barstow
- Edimentals Facebook group
- Forest Garden UK Facebook group
Podcasts
- Roots and All best wildlife gardening podcast out there, with Sarah Wilson
- Growing Greener best US wildlife gardening podcast, with Thomas Christopher
- A Way To Garden with Margaret Roach: long running, always interesting
- Garden Organic increasingly vegan, increasingly perennial