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When someone says you have too many house plants.....and my answer always is "there's still so much space to fill!" 😂 We love being surrounded by plants, and yes I do talk to them on occasion 😅

With the large glass bi-fold doors into the garden, the house is basically one huge greenhouse and they seem to be loving it. It's been interesting over the past 2 years seeing how well the plants cope when I go away for work or holiday, because a needy plant is not something I can handle!

All the plants in our house have now been tested on numerous occasions when we're away for 3 weeks and they don't get watered. Obviously the peace lillie's are the most dramatic, completely flopping everywhere, but once watered, they perk up just fine.

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#houseplants #plantaddiction #houseplantsmakemehappy
#growth #houseplantsrock

Our brilliant Hobbs Community Garden team during the RHS Badminton build. Such a brilliant job from everyone woking together and taking on different tasks. A new experience for all involved and so proud of what we achieved.

From left:
Ellie, Alexey, Rick, Bridgette, Julia

Get in touch if you're interested to get involved in future activities and projects.
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#rhsbadmintonshow #communitygarden #permaculture

The garden as living art. The landscape of the Minack is a breathtaking combination of rugged natural geology and botanical artistry, with the gardens being part of the group of the most historically and horticulturally important gardens in Cornwall.

The position of the Minack creates a unique mix of geological and climatic conditions, which enables exotic plants to thrive. High light levels are created by the south-east aspect overlooking the sea, which aids the growth of tender plants and creates small microclimates within the garden.

Plants you can see here:
Aeonium, Aloe, Crassula, Echium, Delosperma, Oscularia, Elegia, Euphorbia, Protea and Leucadendron argenteum.
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#uklandscapes #plantslovers #exploringlandscapes

Finally visited the stunning @minacktheatre . Perched on the rugged granite cliffs of Porthcurno, the Minack Theatre is a world-renowned open-air amphitheater seamlessly integrated with the dramatic Cornish coastline.

The tiered, granite seating and stage appear naturally carved from the rock face, but it was actually hand carved by Rowena Cade, her gardener and another local man, who built a simple stage and rough seating into the granite of Minack Rock, a laborious process that took six months to complete using hand tools, a little dynamite and sand carried up from the beach.
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#landscapes #cornwallcoast #landscapeinspiration

One of our favourite plants used in the Badminton show garden that we're excited to include in the @hobbs.community.garden

Talinum paniculatum - Jewels of Opar, a beautiful and edible ornamental perennial thats great for including in salads and with the added beautiful tiny pink star like flowers.
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#perennials #communitygarden #ediblegarden

This small wildlife pond for our Community Garden is designed to pack in an immense amount of ecological value into a compact footprint, benefiting wildlife, people and aligning to our permaculture principles.

3 key principles why it’s excellent for wildlife:

🔸️Safe Access and Beach Entry: The shallow, gravelled, and pebbled edges act as a natural beach. This is crucial for wildlife safety and allows birds, small mammals and beneficial insects (like bees and wasps) to drink safely without the risk of slipping into deep water and drowning. It also provides a gradual exit ramp for emerging froglets.

🔸️Diverse Planting Zones & The Edge Effect: The emerging marginal vegetation provides structural diversity and offers perching sites for predatory insects, egg-laying locations for damselflies, and cover for aquatic life.By creating a highly textured boundary where land meets water—using stones, gravel, mosses, and low-growing plants, this wildlife pond maximizes the transition zone between two ecosystems. These zones are naturally the most biologically productive and diverse areas in a landscape.

🔸️Micro-Habitats and Refuge: The large piece of decaying, twisted driftwood acts as an immediate habitat, which provides essential cover for amphibians (like frogs and newts) to hide from predators, sun-basking spots for dragonflies, and a food source and home for beetles and fungi.

Alignment with Permaculture Principles?

✨️Earth Care & Fair Share - By introducing a water element, we are directly practicing Earth Care, by regenerating biodiversity and restoring a vital ecosystem building block.

✨️Value the Margin and the Edge - Permaculture emphasizes that the interface between land and water is often the most dynamic, and varying material creates a highly complex, jagged edge rather than a sterile, hard boundary.

✨️Integrate Rather Than Segregate - The pond isn't an isolated feature, but rather it’s deeply integrated into the surrounding vegetation.

✨Value Renewable Resources & Services - The decaying wood is a excellent use of a natural, local material that serves multiple functions and a multi tiered habitat.
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#wildlifepond

Colourful edible combination of plants 💛
Wouldn't you like a salad that looks like this?
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-edibleflowers #growingfoodisfun #plantsmakepeoplehappy

Sunrise at the Hobbs Community Garden design at the @the_rhs Badminton Show. ✨

There is something truly magical about the morning light catching the flowers and garden textures and waking up the garden. The sun bursting through the timber pergola is the perfect reminder of why we design these spaces, to inspire connection, growth, and community, and wonderful to see it come alive in the morning sun.

Thanks to the @badmintonestate for the use of their stunning grounds for the show
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Good King Henry - Blitum bonus-henricus
A very hardy perennial producing edible heart-shaped leaves with mild spinach like leaves, which can be used in salads, or wilted like spinach.

Thanks to @incredible_vegetables for these plants, we're excited to watch them grow in our community garden once they're relocated from our Badminton show garden.
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#permacultureplants #perennials #communitygardens

Well this was an amazing surprise! 🙌✨�️💚
Recieving the RHS award for our Community Garden at the @the_rhs Badminton show.
So grateful for all the effort and dedication from our volunteers to support this garden. We're looming forward to it all being relocated on our @hobbs.community.garden after the show.
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Everyone's new favourite salad veg, as seen in our RHS Badminton garden.
Delicious, nutritious and beautiful.
Oxyria digyna - Miontain Sorrel from @incredible_vegetables
Its a hardy perennial down to -40C and grows up to 50cm and perfect for continuous salad picking.....which makes it a great choice for our @hobbs.community.garden and aligns well with permaculture principles as well as being inspired by edimentals from @stephenbarstow 💚
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#ediblegarden #permaculture #edimentals #communitygardens

Watching the sun rise over our Badminton show garden and admiring the bright beautiful colours.
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#gardensforgoodcauses #communitygardens #sunrisegarden

Our garden shelving storage area, created with a large piece of natural timber, and an old rake with the handle removed as changing rack beneath the shelf.
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#communitygardens #rhsbadmintonshow #hobbscommunitygarden #recycledmaterials #sustainabledesigns

An update from our show garden space at the RHS Badminton show. It's been wonderful to see how popular the bamboo rill on simple cross stick supports has been....a favourite amongst the visitors. Connected to the rainchain and pot, it zig zags at different heights down towards the wildlife pond.

This is such an easy option to create in any community garden or small urban garden with minimal materials for water harvesting and also adds an enjoyable wellbeing element.

Watch till the end of the pics to see the construction before the pants went it.

If you're visiting the show, pop into BFS442 and say hi 🙂
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#badmintonshow #waterfeature #communitygardens #hobbscommunitygarden.

Days 2 & 3 of the garden build progress and the @the_rhs Badminton show. Exciting to see the layout coming together now and next is to start adding sone plants in 💚
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#badmintonshow #badmintonshow #communitygardens

Our plot! We've arrived at the @the_rhs Badminton show on day 1 of our build and excited to get going on the garden representing our @hobbs.community.garden in West Sussex.
So weird to see such an empty plot, only bordered with sleepers.
We got straight to work unpacking the vans, sorting the hard materials, getting the plants in to the shade and then setting everything out to make a start on the pergola - the biggest structure in the garden, so it was relief when that started going together as planned.

We then moved on to fixing together our recylced material planter, setting out the wildlife pond and the testing the layout and height of our bamboo water rill.

We're so happy with the progress from one day, there's still lots to do, but it's coming together well and great progress for day 1! 🙌
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#rhsbadminton #landscapedesign #permaculturedesign #gardenbuild #communitygardens

A few more of the Exchange in Erith. The paving carpets are laid in herringbone patterns inspired by the interior’s parquet flooring, with handmade bricks developed by Local Works Studio and made by the local community, using reclaimed materials from the building works and locally sourced clay. The backdrop of reclaimed corrugated metal fencing recalls Erith’s industrial past and makes Sarah’s painterly planting scheme sing.

Finally made it to visit the Exchange garden in Erith, a wonderful place which is a community led arts & crafts organisation which uses the heritage of the location to inspire activities and bring people together to demonstrate the passion and power of community craft.

Designed by @sarahpricelandscapes, and built by the Mark Whyman team. Tended to planted by an enthusiastic group of local residents led by the head gardener @selinabutgreener

The mediterranean inspired front garden is a brilliant experiment and example for our hotter sun baked spaces, including cistus, nassella, poppies, dorycnium, eschscholzia, oenothera and phlomis.

If you haven't been yet, add it to your list!
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#gardensinspiration #landscapes #communityspaces #londongarden

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