A Visit to the John Murray Show

10/07/2014

This morning Mary visited with John Murray on RTÉ Radio to talk about the current trend of lawn care obsession & the importance of natural gardening. You can have a listen right here.

Claire & Joe created a forest garden from scratch with guidance from Mary's book The Garden Awakening - Designs to Nurture Ourselves and Our Land. You can go back and read about its origins here & then keep up with current happenings at their Instagram @IrishForestGarden.

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First #snowdrop poking its head up this morning under the oak 🌳...such a warm red light this morning. all the birds love to sit in it and preen themselves and chat and get ready for the day ahead... noisy charm of #goldfinches ... the usual host of #sparrows and the #buzzard all sat along the same stretch of hedgerow 🌲🌲🌳🌳🌳🌲🐦🐦🐦😊💚 #blackbird picking up last of the haws and I sat and had a cup Of tea at the fire pit in the #forestgarden and watched this sparrow eating the buds off my goji Berry bush... I’m sure that’s what he was doing. Maybe that’s why there’s a distinct lack of berries each year 🤨 ...I also braved it and tackled some cutting back of old branches of the boysenberry, and tied the new vigorous ones to their support. Such a spiky swine. Found a #ladybird at a T junction 🐞❤️...mr Binkus 🐇enjoying some new growth on the yarrow.. dogwood putting out some flowers and a rather wonderful #duskchorus and #sunset. Cold one out there tonight 🐇🌳🌲💚😊🇮🇪🐞🌳🌳🌿🎄🌙❄️ #wearetheark #birdwatchireland #birdsong #wexford #ireland #biodataireland #biodiversityireland

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Planted a witch hazel today and as soon as the spade hits the earth a robin invariably shows up to keep a beady eye out for worms 😊. He got loads... #thrush with its complex song serenaded us all from high above too... #bullfinch mrs enjoying the haws in the hedging..#yellowhammer always looking exotic in the bfg...and a rather nice sunset tonight. Same again tomorrow please ... #wearetheark #birdsong #nature #wexford

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Sunny Sunday from the melodic song of the #dunnock singing from the greengage tree in the #forestgarden this morning to the intense cacophony of a parliament of #rooks going home to roost this evening.... #catkins on the cob tree and little Jenny #wren seeing what pickings there were to be had in the straw mulch in the fg 😊🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦 lush moon tonight out there too if you can see it where u are #Wexford #ireland #birdwatchireland #wearetheark #birdsong

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The wolf 🐺 moon 🌑 at dawn this morning 💚 good bright day for a walk out with joe & @wildmarymary and lucky 🐕 up the top of forth mountain in #wexford where I saw a #crossbill high on a 🌲. Never seen one before so good to know they’re around. Posey #robins all over the show ❤️ and on the way home we pulled up along the side of the road and this #buzzard was intently watching for food in a ditch 😊. Very cool to see one that Close up. Two red birds at home and the fab peanut wreath my friend made for me for Christmas. Tits are getting dug in and they love it too 💚🐦🐦🐦💚 #birdwatchireland #ireland #dawn #moon

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