#gardening # 🌿 Back to Nature *A small, nature-friendly gardening service — biodiversity, real beauty and ecological care at the centre of the work.* --- ## What this is Back to Nature is a private gardening service I'm slowly building on the side of my regular work. It's for people who'd like their garden to be *alive* — full of birds, bees, insects and seasonal texture — rather than simply tidy. I come and work with what you've got, with an eye on the ecology, the soil and the long-term health of the whole patch. This isn't a mow-and-blow service. It's closer to stewardship — a slower, more thoughtful way of tending ground, borrowing from permaculture and the best of British nature-friendly gardening. --- ## The three things at the centre ### 🐝 Biodiversity A garden should feed something other than the strimmer. I design and tend with native and pollinator-friendly planting, leave the right mess in the right places, build habitat (log piles, ponds, wild corners, hedging) and look after the soil as a living system rather than something to weed into submission. ### 🌸 Real beauty Not the trim-and-strip kind of beauty — the kind that changes through the year, hums in summer, holds birds in winter and surprises you. Meadow where there was mown lawn. Structure where there was bare fence. Colour, movement and quiet drama across the seasons. ### 🌍 Ecological concern Britain is losing its wildlife faster than almost any country in Europe, and much of that loss is hidden in our own gardens. Every garden — however small — is a patch of decision. I work with that decision in mind: fewer chemicals, less waste, no peat, no shortcuts that come at the soil's expense; more long-term health for the ground, the plants and everything that lives alongside them. --- ## What I offer - Nature-friendly border and bed design - 90/10 lawn-to-garden conversions — turning most of the lawn over to something that actually lives - Meadow and long-grass areas, with mown paths through them - Compost making and turning; mulching; no-dig beds - Habitat building — log piles, bug hotels, small ponds, dead-hedging, native hedging - Pollinator and bird-friendly planting plans - Seasonal tending — pruning, feeding the soil, saying no to peat and chemicals - Quiet rewilding of neglected corners - Garden consultations — a walk-around and a written plan you can act on yourself --- ## What I try not to do - Weekly grass-cutting as the main purpose of a visit - Chasing every weed out of every edge - Chemical pesticides, herbicides and peat-based composts - Imposing a design that ignores what's already growing and working *(If a lawn genuinely needs a trim for practical reasons — paths, access, a small family area — that's fine. Just not the point of the work.)* --- ## Who it's for Homeowners, allotmenteers and small-plot carers in *(area to add)* who'd like their patch of ground to do more than look tidy — who are open to something a little wilder, more seasonal and more alive, and who want a gardener thinking about the bigger picture while they're on their knees in the borders. --- ## Getting in touch *(Placeholder — to add: area covered, availability, rates, how to book a visit.)* Email: [email protected] --- ## Further reading on the approach - [[Permaculture]] - [[Gardens]] - [[Index/Digital Media/Blogs/Gardening & Art]] - [[3 Sisters Garden]] --- *This page is a work in progress. So is the garden.*