Wild Potager
The wild potager is where growing informs everything that follows.
A working space of sowing, cutting, pause and return, shaped by season and allowed to change.
Beds are worked, rested and re-worked over time. Some years are full, others quieter. What happens here is observed closely, not forced, and decisions are made long before anything reaches the studio.
The wild potager is not managed as a formal display, but it is shaped with intention.
It is worked in rhythm with weather, time and what is already there.
Plants are grown for use as much as for beauty, and the ground is allowed to look like it has been lived in and worked.
Over time
Planting is guided by use, but never without consideration for form, colour and movement.
Paths are worn in, routines settle, and small changes become noticeable. Worked around weather and time.
Some paths are shared longer than others, and over time, familiarity builds.
Then the Sparrows that gather daily in the honeysuckle lift off together to the holly at
the back, loud, busy, as if late for another meeting.