Alys Fowler at The Garden House

Posted:18 July 2010

What a treat – a week ago we welcomed Alys Fowler to The Garden House to lead our workshop on the ‘edible garden’. Alys, the well-known writer and horticulturalist, and Gardener’s World presenter, was as delightful, knowledgeable and enthusiastic as we expected her to be.

Alys with us shared her thoughts on how to harmoniously grow flowers and vegetables together in our own gardens and allotments her philosophy so perfectly chimes with ours at The Garden House.

Her attitude is one of relaxed gardening, of going with the flow as she says “Conceptually it’s a lot to get your head around, but you

don’t need to fight to make things grow.” She sees making gardening easy as the new way, especially for busy people who love their gardens but have other work/life priorities.  “I’m aiming at people who don’t want to dedicate themselves to gardening, but who just want to get some food off their plot.”

We also loved her creative ideas on vegetable containers – using anything from wire baskets to dustbins!