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I love to make, design and teach about wildlife friendly and productive gardens. Full details of all services can be found on the Natural Gardener website.

"I fell in love with nature amongst the rolling green hills, tranquil valleys and wild, windswept heaths of my native Shropshire. As an organic gardener, I try to bring a little of this to all the gardens I work in - working with nature to help create spaces both people and wildlife love to be in." Natural Gardener, Nancy Lowe is an RHS qualified organic gardener, award winning garden designer and

permaculturalist. Originally trained as an environmental scientist, Nancy has a passion for sustainability and ecology that she brings to everything she does. Nancy grows food, makes beautiful gardens and has an infectious joy for all things plant related. Nancy offers a comprehensive range of services to help you achieve the thriving garden you've always dreamed of. Learn how to become a great gardener, with Nancy's one to one consultation services, or get a whole new look - one that is carefully tailored to your specific needs, by comissioning Nancy to create a new design for you. Find out how to become a great gardener, by catching Nancy at one of her inspirational talks or by taking a course with her. Get news and offers by signing up for the newsletter.

26/05/2026

Oh my goodness, growing veg right now is quite a challenge. So hot out there! The tomatoes are fine, but the lettuces I put out a couple of days ago are rather wishing they stayed in their pots poor things! Needed emergency tlc this afternoon and thankfully are looking much better now - note the before and after shots above. I've written all about caring for veg in extreme heat in my latest newsletter if you're interested. If you want to grab a copy, you can find a link in my bio, or comment 'HOT' below and I'll send you a link directly! 🌞🌻

19/04/2026

A favourite wildflower in the Spring garden is Honesty, or Lunaria annua. This striking native plant is more well known for its beautiful moon-like seed pods in autumn, but in Spring it's a real asset to the garden, flowering well on tall flower spikes in the dappled shade under deciduous trees, or here in my garden, up against a partly shaded East facing wall. A member of the cabbage family, it is loved by the orange tip butterfly, which itself is a rather glamorous relative of the cabbage white butterfly. The small, green caterpillars need this and other native cabbage family plants as a source of food, so it's a really useful addition to the wildlife garden too. 🌱😊

11/04/2026

Coming up this Tuesday 14th April in Bishops Castle - Wildlife Gardener's Question time, hosted by Going Wild in BC/ Lightfoot Enterprises. I'm quite honoured to be sitting on the panel alongside some really great wildlife and gardening experts. It should make for a really fab evening, so if you're in the area and can make it that night, do come and join us!

Tuesday 14th April 7-9pm
Church Barn, Bishops Castle

Find out more: https://lightfootenterprises.org/going-wild-in-bc/

14/03/2026

Beautiful apricot blossom. It seems to glow in the early morning light. I just love it! 😍 ✨

28/01/2026

This year's talk season is just kicking off and I'm really looking forward to getting out there this year with a couple of new talks - The Secret Life of the Soil and The Forage Garden, two subjects I'm a really big fan of. And I've got a fully updated version of my classic Wildlife Gardening talk ready to go too, which I'm also excited to share. Full details are up on my website, including more about what each talk is all about, along with timings and booking details. Please do share this if you know anyone who might be interested to come along! 😊🌱

www.thenaturalgardener.org.uk/talks

25/01/2026

Coming up soon - I'm delighted to be giving a wildlife gardening talk for Climate Action Hub Telford and their Sustainable Saturday event on the 7th Feb. It sounds like this is going to be a brilliant day, hope to see you there! 😊🦋

22/09/2025

Lovely to see the Autumn colours coming in, all lit up this morning by the glorious slanting morning sun. The main feature plant here is Phlomis russeliana, or Turkish Sage. It finished flowering months ago, but keeps adding interest right through until the Spring with these amazing seedheads. It's a really great wildlife plant - nectar for bees, big covering leaves that can be popular hideouts for frogs and for us gardeners, it really performs well with these fabulous seedheads and evergreen foliage. A firm favourite of mine.

08/08/2025

Nearly ready! 😄🩷

22/07/2025

The gooseberries are coming to the end now, but still enough to cook into some breakfast porridge! Lots of blackcurrants too and blackberries here are just starting.

21/07/2025

I feel a bit bad about not giving these Marshmallow plants a go just yet. But it's the marshmallow root that's used for making actual marshmallows and I don't want to dig them up and reduce the size of this lovely stand of plants, somehow seems a bit cruel, do you know what I mean? 😬

All recipes I've seen involve adding the powdered root to a mixture of sugar or honey and gelatine or agar agar. Supposedly great for coughs and sore throats, so lots of excuses to eat lots of them! I've tasted homemade marshmallows before and they're amazing! Maybe next year I could dig some up. But for now, the bees seem to be really enjoying them and I rather like to stroke their leaves as I pass them by. They're soooo soft, can't resist! 🥰 🌸

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