Seeds and Spores
Global Gardens Project
Join us at Global Gardens Project to learn more about the world of native flora and fungi. This year we will be hosting a series of learning opportunities on the incredible world of fungi, healing weeds and seed-saving.
Visitor Information
Flaxland Allotment
Sachville Avenue
Cardiff
Caerdydd
CF14 3NE
Global Gardens Project is a community project with a garden situated on the Flaxland Allotment site in Cardiff. We have weekly gardening sessions every Saturday 2-5pm and monthly suppers at the Embassy Cafe. Join us!
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Volunteering opportunities / Upcoming events
We have regular garden days on Saturdays 2-5 and Wednesdays 10-2.
We also have some forthcoming workshops:
21st July: Introduction to Permaculture with Michele of Edible Landscaping.
13th August: Native plant walk with Julian.
8th September: Fungi walk with Rich.
5th October: Creating a bee friendly cut flower garden with Eva of Flower Hive.Follow us on facebook to learn more and find out how to book a place.
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Photos of the site
Global Gardens Greenhouse
Tuesday, February 20, 2018
Creating a log pile as we cleared
Tuesday, April 10, 2018
Clearing site for fungi and fruit
Tuesday, April 10, 2018
Learning about Fungi
Saturday, April 21, 2018
Prof Lynn Boddy talks Fungi
Monday, April 23, 2018
Healing Herbs workshop
Saturday, June 30, 2018
Bee friendly supper
Monday, July 2, 2018
Our new propagating bench
Wednesday, July 4, 2018
Preparing the mandala garden site
Thursday, July 12, 2018
Stage two of mandala preparation
Saturday, July 14, 2018
Creating the garden mandala
Saturday, July 21, 2018
Planting the guild
Saturday, July 21, 2018
Weaving dragonflies in the garden
Saturday, August 4, 2018
Willow sunflowers in the garden
Saturday, August 4, 2018
Learning about native plants
Monday, August 13, 2018
Native plant walk
Monday, August 13, 2018First winecap bloom
Tuesday, August 21, 2018First winecap bloom
Tuesday, August 21, 2018
Zine workshop
Monday, September 3, 2018
Fungi walk
Saturday, September 8, 2018
Learning about composting
Saturday, October 20, 2018
Learning about composting
Saturday, October 20, 2018
Seeds and spores zine launch
Monday, October 29, 2018What we've been up to
| What we did | When we did it | How many people took part | Who was there |
|---|---|---|---|
| Held two seed-saving workshops at the garden. | 20/10/:00 | 20 | Mixed ages |
| Held a seeds and spores party launching the zine, sharing seeds saved from the garden and exhibiting botanical art by local artists . | 29/10/:15 | 44 | Mixed ages |
| We learnt about growing flowers in the garden through the year with flower grower Eva. | 13/10/:00 | 7 | Mixed ages |
| Five artists painted/illustrated five plants from the garden that we are saving seed. | 23/10/:00 | 5 | Mixed ages |
| We held a workshop on building soil fertility to support plant growth and seed-saving. | 20/10/:00 | 10 | Mixed ages |
| Went on a fungi identification walk with Rich Wright (Fungi Courses) to Cathays Community Centre. | 08/09/:00 | 24 | Mixed ages |
| We made a Global Gardens zine. | 03/09/:00 | 24 | Mixed ages |
| Prepared areas around polytunnel in preparation for planting. | 01/09/:00 | 4 | Mixed ages |
| Held a meeting to discuss seed-saving plans at the garden. | 31/08/:30 | 3 | Mixed ages |
| We dug over two beds in preparation for planting of a range of pollinator friendly flowers. | 29/08/:00 | 10 | Mixed ages |
| Planted out some bee friendly herbs including cardoon. | 25/08/:00 | 3 | Mixed ages |
| Harvested the first wine cap mushrooms from the garden. Shared a meal including a fungi-based dish from the garden. | 22/08/:00 | 8 | Mixed ages |
| Went on a native plant walk in a special site of scientific interest, Pentyrch with Julian Woodman. | 13/08/:00 | 15 | Mixed ages |
| Developing a wetland area which will support wildlife. We are planting a range of native plants including Meadowsweet (Filipendula ulmaria). | 11/08/:00 | 3 | Mixed ages |
| Kai guided us through a 'plant meeting' with sunflowers. | 08/08/:00 | 6 | Mixed ages |
| We hosted a willow-weaving workshop where we created giant sunflowers. | 04/08/:00 | 4 | Mixed ages |
| We hosted a willow-weaving workshop where we created a cluster of dragonflies. | 07/08/:00 | 6 | Mixed mainly 12-25 years |
| Created a garden mandala with a guild of nitrogen fixing, mineral accumulating, medicinal, pollinator friendly and edible plants. | 21/07/:30 | 20 | Mixed ages |
| Weeding and watering. | 11/07/:00 | 4 | Mixed ages |
| Continued to prepare the area for the mandala garden, removing perennial weeds and applying compost. | 14/07/:00 | 4 | 26 – 34 years |
| Dug over the area for the pollinator friendly mandala garden. | 12/07/:00 | 4 | Mixed ages |
| Built a propagating bench out of reclaimed wood for seedlings. | 04/07/:00 | 3 | Mixed ages |
| Watering and weeding the herb patch in preparation for the herbal workshop. | 23/06/:00 | 3 | 26 – 34 years |
| Weeding the pollinator-friendly herb patch. | 28/04/:00 | 3 | 26 – 34 years |
| Cleared the fungi area ready for fungi and fruit. | 10/04/:00 | 9 | Mixed ages |
| We listened to Maria talk about the evolution of plants and Terry talk about the important role of bees as pollinators. | 02/07/:30 | 20 | Mixed ages |
| Rich Wright introduced us to the beneficial role of fungi in the garden. | 21/04/:30 | 16 | Mixed ages |
| Prof Lynne Boddy introduced the incredible world of fungi. We then shared a delicious fungi-based supper. | 23/04/:00 | 24 | Mixed ages |
| We held a course on Healing Herbs in the Garden at the Global Gardens site. | 30/06/:30 | 15 | Mostly adults 25+ |