'Les Jardins d'ici' is my personal blog. I am a Lecturer in an Art and Design institution in the United Kingdom and a Trustee of a non-profit organisation which protects heritage fruit varieties in France.
Just to add rhubarb in the list of things that grow in London gardens, and provide insight into the variety of tastes that can be created in jams with this vegetable sometimes considered as fruit.
Here are pictures of other pollinators, to reinforce my last post about the diversity of species that can be found in our gardens. The photos are also of better quality, even if taken with a compact camera.
With so many pollinators around the old blossoming tree and a gorgeous weather, we are on our way to harvest a few kilos of deliciously sweet greengages this summer.
I look forward to harvesting elderflowers and making this refreshing preparation in June / July wherever I am, as elder trees are abundant in both the UK and France. In any case it will be a celebration of what I have learnt in London.
Away from London and in the absence of a clear way forward for ‘Les jardins d’ici’ I am adding colour to this blog with photos of three plums varieties picked in Wimbledon in 2012.
Freezing fruit enables to process it anytime out of the harvesting season. Here is what I did two years ago with frozen apples given by an Earlsfield resident.
A process used to keep morsels firm in strawberry jam can be applied to other fruit such as apricots and plums. We applied it to Victoria plums in Southfields last September.
Just to add rhubarb in the list of things that grow in London gardens, and provide insight into the variety of tastes that can be created in jams with this vegetable sometimes considered as fruit.
Here are pictures of other pollinators, to reinforce my last post about the diversity of species that can be found in our gardens. The photos are also of better quality, even if taken with a compact camera.
With so many pollinators around the old blossoming tree and a gorgeous weather, we are on our way to harvest a few kilos of deliciously sweet greengages this summer.
Where knowledge, curiosity and a sense of responsibility may have saved lives in the Auvergne garden of Eden.
I look forward to harvesting elderflowers and making this refreshing preparation in June / July wherever I am, as elder trees are abundant in both the UK and France. In any case it will be a celebration of what I have learnt in London.
Away from London and in the absence of a clear way forward for ‘Les jardins d’ici’ I am adding colour to this blog with photos of three plums varieties picked in Wimbledon in 2012.
Freezing fruit enables to process it anytime out of the harvesting season. Here is what I did two years ago with frozen apples given by an Earlsfield resident.
A process used to keep morsels firm in strawberry jam can be applied to other fruit such as apricots and plums. We applied it to Victoria plums in Southfields last September.
Example of a garden with great potential unexploited for many years.
Les Jardins d'ici 