Alys Fowler

5 folk and 148 rosy marsh moth caterpillars counted (second high count in almost 50 years). 2am selfie for evidence. Also heard the curlews on the south west side of the bog back after decades of absence. Small miracles in a changing world. Rainbow nose hair My love’s seat at the cafe graffitied by her ancestor b. Nuggz and monkey.

I cannot get enough of lilacs in our new bathroom (new-old, the bathroom set was an eBay steal). Picking them prompted me to remember to say this: @lottie_delamain new book ‘Gardens that can save the world’ is truly excellent. It has hit the moment perfectly because it’s magazine style and its breadth of examples from round the globe has that delicious feeling of the best bathroom reading. Dip in, dip out, go back, get inspired. I think the best books are not for coffee tables where they collect dust, but for bathrooms where they get thumbed and maybe a bit damp, but offer warm dreamtime. So congrats, Lottie. And congrats too to the lilacs, you always do you so well.

Here are the Reading the Wild tickets for Alys Fowler, Alys will be talking about the importance of bogs in eco systems. Tickets on website in bio #readingthewildlitfest #llandovery

Peat-free, pot-free natives coming to you (at some point in the future). It’s happening…

NOGS Spring Lecture 2026 Alys Fowler Author of Peatlands: A Journey Between Land and Water ⸻ 🗓 Saturday 18 April 2026 🚪 Doors 1.15pm 🎤 Talk 2.00pm to 3.30pm 🤟 Live BSL interpretation 📍 Fletchers Nottingham College City Hub NG1 7HB 🎟 Tickets £12 or £9 Book online: /events/nottinghamorganicgardeners/2066127 ⸻ Join us to find out about what we can learn from peat, how we need to plant and grow differently on a personal and commercial scale. Peatlands are the air conditioning units of the world. They filter water, prevent flooding, store carbon and provide vital habitat. Join us to discover the magic of Britain’s bogs (peatlands not the toilets!) ⸻ Sponsored by Nottingham College and Wilding Campuses Stalls include: Five Leaves Bookshop with signing The Dormouse Project Earthed Up peat free nursery Nottingham Organic Gardeners Nottingham College Peat free composts Nottingham Heritage seed library Nottingham Tool Library

Have you got your tickets to this Wednesday's talking plants with Alys Fowler? Link to tickets in bio - we hope to see you there!

Ghostly bog folk: Little Strata Florida figurine. Anthotype tester in cabbage with wax paper positive. 36 hours uv development. 💯 compostable. #phdresearch

🫖 spot #independentnursery #micronursery

Join talking plants on the 25th of march to welcome Alys Fowler. Deep places: An invitation from the bogs to think differently about how we produce our plants It's a capitalist trick to make us think that we need to rely solely on compost as a growing medium for plants. How might we think about our local microbial more-than-human world to explore other possibilities and what might that look like for our industry, supply chains, etc. The bog's ecologies is a wonderful metaphor for thinking differently about our relations with extraction, what's gone and what's sticking around for ever. Alys Fowler is a gardener and writer.They are currently doing a PhD on "How to befriend a bog'. They work appears in the Guardian, The Observer, National Geographic and numerous other, their books include The Thrifty Gardener, The Edible Garden, Hidden Nature and their latest book, Peatlands: a journey through land and water. Every once in a while they win an award like the one they got last year from BSBI for their contribution to the understanding of flowering plants and ferns of Britain and Ireland, even though. the book was mostly about mosses (which is nether flowering, nor a fern). Link to tickets in bio!

Just a gentle reminder not to go overboard on tidying up dead stems this spring. Tidying up the garden is a construct and not at all necessary. A construction thought up by post war chemical companies that wanted to push plastics as a form of cleanliness (cellophane around your fruit for instance), herbicides (post war use of bomb making knowledge) and general neatness (a gendered desire to keep women who’d started doing many more diverse jobs back in the house). If you feel the need to tidy, at least make stacks of dead stems to rot slowly and allow those that might still be using them as bedrooms time to leave. Don’t tidy, go chase bees, read poems, listen to birds, frankly anything else than falling into a capital concept of neatness. The world needs cracks, crevices and rot more than it needs your concept of weed-free soil.

1. We’re still doing this. 2. Wonderbag cooking -7 minutes of gas and four hours later perfect beans. A small wonder of politics. These wars are about resources. 3. B.Nuggz rainwear. 4. B.Nuggz bedwear.

NOGS Spring Lecture 2026 Alys Fowler Author of Peatlands: A Journey Between Land and Water ⸻ 🗓 Saturday 18 April 2026 🚪 Doors 1.15pm 🎤 Talk 2.00pm to 3.30pm 🤟 Live BSL interpretation 📍 Fletchers Nottingham College City Hub NG1 7HB 🎟 Tickets £12 or £9 Book online: /events/nottinghamorganicgardeners/2066127 ⸻ Peatlands are the air conditioning units of the world. They filter water, prevent flooding, store carbon and provide vital habitat. Join us to discover the magic of Britain’s bogs (peatlands not the toilets!) ⸻ Sponsored by Nottingham College and Wilding Campuses Stalls include: Five Leaves Bookshop with signing The Dormouse Project Earthed Up peat free nursery Nottingham Organic Gardeners