permaculture

[mIEKAL aND <dtv@mwt.net>]

We made an herb spiral during our first permaculture course here at Dreamtime 
&
because we didn't keep it weeded & maintained, it became quickly overgrown & 
is
largely burdock & blackcaps now & is thoroughly unnavigatible. This also 
happened to
a large medicine circle (I believe similar to what is being called a mandala 
garden)
which was created in an area that is not used on a daily basis & it to has 
gone wild
& most of the original planting have been superimposed by the more aggressive 
local
"weeds."

mIEKAL aND
dreamtime village

Graham Burnett wrote:

It's not exactly low maintainance either, requiring quite a bit of weeding

> and watering to keep it looking good/remove competitive volunteer plants BUT
> this high maintainance aspect is a positive in this instance, as most of the
> grounds where i work is designed to be low maintainance, this little
> 'intensive spiral corner' is a nice place where our service users can put in
> some hands on work and see results in a short period of time.