Midwinter in the Garden

 The Saplings group continue to have a wonderful time at ECCG through the midwinter. They write:

We had a really lovely session last Saturday, being at the ECCG felt exactly right for us. Most importantly, the children absolutely loved being there and enjoyed the simple activities, even though they have joined us before. The photo below showed how much the kids loved even the simple Poohsticks game next to ECCG :)!

We love having you at the garden, Saplings! Thanks for loving on all the plants!

[photo to come]

In other news, ECCG featured (again!) on Cambridge Radio "Flavour" last week. We are celebrities.

The radio show caught our team at work on some careful pruning and coppicing. Check back on their website soon to hear the latest feature, and meanwhile listen to our previous outing on the show here.

Here's Flavour's Matt interviewing our Charlotte. 

Fractals are Fun

Fantastic Jack Frost play on my windows this morning. Magically, he’d been growing ice crystal gardens as I slept.

Nature, so complex, is also repetitive with much being mathematically based on fractals, a pattern which repeats itself at different scales. Fractals are an efficient way of filling space. Allowing light to enter as a tree does, blood reach extremities as our vascular system does, or for growing larger like a fern frond unfurling or a young snail growing up. Fractals are fun.

PS. We used to have a book titled "Physics is Fun" which we kept on the bookshelf only for its ludicrous, smile inducing, title alone. Perhaps if we'd opened it we might have discovered something fun on fractals.

- Charlotte