Bocare is a beautiful south-facing piece of mountainside in the South West of Eire. I was privileged to spend a year living there between the summers of 1997 & 1998. We lived barefoot & without modern day paraphernalia, in order to maintain a real connection with the land. My design was for an area of land above the cottage, half of which was very marshy with slow running water. The soil was very peaty & so constituted a new environment for me. Although I didn't have long there, I was still able to complete the first phase of planting in the design before moving on.

 To read more about how I set out to achieve this, now visit the Design Process page.