Cucurbits
Cucurbits contain seeds and grow from the flower of a plant so they are classified as fruits. These include courgettes, cucumbers, pumpkins and squash. Melon belong to this family too.
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Chwilio
Giant puffball
This football-sized fungus can be seen in autumn, sometimes growing on grass verges.
Gerddi'r Coroni
Welcome to Coronation Gardens for food and nature! If you’d like to grow your own carrots or strawberries to save money on your weekly food shop and relax in nature among the butterflies and birds in your back yard, we’d love you to get involved.
Goblin's gold
This dazzling moss grows in dark places, catching any faint light to glow a golden-green.
Welcome to Coronation Gardens!
Kate Bradbury, garden writer and author, shares her enthusiasm for the new initiative helping people to grow food alongside nature.
Coronation Gardens
Welcome to Coronation Gardens for food and nature! If you’d like to grow your own carrots or strawberries to save money on your weekly food shop and relax in nature among the butterflies and birds in your back yard, we’d love you to get involved.
Calaminarian grassland
This is a strange, sparse habitat of grassland growing on old mining tracks and slag heaps, on river gravels and naturally exposed metal-rich soils in the mountains. Only the toughest metal-loving…
Upland birch wood
Elegant, airy woodlands of silver-barked birches found across the northern uplands. Often transient in feel, with scattered trees growing over the heathy field layer of the surrounding moorland,…
Food for you
Learn all about growing your own food in harmony with nature
The Coronation Garden Schools' Fund
How businesses can help schools get growing with Coronation Gardens
Beech and yew wood
Soaring beech trunks and a feeling of spaciousness mean that these woods have often been likened to cathedrals. Dense shade means that little grows on the thick layer of fallen leaves underfoot,…
Getting started
All the tips and tricks you need to get started with growing food for you and wildlife.