Native woodland gardens
It was nice this morning to share thoughts about creating native
woodland gardens with an OLLI class (check out OLLI programs if you're
in the US -- a great lifelong learning initiative).
It's been a lovely journey to transform lawn to woodland habitat over the last two decades, and we now finally have Christmas ferns, bloodroot, wild ginger, crested iris, green-and-gold, and pussytoes flourishing along our front pathway.
It was all about creating a
decent "forest" soil -- more full of humus, a bit deeper, etc. from the
shallow, shade-stressed grass that grew there before.
And the water oak that anchors the driveway produces slow-to-break-down leaves -- not the best situation, but eventually they DO turn into humus-rich leaf mulch.
That's what supported the bloodroot expansion!
P.S. See the sidebar for a link to a pdf version of the creating a woodland garden presentation.
It's been a lovely journey to transform lawn to woodland habitat over the last two decades, and we now finally have Christmas ferns, bloodroot, wild ginger, crested iris, green-and-gold, and pussytoes flourishing along our front pathway.
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| a giant bloodroot |
And the water oak that anchors the driveway produces slow-to-break-down leaves -- not the best situation, but eventually they DO turn into humus-rich leaf mulch.
That's what supported the bloodroot expansion!
P.S. See the sidebar for a link to a pdf version of the creating a woodland garden presentation.
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