Garden Design: Plant a Woodland Gardens with minimal effort

Many people are looking for a quiet garden square in their own backyard, but no time, money or skills to create beautiful garden type magazines, you look in. But if you have a shady courtyard, you can always make a garden quiet, through the creation of a forest. Are surprisingly easy to establish, and as soon as she got up and running, often wooded garden care, with relatively little additional help or money.Here are some tips:

Select plants that are normally found in the woods - plants that thrive in partial shade and relatively poor soil. The first candidate would be ferns, which grow normally in forested areas with little or no preparation or attention. After all, they lived in a forest area since the dinosaurs ruled the world.

You may need to cut the trees down your limbs, allow you to go into the garden and possibly create a sessionSpace garden full swing, if you choose. This is the beauty of a wooded garden, can, as rustic and natural as you want. You are limited only by your imagination and taste.

In the first foundation of your woodland garden, be aware that there are four components: the lower layer, the shrub layer, the undergrowth and the canopy. Again, there is an informality of the forest garden that preclude a hard and fast, but beware theThe four components add interest and beauty to your space.

Most of your plants are perennials, which will continue to write in all seasons, year after year. Many people accepted things as trees, azaleas, rhododendrons, ferns and other plants of different heights, textures and colors that the interest in the room at any time of year, will be added. This is especially true with plants and trees, colorful flowers and berries to produce.

With deciduous treescreates a thick layer of compost to win every year in autumn, which decomposes and fertilizes the shrubs and plants below. This also means much less work for you, so take your forest garden. You can also trees that have to do interesting bark, such as birch and oak. Twig dogwood shrubs such as red can also dramatic in a snowy winter landscape.

A forest garden may be just what you are looking for talent, if you do not have the time and moneyestablish and maintain a more "traditional courtyard garden.

Copyright © 2006 Jeanette J. Fisher