Loved this newsletter! I thought mini forests required something like two feet of compost: I am glad to be disabused of this notion!
For anyone with a woodland garden, I highly recommend The American Woodland Garden: Capturing the Spirit of the Deciduous Forest by Rick Darke, which is out of print, but well worth seeking out. And for anyone in the Northeast, I found Amy Ziffer's The Shady Lady's Guide to Northeast Shade Gardening (second edition) to be very helpful for selecting plants.
Loved this newsletter! I thought mini forests required something like two feet of compost: I am glad to be disabused of this notion!
For anyone with a woodland garden, I highly recommend The American Woodland Garden: Capturing the Spirit of the Deciduous Forest by Rick Darke, which is out of print, but well worth seeking out. And for anyone in the Northeast, I found Amy Ziffer's The Shady Lady's Guide to Northeast Shade Gardening (second edition) to be very helpful for selecting plants.
Oh, and I might need that ultimate garden sheath!!!
Thanks for those book recommendations, Laura. And the sheath is so good I gave Zoe one, too.