Designer: Wayne O’Neill
An Edible Woodland Garden is an attempt to communicate the culinary, medicinal and practical uses of woodland species in a stylised woodland planting composition.
The composition, which draws inspiration from our naturally diverse woodlands, mimics them in structure by arranging a diverse range of edible perennials, herbs, and fruit bushes under a canopy of edible fruits. The planting is arranged in such a way as to imitate a natural woodland with low growing salads such as Siberian purslane and Viola riviniana making up the ground cover, a herbaceous layer of fruit bushes and herbs and a canopy of edible fruit. Plants such as Ajuga reptans and Symphytum officinale are incorporated to attract beneficial insects and to proved a source of nutrients for the garden.
