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Going natural: Woodland gardens

The wood dock and sunning platform echoes the colouring of the surrounding trees.

A sweeping woodland garden brings formality to the forest

If you’re not lucky enough to have a property measured in acres instead of metres, conveniently positioned at the edge of a lush forest, you can still adopt some of the landscaping and planting ideas from this spectacular woodland garden located in southwestern Ontario (Canadian garden zones 5b to 6a). Even its grandest elements, like…

July 13, 2017 in Going natural: Woodland gardens, What's your garden style?.
Slabs of natural rock feature in a woodland garden setting.

A woodland garden rocks on the coast of Maine

The Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens is a system of gardens working together to make one enormous woodland garden that rocks (appropriately with rocks) on the rocky, amazingly beautiful coast of Maine. My guy and I were there only last week and the ideas I got from these gardens are still whirling in my head–massive stone…

June 23, 2016 in Gardens in United States, Going natural: Woodland gardens.

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Hi! I'm Crys Stewart. I'm a garden enthusiast, organic horticulture specialist and columnist. But mostly I like to grow stuff, visit other gardens, try to get to know plants and wildlife a little better and then take photos and write about it all. I hope you enjoy these posts and let me know what you think.

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