Plants, Wildlife and Polycultures for Forest Gardens and Regenerative Landscapes - Part 2
Welcome to part 2 of a series where I'll be posting some observations and experiences about the various plant species from our forest gardens and regenerative landscapes, as well as interesting plants and polycultures from around the world. We'll be featuring plants from different layers of the forest garden, presenting some established polycultures, and providing some suggestions about how to design, build and manage forest gardens and regenerative landscapes.
Forest Garden Plants
Lower Canopy Layer - Zanthoxylum piperitum - Japanese Pepper Tree makes a great lower canopy tree in the forest garden, a relatively small tree that is tolerant of shade and cast little shade itself due to the thin canopy. we have found Rubus fruticosus cv. - Blackberry and Ribes nigrum cv.- Blackcurrants both grow well under these trees.