Woodland planting

Coming up to Autumn and early Winter it is a great time to plant out in the wooded areas you may have.

The temperature in the Wood is more consistent throughout the year than an open part of the garden, this is due to the canopies of the trees creating a car port effect.  Cool in the summer time and the warmer in winter than any exposed areas of land.

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This means that there are a huge range of plants that can be added to a woodland floor to make a wonderful addition to the group of trees you may have in your garden.

I would make an informal path, meandering through the wooded area, and if you have enough space, then incorporate a rustic bench.

The pathway surface can be bark chips to be really in keeping.

The planting in the Wood can range tremendously with flowers and foliage for every season.

If it is the evergreen foliage you want, then Holly or Ilex, some Viburnum, Mahonia, Aucuba, Fatsia, Euonymus, to name but a few families of plants that could be useful in your woodland area.  All soils are okay for most of the families mentioned above.

Evergreen foliage for acid soils would include Rhododendron, Pieris, Azalea, Camellia, again to name but a few families of woodland floor plants.

Winter flowering would be shrubs such as Winter Viburnums, Winter Honeysuckles, such as Lonicera standisii.

Winter flowering herbaceous would include, Helleborus, Lenten and Christmas Roses.

Plants for Autumn colour, such as Japanese Maples, Spindleberries, Deciduous Viburnums etc

Don't forget bulbs all the way from Snowdrops to Bluebells

Don't forget Ferns, of which there are many that love a leaf mould at the roots and under the shade of trees.

There are many summer flowering shrubs that enjoy a woodland such as summer flowering shrub honeysuckles such as the Lonicera tartarica Hacks Red., hardy fuchsias etc

There are many summer flowering herbaceous perennials that would love to be in a wood, such as Liriope, and Japanese Anemone for example.

All sorts of other things will colonise if you start them off, such as Foxgloves, Primroses, Violets etc.

Also there are edible things such as hazelnuts that love to be in a wooded area.

This is only a small taster of the opportunities that a group of trees could host this wonderful array of colours and textures, shapes and smells, to enhance the floor of the wooded area.

Go on, take your woodland to another level and I'm sure you won't regret it.  Good luck!!   

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