biodiverseed:HØJMOSE: THE RAISED ACIDIC BOG GARDENZone 8 // Denmark // 3 metres x 0.5 me
biodiverseed:HØJMOSE: THE RAISED ACIDIC BOG GARDENZone 8 // Denmark // 3 metres x 0.5 metres See Part I - Photos are captionedA home for ericaceous / calcifuge plants that naturally grow in environments like heaths, bogs, and on pine/oak forest floors. These plants all require a soil pH of 7 or lower.I’ve built up the soil with successive sheet mulches and acidic organic matter (shredded oak leaves, cedar boughs, coffee grounds, etc.) for two years now. For sustainability reasons, I am trying to go peat-free. Each plant is top-mulched with pine needles, and the space between plants is covered in newspaper and a coniferous chip mulch.The highbush blueberries are trained up to grow on a single trunk, and the height/breadth of the Plum Yew shrubs must also be controlled, to allow for the “understory” groundcover plants to spread and fruit. All of these species produce edible berry-like parts, and are easily cloned through layering.Highbush Blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum) cvs. “Julia,” “Augusta” and “Septa”Wintergreen / Teaberry (Gaultheria procumbens)Plum Yew / Cowtail Pine (Cephalotaxus harringtonii)Spicy Wintergreen (Gaultheria miqueliana)Bilberry / Whortleberry / European Blueberry (Vaccinium myrtillus)Lingonberry / /Mountain Cranberry / Cowberry (Vaccinium vitis-idaea)Crowberry (Empetrum nigrum)Bearberry / Kinnickinnick / Pinemat Manzanita (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi)Nagoonberry (Rubus arcticus xstellarcticus)Bunchberry / Quatre-temps, Crackerberry, Creeping Dogwood (Cornus canadensis)Related: Perennial Onions; Berryland#edible landscaping #forest gardeningFantastic. Such biodiversity! -- source link
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