Woodland planting

Sarah Price - Chelsea Flower Show Multi-stemmed birch trees provide the solid verticals in this ethereal, wavy garden

Make the most of shady ground with our five key plants for a woodland border.

Find out which plants helped this backyard become an ecologically friendly place for creatures of all kinds to hang out

The authors of Planting in a Post-Wild World make the case for breaking with horticultural tradition to create sustainable landscapes that are no less beautiful

Nigel Dunnett on Instagram: “The Woodland Garden at @trenthamgardens - the ‘woodland meadow’, planted in spring 2016, with Tiarella ‘Spring Symphony’ looking good now.…”

Designing your own woodland garden can be a rewarding process! With careful planning and good species selection even small spaces can become enchanting woodland gardens. Here, I walk you through all the considerations of woodland garden design.

Wild garlic / Ramsons {Allium ursinum} and bluebells {Endymion nonscriptus} flowering in deciduous woodland, Peak District National Park, Derbyshire, UK, May

Woodland gardens can encompass an entire wood or surround a modest cluster of trees but all seek to emulate the designs of nature.