An ideal forest garden has eight layers of planting. The highest layer is formed of large canopy trees. In the edible layered ...

An edible one, at that. This is permaculture food forest-style gardening, in which layers of perennials (plants that live for more than two years) are grown together to create a low-maintenance edible ...

If the vegetable garden in your mind consists of neat ... In permaculture, a food forest consists of seven layers: tall trees, low trees, shrubs, vines, non-woody plants such as herbs and ...

Edible forest gardens are less hands-on ... If space doesn’t allow for all seven layers, just go for three that will fit. A low-tree layer may be one crab apple or morello cherry tree, both ...

The NC Cooperative Extension in New Hanover County has a unique program: Nature at Home. It allows residents to learn about ...

As the season shifts from summer to fall marked by cooler weather and leaves changing color and falling, lawn and garden ...

This thin, membranous layer of life is our only home ... Costa RicaA hundred feet up in the Monteverde cloud forest, a luxuriant garden grows. Most animals that thrive in this treetop ecosystem ...

Fallen leaves make a fine mulch for garden beds and trees and shrubs, but they aren’t the only possibility. “Any kind of organic matter can make a good mulch,” said Sharon Yiesla, plant knowledge ...

Leave the Leaves campaigns aim to provide food and shelter for insects at a time when studies show drastic population declines.

Despite their cold tolerance, Chinese fringe flowers (Loropetalum chinense) are vulnerable to damage in winter. Here's what ...

A series of wildfires ravaging parts of rain-starved New Jersey were sending plumes of smoke across the Hudson River and into ...

Explaining the process of creating the wall, Blanc said he has used specialised felt layers to create the soilless hydroponic wall garden. "Felt layers create ... including the forest belt adjacent to ...