Michigan Micro-Woodland Garden
A small garden in Michigan was a blank slate for a biodiverse garden design. The space was framed by the home, a screened in porch, and outdoor deck offering panoramic views into the space. Designed to mimic a woodland edge plant typology, the new garden is composed almost entirely of native plants, offers seasonal interest and resistence to deer, and creates a lush new space for biodiversity.
A pocket within an expansive Michigan backyard offered space for an intensive, native planting design. The owners share our focus on biodiversity and ecological plantings and requested a lush planting design with no ground exposed. The final design builds off existing structural plantings (evergreen pines and shrubs), providing a long bloom season for pollinators that bounce off the grasses and ferns which offer cohesion throughout the year. The layered planting is showcased in the palette collage. The final, micro-woodland design can be viewed from inside the home, in the screened in porch, or out on the patio.