A colorful variety of flora and fauna dominates the successful natural garden. However, the ecologically oriented garden concept cannot function entirely without horticultural intervention. These ideas would like to encourage you to create your individual natural garden successfully and authentically.
What are ideas for a natural garden?
Nature garden ideas include using native plants such as wild fruit trees and ornamental shrubs, creating a natural flower meadow and retreats for animals such as dry stone walls, wood piles and water worlds. Such gardens promote biodiversity and environmental sustainability.
Native plants have priority – ideas for the planting plan
By definition, the natural garden achieves an uncontrived integration of people and nature. In concrete terms, this approach means that environmental toxins, artificial fertilizers and peat are not allowed. Rather, based on ecological management, the gardener paves the way for regional species to unite into a natural plant community without sinking into floral chaos. This requires a high level of patience and the right selection of the planting plan. The following ideas would like to inspire your creativity:
- Enclosure: mixed hedge with native flowering bushes, whose berries serve as bird food
- Natural flower meadow as a pasture for bees and butterflies, instead of a formal, maintenance-intensive lawn
- Regional wildflowers and perennials, instead of exotic immigrants
When choosing your house tree, choose robust trees that are native to us. These include wild fruit species such as bird cherry (Prunus padus) or spar (Sorbus domestica). We would like to recommend the picturesque rock pear (Amelanchier ovalis) and red honeysuckle (Lonicera xylosteum) as ornamental shrubs.
Creating retreats for the local wildlife – this is how it works
A colorful dance of insects and small animals characterizes the perfect natural garden. In order to establish a diverse animal life, there must be inviting places to retreat. With just a few simple steps you can conjure up a cozy refuge for everything that crawls and runs in the natural garden. This is how it works:
- Build a dry wall out of natural stones without mortar to attract lizards and other small animals
- Pile rotten wood into small piles and leave it lying there
- Turn upside down flower pots filled with wood wool as an insect and beetle hotel
A water world should not be missing in the natural garden. The spectrum of options extends from bird baths to rushing streams. A natural bank planting of pennywort, lady's mantle, etc. with hiding places rounds off the design plan.
Tip
The cottage garden is one of the most popular interpretations of the natural garden. As a successful liaison of local wildflowers, classic vegetable plants and regional berry bushes, the historical concept continues to receive great popularity in creative garden design.
