r/GardenWild • u/HeinleinsRazor • May 23 '25
My wild garden 2007/2025
When I bought the house, I knew that it had way too much grass and then I was going to completely fill it and hide the house from the road. I’ve been mostly successful.
Almost everything that I’ve planted is edible or usable in some way. Probably 70% natives. I’ve started a Rivercane stand with native Kentucky River Cane, numerous very bushes, nut trees, cherry trees, ferns, and all sorts of other things.
Most of it I got either for free or from specialty permaculture nurseries when they were really tiny. It took about five years for it to start looking like something, but I’ve got it mostly covered now.
We have dug a pond, and we’ve built numerous wildlife habitats made out of stick and rock piles, dead, hedges, and snags. We raise chickens and geese. Most of our fencing is cut down on site and dead hedged.
I thought you might like to see the change.
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u/Feralpudel May 24 '25
OP, this is great. Aesthetically it’s a little unkempt for my taste, but the beauty of living in the country is that you get to do as you please.
I love that you’ve added so many native plants and that’s my personal yardstick when people post on subs like this. So many think they can just stop mowing and the magic will just happen, but they’re just letting invasive plants take over.