Designing a food forest for Zone 1
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This design is for a small multi layer garden (forest garden). It shows how easy it is to transform ~ 100 m² with permaculture design into a productive area.
Benefits of perennials
- Low Maintenance: Perennials come back year after year, so you don’t have to replant them each spring.
- Seasonal Interest: Many perennials offer visual interest throughout the growing season, with foliage, flowers, or fruit that provide color and texture.
- Cost Effective: Although perennials may be more expensive than annuals, they will return year after year, making them cost-effective in the long run.
Use cases of perennials
- Borders and foundation plantings
- Mass plantings and ground covers
- Rock gardens and wildflower gardens
- Cut flowers and arrangements
- In combination with other plants in a food forest
Perennial at Beyond Buckthorns
At Beyond Buckthorns we have a lot of different perennials in our permaculture design. I use some of them in my indoor food forest, but also outside we have in different locations perennials planted. As a brewmaster my personal favourite is hops.
Articles tagged with perennials
Overwintering Herbs - Trial and Error
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Last summer I sowed and planted all kinds of biennial and perennial herbs in my garden.
From seed I had
- thyme
- marjoram
- parsley and
- chives
and as young plants from the garden store I… more