The Importance of Organic Matter in the Soil
Soil is an important consideration for a woodland garden. Many woodland plants, including ephemerals and ferns do best when they continually have decomposing leaves around them.
This blog post gives more depth to this idea including some actual data from MSU’s extension. I found it fascinating and I hope you will too.
What is an Ephemeral?
What is a spring ephemeral? Where do they grow and do they actually need light?
In Michigan, our spring ephemeral show in the woods is not to be missed. Ephemerals grow under tree cover but before the leaves come out and hide the sun.
Come learn a bit more in this blog post.