Outdoor DIY projects can be fun, but there’s always a bit of pressure to finish them quickly. After all, you can easily hide that half-finishedaccent wall inside your home, but that partially constructed cinder block garden is on display for the neighbors to see.
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You must be careful when you enter the backyard of garden designer Jeff Epping. No because you’re likely to trip on something but because you might be dive-bombed by a pair of nesting hummingbirds, or a bevy of butterflies, or any number of other pollinators that make this shady Midwestern garden their home. Jeff Epping is the principal designer at Epping Design & Consulting and the former director of horticulture at Olbrich Botanical Gardens in Madison, Wisconsin. Given this background, it’s no surprise that his home landscape is something special. He writes about this beautiful space in his article, Design an Engaging, Naturalistic Garden in the Shade.
Twenty years ago, this backyard was a sunny patch of turf, surrounded by borders filled with floriferous perennials. Jeff made quick work of installing an expansive stone patio so the family could be always immersed in the garden and then planting trees to provide shade. The landscape has been slowly undergoing a transformation over in the more recent past, moving away from a traditional shade garden to a more naturalistic one that embraces an ecology-first mindset. This evolution, however, hasn’t sacrificed the original intention of the dream garden—that it be a visually appealing space with plenty of activity.
Jeff has a few design tips that ensure an environmentally friendly garden is the perfect for people, plants, and pollinators:
Jess says, “I try to choose plants that help support insects, birds, and other creatures without the input of supplemental water, fertilizers, fuel, and other chemicals. The needy, noncontributing ‘look at me’ plants that I used to grow mainly to impress those that visited my garden have fallen by the wayside. Some exceptions are in a few
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