Planting Suggestions
Shade loving plants, conifers to provide year-long interest,
native tree specimens and underplanting bulbs to give added
interest and colour. Dead wood is particularly important for
woodland invertebrates.
Spring bulbs
- daffodils
- bluebells
- cyclamen
- snowdrops
- fritillaries (these are better suited
to meadows or borders)
Shade-tolerating plants
- lily of the valley
- foxgloves
- primroses
- anemones
Evergreen shrubs
- junipers
- rhododendrons (thrive in well drained acid soil - avoid
Rhododendron ponticum, particularly if your garden is in the
countryside or near woodland, as this is highly invasive and
difficult to eradicate)
- cypress (choose species and variety with care as Leylandii
falls within this category)
- holly
- some varieties of honeysuckle are evergreen
Specimen plants
Native trees
- oak (large for the average garden)
- birch
- rowan
- beech (large for the average garden)