“It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when they have lost their way.”– Rollo May When we think about our own garden, or the type of garden we’d like to own one day, few of us think about starting a forest. Mostly, we settle on the merits of a nice, polite lawn, some well-maintained hedges, and a row of eternally-budding roses. It is not normal, we believe, to dream of creating a mossy woodland in suburbia, screaming with vines, nut trees, medicinal plants, and fruiting fungi. But according to Irish gardener Mary Reynolds, a forest garden is what nature intended, and so the technique of ‘forest gardening’ is to work with nature - and not against it - to create an environment that’s self-sustaining, with minimal…
