Edible Lanscaping ~ What Is It?

If you don’t have a lot of room to devote to an elaborate potager design, yet still want to grow your own food an edible landscape might be the way you’d like to go.   This type of garden design is a great choice if you would like to maintain a more homogenous yard design that blends in with the typical suburban neighborhood.

With this type of garden, we will take the same basic landscaping ideas but replace  the ornamental plants with edible ones.   For instance for our foundation plantings, instead of an average bush perhaps we would choose a blueberry bush.  There are plenty of edible plants we  can use as hedges or shrubs.   Or if we needed a windbreak, maybe we could plant a large nut tree instead. Need a groundcover?  Why not go with thyme, chamomile or strawberries?

The world of edible landscaping is “ripe” with possibilities and I’m excited to “dig” into these here.