Wisconsin Woodland Garden

The Wisconsin Woodland Garden captures the harmony and natural quality of Wisconsin’s surrounding forests. Like natural forest, the garden is composed of four tiers of vegetation; canopy, understory, shrub and ground layers. The Woodland Garden plants were all selected based on the natural occurrence in Wisconsin forests, their noninvasive habit, unique features and shade tolerance. Many are ephemeral, which means they flower in the spring when enough light still enters through the upper canopy before foliage has fully emerged but all vegetation goes dormant in mid-summer when shade deepens to levels where photosynthesis is nearly impossible. Aesthetically, Woodland gardens often play with differing shapes and shades of green, and are more slow to change than other garden styles.