WIld Plum in their natural element

Sometimes the best garden inspiration doesn’t come from a Better Homes and Garden magazine, Pinterest, or your neighbor’s down the block; but rather the untouched land beyond suburbia. We captured a couple North American Natives in their natural element and believe using nature as your blueprint makes an excellent foundation for success in your own landscape.

Cottonwood and Wild Plum

Cottonwood trees (Populus section Aigeiros) and Wild Plum (Prunus americana) are a wonderful combination not concocted by a gardener but rather by the natural garden itself. With under-story and over-story layers thriving in harmony, it’s exciting to watch spring unfold in the way it want’s to rather in the way we force it to in our ‘expertly’ planned out, high maintenance gardens.

At Kinghorn Gardens we prefer to embrace the landscape in which we are in. The grand rolling plains have much more to offer than just tall grasses, you need to only look in the right places to find a plethora of exciting combinations to use in your own landscape. Though there is no such thing as a ‘no maintenance’ garden, you can decrease your inputs by following in the foot steps of mother nature (she wouldn’t plant anything she doesn’t know how to care for).

Keeping in mind where we live and how to embrace your sense of place through the plant material you select can make a huge impact on the overall success of your garden.