Permaculture Garden Collection
Permaculture is a design philosophy that aims to create sustainable systems modelled on natural ecosystems. In the garden, this often means selecting plants that perform multiple roles and support each other’s growth. Permaculture gardens are usually made up of guilds which are a way of grouping those supportive plants into communities that will thrive. For more information on putting together a guild you can read our complete guide, 'Creating a Permaculture Guild' but essentially, guilds are built around a keystone plant which is usually a tree or shrub, such as a fruit tree surrounded by plants that serve a combination of the following roles:
- Suppressors - Ground cover plants for weed suppression and moisture retention
- Attractors - To bring beneficial insects and pollinators
- Repellers - To repel of confuse pests
- Mulchers/Accumulators - Plants that accumulate nutrients from deep in the soil and and pass them back to the surface when they die back, as well as large leaved plants that provide a surface mulch over winter.
- Fertility Plants - Nitrogen fixers which take nitrogen from the air and convert it into a form plants can use to grow, within the soil
Here we have put together a collection of subcategories of plants that fulfill each of those roles to help you put together a guild of your own:
