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There are many diferent habitats such as ponds, lawns and hedges where useful plants can be grown. The following leaflets describe some of these:

  1. The Edible Lawn
  2. Edible Ornamental Plants
  3. The Edible Pond and Bog Garden
  4. The Edible Shrubs
  5. The Urban Garden (Español)
  6. Ground cover plants.growing carefully selected plants that can spread to cover the ground and that will out-compete the weeds.
  7. Hedges and their use (Deutsch)
  8. Plants for Problem Places North facing walls and deep shade
  9. Conservatory Plants
  10. The potted garden edible plants for containers and pots.

Our database groups plants into 12 different habitats. You can search it in the UK, the US or Australia. Or look at our Habitats index page.

Now available: PLANTS FOR YOUR FOOD FOREST: 500 Plants for Temperate Food Forests and Permaculture Gardens.

An important new book from PFAF. It focuses on the attributes of plants suitable for food forests, what each can contribute to a food forest ecosystem, including carbon sequestration, and the kinds of foods they yield. The book suggests that community and small-scale food forests can provide a real alternative to intensive industrialised agriculture, and help to combat the many inter-related environmental crises that threaten the very future of life on Earth.

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FOOD FOREST PLANTS

 

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