SubTropical Forest Gardens

A subtropical forest garden is characterised by dense, multi layered foliage with closed canopy cover. Canopy trees can include avocado, bananas, macadamia, cherimoya, and tamarillo, with a shrub and groundcover layers of lush leafy and/or edible plants including guava and taro as well as climbers such as passionfruit. Subtropical forest gardens require sheltered, frost free, warm and humid sites and well drained soils with the exception of bananas and taro which prefer ‘wet feet’.