When designing gardens these days, especially wildlife gardens, we talk about mimicking a habitat. But it is challenging to translate a habitat type legibly and functionally, especially in small gardens. A woodland arrangement, for example, requires more than one tree to suggest woodland with its understory community of shrubs, perennials, bulbs, grasses, and groundcovers.

Plant list for the wildflower grassland

By Anno Torr In the east of the country, the still warm, and increasingly drier days of April and provide perfect flying conditions for...