The Prince of Ylliriel shows yet another area of the garden planted with sweet potato beds, strawberries, fennels, stevia, artichoke, wild forms of dandelion and other salads, wild asparagus, watercress, parsley, and many small and taller trees.
He explains how he used the practice of coppice in the garden, to increase the amount of available sunlight, cutting some of the non-productive trees to mid-height, in order to keep those trees alive, and to use the foliage they afterwards produce in order to enrich the soil of the new raised beds. This practice respects the environment and the life of trees, while contributing to create a more complex and resilient ecosystem.
Also, traditional gardeners remove wild herbs to either plant grass, or some forms of cultivated vegetables and salads. The philosophy behind the Fantasy Garden of Ylliriel is to understand and recognize the value of each wild edible plant that sprouts, protecting those edible species in order to make them thrive. Indeed, wild plants will, during the coldest and rainiest months of the year, provide abundant and delicious green leaves to be consumed in salads, for free and with little effort, at the condition to know, recognize and protect them.
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