>>479482Woodchips are terrible to use in gardens, they won't save you any maintenance and look terrible.
You can throw them in freshly, unless it's pine or cedar.
>>479487I don't do 'big' projects myself, I usually let others do them for me, and with big I mean huge factory gardens, I'm not sure what you're referring to with it though.
I don't have a best project, all of the gardens I design or maintain are high quality.
I do have a few individual plants that I see as projects, these are mostly shrubs/trees on the side of people their property that they don't pay attention to, I trim them down, style them, and eventually collect them and keep them as bonsai, then sell them after I'm satisfied with how they look.
It's mostly wild trees that grow on the side of ditches, which there's plenty of because it rains non-stop here.
Pretty much every decent garden in the northern part of my country was designed by me or my ancestors, we used to be the only gardeners around.
Now there's a gardener on every street corner.