>>2741763A man's house is just his burrow- no different than all animals have. And my property is a rather large slice of the local ecosystem and my grounds are my little small personal "park" within it (if you will) in the area immediately surrounding my house.
I can understand people who maybe don't have woods who want to bring them to their yard. But you can never truly bring the woods to small yard. A yard should be a place for you to live, kids to play, etc. It should also look nice but I'm not going to have waist-high grass in my back yard. Or brambles growing all over the place you clown.
I have a deep love for the woodlands and spend a great deal of my time out in them- and would wager I have a much better understanding of them and appreciation for the incomprehensible balance and varieties of variations and microrefugia that leads to this great masterpiece of the creator which is the woodlands... but a yard is not the woods.
I pick things I like from the woods that I think have a landscaping application and I move them from the woods to an appropriate landscaping application. Spicemen trees- An oak here, a s. Sugar Maple there, a black gum, a red maple, Mayne a spruce pine, a hickory here or there.
Then I transplant some flowering trees underneath my mature hardwoods in some places tucked away in the corners and perimeters of the yard: maybe a fringe tree here, redbud there, big leaf Magnolia, maybe a wild dogwood.
Then I go in and add some wild shrubs along fences and the house. Wild azalea, youpon hollies, anise etc.
Then I have a few beds I put Perennial flowers in that I transplant from the woods: some northern spider lily, heath Aster, goatsrue, dotted horsemint, blazing star, swamp rose, phlox, swamp rose Mallow, etc. Maybe some speargrass, or sedges, blue stem etc.
