What grows here
The three figures differ on purpose. The registry groups by species, so eight bamboos occupy one row; the variety count reflects named cultivars, so those same bamboos count eight times. Individuals are plants actually in the ground. Seed mixes are counted as one product each, not as the twelve to twenty-seven species they contain.
2020 · Lawn
2026 · Food forest
The same yard
Six years between the photographs. The grove itself is 20 months old.
Seven layers
A food forest stacks vertically. Each layer takes what the one above lets through — open a layer to see what occupies it.
Guilds
Plants grouped so each does something for the others — a centre tree, nitrogen fixers, pest confusers, ground cover.
Succession
Syntropic planting moves a system forward on purpose, rather than holding it still.