I often hear from people who worry that if they leave the leaves on their beds over the winter that the plants won’t be able to grow through this thick layer. Here’s some garden proof that woodland plants will emerge just fine! And I adore this combination of wild ginger (Asarum canadense) and naidenhair fern (Adiantum peltatum). I piled dead leaves on the bed in the autumn, left them over the winter, and didn’t do a thing to the bed in the spring—I just let the plants do their thing!
