When looking for a gardening model, we love permaculture farming. It is the interaction between animals and plants, the symbiosis between one tree and another, the protection the big plants provided to small plants, the sustainable development of biodiversity conservation.
White champaca is one of the large woody plants grown at Bio LAK garden, to create an upper plant canopy layer with its wide shade coverage, to provide green fertilizer from its thick layer of fallen leaves, to nurture the small plants below, to protect the topsoil from drying out. Malvaviscus with medium height have branches crossing at the top and open at the base to reduce sunlight and provide sufficient water for shade-loving plants below such as “que thom”, a Vietnamese plant with its cinnamon leave scent. It is said that “young people grow Annona squamosa, old people grow bananas”.
With ability to grow quickly, bananas are planted at Bio LAK gardens to keep water for the soil, to create shade for garden, to provide potassium for other plants with its banana trunk, to attract birds coming to eat the fruit.
With each passing year, the garden is greener and greener with plants grown in the garden.
