Miyawaki forest plantation

Overview

The Miyawaki forest plantation takes a small, often overlooked urban plot — a roadside strip, a school corner, a patch beside a housing colony — and turns it into a dense stand of native trees. Instead of a scattering of saplings, dozens of species indigenous to the region are planted close together, layered from shrubs to canopy trees, so the plot behaves like a young natural forest rather than an ornamental garden, reaching closed canopy in years rather than decades.

• Native species
• Dense planting