Honey Locust Seedling

Description

Honey locust reaches a typical height of 15–30 metres. This fast-growing, nitrogen-fixing tree has an open canopy, allowing dappled light to reach the understory, making it an excellent overstory species in a forest garden. The small, bright green compound leaves turn golden in autumn, creating seasonal beauty. Its fragrant flowers attract pollinators, while the long, sweet seed pods are relished by livestock and wildlife. With a deep taproot, honey locust improves soil structure and drought resilience. It coppices well and provides durable timber, though thornless varieties are preferred for ease of management. Thriving in full sun, it is best suited for forest edges and open spaces. Has high levels of Magnesium so good for chipping when coppiced.

Forest Gardens are orchards designed in such a way so the needs of the heavy bearing heavy feeding fruit trees are taken care of in the design.

We do this by:

• Ensuring no more than 60% of the canopy space is taken up by heavy feeders. We prefer 40%.
• For every square metre of heavy feeder canopy there is 0.8 of a square metre of nitrogen fixer.
• For every square metre of heavy feeder there is 1 comfrey plant.
• You have all seven (7) layers of the forest garden present.
• You have as wide a range of mineral accumulators present.

For more details about this see the Koanga Design Your Own Forest Garden Booklet