Woodland gardens are a different style of garden, the essence behind this type of garden is promoting the ground's natural features, primarily the trees. The garden design carefully considers the existing trees and design centers on how to compliment the existing features. The Dunn Gardens in Washington feature a beautiful woodland garden. In keeping with the woodland garden design, the grounds existing plants and fir were preserved and are the main feature of the garden. The ground's natural features were given much consideration, including the panoramic views and how to best design the garden to optimize this view. In these woodland gardens, other trees were added to the plan, including deciduous trees. By keeping the existing trees, and adding extra trees, the grounds were diverse in color and texture. The garden features woodland plants including erythroniums and trilliums. They are placed with careful consideration beneath a canopy of fir and deciduous trees that remain from the original garden.
The Dixon Gallery and Garden in Tennessee features a woodland garden and this garden shows its appreciation for the woodland garden design with pathways joining the different garden types. Its wooded site is 17 acres, and it was created from carefully carved out Tennessee wood and it features beautiful old trees in an elegant garden space.
Portland's Hoyt Arboretum gardens feature a woodland garden which has one of the largest collections of trees and plants on the grounds - the aim of this garden was to grow the broadest possible range of woody plants from around the globe. This garden has its plants categorized throughout the grounds so all of the same plants are in the same area. There area trees thriving yearly in these grounds and it is a rare woodland garden where a huge variety of plants and tree varieties can be seen. One of the main features to these grounds is the confir collection, which were the first species of trees planted in these woodland gardens.