After years turning the soil, adding compost trying wild flowers under the tree I eventually gave up, put ferns in and called it my wild garden.
Now it does have some most unusual plants in there amongst the ferns, never raked or cleaned it can do it's own thing!
I do love wild gardens, more often than not, nature can outnature us ;)
We whirl, we twirl, yet if the plant is not happy nature will look after it's own....
hehe that is so true, nature knows best 🌀