Back on the path and past a sculpted hill-side is a woodland that is the most collection-oriented garden at Chanticleer. Originally a poor area full of poison ivy and honeysuckle, it was cleared in 1994 and planting began the next year. While most of the plants in this garden are native to Korea, Japan, and China, the design style is of an American woodland garden

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Ground gingers such as the marble-leaved Asarum splendens are colonizing in association with a pretty pink primula.

Poking through the many ferns are Asian jack-in-the-pulpits such as Arisaema sikokianum with a brown and white striped hood. Despite being a collection, this dense and complex garden has a rich atmosphere of woodland magic.