A thicket has grown in the corner of the garden.
I can hear insects chirping from inside the clump of bushes.
茂み is a more general term for a thick growth of plants, while 草薮 often implies a wilder, less maintained patch.
Standard kanji spelling using 薮 (thicket).
Search-only mixed kanji-kana form; not a standard written spelling.
Variant using 藪 (thicket), a common alternative character form.
Compound of 草 (くさ, grass) and 薮 (やぶ, thicket). The exact historical derivation is straightforward.