The invention discloses an ecological restoration method for a lakeside wetland. In the method, hygrophilous woody plants are planted in a lakeside zone to construct wetland plant communities. The hygrophilous woody plants comprise hygrophilous arbor and hygrophilous shrub, wherein the hygrophilous arbor comprises willows, metasequoia, ascendens mucronatum, taxodium ascendens brongn and bamboo; the hygrophilous shrub comprises iteaceae and S.integra thrnb; and the plants are planted in the way of shoot cottage or soil ball transplant. The hygrophilous woody plants are perennial plants, have a low growth rate, low biomass, low growth amount and low plant disposal pressure and do not need felling and refloating every year, so that the defects of frequently harvesting and refloating herbal emergent aquatic plant communities every year are overcome, the maintenance and management cost of lake wetland plant communities are reduced, the lakeside depositing rate is lowered, and the secondary pollution hidden danger to lake water bodies is relieved. Compared with the prior art, the method has the characteristics of convenient operation, maintenance and management, low maintenance cost, high ecological benefit, easy popularization and application and the like and can be used for ecological restoration engineering of lake and lakeside bottomlands, swamp marshes and shallow water zones.