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My Garden - Western woodland edge

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Legend

Canopy

1. black cherry - see front meadow.
2. Chestnut (hybrid) - see front meadow.
3. Bur oak
4. Chestnut (hybrid)
5. Maple
6. Red or black oak
7. Bald cypress
8. tulip tree that came up in spring/summer 2025 and I protected.
9. eastern white-cedar (arborvitae)
w. Black walnut (probably dead)

Understory

h. American hornbeam - see front meadow.

Shrub

e. Elderberry
g. Great laurel (Rhododendron maximum) k. mountain laurel (Kalmia latifolia)

Herbaceous

b. butterfly milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa)
c. columbine
C. common copperleaf
f. ferns
m. common milkweed
t. fucking thistle
v. Virginia pepperweed

Groundcover

p. American plantain - transplanted a few, spread seeds.
s. spotted spurge (Euphorbia maculata)
u. bearberry (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi)
y. pussy toes - transplanted some, also spread many seeds

Other

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╚╧╧╧╧═ stone wall with steps behind it

My Garden - Western woodland edge

Legend

Canopy

Understory

Shrub

Herbaceous

Groundcover

Other

Blog posts related to this area of the garden:

Fall 2025

Mountain laurel planted

Summer 2025

New natives

Goldfinch

Spring 2025

Oaks

Deer

Winter 2024/25

Elderberry cuttings planted

Summer 2024

American hornbeam planted

Ashe's magnolia and bald cypress planted

Second oak planted

First Chestnut Planted

First Oak Planted

Volunteer maple planted