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

Blog posts related to this area of the garden:

Fall 2025

January 11, 2026
planting log, trees, herbaceous, seed collection, wildlife, seasonal review

Mountain laurel planted

October 3, 2025
shrubs

Summer 2025

September 29, 2025
trees, shrubs, herbaceous, vegetables, fruit, lepidoptera, seasonal review

New natives

August 16, 2025
herbaceous, observations

Goldfinch

July 15, 2025
wildlife, observations

Spring 2025

June 22, 2025
trees, vegetables, fruit, wildlife, herbaceous, shrubs, seasonal review

Oaks

April 24, 2025
trees, observations

Deer

April 21, 2025
wildlife, observations

Winter 2024/25

March 21, 2025
seasonal review

Elderberry cuttings planted

February 2, 2025
fruit

Summer 2024

September 22, 2024
seasonal review

American hornbeam planted

May 11, 2024
trees

Ashe's magnolia and bald cypress planted

October 28, 2023
trees

Second oak planted

March 12, 2023
trees

First Chestnut Planted

December 27, 2022
trees

First Oak Planted

December 27, 2022
trees

Volunteer maple planted

September 24, 2022
trees