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plantingOaks's Back Woods garden

Garden Type: Native | Sun: Dappled Sun | Soil: Clay I'm Organic!

Hmm, so, it doesn’t really have natives in it now. But it is ‘wild’ so I guess that’s the closest type.

This includes the woods on the south and west borders of our property. They range from 10 to 30 feet deep, around the entire edge. Most of the trees are locusts (honey and black) and catalpas. There is a god’s plenty of honeysuckle too. Plus some other things, wild roses, grapevines…

An interesting tidbit I just read is that catalpas and black locusts were generally planted by farmers because the wood was rot-resistant and useful for making fenceposts. I knew that about the locust, but not the catalpa. It’s a good theory for the origin of our woods.

‘The Plan’ is to eventually saw down the honeysuckles (these are, seriously, 25’ tall? More?) and replace them with native-type things.

This also includes the extra fruit trees on the west side.

Four trees are in a rough square as follows:

N – Cherry

E – Cortland

S – Lodi

W – Mcintosh

Tag Orange woodlandwildlifeedibleshadenativewildwoodsforestfruite

Plantings

  • Cherry Trees Day 172

    Cherry Trees

    Prunus serotina

    Sown on 04 Jun 09 None of these are huge, and most are not on the...

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  • Wintergreen Day 237

    Wintergreen

    Gaultheria shallon

    Purchased on 31 Mar 09

    • 2 journals
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  • sweetshrub Day 237

    sweetshrub

    Calycanthus floridus

    Purchased on 31 Mar 09

    • 2 journals
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  • Japanese Stewartia Day 237

    Japanese Stewartia

    Stewartia pseudocamellia

    Purchased on 31 Mar 09 Small tree, interesting bark

    • 2 journals
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  • Fragrant Snowbell Day 237

    Fragrant Snowbell

    Styrax obassia

    Purchased on 31 Mar 09

    • 2 journals
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  • sassafrass Day 237

    sassafrass

    Sassafrass albidum

    Purchased on 31 Mar 09 Native understory. And tasty.

    • 2 journals
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  • Sweetgum Day 242

    Sweetgum

    Liquidambar styraciflua

    Planting Out on 26 Mar 09 Love the fall color

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  • Red Mullberry Day 242

    Red Mullberry

    Morus rubra

    Planting Out on 26 Mar 09

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  • Pussy Willow Day 242

    Pussy Willow

    Salix discolor

    Planting Out on 26 Mar 09 ( http://www.organicgardening.com/feature/0,751...

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  • Gray Dogwood Day 242

    Gray Dogwood

    Cornus racemosa

    Planting Out on 26 Mar 09 White berries look spiffy.

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  • button bush Day 242

    button bush

    Cephalanthus occidentalis

    Transplanted on 26 Mar 09 native, likes wet soils, blooms in summer, frag...

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  • Pecan Day 242

    Pecan

    Carya illinoisensis

    Planting Out on 26 Mar 09 Pecans tolerate standing water in clay soil! Th...

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  • fringe tree Day 242

    fringe tree

    Chionanthus virginicus

    Planting Out on 26 Mar 09 blue fruit if male & female trees

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  • witch hazel Day 242

    witch hazel

    Hamamelis virginiana

    Planting Out on 26 Mar 09 native, pretty early spring/winter flowers in b...

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  • redbud Day 242

    redbud

    Cercis canadensis

    Planting Out on 26 Mar 09 So pretty in the spring. The leaves are cute too.

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  • PawPaw 'Ecos Michigan' Day 242

    PawPaw 'Ecos Michigan'

    Asimina triloba

    Transplanted on 26 Mar 09 From source: Ecos- From the cultivated selecti...

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  • PawPaw 'Indiana' Day 242

    PawPaw 'Indiana'

    Asimina triloba

    Transplanted on 26 Mar 09 Tasty? and native. I've never eaten one, but I'...

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  • ironwood Day 242

    ironwood

    Carpinus caroliniana

    Planting Out on 26 Mar 09 I love the way the trunks on these look

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  • Sycamore Day 242

    Sycamore

    Platanus occidentalis

    Planting Out on 26 Mar 09 invasive roots, but such pretty bark

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  • Apple 'SnappyMac'

    Apple 'SnappyMac'

    Malus domestica

    Planting Out on 15 Apr 08 last of the unexpected extra trees.

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  • Lodi Apple

    Lodi Apple

    Malus domestica

    Planting Out on 15 Apr 08 Furthest south. You can see it to the left of t...

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  • Apple 'Cortland'

    Apple 'Cortland'

    Malus domestica

    Planting Out on 15 Apr 08

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  • Wild Grapes

    Wild Grapes AVAILABLE FOR SWAP

    Vitis vulpina

    Wild grape vines. They aren't really tended, ju...

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  • Wild Mustard

    Wild Mustard

    Sinapis arvensis ssp. arvensis

    Established on 29 Jun 07 This isn't so much a planting as a common weed ...

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  • Honey Locust

    Honey Locust

    Gleditsia triacanthos

    Established on 31 Dec 77 These are the ones with the thorns. Big thorns....

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  • Black Locust

    Black Locust

    Robinia pseudoacacia

    Sown on 31 Dec 77 These are the ones with the flowers. and the se...

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  • catalpa tree

    catalpa tree

    Catalpa speciosa

    Sown on 31 Dec 77 These are rather twisted and gnarled, but appar...

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  • Honeysuckle

    Honeysuckle

    Lonicera maackii

    These are huge. They are weeds. They are all ov...

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  • Rose

    Rose

    Rosa

    Nothing fancy, just some wild type. I'm not sur...

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  • Box Elder

    Box Elder

    Acer negundo

    This tree is almost in the 'back orchard' garde...

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    • Happy

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