10 Heath Cir

With less than an acre we are gradually transitioning to more native plants than non-native. We have native groundcovers, shrubs, trees, perennials, and annual flowers. Most of the native trees are mature while some of the native shrubs we've planted are still at the small size but growing well. In the past several years we have removed more and more lawn each season.

There are several species of oaks, sugar and red maples, sassafras, native dogwoods, redbud, willows, white pine, eastern red cedar. Many native shrubs such as mountain laurel, buttonbush, new jersey tea, chokeberry (red and black), winterberry, spicebush, northern bayberry, ninebark, beach plum, meadowsweet, steeplebush, nannyberry. We have many milkweed species, purple coneflower, native Rudbeckia, asters, penstemon, plantain pussytoes, pearly everlasting, joe-pye, hyssop, wild geranium, may apple, Solomon’s seal, native columbine, blue flag iris, blazing star, cardinal flower, many types of goldenrod, mountain mint, several monarda species (bee-balm), golden alexanders, Virginia bluebells, some native grasses, Clematis virginiana, wild strawberry, native violets, and annuals such as blanket flower.

We don't use insecticides, pesticides, or herbicides on our property and leave most of the leaves, stems, and seedheads. Removing invasive plants and invasive vines is ongoing. Collection of seeds, winter sowing, and seed stratification and planting is a new interest. Our goal is planting native species to promote healthy habitats for pollinators and all wildlife.