301 22nd St
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This proper is my homestead Established by my parents in 1957! Growing up I remember watching many migrating birds and butterflies, as well as, enjoying the locals that stayed all year. In 1985 I moved to Pensacola Beach, Florida and for the next 40 years I promoted a thriving habitat that had been lost after 4 hurricanes. I grew about a hundred palm trees from bird-pooped seedlings. Three summers ago, 2023, I sold my paradise in Florida and returned to my homestead. (The new owner kept the house but plowed the land bare and put in hardscape and a pool.)
The adjustment was daunting. The first thing I noticed was, there were no bugs. Not even mosquitoe. I started to do a lot of research.I was unfamiliar with most of the native plants. The winter climate change caught me off guard and I burst a pipe. After going to a few lecture, getting a good app to identify plants, bugs and birds, I got to work.
The property is in a neat and tidy town that prefers manicured lawns to meadows and forests. The ground was lawn. I started my pollinator garden with three large squared plots that are evolving into man-made meadows. to be continued
My first plant is a willow oak that I got after attending a lecture by Doug Tallamy. On the most prominent part of the property I planted a crabapple tree. In between the trees include a small spruce tree, sweet pepper bush, arrowroot viburnum, asters, American strawberry bush, winter berries, swamp mallow , trumpet vine…….In the man-made meadows I have, golden alexander, pussytoes, blazing star, joe-pye weed, obedient plant, mountain mint, wild blue indigo, bergamot, tall grasses, goldenrod, coneflower, false lupin ….
As well as, a large plot dedicated to milkweed and several deck mounted plant boxes for parsley and fennel.