52 Old Main Street
1. 500 sq feet of lawn replaced with native perennials and wildflowers (pollinator pathway)
2. native rain garden built by outdoor shower
3. replacing traditional plants with natives over time
4. planting a new tree each year since 2015
-coreopsis
-Solomon seal
-yarrow
-milkweed (common, butterfly, incarnata)
-joe pye weed
-common sunflower
-coral bells
-swamp rose mallow
-wild bergamot
-rudbeckia
-culver's root
-goldenrod
-New England aster
-NY ironweed
-trumpet honeysuckle
-clematis
-big bluestem
-red maple
-American holly
-white oak
This project started as a commitment to monarch butterfly plantings in 2016 after we bought this property as a summer home. After moving here full-time in 2019 (from California) we have committed to re-wilding our property as a certified wildlife habitat.