55 Windrow Rd
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We are mostly a partly sunny location with the sunniest section planted in flowers and low shrubs. Over the last 10 years or so we have been bringing in more native shrubs and perennials. We are in a pretty cold location so have to consider winter hardiness. Much of the land is underlain by glacial fill and the general pH is on the acidic side.
The surrounding forest has red oaks, sugar and red maples, some birch, beech (sadly losing our to beech leaf disease). We have basswood, hemlocks, river birch, gray birch, shad in our yard. Recently we have planted clethra, inkberry, winterberry, echinacea, red columbine, several species of fall asters, angelica, nodding onion, bee balm (that is being crowded out by the echinacea and needs to be moved), sweetfern and others. We are working on increasing soft landings around the bases of lawn trees, mostly red oaks, so caterpillars have a place to shelter as cocoons (thanks Doug Tallamy for that idea). We want to plant more native transition shrubs at the edges of the woodland area. Some of our natives proved very tasty to the deer so I'm going to try surrounding them with aromatic herbs, which the deer don't like. My mother had planted veronica and black cohosh, which we still have and attract many native bees. We have two plum trees we hope some pollinators will use.