601 N Ithan Ave

As a retirement community we have different areas on our campus. We have approximately 15 acres in woods with oaks, hickory, tulip poplar, dogwood, red bud, and others like ragwort, Solidago, white asters, violets, and cardinal flowers. We have pond on one side of the woods with willows, witch hazel, asters, milkweed, Solidago, jewel weed and more. We also have a valle which is a water retention basin with grass for walking and sides filled with native flowers like snakeroot and asters. We have villas and apartments with resident owned gardens--most containing native plants and pollinators. We have a resident community gardens with traditional vegetables and flowers but also with 6 beds of pollinators and native plants that have more or less seeded themselves--Solidago, New York asters, evening primrose, black eyed Susan’s, cone flowers. We have a courtyard planted with native plants and pollinators--false indigo, arrowwood viburnum, red bud, dogwood, oak, cone flowers, blackeyed Susan’s.

Oak, hickory, tulip tree, dogwood, witchhazel, Solidago, aster, violets, willow, milkweed, jewelweed, Viburnum, coneflower, Rudbeckia