8409 W. Hillview Dr
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Since moving here 5 months ago I have eliminated about 70% of the turfgrass in the front half acre, planting pollinator/prairie gardens in its place. In the back half acre, under the five 70 year old silver maples , I'm establishing a forest of mostly native trees and shubs, eliminating about 40% of the turf grass here. Future plans include a pond, a rain garden, and a small vegetable garden.
HERBACEOUS: butterfly milkweed, swamp milkweed, whorled milkweed, Joe-pye weed, pale purple coneflower, purple coneflower, rattlesnake master, 6 species of asters, 5 species of goldenrods, blue lobelia, red lobelia, ironweed, common boneset, Ohio spiderwort, brown eyed Susan, black eyed Susan, obedient plant, Virginia mountainmint, golden Alexanders, purple prairie clover, prairie smoke, nodding wild onion, blue vervain, evening primrose, compass plant, prairie dock, false indigo, Indian grass, sideoats grama, little bluestem, switchgrass, bottlebrush grass, prairie dropseed, royal catchfly, Canada anemone, thimbleweed, pussytoes, wild strawberry, wild geranium, Culver’s root, snakeroot, mayapple, red and white baneberrys, plantain-leaved, fox, Penn sedges, columbine, orange-fruited horse gentian, beebalm, dotted horsemint
WOODY: red, white, Schumard, swamp white, chinkapin oaks, sugar and silver maple, American beech, tulip poplar, musclewood, yellowwood, Northern catalpa, pagoda, redtwig, gray dogwoods, spicebush, black raspberry, blackberry, serviceberry, bitternut hickory, black walnut, common honey locust, common hackberry, Eastern redbud, Kentucky coffeetree, bush-honeysuckle(Diervilla), button bush, quaking aspen, American hazelnut, common witchhazel, smooth hydrangea, winterberry (I.verticillata), American arborvitae, American larch, baldcypress, elderberry
(All plants, except the silver maples, honey locust, and black walnut were planted May-September 2025.