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Late summer wildflowers Fall-Winter Wildflowers, grasses, tiny lawn! Naturalized area DEEP natural border (the way borders are supposed to be!) Hudson River Valley has some of the most beautiful natural places Flowers in my

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Late summer wildflowers

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Fall-Winter

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Wildflowers, grasses, tiny lawn!

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Naturalized area

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DEEP natural border (the way borders are supposed to be!)

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Hudson River Valley has some of the most beautiful natural places

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Flowers in my butterfly-bee-bird garden, first year

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Some reasons to plant native gardens

  • 1. Maintenance – save time and $$$
  • 2. Conserve water
  • 3. Prevent water and air pollution
  • 4. Control pests without chemicals
  • 5. Save pollinators from pesticides
  • 6. Save water animals from pesticides and fertilizers.
  • 7. Reduce noise pollution
  • 8. Attract wildlife and give it food, shelter, nesting

habitat

  • 9. Reduce habitat loss
  • 10. Refuel your innate connection with Nature
  • 11. Other?
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Monarch on Milkweed (Asclepias), where it lays its eggs

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Swallowtail butterfly (mature)

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Native tree - Sassafras leaves (mittens)

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Spicebush drupes

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Spicebush flowers

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Spicebush

(Lindera benzoin)

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Spicebush (mature)

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Swallowtail butterfly larvae (feeds only on Spicebush and Sassafras)

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A standoff: who’s scaring whom?

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‘Wild’life that can live in the garden

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Some excellent native plants

  • (SHRUBS)
  • Spicebush
  • Clethra alnifolia
  • Solidago (goldenrod)
  • Asclepias (for monarchs)
  • Joe Pye Weed
  • Aralia spinosa (attracts bluebirds)
  • Winterberry
  • Late bottlebrush buckeye
  • Oakleaf hydrangea
  • (continued)
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Some excellent native plants (cont.)

  • (TREES)
  • Prunus Serotina (native black cherry)
  • Sweetbay magnolia
  • Green hawthorn
  • Amelanchier
  • White fringetree
  • Franklinia
  • Smoketree
  • OAKS!
  • (VINES) Lonicera, Campsis radicans (hummingbirds)
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(Native) Oakleaf hydrangea – species form

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Muhly grass

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Equisetum ‘living wall’

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Bottlebrush buckeye flowers

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Native: Cercis canadensis (redbud)

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Landscape Principles

  • 1. Right plant, right place
  • 2. Intentional, unified; not piecemeal. Some repetition
  • f plants
  • 3. Variety of shape, sizes, textures, leaf and flower

colors

  • 4. Massing
  • 5. Layering
  • 6. 4-season interest: blooms, bark, berries,

architecture

  • 7. Sequential interest/color. Something standing out

at any particular time.

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“Natural,” but sedums aren’t native

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NAG at National Arboretum

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NAG: Non-natives looking native

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NAG: layering and massing

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NAG: mid-summer

Aster, Joe Pye weed, Sedum, River birch

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NAG: Limestone fountain on uncrowded hillside, early spring

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NAG: Massing made simple

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NAG: Molinaria, Liriope, Hypericum calycinum (St.

John’s Wort), Russian sage, Astilbe, Pennisetum (Oriental fountain grass)

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NAG: bordered walkway, late summer: Artemisia ‘Silver Mound,’ Hibiscus moscheutos, Yucca pendula, upright Calamagrostis and larger Miscanthus grasses

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NAG: blurred edges, backlighting, Liatris, various grasses, & juniper

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Favorite perennials of the New American Garden

  • Aralia racemosa
  • Coreopsis verticillata
  • Joe Pye Weed
  • Hibiscus moscheutos
  • Liatris
  • Lythrum (not invasive here)
  • Black-eyed Susan
  • Yucca filimentosa
  • Deschampsia (tufted hair grass)
  • Panicum and Miscanthus grasses
  • Amelanchier (large shrub or small tree)
  • Hypericum calycinum
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Favorite Perennials of the New American Garden (continued)

  • Artemisia ‘Silver Mound’
  • Aster x frikartii
  • Astilbe taquetii
  • Caryopteris x clandonensis
  • Daylily ‘Stella d’Oro’
  • Hosta
  • Hypericum (St. John’s Wort – several sizes)
  • Ligularia
  • Lambs ears
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Containers can have impact

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A deck corner has its own ‘wildness’ with containers & hummer feeder (unseen)

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Exquisite annual hydrangea

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A simple patio made colorful with just a few annuals in containers

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Old front stoop gets a facelift

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Maple shaped leaves and nodding orange,

  • ld-fashioned flowers: a prairie look?
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A few additional favorites of mine

  • Nandina domestica species form
  • Mahonia bealii
  • Perennial plumbago
  • Perennial begonia
  • TREES (not exhaustive) Franklinia, Hawthorne

‘Winter King,’ River Birch, Sweetbay magnolia

  • Hakone grass
  • ‘Nellie Stevens’ holly
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Achillea (looks native to me!)

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Fall Japanese Maple colors

(not native but can’t live without them)

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Begonia grandis, Hakone grass, Japanese painted fern in SHADE

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Begonia grandis / liriope vignette

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Perennial plumbago – fabulous groundcover w/red fall color too

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Peonies

(not native, but can’t live without them!)

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Lily-of-the-valley

The heavenly fragrance goes with me to the bridge table

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Oh--and the lilacs go to the table with me, too

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CRAPEMYRTLE ‘Chickasaw’

  • nly grows to 1-3 feet high!
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“Natural” or “native”

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Wildflowers – prairie effect

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More natural walkway Front of house!

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Natural woodland floor – but designed

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If they spread into the lawn area their orderly garden would look even more natural

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BE CREATIVE! Boulder art

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My dream: wildlife and whimsy in the same garden.

Put YOUR wild ideas in YOUR garden

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National Wildlife Foundation’s “Certified Wildlife Habitat” Garden

  • Contains:
  • - sustainable habitat
  • - water source(s)
  • - nesting boxes
  • - FOOD of various kinds, for various creatures
  • - cover for wildlife to escape view
  • - places to raise young
  • - sustainable, natural planting & maintenancepractices