To Do List

Tasks & projects

Finish backyard plantings & mulch

Blackberry removal (at least they are thornless!) – because sometimes the idea and the reality are two different things :/

Mini Meadow garden

Water feature

Plant short list

Some of the plants i’d love to use in the future.

  • Red bleeding hearts – valentine (for the hubby)
  • Native Leucothoe – rainbow, scarletta
  • Native Buttonbush – sugarshack
  • Native arum – spot on
  • Native winterberry – red sprite and pollinator jim dandy?
  • Native red twig dogwood – ivory halo
  • More belle epoch tulips
  • More fragrant narcissus
  • Native fringe tree
  • Red horse chestnut tree – hybrid with native red buckeye
  • Native serviceberry shrub or tree
  • Native aronia/chokecherry
  • Black hollyhock
  • Penstemon – onyx and pearls
  • Native spring ephemerals – trout lily, creeping dogwood/bunchberry, twinleaf, bloodroot, hepatica, rue anemone/anemonella, toothwort, trillium
  • Native Virginia bluebells
  • japanese snowbell tree (fragrant)
  • Stokesia peachie’s pick
Winterberry holly