Native Species Trees and Bushes
- Black walnut (one of them with 4 walnuts, fist-time-ever),
- wild plum (covered with plums),
- aspen,
- spice bush,
- dogwood,
- hazelnut,
- elderberry,
- winterberrry,
- Eastern white cedar,
- striped maple,
- choke cherry,
- meadowsweet,
- hackberry,
- sugar maple,
- high bush cranberry,
- black willow (planted anonymously),
- Eastern white pine,
- tamarack,
- black oak,
- poplar, and
- red cedar.
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And here are some of the flowers:
- Joe Pye weed,
- asters,
- fireweed,
- black-eyed Susan,
- rudbeckia,
- touch-me-not,
- swamp rose,
- Indian cup plant,
- vervain,
- Jerusalem Artichoke,
- milkweed,
- wild clematis,
- bergamot,
- rye grass,
- grey-headed coneflower,
- wild rose
- There is also, of course, wild raspberry, and this year it has lots of berries to eat.
- There used to be wild strawberries, but they have disappeared this year (2004). (If they don't reappear next year, maybe we'll re-plant them).
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