Well, before the backyard was finally fenced in a lot of the remaining privet was cleared
I planted 6 or 7 arrowhead viburnum bushes ( bare root, about 3.5 to 4 feet tall), 2 button bushes same size. Also planted some native ginger for ground cover. The week before that I planted giant ostrich ferns, I think 6 or 7 and 4 fiddle head ferns by the fence. All native, all shade or part shade. I added some woodland poppies and 4 painted trillium roots. Hope they all make it. This week I will seed more coneflowers, prairie clover, tickseed and a few other natives but birds often get into the native flower areas and eat seeds. I also ordered some buffalo grass seeds for the torn up area next to the shed and have ordered 2 passionflower (may pop) vines for the fence on one side. Also planted a couple of white dogwood saplings….. In the last couple of years I planted some native flowers and elderberry bushes, a few ferns and a couple of other viburnum species. Tennessee has an annual program for inexpensive tree saplings and I ordered persimmon, 2 eastern redbuds and an elderberry tree sapling. It’s a several year project for me, clearing stuff out and getting some fruit trees in and getting some starter plants in Chattanooga at the native plants sale was all that was in the budget a couple of years ago. So this season I got a lot done and I’m so impatient to have it grow.
I’ve converted my first backyard in Florida and the one in Wisconsin to natives, after a few years I was able to divide a lot of plants to give to others . Fingers crossed
