The prior year, I had taken several pods of milkweed seeds from the back acre, and spread them around the top part of the slope, above where all the knotweed was. It worked! A whole bunch of milkweed came up. It smells great. The butterflies love it. The groundhog likes to munch on it. It’s a great plant.
Slightly further up the slope, a young Osage Orange (maclura pomifera), on the left, and Eastern Redbud (Cercis canadensis), on the right, are enjoying the posh accommodations in the nursery area:
