The west side of the back acre needed more wildlife-friendly planting. This long swath begins in the nearfield with evergreens to grow up and eventually block the view of the wood chip pile from the house. It then winds all the way across the field to the right.
This is still in the “east” corridor, slightly west of the last photo, below. Some of the shrubs here include Cornus amomum (silky dogwood), Hammamelis virginiana (witch hazel), Viburnum dentatum (arrowwood) and Cephalanthus occidentalis (button bush). We also propagated some willows, dogwoods and alders that were already growing on the property. Just about everything is native, except for the purple smokebush.
On the left, wildlife has more cover, now that more shrubs have grown up and it’s not just a mowed field. Now the other side awaits some type of solution for a wildlife corridor.
