Renee
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I want to add more wildflowers. My daughter planted coneflower last year but I don't know if that will come back. I've put in a couple of rabbiteye blueberries but I am not sure if they will survive. I would like to pull out some old scraggly, leggy shrubs and add highbush blueberries near our front steps. I have some beautyberry that is doing well and would like to add more. For the past couple of years I have been thinking about adding some native flame azaleas but I never find them at the plant sales - they sell out very quickly here. Hopefully our bee balm comes back again this year. I also need to figure out a native ground cover to put it that can replace the invasive ivy and liriope that I am trying to remove.
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My hardiness zone has gone from 7b to 8a. Eastern Temperate Forest >SE US Plains >Piedmont >Southern Outer Piedmont. I have a wooded area behind my house with lawn and a veggie garden between the back deck and the house. I have containers of various sizes with flowers and veggies on the back deck. One side of the house is very wet with shade and poor drainage; the other side gets a lot of sun but there are buried utility lines. In front of the house there is a sunny area with some shade/trees toward the wetter side. The entire yard is on a slope with the house facing downhill. So far we have worked on naturescaping in the back at the edge of the wooded area and in the front around the trees. We have removed some invasives and planted a few native plants but a lot of ivy and monkey grass still needs to come out.
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Our yard has some native plants and I am looking to add more, particularly flowers. We started removing invasive ivy and the invasive monkey grass that was hiding under it is trying to take over. That needs to be removed and replaced with something but I don't know what. We have plenty of vertical diversity and messiness as the yard is partially wooded and we don't really tidy up the wooded part at all. We do need to clean the feeders more often and probably move them either closer to or further from the house. There are bird tape and/or decals on some of our windows but these need replacing - they fade, wear out, and fall off over time.
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We've got lots of pinecones and acorns as our yard is partially wooded, but I'm not sure about other seeds. We don't really have any wildflowers. I added a couple of native beautyberry bushes two years ago. One of them made lots of berries last year, the other one seemed to have leaves but no berries. If the blueberry bushes I just put in survive, that will be another berry source. Plenty of nectar here with lantana (I know, not native, but contained in a planter), azaleas, and tulip poplars. Lots of insects, spiders, and invertebrates in/under our leaf litter and I always see plenty of worms when I work in the veggie garden. Based on the info from this section I'm planning on moving our birdbath to a more protected spot next to a shrub; it's in a fairly open spot now and that may be why birds seem to prefer bathing in the saucers under my container plants on the deck!
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I live in a suburb of Atlanta. We have a partially wooded yard that is adjacent to a county park. Lots of birds visit our feeders and birdbath and there is plenty of wildlife in the area. I have started working on removing the invasive ivy planted by a previous owner and adding more native plants. However, it seems that there is monkey grass lurking under the ivy (at least it doesn't climb up the trees). I need to figure out how to remove it and what to replace it with. The yard is on a slope so erosion around the roots of large trees is a concern when removing ground cover. We have multiple tulip poplars and pines. Determining which native plants will do well in our soil/shade conditions is also a challenge. I've had a bit of luck with beautyberry and bee balm thus far - not so much with jewelweed, asters, or swamp sunflower. I also have a vegetable garden and am about to try adding some blueberry bushes.
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