Nancy
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NancyParticipantI live in Washington, DC. We have a deep, sunny back yard with a pond at the back (lots of frogs and dragonflies). There's a healthy rabbit population in the neighborhood so we bought a raised garden bed to grow herbs and lettuces. We recently started planting more native plants in our perennial beds such as bee balm, turtlehead and cone flowers. I'd like to remove a lot of the Siberian iris which is non-native and has become somewhat invasive and add some shrubs or even small native trees to provide year-round cover and perches. Weeds are a huge problem. We use one corner of the back yard to grow annuals for cutting and I'd love ideas on what natives might be appropriate for that purpose. We put seed out once or twice a day on our deck railing and also have a bird bath that attaches to the railing. These attract a lot of birds brave enough to get close to the house such as sparrows, blue jays, cardinals, mourning doves and an occasional red-bellied woodpecker. Carolina wrens often show up after the big guys have moved on. Squirrels also show up on the railing for seeds and water. We used to see a lot of chickadees and titmice and I'd like to try and attract them - don't know where they went! The back lawn has almost no grass, but it greens up every spring and looks fine when it's mowed. In the fall a purplish pink ground cover in the lawn attracts lots of honey bees.in reply to: Joys of Naturescaping #942563
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