Wild Ones Capital Region NY offers tours of two Saratoga County gardens on Saturday, June 6. Learn more about Nancy White’s “Mostly Native Plant Property” in Rexford below and Cybill’s Mechanicville garden here.
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Nancy writes:
My property is a little under three acres, over two-thirds of which is designated as federal wetlands. There is a pond that was originally one-tenth of an acre adjacent to the road dividing my home and yard from a food forest.
Around my house a wide variety of plants can be seen including:
- A mix of flowers and herbs like bee balm, St John’s wort, iris, peonies, day lilies, echinacea, lamb’s ear, many sedums, daisies, feverfew, teasel, mullein, fennel, thyme and all the normal culinary herbs
- Patches of cane fruit, aronia bushes, blueberry, bush cherry, black currant, peach, elderberry and pear
- An extensive vegetable garden
- Woodland medicinal herbs in three areas.
- The food forest has paw paws, blackberry, currant, hazel, black raspberry, black walnut
I have no meadow, but many trees, perennials, self-seeding annuals and ground covers (lamium, sweet woodruff, vinca, both white and blue). The only grass is in walkways. I forage garlic mustard, water cress, stinging nettle, lambs quarters, amaranth and dandelions.