I noticed I haven't posted all month.
On April 2, Jim and I worked in the area we want to plant for our planting party on the 23rd. It is adjacent to our fall planting area--we want to broaden the area that is sheet mulched and planted with native plants. (The photo below is not really very good but it appears to be the only one I took.)
On April 9, Jim, Gary and I worked along the Trail of Cedars. There's nice mat of oxalis that is doing quite well that we walked past.
We focused our attention on a cedar that was weighted down by some nearby holly. Here's what it looked like in the beginning:
The cedar is a little clearer below:
Today (April 16), Robby joined us for couple of hours. We looked primarily for emerging morning glory in the Southern Forest. I did get Robby to dig out couple of small English hawthorns while Jim worked on blackberry toward the wetland and Gary being Gary, disappeared to work elsewhere in the park.
Below, you can see morning glory shooting up, with native plants nearby. We planted the fringe cup on the upper right in fall of 2015; not sure if the sword fern was already there.
In the photo below, there's a mix of invasives and natives so a little tricky weeding!
Ideally, in due time, more of the ground would look like below, which has a very nice mat of false lily of the valley (maianthemum dilatatum). I believe the cedar is one we rescued once upon a time when a nearby lombardy poplar fell and pinned it.
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