Date: 10/09/2010

Number: 1

Our Columbia Heights front & back yard garden and Tree Box is a multihabitat, 2-4 year nectar garden to attract bees, hummingbirds, mirgatory birds and other wildlife.

Physical demensions:
Front year ~ South facing, 15' by 17'yard,
Tree box by street ~ 10' by 3' tree box raised bed
Shaded back yard ~ 11' by 11'

Plantings:

Treebox:
* 2 butterfly bushes
* 4 large zinia patches
* 4 large Lantana patches
* 1 large fleababe (wild)flowered June - late July
* 1 18' tall 8 year old Sugar Mapple

Front Yard:
* 1 Very large Butterfly bush
* Purple Cone Flowers
* Black-eyed Susan
* Chokeberry
* Common Milkweed
* scarlet Salvia
* Blue Salvia
* 2 Carnal Flower
* 1 Lavander
* Chocholate Mint
* Pepper mint
* 1 Hosta
* 1 old Rose bush
* Trumpet Vine Huge and all over porch
* New York Ironweed
* Shade tolerant Goldenrod
* Goldenrod - giant 6'-7' tall but very late flowering (probably late Oct at earliest)
* New England Aster
* Huge Fleabane
* old Peach Tree
* Elm bush (weed, we keep trying to cut it back)
* honey suckle (small and sickly)

Back Yard
* Devil's Walking stick (1 year old, 4 feet tall, no fruit yet)
* 2 staghorn sumac (3 years old, but no fruit yet)
* Huge Virginia Creeper living on utility lines and dying treet of haven.
* Dying Tree of haven
* Wood Asters
* American Pokeweed, a.k.a pokeberry - a nice native plant very good at attraching birds in fall!

Observations:

Hummingbirds from mid July through early October.
Common Yellowthroats in fall
Catbirds
Blue Jays (eating leftover cat food)
Song Sparrow
Goldfinches feeding on flower seeds
willow Flycatcher feeding on Virgina Creeper berries early Oct.
Mockingbird and catbirds feeding on Pokeweed berries
12+ spec

Washington, DC

Latitude: 38.9 Longitude: -77

Observed by: Jason
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