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Chickadee Park: Fauna

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Searchable, sortable list of Animals. Animal information taken from the sources listed on the 'Resources' page, along with my own experience. 160; Search  . 160; Sort  . Bee, Common Eastern Bumble. Bee, Green Sweat, Agapostemon. Bee, Small Carpenter. Bee, Sweat, Halictus. Bee, Sweat, Lasioglossum. Beetle, Banded Long-horn. Beetle, Multicolored Asian Lady. Beetle, Red Milkweed. Beetle, Soldier, Chauliognathus. Blue, Eastern Tailed. Rare visitor. One has stopped by twice. Darner, Common Green.

Chickadee Park: Flora

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Searchable, sortable list of plants. Plant information taken from the sources listed on the 'Resources' page, along with my own experience. 160; Search  . 160; Sort  . Caterpillar host for black swallowtails. Aster, Heart Leaved. Aster, New England. Shade tolerant. Good fall color. Bergamot is like beer. Birch, European White. Not a native birch. Blazing Star, Meadow. Blazing Star, Prairie. Early blooming woodland flower. Chokeberry, Glossy Black. Clover, Purple Prairie. Good for all seasons.

Chickadee Park: Resources

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160;   References. 160;   Nurseries. 160;   Non&#8209Profits. By Carrol L. Henderson. Includes instructions for drawing up plans for diverse projects from smaller flower gardens to shelterbelts. The appendix has a great plant list sorted by seasonal value. Written with US Northern Midwest states in mind. By Prof. Douglas W. Tallamy. Great book. Explains why native plants are best. Here are some more details. And here is a short article Prof. Tallamy wrote for the 3/11/15 edition of The NY Times. Referenc...

Chickadee Park: Blueprint 2.0

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Here is the most current version of the plan. I've needed to change some of the plant selections, mostly to reduce vulnerability to japanese beetles. But the structure of the plan is mostly the same. I have a long way to go. But I try to make a little progress every year. Here is an earlier version. Of the plan that doesn't cover the whole yard. A Sand County Almanac.

Chickadee Park: Photos

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I'm not a great photographer. But it's fun. Click a thumbnail to view the larger image. Click the larger image to show/hide the slideshow controls. 160; Search  . 160; Sort  . It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one destiny, affects all indirectly. Martin Luther King, Jr.