Plant List: Food, Medicine, Craft and Habitat
Old Stone House/MS 51 Partnership Gardens
Seeds, berries, insects and vegetative cover for birds.
House Garden
Currant
Gooseberry
Inkberry Ilex glabra
Songbirds: thrushes, mockingbirds, catbirds, robins, bluebirds and thrashers
Raspberry
Blackberry Rubus allegheniensis
Blackberries rank at the top of summer foods for wildlife. Even late into the fall and winter, the dried berries are eaten by many species.
North Garden
Pin Oak Acorns are a good and abundant staple food source for many songbirds.
Bird Corridor
High Bush Cranberry Viburnum trilobum
Berries Sept-Feb still edible off the bush in mid-winter; popular with dozens of bird species, especially waxwings.
Elderberry Sambucus Canadensis
Elderberries are especially important sources of summer food for catbirds, robins, thrushes, sparrows, and many other songbirds.
Raspberry
Red-osier dogwood, Cornaceae
Dogwood fruits are important to many songbirds in late summer and fall.
Some primary users are cardinals, thrushes, and cedar wax-wings
Rose
Rose hips, which remain on the shrubs through the winter snd into the following year, are and important wildlife winter food source.
MS51
Winterberry, Ilex verticillata
Songbirds: thrushes, mockingbirds, catbirds, robins, bluebirds and thrashers
Snowberry or Waxberry Symphoricarpos
Good wildlife over and forage.
Eastern White Cedar Thuja occidentalis Arborvitae screen
Red Cedar fruits are eaten by cedar wax-wings, purple finches, robins, bluebirds, tree swallows, myrtle warblers and other songbirds.
Black Chokeberry Aronia melanocarcarpa
Black fruit from Sept – Nov is eaten by songbirds.
Red Chokeberry Aronia arbutifolia
Red fruits which appear Sept – Dec are an occasional winter food source for many bird species.
Juneberry or Western Serviceberry or Saskatoon Shadbush, Amelanchier ainifolia
Popular with wildlife.
Hemlock Tsuga Canadensis
Valuable for bird forage and wildlife cover.
A quick list of plants that have performed well on the site.
PLANT LIST OSH 2010
Echinacea
Rudbeckia
Phlox
Rue
Sage
Lavender
Blueberry
Winterberry
Inkberry
Chokeberry (clove or black)
Elderberry
Beach Plum
American plum
Juneberry
Oak leafed hydrangea
Native grasses
Hosta
Ferns
Periwinkle
Iris
Foxglove
Monarda
Solomon’s seal
Milkweed
Columbine
Currants
Bayberry
Cranberry
Dogwood
Clethra
Bearberry
Germander
Lady’s mantle
Clematis (virgin’s bower)
Goldenrod
Aster
Cinquefoil
Lamb’s ears
Santolina
Rosemary
Tiarela
Lobelia
Geranium