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weather-exposed yet sheltered spot. Next fall, these plants will have doubled or tripled in size. You can either repot them or move them int6 your landscape.
With limited time and space to care for these waifs, I’ve learned to be selective in my choice of keepers. Native species top my list. They are difficult to find in nurseries. Unless I am part of an officially recognized salvage operation, I never dig them from the wild.
Seedlings from your yard grow under good garden conditions. By transplanting them early in their lives, they will make much better landscape plants than properly salvaged larger specimens or rootbound nursery stock.
The green gold that I find will differ from your treasure. Bartering can bring you the diversity you want. This year, hackberry, an excellent food tree for a number of butterfly caterpillars and birds, was my best find. Some Eastern red cedars and wild black cherries were yanked as weeds, but I transplanted the best of each.
Foxes have introduced persimmon to my yard. I’ll trade these seedlings for pawpaw, whose leaves mean life to the beautiful zebra swallowtail butterfly and whose fruits will provide my family and those of countless smaller mammals with tasty, late summer treats.
For a Backyard Wildlife Habitat information packet, contact the National Wildlife Federation, Dept. BN, H12 16th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036-2266.
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