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Woodland Garden
Fall 2004, Woodland GardenThe Woodland Garden includes native woodland trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants and forms an extension of the NAACP Freedom Grove Riparian Forest Buffer and Watermen's Garden. Together with these gardens, the Woodland Garden acts as a buffer strip between the wooded slope adjacent to College Creek and the upland school grounds. A woodchip pathway travels through this grove to invite the exploration and observation of this partially-shaded area.
The wildlife habitat, air, and water quality benefits of these trees and shrubs are much greater than the turf grass that was there previously. As they mature, these plants will add to wildlife habitat while contributing shade, slowing and filtering runoff, absorbing water, transpiring water vapor into the air, and cleaning the air.
Plants in the Woodland Garden are those that can handle partial to greater amounts of shade. The garden design has evolved over time by periodically adding plants as they were obtained. Clay Street Computer Learning Center students and other volunteers installed the garden.
Pictures:
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Size: 2,112 square feet
Plant List:
- White Wood Aster (Aster divericata)
- Orange Coneflower (Rudbeckia fulgida)
- Frost Aster (Aster dumosus)
- American Holly (Ilex opaca)
- Eastern Redbud (Cercis canadensis)
- Sassafras (Sassafras albidum)
- Winged Sumac (Rhus copallina)
- Green Ash (Fraxinus pennsylvanica)
- Pin Oak (Quercus palustris)
