Full Moon Seeding & Planting of the Woods Trail

 Full Moon Seeding & Planting of the Woods Trail

What a grand time Francis, Hala, Katherine, Keith, and I of the Greenbelt Guild had on the last Full Moon beautifying the Woods Trail around The Knoll. (Greenbelt map). Enter at The Knoll and go left to see most of our work, primarily on the left/upper side of the trail. 

All three bags of donated wood fern roots got planted and they look so good!
Tucked here and there, bunches of heartleaf skullcap and pigeonberry (shown), plus a couple of Virginia creeper. 
Seeds of the saw palmetto (stock photo shown), a dwarf cold-tolerant palm, were planted all the way down the rise to the rusty blackhaw viburnum grove. If they sprout and make it through their first year, it’s going to look fabulous!
On the ridge in two places where the tree line is a bit thin, I planted many seeds of gigantic bear’s foot (photo of frost-damaged bear’s foot from my yard). Check out the size of those leaves! Look for the green wire flags.
I also planted elephant’s foot (stock photo) seeds at the base of a couple trees. Look for green wire flags.
Directly behind The Knoll, there is a gentle swale that drains water from the meadow. I planted a catalpa tree there a few years ago and it’s doing great. Now it’s joined by an elderberry shrub. Both like a fair amount of mositure, so it’s a perfect place. We hope the elderberry will send out lots of rhizomes and fill that vale with large umbels of white flowers that make prodigious purple berries, while slowing down erosion.


On the front side of The Knoll is a huge and very old aromatic sumac shrub and a rather uncommon elbow bush. The Knoll area will someday be quite the showcase to educate folks on what’s possible with these woods.


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