Wildlife Gardening: Is this Dogwood?, 1 by Stelco
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Subject: Is this Dogwood?
Forum: Wildlife Gardening
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Stelco wrote: I bought six acres in northern Lower Michigan and have been working on it for four years now. I have removed a LOT of Autumn Olive. The deer like it, but it's non-native and I'd like to have primarily native plants. The land is a mix of a native Birch stand that I thinned out and removed competing shrubs and such, an open area for camp fires and where I will eventually build, a fairly large mix of hardwoods (about two acres), some swampland and a stream at the northern border. The rest is a mix of brush and small trees mixed in. I know that the Autumn Olive is great for birds too, but no matter how hard I try I'll never get rid of all of it. If this is Dogwood and it is native I would remove more Autumn Olive where this "shrub" would take over. The birds seem to like the berries that I'll attach in the next post (don't know if I can post multiple pics in one post here). If this plant is another non-native I'd consider removing it, along with the Autumn Olive and planting native plants while I'm still young enough to do the work and have time to let it grow. Six acres is a lot to manage on a remote property, so I can only get a little done at a time. Thanks in advance for a positive ID. Mark |


