NH intown wildlife gardener

Hi everyone,
I've been reading over a bunch of threads and decided to join Daves Garden as I've found a lot of helpful ideas and received a lot of helpful ideas already. I would love to hear from others! Our recently bought intown property has pro's & cons. First the pro's: established plants forsythia (nice thicket for critters), maple, beech (I'm not sure), lilacs, yews, raspberries, hostas, firebush, lawn and other dec. bushes and perennials I haven't yet ID'D. So I've got a good beginning for wildlife with shelter and food. We also have a great view of Salmon Falls Dam. Cons: On a slope. Invasive Chinese Lantern (cool plants but have completely taken over the veggie garden.) Invasive staghorn sumac (may not be my shrub & the birds were feeding on the seeds this march.) Surrounded by asphalt (winter road salt) on three sides. As for wildlife, I want to attract birds, squirrels & chipmonks, toads. I don't mind the others, either. Also I'm trying to keep it as native as possible. Any ideas? Pass them along. I can't wait to get my pictures up. I'm learning to garden and uplink at the same time!

sorry no one has been here to welcome yhou but this is the growing season for most of us and we can get busy. that being said, hello and welcome form upstqte new york. someone will be along shortly to give ou some advice as i don't know what to say. i am strictly a veggie gardener and being that i try to keep as many critters away as possible. LOL

have a great day

Welcome sarahn,
HERBIE is right, we're all out playing in the garden. I also garden for "wildlife" on a suburban property. The forums I've found most helpful are: Indigenous Plants
Invasive Plants
Gardening for Wildlife
Cottage Gardening - there a quite a few threads on prairie and eco friendly gardening

Thanks Herbie and Sempervirens, I'll probably bump into you on those other threads, I'm finding lots of weeds to ID along with the rest of my plants!

Hi welcome i thought i better get back into things better.. nice to have you..