Rappahannock Friends and Lovers of Our Watershed

Avon Hall Project

Plantings

Planted 7-24-2014 in Wetland areas of pond buffer

3 hrs site prep by Hill House Nursery
--weed eating around all shrub on the buffer
--preparing south-east planting area by low-cutting with weed eater

Twelve Volunteers

planted in the wetland drainage nearest the big oak
36 fox sedge carex vulpinodea
15 wild beebalm monarda fistulosa
16 eastern beebalm monarda bradburiana
57 red cardinal flower lobelia cardinalis
32 gayfeather  liatris  spicata
32 culvers root veronicastrum virginicum
9 rose mallow hibiscus moscheutos
8 new york aster aster novi-belgii
4 green head coneflower rudbeckia lacinata

planted in the southeast corner
24 blue cardinal flower lobelia siphlilitica
18 wild ageratum eupatorium coelestinum
 7 broadleaf ironweed vernonia glauca
18 white obedient plant phystostegia virginiana
18 swamp milkweed eupatorium  dubium

 

Planted June 6, 2014
100 pickerelweed Pontederia cordata 

 

Avon Hall Meadow was seeded May 28, 2014.

% of Mix

Common Name

type

 

10

Beaked Panicgrass

grass

 

2

Bigtop Lovegrass

grass

 

10

Canada Wildrye

grass

 

5

Indian Grass

grass

 

27

Little Bluestem

grass

 

5

Redtop Panicgrass

grass

 

10

Virginia Wildrye

grass

 

 

 

 

 

1

Appalachian Beardtongue

forb

 

0.5

Aromatic Aster

forb

 

0.3

Bigleaf Mountain Mint

forb

 

2

Black Eyed Susan

forb

 

0.5

Blue Lobelia

forb

 

1.5

Blue Vervain

forb

 

0.5

Brown Eyed Susan

forb

 

0.5

Butterfly Milkweed

forb

 

1

Common Milkweed

forb

 

0.5

Early Goldenrod

forb

 

1

Grassleaf Blazing Star

forb

 

2

Lance Leaved Coreopsis

forb

 

0.5

Licorice Scented Goldenrod

forb

 

0.5

New York Ironweed

forb

 

1

Ohio Spiderwort

forb

 

1

Ox-Eye Sunflower

forb

 

5

Partridge Pea

forb

 

0.5

Plains Coreopsis

forb

 

4

Purple Coneflower

forb

 

0.5

Showy ticktrefoil

forb

 

1

Slender Bushclover

forb

 

1

Smooth Aster

forb

 

1.5

Spiked Gayfeather

forb

 

1

Swamp Milkweed

forb

 

1

Tall White Beardtongue

forb

 

0.2

Wild Bergamot

forb

 

0.5

Wild Indigo

forb

 

0.5

Wild Senna

forb

 

1

Zig Zag Spiderwort

forb

 

 

Planted May 8, 2014 / May 10, 2014 / May 15, 2014
 6 Red osier dogwood Cornus sericea
5 Winterberry Ilex verticillata
12 Virginia sweetspire Itea virginica
3 River birch Betula nigra                              
9 blueberry Vaccinium corymbosum
11 Buttonbush Cephalanthus occidentalis
50 buttonbush whips Cephalanthus occidentalis
50 redosier dogwood whips Cornus sericea
50 silky dogwood whips Cornus amomum 

 

Planted November 7, 2013
10 ilex verticillata

 

Planted September 28, 2013
Liatris pycnostachya- gayfeather
Monarda citriodora- lemon beebalm
Eupatorium coelestrium- wild ageratum
Eupatorium dubium- joe-pye weed
Helianthus angustifolius- swamp sunflower
Helenium autumnale- sneezeweed
Physostegia virginiana- obedient plant
Chelone lynoii- turtlehead
Carex luridia
Carex muskingumensis
Carex pullescens
Carex comosa
Carex vulpinoidea
Lobelia cardinalis- cardinal flower
Iris virginiana
Aster laevis- smooth aster
Aste lateriflorus- calico aster
Pycantheum muticum- mountain mint
Schizachyrium scoparium- little bluestem
Vernonia lettermamanii- threadleaf ironweed
Pontederia cordata-  pickerelweed
Sorganstrum nutans- Indian grass
Panicum virgatum- switch grass
Solidago sempervirens- seaside goldenrod
Solidago ohioensis- ohio goldenrod
Solidago nemoralis- gray goldenrod
Solidago rugosa- rough stem goldenrod
Solidago riddellii