Britton Woods
In March of 2018, my wife and I decided to conserve a small amount of wooded acreage in Brown County, Ohio. We purchased the property because there were many woodland plants that exist in large numbers at this property but not in the woods behind our house here in Cincinnati. I spend a lot of time at Britton Woods clearing invasives. This makes me feel ok about occasionally collecting seeds, cuttings, and sometimes whole plants for re-establishment here at home.
My success at establishing these species here at home has made me think of Britton Woods as a farm for native woodland plants with local genotypes. Because I think of it this way, it would be gratifying to me if I were able to offer some of my "crop" to the followers of this umbrella. Although I think of Britton Woods as a farm, I'm willing to offer these woodland plants to umbrella followers for free.
Here are the species with local genotypes that I've been successful with.
If you'd like to try any of these, message me privately or comment below. The only thing I'd ask in return is that you make an "open" or "obscured" observation when the plants are established at the new location and that this new observation include the following observation field with the following value...
I would enjoy seeing how the different species move out of my conserved area and across the region. Setting this observation field and value will allow me to see a list of all the colonies being established via the Britton Woods parent plants.
We have not, as of yet, formally conserved Britton Woods via a conservation easement. For now, it's only guaranteed to be conserved while we own it. If we ever do create a formal easement, I'm hopeful there will be a way to continue sharing my crop of woodland herbaceous layer species with other "farmers".
~ Jason & Kim
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What fun! I always think the native Tradescantia are such neat plants. It's nice to know you can propagate them.
Thx. @m_whitson
Most of the motivation and inspiration came from Grovedale Garden. They have a little seed library facing the sidewalk. The "about" on their project page talks about it. You can see it in this picture (it's the little box on the post)...
People can just wander up, take a seed packet, and mosey along their way. Their only lament is that they can't see what happens after someone takes a seed packet. I'm going to take some of their seeds and link back to their project from my observations of it growing using the observation field I mentioned. Or at least I'm gonna try to do it. I'm better at invasive removals than plantings! @ildikorab @gray-jay
Very cool. Ooph our 'edge of woods' along the Wasson Trail here needs so much work. This fall I'm going after Ailanthus (again). Next spring I'd like to treat the mass Johnson Grass (I'm now officially licensed to applicate btw). Then the Porcelain Berry.. I recently cut a bunch of Burdock.. It feels so overwhelming when I say it all at once, but if we get some new recruit plants we'll just clear a small area of Wintercreeper and make a nice home, so bring em on!
Btw, the 2 acre wildflower meadow that I've started doing maintenance on at the edge of Goshen and Loveland has a few acres of woods around it. The guy has been removing honeysuckle but he just asked me today if I can help him with the woods too. I'm gonna try to get him onto iNat by showing him our project and the umbrella, etc. We should all take a trip out there. He really could use some good woodland plants too
That Wasson Trail corridor has so much potential.
I'd love to visit the mystery-gardener's place if he's willing to share it. I agree that the best way to go about it is to have him first join the umbrella (as mystery-gardener, if he chooses to obscure). If he isn't sold on the iNat idea, I'd still go with you to see it.
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