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Re: [SG] Spring is springing...

Lew, you are to be commended for trying to find out what is growing in
your woods. Try your local bookstore or library for regional native plant
information. Look for something with a title like GARDENING WITH NATIVE
PLANTS IN THE SOUTH. Georgia probably has a native plant organization you
could make contact with. You might even be able to get one of their
members to come and take a look and show you what's good and what's not.
Your local reference librarian can put you in touch with them. You might
need to JOIN the organization but it would be worth your while to do so.
Just as important as identifying the good stuff is knowing what the bad
stuff is so that you can eliminate it from the habitat. One last idea: If
all else fails your local Audubon Society chapter doubtless has have some
native plant experts in addition to birders among their membership. They
might also be able to help you with fish suggestions for your creek.
Otherwise your state DNR should be able to give you that info.

After you find out, please get back in touch with us and let us know what
is in your woods--both the good and the bad!

Bobbi Diehl
Bloomington, IN
zone 5/6

On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, Lew Jansen wrote:

> There's a LOT of stuff in the understory of
> my woods that I can't identify.  Sure, I can tell ya that those plants over
> there are ferns and those are trees and that one is a vine, but that kind
> of stretches my abilities (oh, and the white-flowering ones are azaleas).
> Part of it is 'cuz I'm a transplant myself and the woodland stuff I grew up
> with isn't here.  On the other hand, I want to clear out some of the
> underbrush in the woods, air it out a little and create a path down to the
> creek.  But I don't want to do so at the expense of neat/cool/native
> plants.  "Weed" types I'll gladly pull and shred.  Can anyone suggest any
> reference materials for native/woodland plants in zone 7a (Atlanta, GA).
>
> And this is also a bit off topic, but I do have plenty of mosquitos in the
> summer from the creek.  There's enough pools and such for them to have a
> field day.  Any reccommendations for fish that might (a) like a snack of
> skeeter larvae, (b) be cheap, and (c) be indigenous so as not to create
> problems by stocking the creek with them.  It's just a little creek, 2-3 ft
> wide and a few inches deep.
>
> Thanks all!  Hope the weather's beautiful where you are!
>
> -- Lew Jansen, Atlanta GA, Zone 7a
>
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