The resilient, versatile, and trouble-free chokeberry shrubs offer 4 seasons of beauty and food for wildlife. Flower and fruit thrive in full sun and wet, well-drained soil.
Planting these native alternatives to nurseries' Asian viburnums yields vibrant colors. Arrowwoods and black-haws turn red, yellow, or purple in autumn.
Thinking of replacing the invasive burning bush? Serviceberries—Juneberries—glow red, orange, and yellow in fall. White flowers bloom alongside the invasive Bradford pear in April.
Eastern Redbud's heart-shaped green leaves turn golden in fall and its irregular branching patterns are lovely in winter. Magenta-pink flowers attract spring butterflies and nectar-seekers.
October brings orange-gold, yellow, or reddish-purple round swamp white oak leaves. Chipmunks, wild turkeys, ravens, flying squirrels, rabbits, opossums, blue jays, quail, raccoons, foxes, mallards, and oaks have 60 bird species.