At least 30% of the farm is a wild area, primarily a red maple swamp. It also has native birches, alders, poplars, viburnums, pussy willow, and wild blueberries. I have planted wet-tolerant, native plants such as Buttonbush, Spice bush, Shadbush, Ninebark, False Indigo, Black Walnut, Hawthorne and Hornbeam. Surrounding the red maple swamp, I have a meadow with Goldenrod varieties, Joe Pye Weed, Boneset, Jewelweed and New England Aster. There are some non-natives that I continually try to remove, or at least keep from spreading. These include Loosestrife, Burning Bush, Japanese Knotweed and Autumn Olive.
In the "cultivated" areas, I have planted fruit trees and bushes: apples, pears, cherries, peaches, apricots, mulberries, currants, gooseberries, mulberries.crab-apples, persimmons, pawpaws, elderberries, Serviceberries, Black Chokeberry,, raspberries, blackberries and native Viburnums. For nut trees, I have American Hazelnuts, Pecans, Heartnuts, Chinese Chestnuts and a Burr Oak. I also have a few black locust and honey locust trees. Some of our food producing trees and shrubs are non-native, such as the Cornelian Cherry, Sea Buckthorn, Goumi, Hardy Kiwi and Goji berries.
I have planted herbs in and around the fruit trees, including comfrey, hyssop, sage, lavender, oregano, thyme, lovage, fennel, sorrel, yarrow, wild ginger, dock, rhubarb, horseradish, chives and perennial onions, Chicory, Borage, Sweet Cicely, Chamomile, Catnip, and others. We also have flowers, such as the butterfly bush, wood violets, climbing roses, poppies, spring bulbs, Jacob's Ladder, Peonies, Sunchokes, Sunflowers and Black-Eyed Susan patches, In between the trees and shrubs, we have lawn, but mostly the lawn is a poly-culture of "weeds", clover, plantain, yarrow and grasses that we try to keep long enough to let the dandelions bloom and go to seed. We do not use commercial fertilizers, pesticides or herbicides on our farm; we rely on animal manures, wood chips, leaf mulch and compost.
I also have a traditional vegetable garden; however, it is a no-till garden.
I am sure that I have left some of the flowering plants out of my list. I estimate that I have over 200 varieties of blooming plants on our farm and I am always on the lookout for native plants that make sense to add. Over time, I am gradually replacing expanses of lawn with communities of perennials.