The landscaping procedure leaves the larger trees standing with their lower branches trimmed to open up the view through the woods. To maintain wildlife habitat, small trees such as persimmon, mayhaw, crab apple, parsley haw, black cherry, and American holly were left uncut along with bushes of arrowwood, beautyberry, huckleberry, and wild blueberries. Most of the yaupon, wax myrtles, and small black gum trees were removed and replaced with flowering and fruiting trees and plants such as papershell pecans, japanese persimmons, spineless blackberries, blueberries, figs, red mulberries, sawtooth oaks (acorns for deer), and different native mallows (hibiscus species that can withstand the winters). The floor of the forest was mulched to reduce weeds. Evergreen groundcover is provided by ardesia in the shade and asian jasmine along the sunny margins near Old Mandeville Lane. Irises and red maples were planted in interior wet spots and irises and pickerel weed (has purple flowers) are being planted for erosion control along the drainage swales adjacent to Old Mandeville Lane.

Documenting the plants when they flower or bear fruit is a continuing project. Many of the plants had already flowered before we began the process in the early summer, e.g., cassias, crab apples, mayhaws, and azaleas and will be added next spring. We are also trying to document the wild animals in the subdivison. Deer, fox, gray squirrels, fox squirrels, and hawks are frequently seen and a pair of bald eagles were observed flying over the woods in the spring. We put corn out in the woods for the deer in the winter and hope to keep them in the subdivision when they move back and forth to nearby Fontainebleau State Park.

blueberries Vaccinium sp.	elderberry Sambucus canadensis	blackberry Rubus sp.
coralbean Erythrina herbacea	American beautyberry Callicarpa americana	Trumpet creeper Campsis radicans
fringetree Chionanthus virginicus	iris & ardisia Iridaceae sp. & Ardisia japonica	arrowwood Viburnum dentatum
Confederate rose Hibiscus mutabilis	Texas star Hibiscus coccineus	woolly rose-mallow Hibiscus lasiocarpos
althaea Hibiscus syriacus	magnolia Magnolia grandiflora	morning glory Ipomoea sp.
poison ivy Rhus radicans on a honey bee hive in a red oak tree	papershell pecan Carya illinoensis	longleaf pine Pinus pallustris
blazing star Liatris elegans	Cherokee rose Rosa laevigata	Swamp Red Maple Acer drummondii

Mayhaw
Crataegus opaca

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