Suburban Landscape Incorporating Volunteer Plants, Lancaster, PA
Taken on Oct. 8, 2024
This garden in Lancaster, PA shows landscaping utilizing volunteer plants. The large American holly (Ilex opaca), as well as the two saplings on the right, a sugar maple (Acer saccharum) and a northern red oak (Quercus rubra), and the eastern redbud (Cercis canadensis) on the left were all volunteers, as were the tall goldenrod (Solidago altissima) and frost aster (Symphyotrichum pilosum) in the bed in the foreground. This landscape is managed, in that unwanted plants are removed and plants are pruned, but wild plants are still allowed to reproduce from seed here, and actually make up the bulk of the biomass.
