A few pictures

I am getting my ducks in a row for my Fall 2015 guerrilla gardening projects.

I collected acorns from Northern Red Oaks at Bennett Park in Charlotte.  They have a stand that are 40 feet to the first major branch and have trunk diameters of 30"-to-36".  They are beautiful, majestic trees.  I found two trees that had a good acorn crop this year.

I need to find a better way to store my acorns.  This chipmunk found them in less than twenty minutes.  He must have smelled them through the plastic bag.

This is a Swamp White Oak (Q. bicolor).  Obviously, it is tolerant of wet feet.  I was not able to find any acorns. 

Image from HERE

I am looking into buying acorns of Overcup Oak (Q. lyrata) as it is even more tolerant of flooding than the SWO.  Ripley County Farms in Missouri has outstanding prices on oak seedlings.  The problem with seedlings is that I would have to trespass to plant them.

Guerrilla gardening is a low percentage game mostly because I cannot really care for what is planted.  This picture is of some raspberries that are not growing on my property.  Sometimes things work out.

The ERJ tobacco crop. This is not part of the guerrilla gardening project but I wanted to put the pictures out there.   I don't use the stuff but it is the closest legal thing to growing money.

Here are the flowers.  Hummingbirds and moths adore these plants.

Perennial sunflowers and nitrogen fixers

I purchased seeds for Maximilian Sunflower and Canadian Milk Vetch from Prairie Moon Nursery.

Image from HERE

Maximilian Sunflower is a big, gaudy perennial sunflower that produces large quantities (up to 300 pounds per acre) of sunflower seeds.  It spreads by rhizomes (roots).

Canadian Milk Vetch is less gaudy than the sunflower because the colors are more muted.  It also produces large numbers of seeds and unlike many species of Milk Vetch (aka, locoweed) it is not toxic to browsing animals.

The seeds of both the Maximilian Sunflower and the Canadian Milk Vetch will be mixed with kitty litter to make flingable, clay balls.

Part of the Guerrilla gardening ethic is to make the place prettier than it was.  I think these two species will do the job.