“Chippy” is at the Audubon-designed feeder ... fora 
mouthful to store. These seeds soon become ‘‘Chippy’s Garden.” 
and wild bergamot, five native fern varieties plus Christmas 
fern and spleenwort from Indiana and brachen from Michigan. 
Not to mention poison ivy! Then wild ginger, hepatica, trout 
lily and shooting star ... and, some 39 others contribute to 
our for-free, landscaped, almost half-acre. 
Then, there’s the trees, for free! 
Linden, black walnut (planted by our two families of 
squirrels), shagbark hickory, red and blue dogwood and the 
maples (red or water, hard and soft) all are volunteers. 
