five serviceberry north part of oak house

three at north end, two of these on west side, one on NE side.

two serviceberry south side of oak house

2 on south edge, one of them in corner.

One in the guild at north end of east yard

Pulled up quite a bit of wintercreeper as well as some bush honeysuckle. Also a dead bush that may have been russian olive, but not sure.

Two serviceberry on south edge of south yard

This is the cypress west of the forystyia. Never been trimmed, also slowest growing of the lot. These two service berry may be happy here, with shade from the ash. pulled visible bush honeysuckles and some winter creeper

southeast of the upper pond

Put these two serviceberries in the high part of this grove. Think I need to change the name from 7.3-Oak,Persimmon,WalnutGrove to 7.3-Elm,Persimmon,WalnutGrove since the elm is certainly the biggest one. pulled some bush honeysuckle and some multiflora rose; had to apply poison to cut tops of two big bush honeysuckles.

Group of three silky dogwood just up from where the creek does its final turn

cut back that huge multiflore growing over the creek. applied poison to stems. Lot of gooseberries coming up right next to it.

one silky dogwood by itself on the south bank

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group of four silky dogwood by channel

planted in mud, did not crumble at all.

two service berry here in with the cedars

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three serviceberry in northwest forest

This south west facing slope becomes quite shaded in the summer. The bush honeysuckle invasion has reached down into here, but so far they are mainly the small easily pulled up ones.

Three silky dogwood

Put in places where bush honeysuckle pulled up.

Eleven black haw put in corner between drives.

We removed a bunch of bush honeysuckle to create this open spot that should get enough morning sun, good place for an edible thicket

six serviceberry

Plenty of shade here, along with lots of poison ivy. The pile in front is bush honeysuckle, but there i still a lot more to come out of this area. Basically all the green bushes back in there. This is the part of the place that has the bush form of poison ivy, but at this point they are just grey stalks, though some are 5 or 6 feet tall even if pencil thin.

four more black haw on north side of top of drive

They are related to the spirea I put them between.

eight black haw on north side of drive

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four service berry (orange flags)

cleared out a bunch of smaller bush honeysuckle and some winter creeper before putting these in. also removed a small oak (a bit more than one inch diameter at base) that was coming up.

five silky dogwood

the flag to the right side is from 2015planting, think it might be serviceberry. This is a wet area when it rains, hope they like it. A thicket of them here will be fine. There are till a large number of bush honeysuckle that need to be removed to the left, under the sycamore tree.

Tool kit for planting

Narrow blade shovel, gloves, knee pad, trowel, digging knife, hand saw, hand pruners, marking tape and some handy-dandy triclopyr poison with applicator brush for nasy large size bush honeysuckle. And the Jewel Osco shopping bag I bought in Zion, Ill around 1987 or so.

six silky dogwood and 3 blackhaw

The blackhaw in front, the silky dogwood to the back, closer to the water level. many small and a few big bush honeysuckle were removed to give these guys some light.

four blackhaw behind picnic table

Note the freshly cut stumps of bush honeysuckle that have been cut and poison applied.

One pecan on the south side of the circle.

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One pecan on the south east corner

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One pecan middle of east side

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