Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Mid Atlantic region- winter chores, 0 by stormyla

stormyla wrote:
Holly, It's only an acre, but it was let go to run wild for 20 years. I moved here 3yrs ago and a third of it was covered in wild shrubs, vines, thistle, and trash trees in dense thickets. The trees were covered in vines to 80'. Nothing had been pruned or planted in that time.
My big beds are the areas under the trees that had been covered in thickets. It's mostly dry shade with one section being dry windy shade. Previously, I always grown sun loving plants, so this has been an education.

There wasn't one flower here and only a few ugly shrubs. I think the beds will look a lot better next year. They are still in their infancy.

Here's one section of the longest bed. It is 250' x 30'. It connects at the end to another bed that runs along the road. At the corner of the L, the bed is 50' deep. The road side leg is 150' x 25'.