Quote Originally Posted by catherine View Post
Welcome, CG!

I am a home gardener, too! I have vegetables and perennials--I try to keep the plantings native, so I, too have milkweed as well as other New England natives like rudbeckia and echinacea. I do grow a couple of fruits--strawberries, apples, Monmorency cherries. Like you, Creeping Charlie is definitely creeping around in my lawn, and so is clover! Teaching is a great choice of career for a gardener!
Sadly, my Montmorency cherry, as well as my Harelson and Paula Red apple trees, all succombed to fire blight.
The birds and I used to race for the cherries!