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FOOD PLOT BORDER PLANTS
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Food Plot Planting Guide
(PLANTS FOR FOOD PLOT BORDERS)
SPRING 2011
ALL CAN BE PURCHASED AT LAURA’S LANE NURSERY FOR WHOLESALE PRICES!!
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About the Nanking Cherry: |
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Shrubs that grow wider than they do tall are always great for screening and naturalizing areas. Produces scarlet red edible fruit enjoyed by game and songbirds. Whitetails love making scrape lines under these plants at the farm and are browsed extensively. I have made both wine and jam from the fruit. Excellent for food plot borders |
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About the Black Chokeberry: |
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Just take a look at the size of the fruit on this selection. The fruit is very large for chokeberry and is the reason that I have propagated this species from cuttings to insure you will get the same results from your shrub. Grows as a shrub, often forming dense thickets by way of root suckers. Fantastic for borders, stream banks and roadsides. Great for cover, browse and berries enjoyed by birds including turkeys and pheasants! Berries can be made into jam or jellies as well. |
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American High bush Cranberry |
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About the American High bush Cranberry: |
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This plant is colonial propagated from the largest Cranberry bush I've ever seen in the wild meaning seedlings will be exact clones of this bush. Abundant red fruit! Berries persist into the winter and are eaten here on our farm by pheasants, turkeys, whitetails, rabbits and birds. Suckering habit will form very nice cover or visual screens and is a browse tolerant plant. Browsing actually stimulates the plant to put out more branches. Will grow in a wide range of soils types. Here’s a little tip for thicker screens. In the fall lay down some of the branches and pin them to the ground with a landscape staple. Where the branch makes contact with the ground is where a new plant will take root. You can build screening as thick as any hedge over time with this method. |
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Nannyberry |
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About the Nannyberry: |
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This is one of the easiest plants to grow. It's designed to grow in areas with complete neglect, produces berries even in partial shade, is stimulated by browse to grow more branches and grows to form a great cover plant for whitetail bedding areas. |
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About the Red osier Dogwood: |
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Great border shrub! Berries attract Pheasants and Wild Turkeys. Fast growth rate seems to be quite vigorous. Whitetails browse this plant heavily at the farm which only stimulates them to grow more shoots. Rabbits like to use our plants for cover. Stems turn a bright red and contrast against the snow in the winter. Good bedding plant or visual screens. |
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This is one of my favorite Dogwoods because of its thicket shrub forming growth habit, plus it produces fruit. This dogwood likes moist site's best but will grow in dry upland sites just as well. One of the best attributes of this dogwood is that it likes partially shady area's and can grow in the woods and still fruit's.
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One of the best pines for cover, fast growth and browse.
White Pine benefits over 60 different animals, with cover, shade, windbreaks and food, a habitat heavyweight!
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Serviceberry |
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Ninebark |
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About the Ninebark: |
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Dense spreading shrub that makes great cover, visual screens and browse. I like this plant as it will grow almost anywhere, even in poor soils and is stimulated when browsed. Ninebark is a very fast growing shrub, usually 3’ or more per year and is easy to grow. |
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American Plum |
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About the Elderberry: |
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Elderberry is a large suckering shrub excellent for wildlife habitat. Fruit makes great jelly or wine. There is lots of talk about deer beds in the Whitetail community. Some of the components needed for deer beds are this 10-12 foot overhead canopy Elderberry provides and its ability to grow in filtered light and edges, makes sense to me |
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