Evergreen plants maintain their leaves throughout the year, whereas deciduous plants lose their leaves. Evergreens provide important winter habitat. Wildlife seek out their cover for shelter from extreme weather conditions. Also, they provide escape cover from predators. The plantings here are eastern hemlock, norway spruce, red cedar, and white pine trees.
Most people know the flowering dogwood tree that is planted as an ornamental.
This dogwood is a shrub which provides wildlife with an important source of berries in the fall during bird migration. Its bluish fruits ripen in late summer and are available throughout the fall. They are eaten by cardinals, catbirds, cedar waxwings, wood thrushes and some small mammals such as chipmunks and squirrels. These nesting boxes are placed throughout this property. This size hole prevents the non-native House Sparrow from nesting in it.