{"id":61991,"key":"Willow_and_blueberry_guild","title":"Willow and blueberry guild","latest":{"id":1208512,"timestamp":"2025-11-28T00:18:05Z"},"content_model":"wikitext","license":{"url":"https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Copyrights","title":"CC-BY-SA-4.0"},"source":"[[File:Foxhall3.jpg|thumb]]\n\n{{Project data\n| authors = Paul Cereghino\n| status = Designed\n| location = Puget Sound, USA\n}}\n\nThis is a [[coppice]] and shrubland [[guild]] designed for a water receiving low spot at [[Foxhall garden]]. This area is inundated for several days following rainfall in Winter, and stays moist into early Summer.\n\n== Introduction ==\n\nThis area is in zone 2 and is one of two paths to the chicken pen, so trailside could be considered zone 1 as it will get daily travel. Trails are in yellow, circles are the blueberry rings.\n\nThere are four areas within this guild:\n\n# '''trailside''' - herbaceous plantings along the main path, a short way through the blueberry shrubland, including the trail itself.\n# '''blueberry rings''' - on alternative sides of the trail are rings of blueberries. The long way through is to follow a serpentine path (yellow lines) on the outside of the blueberry rings doing a loopty loop through the site during blueberry season while tending chickens.\n# '''blueberry hollows''' - inside the ring of blueberries is a fairly shade tolerant herbaceous mulch planting designed to be cut before the drought comes and used to mulch the blueberries.\n# '''shrubland''' - which surrounds the more intensively managed blueberry circles and trailside, occasionally harvested for poles, osiers, medicines and flowers.\n\n== Shrubland ==\n\n* '''''Salix scouleriana''''' - Scouler's willow - common drought tolerant willow, fast growing, coppiced primarily for osiers and poles, with medicinal harvest as necessary.\n* '''''Salix discolor''''' - Pussy willow - Coppiced for floral harvest.\n* '''''Myrica gale''''' - sweet gale. similar to bay leaf, with medicinal properties, a couple plants in the wetest areas.\n* '''''Fraxinus latifolia''''' - Oregon white ash - a few individuals coppiced mostly on the north side of the patch. Wood is strong and burns hot and clean. Poles make good tool handles. Nice fall color.\n* '''''Petasites frigidus''''' - coltsfoot, cough medicine, primeaval leaves, very sprawly aggressive native.\n* '''''Montia siberica''''' - miner's lettuce/spring beauty. se;f-sows in gaps.\n* '''''Plantago lanceolata''''' - plantain, food/medicine\n* '''''Rumex''''' '''spp.''' - dock - medicine\n\n== Blueberry Circles ==\n\n* '''''Vaccinium coryombosum''''' - Highbush blueberry - arranged in circles of 6 or so plants each.\n\n== Blueberry Hollows ==\n\n* '''''Juncus effusus''''' - soft rush - very aggressive, nice cut flower potential. cutting in early summer will reduce seedbank spread. Long lived mulch.\n* need a wandering plant that comes later in the season to grow amongst the cut soft rush as it regrows?\n* is there another good mulch plant to try here?\n\n== Trailside ==\n\n* '''Asparagus''' - A fried of mine said in naturalizes in wet ditches in the mid-west US. In clumps, dump some manure under big leaf maple leaves in fall to mark and reduce competition.\n* '''''Veronica americana''''' - speedwell/brooklime - salad element. re-seeds\n* '''''Metha spicata''''' - spearmint - tea\n* '''''Montia siberica''''' - miner's lettuce/spring beauty - more salad, re-seeds\n* what other perennial food plants can take winter flooding?\n\n== Winter Pool ==\n\n* '''''Mimulus guttatus''''' - monkey flower, pretty\n* '''''Potentilla anserina-pacifica''''' - silverweed, roots edible, sprawly binder\n* '''''Iris tenax''''' - wild, spikey flower\n* '''''Iris japonica''''' - japanese iris, spikey flower\n* is there an Iris with edible root like ''I. pseudoacorus'' that is not invasive?!\n\n{{PermacultureInfo}}\n\n{{Page data\n| license = CC-BY-SA-3.0\n| part-of = Foxhall garden\n| keywords = Permaculture designs, Guilds, coppice\n| ported-from = Permaculture.info\n}}\n\n[[Category:Guilds]]"}