permaculture

["Michael Miller & Ute Bohnsack" <burrenag@iol.ie>]

I'm not too familiar with all the plants you can grow in the US, there'd be
better advisers then myself but try a search on the Plants for a Future
database using your various descriptors.

http://www.scs.leeds.ac.uk/pfaf/D_search.html

UteB
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: From: Charland, Stacy <CHARLANS@nigms.nih.gov>
: To: 'perm-l' <'permaculture@listserv.unc.edu'>
: Subject: Hedgerow plants
: Date: 08 April 1998 22:08
: 
: I'm looking for suggestions on good trees/shrubs for a hedgerow in
mid-Atlantic
: USA (Maryland).  Plant hardiness zone is 6.   I'm needing some
non-invasive
: species that are nitrogen-fixing, and/or good bee forage, and/or good
animal
: forage or mast (chickens, sheep, cattle), and/or good wildlife forage,
and/or
: human food value.  Plants on the western edge of the property are also
going to
: need to stand up to a good bit of wind.  Soil is mainly clay, with a
fairly
: shallow water table, and some marshy areas.
: 
: Any help appreciated!
: 
: 
: Stacy H. Charland
: Stacy_Charland@nih.gov
: 
: "A fool and his money are soon partying."   -unknown
: