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I had an area of my yard sectioned off with some plastic/mesh barrier where I planted a few different natives during the fall (strawberry, aster, woodland sunflower to name a few). A few weeks ago I noticed a bunny had chewed a perfect hole in the barrier and was building a nest inside where the plants were. It was funny how my mind went from, “I must protect these plants!” to “eat up!”

Today I looked in that area and saw the babies had emerged from their nest. They were unable to get out from inside the barrier (mom made the hole off the ground and jumped through to go back and forth) so I took the barrier down so they could hop away and do their thing. I’m assuming this was the best thing to do since they were big enough to leave the nest on their own and they really looked like they wanted to get out from the small area where they had been enclosed.

Good luck little bunnies! Most of the native plants were spared (except for the aster!) I thought it was cool that the mom chose the spot right where all the native plants were.

Rhode Island here with a brown turkey fig tree that I bought in July 2025. Overwintered it in an unheated garage… have been shuffling it outside/inside on good weather days for a bit now. I took cuttings from the bottom and they seem to be doing well? Still no leaves though from the original tree. Is it normal for it to take this long (and I’m sure there’s a reason why the cuttings have leaves and not the main tree, so if anyone knows would love to hear!)

Hey all,

I moved to a new home in July 2025. I’ve been having fun working in the yard and have been working to add natives. I thought I saw a milkweed plant in an overgrown area during the summer. It didn’t get very big or flower. I just noticed these in the yard in the same general area. Would be cool if it was milkweed but I read that dogbane looks similar. Any thoughts? Good number of them growing there, this is just one.