According to Claire Fontana and Wylie Paxton, “Our garden is a transitional space from non-native perennial shrubs and herbs to typical natives and their respective habitats co-occurring on the property.”  Sited on the North side of the Salola Street/Carrier Street ridge, the Paxtons grow many fruits: raspberries, paw-paw, persimmon, plum, quince, and muscadine grapes.  For vegetables, they have developed raised beds, a cold frame site, and a kitchen garden.  North slope natives are also well represented with black cohosh, white wood aster, green headed coneflower, Turks cap lily, cardinal flower, bleeding heart, and many Spring ephemerals.  The space that used to be lawn now grows prairie plants such as big bluestem, little bluestem, false indigo, bee-balm, several coreopsis species, Stokes aster, swamp milkweed and purple coneflower.