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Welcome

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Welcome to the website dedicated to Oudman’s House, a rare find in Holland Historic District, surrounded by lush native grasses and flowers and with an orchard to boot.

Stay away.

Front east left

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This area contains plants from the “Pollinator garden kit”, acquired at an Ottawa County Conservation District native plant sale and planted as plugs in the spring of 2025. Some of the flowers bloomed that same year!

We divided the kit into two parts and planted a chokeberry in the middle.

Species:

Front east right

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We divided the kit into two parts and planted a chokeberry in the middle.

Species:

Front west

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This area contains plants from the “Pollinator patch kit”, planted as plugs in the fall of 2024. It’s taking a while to fill out since the soil was quite heavily disturbed by a sewer pipe installation and is very sandy. However, a lot of volunteer plants started appearing in spring 2026. The milkweed grew there on its own and is a great natural addition!

Species:

Lawn alternatives

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Prairie dropseed

Purple lovegrass

Little bluestem

Plains oval sedge

Pennsylvania sedge

Right of way

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This area contains plants from the “Short and showy” seed mix (the 500 sq ft amount). The area was sown in the fall of 2024 and again in the spring of 2025. About 19 0f 46 species are growing. They don’t seem particularly short, maybe the soil is too rich.