Beautiful. I love the perspective of peering through the reeds/edges (?) and the colors.

I do have some violets that I was told are native to this area. Seller has established a local native nursery and demonstration gardens.

Even the cottontail rabbits don't eat them, 😆

That would be really nice.

Black chokeberry (aronia) is really pretty and the berries are packed with vitamin C. I used to have it at my previous home but couldn't move it. Looking for new one this year.

Snags are awesome hosts/homes to so much forest life.

Suggestions/ideas based on my experience and other ppl I know, but from Upstate NY... native violets, wild ginger, wild geraniums, false lily-of-the-valley, wild stonecrop. Black chokeberry, serviceberry, chokecherry, flowering dogwood.

Have you explored this database? You can search in your region and select different attributes. Then you can try and find them.. www.wildflower.org/plants/