Figure 2. Background germination levels at the two common garden sites (HD = Hazel Dell; HR = Horse Rock Ridge). Both control and planted cells had significantly higher germination at HD than HR. Background germination at HD averaged 1.5 seedlings per cell and was negligible (~0.01 seedlings per cell) at HR. Planted cells averaged 3.9 and 0.6 seedlings per cell at HD and HR, respectively. Letters denote statistically significant differences between groups (p-value <0.05).