I've got about 1/3 acre, with large sweet gum and maple trees, some ornamental crab apple trees, a redbud, and shrubs. I hang the feeders as high as I can reach, because the deer will empty them. I stopped filling them in the summer because the chipmunks empty them. I have a mulched area that is pretty bare, and it is under the trees, so I put most of the seed there. I put a little in a box on one of the trees, but right now, I am making sure the youngest squirrels know how to forage, don't want to make it too easy for them 
and the chipmunks have to work a little harder to fill their stores for the winter.
Our older neighborhood is at the edge of town, so still a little undeveloped land, and lots of trees new homeowners planted in the 1950s-60s. We planted the redbud, a lilac and a ornamental cherry tree, but most of our landscape was in place when we bought this home 30 years ago. Your daughter is very lucky to have a green thumb. Maybe she can help you find plants that are hardier in your area.
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