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>> Other invasive species being sold include Japanese barberry, Chinese privet, whitetop, Norway maple, Brazilian peppertree, Russian olive, garlic mustard, yel
by temp0826 5y ago
>> Other invasive species being sold include Japanese barberry, Chinese privet, whitetop, Norway maple, Brazilian peppertree, Russian olive, garlic mustard, yellow star thistle, Canada thistle, kudzu and Johnsongrass, among others, the study states.
Part of me wants to plant a garden containing all of these to see which one wins
- EGreg 5y agoUnderrated comment (And that’s saying a lot considering its upvotes lol)
- josh_today 5y agoThrow English ivy in there too
- gbrown 5y agoUnkillable.
- zabzonk 5y agoMy (late) parents had all sorts of ivy in their garden for about 40 years (that I know about) with few problems. Ivy is great for birds - home for insects for them to eat, berries to eat too, and places to nest.
- chrismcb 5y agoIvy may be great, but if it isn't native then it can be bad for the local ecosystem. I've got some in my backyard and it smothers everything else except the pine trees (and even those three ivy would eventually take down) I just finished removing the blackberries. The ivy is next and then maybe the holly
- zabzonk 5y agoMum and Dad had ivy, blackberries and holly. It all seemed to work out OK for them. And other smaller plants like borrage and grape hyacinth. But of course, YMMV. And it was a big garden.
- e40 5y agoBased on driving through lots of rural NC, SC.. kudzu will win. Hands down.
- Jgrubb 5y agoWhichever one wins, you and your neighbors lose.
- maxerickson 5y agoMy street is lined with Norway Maple and barely any seedlings at all come up. The Siberian elm next door and oak down the street end up with many more seedlings in the yard than the maples. I can see it being a different situation in a yard adjacent to a stand of more natural trees though.
- Alex3917 5y agoSome Norway Maple cultivars are more invasive than others. The main problem with them though is that they release allelopathic chemicals from their roots which inhibit the growth of other native plants, trees, and fungi.
- quercusa 5y agoI lost a number of shrubs planted under one before I thought to look that up. I am plotting its demise even now.
- cmrdporcupine 5y agoThe previous owners planted a bunch of them on our acreage here and they're also really annoyingly brittle vs the native maples. They get damaged in storms easier. I'm constantly cleaning up from them. I'm currently resting my legs on a coffee table made from the trunk of one that came down in a burst storm some years ago. It's a soft maple but quite nice for wood working. Just biding my time until the natives I planted next to them grow up a bit more and then I will take them all down and get them milled up.
- peanut_worm 5y agoMy money is on Kudzu
- jacobsievers 5y agoAdd Oriental Bittersweet, Black Swallow-wort, English ivy and Chinese Wisteria to this list and you've got my back yard. The winner every year is the Wisteria. It cannot be killed.
- technothrasher 5y agoI'm waging a constant war on my property with Oriental Bittersweet. It can't be reasoned with, it can't be bargained with... it doesn't feel pity or remorse or fear... and it absolutely will not stop. Ever. Until you are dead. My parents, on the other hand, thought it might be fun to plant a little bamboo patch about twenty years ago. They now have an entirely uncontrollable forest of the stuff.
- Arrath 5y agoA friend of mine lived in a house where the previous owner had struggled with bamboo. In some frantic, mad, last ditch effort they mixed some concrete and poured a half-assed slab over the bamboo stubs. This did not at all work, as the bamboo grew back and broke through the concrete as needed, effectively becoming an armored rootball of hate.
- abnry 5y agoCareful you don't get arrested for running a plant-fighting ring.
- sydd 5y agoDifferent weeds have different strategies. There is one that specializes in wildfires (cheatgrass): it has a large root system and burns very easily, so it "awaits" to be burned: no one but their root system survives the fire, so it can grow out quickly again after the fire.
- mixmastamyk 5y agoDon't forget the gorse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulex
- test1235 5y agoThis stuff is all over scotland where I am - it's like nature's barbed wire
- smcl 5y agoWhere I grew up too (NE Scotland). It does smell very nice every now and then then, like coconut
- robaato 5y agoA favourite in the golf community (I grew up in Hopeman - east of Inverness)
- Tagbert 5y agoOddly, one of the most common invasive plant around Seattle is Scotch Broom. That stuff cannot be controlled.
- pvaldes 5y agoGorse is a man made problem. The result of wrong fire management that in fact is the result of bad farming. Needs fire to sprout. Remove fire and cattle and Ulex will slowly retreat and dissapear