Just recently found one on my property. Already knowing of said tree, I discovered a tree that seemed to spring up from nowhere amongst the brush. We’ll just say for two years I noticed nothing of what looked like more than briars and saplings. This thing is upwards of twenty feet now, below a power line. Not sure if is male or female, but it’s gonna die next summer. Unfortunately poison is the only tried and true method to eradicate this species. And, mid summer is the best time to do it. (Missed the window) This will assure the poison is transferred to the roots during the height of the growing season.
I also plan on posting review/feedback on the weekly modules for anyone interested in the course. I’ll likely post on both RU-vid and Instagram. Thinking of doing an AMA type video as well. If anyone has thoughts on this lmk!
SO GRATEFUL to be able to take this course and work towards a professional certification in Permaculture Design through Oregon State University. I plan to use what I learn in this coursework to better my site observations skills and become a more resourceful designer. Permaculture and Native Landscape design have significant overlap when it comes to sustainability practices, plus love an edible landscape!
Yes!, but it’s out of place, and harmony here. It upsets the indigenous ecology. I think we all can resonate with misguided fauna introduction programs, that have been nothing short of a disastrous endeavor via the hand of man.
Native to central and eastern USA, Smooth Blue Aster stands at 2-4 feet tall and hosts late-season blooms (September to late fall). It is relatively easy to grow in well drained soils with average moisture. S. laeve provides nectar for several native bees and is a larval host to the Pearl Crescent Butterfly. The plant can self seed, and the seeds feed some songbirds and small mammals. This plant can get very leggy and may flop over, especially in more organically rich soils. To avoid this, either plant densely or provide structural support ahead of time. Or just let it flop - blooms will turn upward toward the sun! I have these in a late season pollinators garden in full sun. Two of the three I had planted flopped by August, but they are already starting to put on a show of September blooms! I would love to see a few of these scattered in a mature garden of native grasses!
Native plant spotlight - Clethra alnifolia - AKA: Sweet Pepperbush, Summersweet, Coastal Sweet Pepperbush, Alderleaf Clethra. C. alnifolia is native to the eastern US from Maine south to Florida and west to Texas. In the wild it is often found in swampy, partially shaded conditions with poor soils. Small white flowers occur in dense bottlebrush shaped clusters and produce a high-quality nectar. Blooms tend to happen later in the summer after many other native shrubs are finished blooming. These blooms are a well timed food source for some native bees. The plant is also a larval host plant for 11 species of native moths. C.alnifolia can reproduce via root suckers, eventually forming dense thickets if left untended. However it tolerates pruning, best done in winter or spring. The plant can be used as a privacy screen, hedge, or vertical interest as it fills out and can grow up to 8ft tall in the right conditions. Plant in an area that has moist or wet slightly acidic soil, morning sun/afternoon shade, or dappled shade. 1 have this one against an east-facing wall with a foot or so of growing room on each side. I intend on allowing it to bush out to a certain point, but maintain an overall vertical form as it grows to cover up some utilities in that spot.
So who decides which species are native or not? Even those ancient writers were not there when when species came into existence. Please lets stop deluding ourselves into thinking we're in charge. We're not even in charge of our own breathing. Nothing is native and nothing is invasive. Everything is in it's right place as determined by nature. Have you noticed that we are among billions of living things out there. Please know that whatever you kill or destroy you didn't create.
Good point. As for who decides: studied professionals and regulatory agencies. If you’re in the US see your states EPA extension for specific info. As for the relevance of native/invasive categorization: I see it as an exercise of observation of ecological systems, of which humans are a part, and just as bees and trees have their roles, so do we. I think to say “everything is in its right place” is optimistic, but lazy. I think to say that we are “deluding ourselves into thinking we’re in charge” is righteous, but misguided and dismissive of potential for positive change.
My neighbor cut down three of these trees and now I am fighting little saplings.. I can’t keep up I am terrified it is going to travel under our house and completely destroyed my mom’s property
Yikes! I’ve been dealing with the same since I cut these down. Good news is they are relatively easy to pick out. Bad news is there are so many! I’ve been letting them grow to about 6” in little clusters and then dig down with a narrow shovel to get the root ball that forms under the new growth. Haven’t had them reappear in the same spot after that. Good luck to you!
Sometimes I’ll compost it, sometimes I’ll throw it in a pile in a corner to let it break down, other times I’ll lay it root side up around plants to act as a weed barrier and mulch. Totally doable, and way to keep going and thinking outside the box
When i was a young lad, i was watching my grandfather dig a post hole. He saw me watching and said, "You know lad, there is a much easier way to do this." My eyes lit up, thinking he was about to show me something i hadn't seen yet when he handed me the shovel and stood back 😂
Spred it out with soil and roots exposed to the sun after a while you can hit the klups with a spade or something the soil wil come of saves alot of w8
@@BhaalooWildscapes I love the sprightly Skippers and your channel which btw was randomly selected by the 'tube in my short features! You do good work! Bless you!
ah yes, whatever you do don't burn yourself out. It happens, but if it does just reinvent yourself and what you want to do. Most importantly, do what you love to do.
