fair warning: on block island or manhattan or in missouri, we can be a little salty
4.07.2011
oops
I dug all this privet out of the hedgerow bordering my property and planted it along the road for privacy. However, come this spring it turned out a lot of it wasn't privet but spirea (I think) masquerading as privet. Hmm.
This is what happens when you don't belong to the Garden Club.
And I was just begining to think you had your total act together and could do no wrong... So much for the perfect world...a masquerade no less! Are you sure?
There is much to like in both of them -- Bradford pears have the lovely spring show of flowers; Russian olive feeds the birds. Both also have darker sides: the pear hosts a rust that threatens native species; the olive is invasive and out competes natives like bayberry.
Let's not even get started on what is happening in Florida!
5 comments:
You never struck me as the "club type" CD!
xo
DR
And I was just begining to think you had your total act together and could do no wrong... So much for the perfect world...a masquerade no less! Are you sure?
So glad it ISN'T the hated, all too invasive and easily spread privet. Rip that stuff out whenever you can.
Soon everywhere will be covered in kudzu, privet, Johnson grass, and wisteria.
Sigh.
Don't forget Bradford pears and Rssian olive, both of which the garden club hate and I kind of like.
There is much to like in both of them -- Bradford pears have the lovely spring show of flowers; Russian olive feeds the birds. Both also have darker sides: the pear hosts a rust that threatens native species; the olive is invasive and out competes natives like bayberry.
Let's not even get started on what is happening in Florida!
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